There have been a few “slips” in the history of the Academy Awards. The streaming movies that we offer represent for us the most obvious ones.
Given that the recent announcement of nominations for the Oscar 2023 has unleashed the cinephile game on who we think will win the statuette and which film instead deserves it, today we want to offer you a dive into the past through five film in streaming that they were candidates but in the end did not triumph, when they absolutely deserved it. These are obviously personal opinions, which we invite you to deny if you do not agree. Let the cinephile battle begin! Enjoy the reading.
Five streaming movies that missed the Oscar…when they deserved it!
- The exorcist
- wild bull
- The fleeting moment
- Those good guys
- Save Private Ryan
The Exorcist (1973)
The sting is an extremely entertaining film, but when compared with the desperate and suffocating realism of the masterpiece by William Friedkinthere is little to discuss in our opinion. The exorcist it shakes us deeply, shows us the irrationality of evil in all its destructive force, conquers us with a perfect dramatic progression and a staging of unheard-of terrifying beauty. Two statuettes arrived including the one for the adaptation of William Peter Blattybut the film undoubtedly deserved to triumph. By Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow, Linda Blair by bow. Available on CHILI, Apple Itunes, Amazon Prime Video, NOW.
Raging Bull (1980)
Also in this case to win was an excellent family drama which Common people Of Robert Redfordbut the expressionistic cinema released by wild bull does not play in the same category. Black and white, montage, phorography contrasts, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. What else did Martin Scorsese need to do to triumph? The statuettes as protagonist and for editing arrive, but they are not enough to fill the oversight. And if we want to be honest, too The Elephant Man it was a better film than Ordinary People. but that’s it…Available on Apple iTunes.
Dead Poets Society (1989)
One of the most poetic and moving feature films in the history of cinema, a Robin Williams in a state of grace for a story told by Peter Weir with an inimitable candor and sweetness. The fleeting moment it is the drama that marked a generation of spectators, and with good reason. Oscar for original screenplay, but defeated in the main category of Walking with Daisy. A joke: more than twenty years later we still think it was a joke…Available on Rakuten TVCHILI, Google PlayApple Itunes.
Goodfellas (1990)
Kevin Costner con Dance with wolves it embodied the American liberal and ecological spirit of the period, and therefore it was impossible for it to lose to such a robust and epic film. But with Goodfellas Martin Scorsese he has rewritten the history of the gangster-movie, he has once again released unparalleled kinetic energy, he has built a visual, sensorial and human mosaic of bewitching power. Oscar a Joe Pesci as a non-protagonist. Stop. STOP! Amazing…Available on Rakuten TV, CHILI, Google Play, Apple Itunes, Amazon Prime Video, NOW..
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
In the end Shakespeare in Love triumphed, and let us say this is perhaps the biggest scandal of the five presented for the artistic disparity with Save Private Ryan. Only with the opening sequence of the Normandy landings Steven Spielberg e Tom Hanks they brought realism to war cinema where it had never been seen before. A very hard, powerful, desperate film. At least the Oscar for directing has arrived, but too little. A scandal that tells of the power of those who knew how to buy the Oscar… Available on Rakuten TV, CHILI, Google Play, Apple Itunes, Amazon Prime Video.
