![]() Musicals may seem trivial among the Important with a capital-I films that usually win Oscars, but Chicago does what it sets out to do perfectly. You could also argue that a silly, camp story of jazz broads murdering their sleazy husbands shouldn’t have won best picture over Gangs of New York, The Pianist, The Hours, and the (admittedly interminable) second Lord of the Rings film. You could argue that Rob Marshall’s 2002 film adaptation of Chicago is too full of weird hairpieces, black eyeliner and sequins. ![]() While it would have been heartwarming to see Boseman honoured, the hasty expectations laid on by the Academy did both him and Hopkins dirty, robbing each of the respect they deserved.ĭone dirty: Anthony Hopkins in ‘The Father’ (Shutterstock)Ĭhicago for Best Picture in 2003 – as chosen by Jessie Thompson His role as an elderly man living with dementia is undeniably up there with his malevolent Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), for which he also won an Oscar, and the loyal butler Mr Stevens in the Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation The Remains of the Day (1993). In The Father, Hopkins delivered a potentially career-best performance, matching the punch he packed in a career full of highlights. But the Academy set Hopkins up for a fall – ever since, a narrative has existed that the 86-year-old star was an undeserving recipient the opposite is true. This backfired when Anthony Hopkins’s name was read out instead of Boseman’s – an anti-climax for many, heightened by the fact Hopkins was not there to collect the award. Chadwick Boseman had posthumously won a variety of awards for his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Oscar producers were so certain of a victory for the Black Panther star, who died of cancer eight months before, that they shifted the category layout in a somewhat shameless attempt to create an emotional footnote to the ceremony. In 2021, everyone thought the Best Actor race was sewn up. You can’t say that about A Man Called Ove.Īnthony Hopkins for The Father in 2021 – as chosen by Jacob Stolworthy In Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, they also created an indelible combination of styling and make-up that spawned a million Halloween costumes and will still be being recreated by fans for decades to come. Do you know what was good though? The hair and make-up in it!īertolazzi, Gregorini and Nelson did remarkable work bringing larger-than-life characters off of DC’s comic book pages and into the physical world. Mostly, though, it was because Ayer’s muddled, forgettable action romp just wasn’t very good. Some of this was down to bickering between DC and Marvel fans – at the time Marvel was still a couple of years away from winning its first Oscars for Black Panther. There was much grousing when Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson took home the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar in 2017 for their work on David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. Suicide Squad for Best Makeup and Hairstyling in 2017 – as chosen by Kevin E G Perry Boasting what might be cinema’s most spectacular wardrobe and a Brooklyn accent so thick it could stop an elephant rifle – Tomei is captivating.Ĭontentious: Joe Pesci and Tomei in ‘My Cousin Vinny’ (Shutterstock) This was always nonsense, of course, but time has been very kind to Tomei’s seriocomic performance. ![]() At the time, it was regarded as a surprising – and, to many, entirely egregious – decision, with a spiteful urban myth claiming that her name had been read out by mistake. Marisa Tomei won the Best Supporting Actress award in 1993 for her turn as Joe Pesci’s spunky younger girlfriend in the brilliant legal comedy My Cousin Vinny. Marisa Tomei for My Cousin Vinny in 1993 – as chosen by Louis Chilton ![]() But I have been promised that they exist.Īnyway, to celebrate this weekend’s Oscars, otherwise known as the delivery room for a raft of new things to complain about, The Independent’s culture desk has picked their favourite deeply unpopular wins from Academy Award history.Īnd if you’re the (alleged) person who loves CODA, as we couldn’t find anyone within the walls of The Independent willing to go on the record with that, drop us a message in the comment section below. Some people to this day still really love CODA, the little-seen and not-very-good weepie that won Best Picture in 2022. Sometimes, though, the most unpopular Oscar wins in history – the ones that tend to always crop up on “What were the voters smoking?” lists – have their fans. The nature of the annual competition fuels entirely pointless animosity – who should have won, who got cruelly overlooked, and why Jamie Lee Curtis absolutely didn’t deserve her Academy Award last year. ![]() Nothing brings together Oscar fans quite like complaining about the Oscars. Most hated: ‘American Beauty’, ‘Chicago’ and ‘Suicide Squad’ all won controversial Oscars (Shutterstock/iStock) ![]()
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