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Dave
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Dave asked in Entertainment & MusicMovies · 1 decade ago

What have been the biggest Oscar snubs in the past?

The top three I found:

Best Picture: Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan

Music: Hanz Zimmer not even nominated for Blackhawk Down

Directing: Kevin Kostner for Dances With Wolves beats Scorsese's Good Fellas.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Forrest Gump beating The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction

    Gran Torino not getting a single Oscar nomination

  • 1 decade ago

    Mickey Rourke should have won Best Actor for The Wrestler

    Chris Nolan should have been nominated for Best Director this year

    Martin Scorsese has been snubbed at least 5 times.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    shakespeare in love over saving private ryan.

    Forrest gump over Pulp Fiction.

    Glory not being nominated for best picture (1989)

    Dark Knight not being nominated for best picture (probably why there are ten nominees now.)

    a serious man by the coens not being recognized that much in 2010.

    Recently, NOLAN NOT BEING NOMINATED!!! ARGH.

    Source(s): ps: i actually liked crash.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Robert Redford's "Ordinary People" over Scorsese's "Raging Bull".

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  • 1 decade ago

    Malcolm X was 'epic' yet got no nomination for Best Picture.

  • 1 decade ago

    Best Picture: Crash over Brokeback Mountain.

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