1990's Oscar Nominees

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I still haven't watched Awakenings.

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Awakenings fights a tough battle to come out as the very worst out of these five.

I've never even contemplated seeing Dances with Wolves. I'm sure it's better than what I imagine.

awakenings is a solid made for tnt movie. it's nomination outraged me at the time but if i had to watch one of these again (besides goodfellas obv) it'd be ghost.

At the time I thought the second best was, in fact, Dances with Wolves

Number of times I've rewatched the Other Four in full since 1990: 0

Cable plays DWW all the time and I usually catch a few minutes, usually before Dunbar goes Injun. Grahame Green and his wife had good screwball timing.

*Graham Greene

dances w/ wolves probably helps passion fish get made, or at least get wide distribution

Whenever accolades and awards/nominations go to The Wolf of Wall Street and The Departed and Gangs of New York, I always blame Kevin Costner and Robert Redford.

ordinary people gets slagged unfairly but 1990 was an outrage though really it hasn't mattered - scorsese's career did just fine (an oscar wouldn't have mattered as much as it might have in 80), the film's legacy or whatever did just fine, and he eventually got his damn oscar. it probably hurt costner more in that it pushed him towards greater dull importance although maybe even this yielded jfk so maybe there are no losers.

Goodfellas >> DWW but Raging Bull isn't much better than Ordinary People, which I can least watch again.

you think that's funny? how?

raging bull is better just as kane is better than how green was my valley but both those best pic 'traveties' are used by morons who think they're film snobs but really they're just brian de palma fans

I'm kidding re Redford and Costner, but "he eventually got his damn oscar" sums up what happened to Scorsese. After those two losses (losing to Avildsen in '76 was arguably even sillier, but he was also still fairly young then, and Taxi Driver itself wasn't the perfect film for voters who were probably still mostly Old Hollywood), and after Casino--flawed, but it still felt like a Scorsese film--I think he started to tailor his films to winning that damn Oscar. Sometimes more (The Aviator), sometimes less (The Departed, I suppose), but winning an Academy Award seemed to be an obsession, something that had to be righted. Don't mean to turn this into another Scorsese thread.

looking at the presenters for that oscars somewhat entertaining -

Phoebe Cates and Ron Silver (Presenters: Documentary Awards)
Robert De Niro (Presenter: Dances with Wolves Film Clip) (WTF?)
Joe Pesci (Presenter: Children's Choir Performance)

foster and hopkins presented together also, silence had been out for a month and next year's oscars was already in the bag

We should poll 1980 next (or did we? Can't check). It's got one of the few totally respectable nominees.

I don't care much for Raging Bull but Coal Miner's Daughter, Tess, Ordinary People, The Elephant Man range from okay to excellent.

I can only hope Phoebe Cates was emerging from a swimming pool.

phoebe cates, undercover timecop

shoulda been nominated: White Hunter Black Heart

Coal Miners Daughter is so zzzzzzzz.

morgan freeman only last vegas star not to present at this academy awards

But sure on doing 1980 next if only because why not have back to back Scorsese landslides.

gitdafuckouttahere

huh, michael o'keefe was nominated for an oscar

for getting a basketball bounced off his head

huh, michael o'keefe was in michael clayton

a thread where i can finally say out loud that i prefer Ordinary People to Raging Bull!

Fer damn sure I'd vote for O'Toole.

a thread where i can finally say out loud that i prefer Ordinary People to Raging Bull!

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a thread where i can finally say out loud that i prefer Ordinary People to Raging Bull!

Who doesn't?

O'Keefe was for a while Bonnie Raitt's muse.

chevy chase's also

I read that as Bonnie Raitt's nurse.

people who don't think Alex Rieger got a psychiatry degree

xxxp

also if you grew up in the NYC area, you heard domestic disputes like the ones in Raging Bull, only louder.

I used to fall asleep to the sounds of wolves dancing.

Tim Hutton in supporting = classic award fraud

i'm sure Joe Pesci had something to say about it

Wrong thread, but I'd go so far as to say Hutton in OP > DeNiro in RB

you're insane

also one reason I've never made it through Caddyshack is that O'Keefe appears to have the most screen time

Robards surely didn't need a third Oscar in five years, but he was probably the best in that lineup after Hutton.

o'keefe is fine in caddyshack but that he is the answer to the riddle 'who is the actual star of caddyshack' is a point against the film.

None of you all watched Roseanne, huh?

yep, remember the episode where dan runs over a child drunk driving and they call up michael clayton to save their asses

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Agreed. Very dreamy.

O'Keefe hit it big as the Fallback Timothy Hutton, but had the more interesting career of the two

Hutton would've been the hottest Oscar winner in years.

young Walken much prettier

Hutton's career was sad; for a while as solid as Sean Penn. But you get no points for not being "versatile."

Fer instance he's much better than Penn in Falcon and the Snowman.

well that's one of Penn's worst

is that my snowman in there???

he's good in Beautiful Girls. not an amazing movie but i was glad to see him in a starring role again.

Lol remember Taps? A proto-Young Guns.

If I recall, this is what kept After Hours from winning Best Picture:

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Metropolitan came out in 1990 and crushes all of these like a grape.

I think you mean Close-Up

(except it went unseen in America for almost ten years)

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Ghost is probably one of those all-time LOL nominees like The Towering Inferno or Fatal Attraction, though I'm kinda surprised in retrospect that Pretty Woman didn't get a nod as well. Haven't seen it, Awakenings or DWW since they were new and I doubt I'll ever watch them again.

Goodfellas quite possibly the actual best picture of 1990, though in fairness I haven't seen White Hunter Black Heart.

Still have never seen The Godfather Part III.

Ghost > The Wolf of Wall Street, Dallas Buyers Club, Nebraska....

i've told this story before but when i was eight my family took me to see 'ghost,' which i found completely bewildering and impossible to understand because a) my mom covered my eyes during all the 'important' scenes and b) i'd thought we were going to see 'ghost dad' and kept wondering when bill cosby was going to show up.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, February 19, 2014 12:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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dances w/ wolves probably helps passion fish get made, or at least get wide distribution

― balls, Monday, March 10, 2014 10:29 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Probably would have voted for it regardless, however much by default, and possibly over Metropolitan as well