![]() ![]() Though this didn’t make much difference, with Davis still losing to Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night, the next year Davis had a second chance with Dangerous.ĭavis thought the script was “maudlin and mawkish” and in her memoir The Lonely Life, she even said this: “I was up against Katharine Hepburn’s brilliant Alice Adams, by far the best performance of the year.” When Davis then won, she knew in her bones that it was a consolation prize for Of Human Bondage. She’d been snubbed the year before, when she wasn't nominated for Of Human Bondage, and the outcry led the Academy to open up the final voting in 1935 to write-in campaigns. ![]() But you know who didn’t think she should win? Bette Davis. I actually think Davis is fine in Dangerous, where she plays a tempestuous actress who worries that she’s a bad-luck charm. Here are ten notable wins that have left cinephiles scratching their heads down the decades.” - Michael Schulman Neither Stanley Kubrick or Alfred Hitchcock ever won Best Director, and stars like Rita Hayworth, Barbara Stanwyck, Cary Grant, and Marilyn Monroe never won a competitive acting Oscar. To put it simply, the list of major talents who never received an Oscar is staggering. Plus, complaining about what the Academy got wrong is part of the fun. Often, they act as a prism to help us understand where Hollywood and American popular culture are headed. That’s why I begin my book Oscar Wars with the line “The Oscars, it should be said at the start, are always getting it wrong.”īut that doesn’t mean that the Oscars are worthless: They’re a reflection of how the industry sees itself, and they have ramifications on what movies get made and promoted. If you look to the Oscars for a definitive film canon, you’ll be perpetually disappointed or enraged. All sorts of factors go into who’s nominated and who wins: campaign cash, personal popularity, politics, racism, status in the industry. “I hate to shock anyone, but the Academy Awards are not a pure barometer of cinematic worth. ![]()
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