Shakespeare in Love Defeats Saving Private Ryan | Best Picture Oscar 1999
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- Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture is to this day one of the most shocking upsets in Academy Awards history. In this video, I break down the 1999 Best Picture Oscars race and discuss the reasons why Shakespeare in Love defeated Saving Private Ryan for the award. #oscars #academyawards #bestpicture #brianrowevideo #shakespeareinlove #savingprivateryan
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You're making it too complicated. Like Ricky Gervais says. The real reason, is they win because their studio paid for it!
Haha, yep, my video could have been much shorter I guess. Thanks so much for watching!
He knows that it wom because of Harvey...the rest was a joke
I adore these videos. Both your channel and Be Kind Rewind are absolute gems!
Thank you, Carol, that is so sweet! ❤️
The same feelings of shock and ultimately disgust that came with Shakespeare in Love's win happened again for me with Crash and Green Book
Yes, it definitely happened more than once for me, too. Thanks for watching!
At least Shakespeare In Love is an enjoyable, well acted and written film. Crash and Green Book are cringeworthy.
@@sontagtwist714 I definitely see your point though it still didn't deserve to win. Too bad that unlike laws our rulings, this can't be overturned
@Lucy Van Pelt absolutely with Shakespeare in Love and Crash! I feel the same way with Paltrow, Halle Berry, Emma Stone, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Helen Hunt and Jennifer Lawrence winning Best Actress...in my humble opinion.
@@paullemon5154 Halle Berry, are you serious?
The Brazilian Fernanda Montenegro was the best actress of 1999.
Her or Cate Blanchett
I think that both are perfect movies but overall Saving Private Ryan would have been the more deserved winner. But what really still gets me is Gwyneth Paltrow winning over Cate Blanchett and Roberto Benigni winning best actor.
Yes, absolutely. Thanks for watching!
I’ve said this a lot on awards groups. SiL winning was not a big surprise. Both SiL and Ryan had very high reviews and SiL went into the race with the most nominations. Back then, it was rare for a film with the most nominations to not win best picture.
Very true. Thanks for watching!
@@TheAwardsContender Love your videos, dude! Can’t get enough of them.
I was appalled when Shakespeare in Love won as well as Ms. Paltrow who is barely a cipher when it comes to calling herself an actress. Blanchet's career since Elizabeth has been an interesting one displaying more depth and talent than Paltrow who spends her time pushing Goop--whatever that is. Even Dench appeared somewhat embarrassed by her win. Fortunately we won't have Harvey Weinstein to contend with but doubtless someone can fill his vacant shoes.
I remember wanting Saving Private Ryan to win or Life is Beautiful. I watched Saving Private Ryan with my husband this past Christmas and cried all over again throughout the movie. I knew Life is Beautiful wouldn't win Best Picture but I was so happy seeing Roberto jump on the chairs to get his Oscar. Yet I cannot think of any movie he's done since then?
Yes Shakespeare in Love is enjoyable, I'm a sucker for period dramas and it has a beautiful musical score but Paltrow is not a great actress. I saw it in theaters because my mom took me but she took me to see Elizabeth as well. I just cannot say she's an Oscar worthy actress when she won. I almost felt the same way about Jennifer Lawrence but think she's way better than Paltrow. I can think of only two roles that I thought she was great in and it is hard to say if she was playing herself "Two Lovers" and "Country Strong".
The most distracting part of the film is I didn't like her English accent in Emma and it didn't improve for this role. I think Fiennes was excellent and the rest of the cast. Ben Affleck was so out of place in that film, as if he was dropped into the movie to get the Teens to watch it. Also maybe because I love Pride and Prejudice 95 seeing Firth as the baddy didn't make sense. I was 15 but was completely confused, "pick the sexier one who is rich lady, not the poor skinny poet".
Thanks for watching!
Saving private Ryan is one of My all time favourites.
Please do Jennifer Connelly win and Kate Winslet win and why she didn't nominated for revolutionary road and instead nominated for The Reader. I mean she could've easily go for best actress (Revolutionary Road) and the supporting actress (the reader, I said supporting cause she won an Golden globe for supporting for this movie)
Excellent ideas for future videos. Thanks so much for watching!
Both films are, in my opinion, marvelous. That's all I will say.
Agreed! Thanks for watching!!
I had predicted that SIL would win and I think it deserved it. I do think it is a very good film.
I was hosting an Oscars party that night in my little duplex, mostly full of people who loved the live theater experience. Stage actors, directors, writers, and audiences crowded onto my couch and chairs and floor. The room positively erupted in happiness when Shakespeare in Love won. We knew that many people would think it was an 'upset,' but in that moment all we cared about was that our favorite movie was getting the ultimate in historical recognition.
More than 20 years later I still enjoy the hell out of SiL, usually about once per year. Saving Private Ryan is well made, but I've seen it...maybe three times total? It just doesn't have the same rewatch value.
Yes, a lot of our love for SiL has to do with a personal connection to the subject matter (which clearly was also a HUGE part of why it won at SAG and the Oscars), but a lot of the talk that night in my duplex was about a drama vs comedy setup and how the Academy so rarely awards comedies. A quick poll of attendees would have likely held up Billy Wilder's The Apartment as one of our collective favorite Best Picture winners of all time. Obviously, everybody is more than free to have their own opinion on the matter, but I'm still pretty glad to have another Best Picture winner on the list that is really watchable, funny, emotional, and crowd-pleasing.
Only the post-Oscars backlash suggests Shakespeare in Love is anything but that in and of itself.
I will not defend Weinstein as a human being.
I love this story, Jack!! I agree that comedies should win Best Picture more often, and of course Shakespeare in Love is a terrific film. Thanks for watching!
I liked SIL and wasn’t wowed by Ryan. It’s a shame that this controversy overshadowed the SIL’s achievements over the decades.
You guys don't get great movie making. SIL. Boring to normal citizens. To you artists you don't understand the underlying evils of Hollywood.
Such an incredibly written and acted movie. Definitely not an undeserved win in my opinion!
Well the 1999 race was the most competitive it seems of all times. I have seen SPR (though long ago), Truman Show and SIL. And all were great. And there were movies like Elizabeth and Thin Red Line and Beautiful Life. All of them so well reviewed. 1999 was the toughest year it seems.
Well I had seen SPR a long time back but only recently watched Shakespeare in Love. After watching Shakespeare in Love I more or less concluded that it was worthy of Best Picture, though my memory of SPR is too faint to allow me to reach a complete and well defined opinion.
I had hoped I would re-watch SPR to give my definitive opinion on the upset as it is called. But that opinion would remain "private" if and when I make it. So for the public record Shakespeare in Love remains the fair winner.
Also I remember had applied to Jadavpur University in Kolkata for the English Honors course. And in the entrance test, there was an essay on Shakespeare in Love. But not on Saving Private Ryan. And Jadavpur University's English Department is or at least was considered one of the best in the country at that time. So if they thought Shakespeare in Love was a movie worth writing an essay on and Saving Private Ryan wasn't, then sorry Spielberg and Hanks, you have to admit you did not deserve that Oscar.
That entrance test was also one of the most intimidating tests of my life. Firstly with questions like writing an Essay on movie Shakespeare in Love which I had no idea whatsoever about. And secondly in that test, I think out of 70 or 80 candidates, I was one of only 2 male applicants. Rest were all females. Why did the English department select me to appear on that test is still a mystery. Did only 2 males applied to the course that year.
I was so embarrassed about sitting in that test. I do not even remember what I wrote and just finished the paper as soon as possible and left.
Reason 1 actually sounds quite unconvincing. Summer or fall, Harvey Weinstein would have prevailed. If you dig out the oral history of the Shakespeare In Love campaign... you'd know why. I did a lot of research, and it turns out that back then the Academy was much smaller. The acting branch was some 30% of the Academy, and that branch had a clear favorite.
Yes, you might have a point there. Thanks for watching!!
@@TheAwardsContender I am really curious about your take on the 75th Oscars in general and The Pianist’s wins in particular, especially directing and adapted screenplay.
I am not surprised that since Schindler's List (Holocaust) Best Picture Win, no Word War I or II have not won the Best Picture. There were amazing films like Hacksaw Ridge, 1917, The Tin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan, The Imitation Game... but really how many films with World War I or II subject matter should receive BP? Academy honored many of them in the past when it was really necessary.
Trueman Show could have been a very interesting pick back then.
Absolutely! Thanks for watching!
This has become one of my favorite CZcams channels. Thank you for sharing your interest in these topics with us.
Yay, I’m so happy you’re enjoying them. Thanks for watching!
The Thin Red Line was by far the best film of that year.
Great film!
A great movie.
Better than SPR?
No. :)
Ummm…..no. I dozed off about five times trying to get through it
The Truman show should of shown up in lead actor and won him Carrey an Oscar
He did win the Golden Globe for that movie beating out Tom Hanks, who got the Oscar nomination.
Great video. One of the most interesting and surprising Oscar races of all time.
So true!
Great content , very well done. Discovered your channel today and already watched almost all the Videos. Would love to see the best supporting actress race for oscar 2000 with marcia gay harden winning and best actor 2001 with denzel Washington winning.
Thanks for watching!! You’re too kind! A friend of mine made a video on Harden, but I am planning a video about Washington!
I am still pissed that Saving Private Ryan was ROBBED of Best Picture! I have to basically sum it up Saving Private Ryan should have won full stop! Saving Private Ryan is the best war movie I have EVER seen! Weinstein was ignorant about his statement that "Saving Private Ryan was nominated for its first 20 minutes" BULLSHIT he never saw the rest of the film and the whole thing was compelling and realistic and everything about this movie was PERFECTION! I will defend this to my dying day. Shakespeare in Love can stay in 1998. Saving Private Ryan is a movie that has aged like fine wine and is a movie that will still be remembered for centuries.
Very much agreed, thanks for watching!
@@TheAwardsContender I had to get this off my chest and I am so glad that I did.
I completely agree. Those who say it was all in the first 20 minutes just don't get it.
The story delves into the brothership of soldiers during war, ptsd, the desensitisation of violence amongst soldiers at war, the ethical question of risking 8 lives for one, watching one of your brothers take his last breath after he screams for his mother, the green soldier wanting to do the "right" thing by the book, and learning the hard way that it isn't always the best way. Having a mental breakdown in battle that immobimizes you helpless. A young private who owes his life to the sacrifice of men and lived his life to "earn this".
ALL of these themes were intertwined throughout the movie AFTER the Normandy scene. If you can't see that, then you just don't get it.
The other movies were great, it was a rough year to pick one, but nothing was comparable to Saving Private Ryan IMHO.
Crash winning Best Picture was a shock and mistake! Shakespeare in Love...another mistake! Fortunately, Harvey Weinstein's questionable marketing tactics over the years will NOT help him in prison!!
Cate Blanchet should have won Best Actress.
Would’ve been a great win!
Amazing work, like always! Please do "Roma" vs "Green Book" 🙏
Yes, I’ll get to that one for sure!
For me personally, I think Blackkklansman is better than both Green Book and Roma. Green Book is decent at best. Roma is a well made movie but very boring. Blackkklansman is a fascinating movie about an African American learning about the KKK. I think Blackkklansman should have won Best Picture that year. If not that than Eighth Grade or Searching (my favorite film of 2018), but they didn’t get a single Oscar nomination. I think any of those two films should have won Best Original Screenplay.
Shakespeare in Love is my pick, The Thin Red Line would be my second
Solid choices. Thanks so much for watching!
I always laugh a bit when this subject comes up in "Oscar talk" videos because I'm one of those contrarians who thinks "The Thin Red Line" was the most deserving film that year. That being said, what killed me that night was watching Paltrow and Dench win, both predictably. For me, Cate Blanchett and Lynn Redgrave were the more deserving pair that evening.
Agreed about Blanchett and Lynn. Thanks for watching!
Thin Red Line should have one.
Love it!
Am I the only person who thinks Barry Pepper was absolutely robbed of a Best Supporting Actor Nomination for Saving Private Ryan?
I watched Shakespeare in Love recently for the first time since 1998. I had always put it in the decent but not great category. It''s not. It's as bad as its worst haters say.
I still think it's a nice movie, good performances, story, sometimes even funny (LOL) and sometimes cheesy. But it's not worthy of a Best Picture Oscar, that's for sure.
Great video. It should have been Ryan. Looking forward to your next video 😊
Yay, thanks so much for watching!!
Paquin’s performance in the Piano was amazing.
Now saving private Ryan and Shakespeare in love are now Paramount movies (along with life is beautiful)
Yes, that’s right!
Cate Blanchett got robbed of an Oscar too that night. I always found both Saving Private Ryan and Shakespeare in Love overrated, but yeah, SIL did not win fair and square.
Yup
This video was posted on my birthday!
Nice!
I find it hard to pick one among the two, as for which is better, but I think Shakespeare in Love is a terrific picture. Brilliant and beautiful. Maybe Saving Private Ryan is better, maybe. But still Shakespeare in Love is fantastic. So are Truman Show, Elizabeth, Life is Beautiful, Mulan, The Thin Red Line and so many. Great year overall.
Loved that year, too!
SPR is almost flawless.
(I can only think of two things I objected: the old-Ryan scene at the end, and Matt Damon felt somewhat wrong for the role… an unkown actor would have been better)
SiL is far from flawless. And Paltrow's acting nothing to rave about. Solid, but not outstanding.
They thought that winning best picture was enough but NOOOOOOOOOOO, they decided to TRASH TALK Saving Private Ryan, by saying quote "They though Saving Private Ryan was all in the 1st 15 minutes" which translates to after the Ohama Beach battle, it just became your average war film so if Weinstein wins goes back to the Oscars in how many years and if I become an actor I will confront him and tell him that because of what you did you changed the Oscars for the worst, because Crash winning over BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, Moonlight over LA LA LAND, The Kings Speech over THE SOCIAL NETWORK and if he has a problem with that I will spit on his face.
Moonlight DID deserve it over La La Land. Crash, too. Brokeback Mountain is overrated.
Please do a video on the Oscar sham that was The Color Purple being highly shut out.
Oh I will absolutely get to that, stay tuned!
The actual best film of 1985 wasn’t even nominated for Best Picture, and that was Back to the Future.
The Thin Red Line was better than Saving Private Ryan and Elizabeth was better thn Shakespeare In Love.Thy got it wrong twice. Although Id vote for Rushmore or Lebowski.
Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line were awesome and memorable films that paid tribute to those fought and died in WW2. Shakespeare in Love was merely overrated and not even remembered as well today as Saving Private Ryan, which was totally snubbed for best picture. I also think that the Academy seems to be biased towards romance films over war films in General.
Thanks for watching!
@Brian Rowe Video You're welcome, thank you for your informative channel 👍
Parasite was best picture, so it won. Crush and Shakespare was because of the mafia behind the curtains. Gwennethy beat Fernanda Montenegro and Blanchet? A Vida é Bela lost the other awards to Central Station, why? because A Vida é Bela was also in the Shakespeare package.
Thanks for checking this older video of mine out!
Between the two, Saving Private Ryan should have won. But since Spielberg isn’t so obsessed with getting Academy Awards as Harvey Weinstein, his film losing to Shakespeare in Love isn’t too surprising. The Thin Red Line is an excellent film that doesn’t get much discussion regarding the Oscars, but I do think it should have won something. Maybe Adapted Screenplay or a technical award. While I personally like The Thin Red Line more than Saving Private Ryan, when it comes to awards, I think Saving Private Ryan deserved Best Director and Best Picture more than The Thin Red Line. Thank you for the video Brian, I know this is months old, but I found your channel recently and have been enjoying what you have put out and I like how you were able to break down the various reasons as to why Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture. Others have talked about this topic before, but this is the best dive into the topic I’ve seen. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for watching!
_"But since Spielberg isn’t so obsessed with getting Academy Awards as Harvey Weinstein"_
The first thing Spielberg said in his acceptance speech for "Saving Private Ryan" was literally _"Is it okay to say that I really wanted this?"_ So yea, he actually really wanted those Oscars that year.
Good video, but I think you're overselling the surprise. The precursors certainly suggested "Saving Private Ryan" should have been unbeatable, yet there was the unmistakable scent of something blowing in the wind with the Miramax campaign and "Shakespeare In Love's" victory wasn't exactly uncalled. Oddsmakers didn't have it far behind. In Vegas, SPR was something like -200 and SIL at +250. That isn't a gaping margin really, although it is comparable to "Crash" vs. "Brokeback Mountain".
I remember seeing SAVINO PRIVATE RYAN and I was not disappointed but it actually was very sad and that was the last time I went to a theater because it's so expensive now
Thanks for watching!
jim caviezel was the obvious lead actor in a thin red line.
I feel like when you do this vs video for la la land and moonlight your gonna be happy for both
Yes, that video is a must!
All 5 movies are great, I like "Ryan" the least
Interesting perspective. Thanks for watching!
@@TheAwardsContender it’s the dialogue in “Ryan” that always annoys me, the dialogue is hokey… I love the script structure and production values, but it always feels very self important
@@johndelossantos7678 yeah sometimes the dialogue can be hokey, and the finale is definitely classic Hollywood. That said it is insanely well directed, probably the most that Stephen has ever Spielberged.
Awards should be decided using political tactics, scheming and orchestrations. Government should regulate this industry.
Private Ryan Vs Shakespeare in love have a simetrical equivalent on other industry, which is Red Dead Redemption 2 vs God of War. All this thing about campaining and dirty practices in order to win the awards is something very prevalent on a diverse cast of industries, the creative ones are a prime example
Regarding Gwyneth Paltrow's Oscar I would like to mention that 1998 was her year because she had released 5 movies (Great Expectations, Sliding Doors, Hush, A Perfect Murder, Shakespeare in Love) and had become very popular by then and that may have also contributed to her win. But I think her performance was very good in Shakespeare in Love (one of my favourite romantic movies)!!
I still believe she deserved to win even though Cate Blanchet's performance in Elizabeth was very good too, but Blanchet won twice later on and could still win a third Oscar someday so I don't really mind that she didn't win that year. The same goes with Meryl Streep and let's face it there are not many people who know who Emily Watson and Fernanda Montenegro are (especially nowadays) or who have watched the movies they were nominated for, so I don't get why Paltrow still gets so much hate for her win... It was a fine performance and a fine win in my opinion.
Both movies were stunningly good. It's unfortunate that anyone had to choose between them. That, plus the fact that the reasons one film "wins" and others "lose" often have more to do with current bandwagons and subjective moods, makes this debate pointless. Shakespeare in Love was delightful and very clever. Saving Private Ryan was brutally "real" and powerful. Picking one over the other was like saying that apples are better than strawberries.... No they're not. It's just a matter of personal taste.
I would have loved The Truman Show to have won but it didn’t even get nominated. I do love Shakespeare in Love. I know it’s not popular to say that and don’t like that Harvey Weinstein is a part of that but it is what it is.
That said Steven Spielberg deserved director like he did with SL.
Agreed. I wish The Truman Show had at least been nominated for Picture. Thanks for watching!
Do you think Harvey also had a hand in life is beautiful winning lead actor ?
It is intersting like SiL is now mostly mentioned only as a controvential winning when Saving Privet Ryan, elizabeth or even red thin line are still remebered and watching
They play Shakespeare in love all the time in English classes in schools all over America. Especially when William Shakespeare.
My vote would have been The Thin Red Line.
This years best picture nominees lacked in variety with 3 movies being set in WW2 and 2 being set in the Elizabethan era. I think Saving Private Ryan should have won and the other nominees should’ve been The Truman Show, American History X, Life is Beautiful and Shakespeare in Love.
Honestly, if the rest of Saving Private Ryan was equal to the first act (like Reason 4), and if Spielberg cut the bookends of the film, it would have probably won Best Picture and certainly would be a better film.
I was rooting for Elizabeth, myself. I was furious with the snubs of Michael Caine and Jane Horrocks for Little Voice that year. The fact that the only performance nominated from the movie was Brenda Blethyn's was ridiculous.
The baffling part of Paltrow's win is that she was, to use modern parlance, "meh". She mugs, in what she must think is a charming manner, and when she doesn't know what to do with herself, she tilts her head, like a perplexed canine. That's basically her range. Then you have THE ENTIRE REST OF THE CAST, who do a wonderful job in bringing the stage to the screen, and deftly play all the little Shakespearean in-jokes ("A plague . . . on both your houses!") while also bridging the gap between Elizabethan manners and mannerisms and a modern audience. The costumes! Few period pieces are as careful with EVERYONE who is on screen, even the extras. On that point, SiL has a serious leg-up on Elizabeth, which took enormous liberties with the costuming, and the soundtrack. I nearly threw my (empty) water-bottle at the screen when they used Mozart's Requiem to score the final scene. Only off by 230 years and at least 2 major shifts in musical style. As a life-long Shakespeare lover this should be one of my favorite films. Because of her performance, I can only watch it with my finger poised over the fast-forward button.
I actually like Shakespeare in Love. It’s an fun and light-hearted historical fiction film, but it sure as Hell *did not* deserve to win Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan
Yep!
Dances With Wolves winning over Goodfellas is a biggest snub.
The Actor's Branch is why Chazelle didn't win screenplay for Whiplash and the 'Brit comfy' Imitation Game did instead.
Yup
At least The Theory of Everything didn’t win which won the BAFTA.
So you're telling me the Academy "technically" nominated two films twice that awards season?? All just to keep The Truman Show out of Best Picture consideration?? Lmaooooooooooo
Pretty much!
Saving Private Ryan should’ve been awarded Best Picture it was way more deserving than Shakespeare In Love
Yup
I was 22 at the time and watched ALL Oscar contenders in the theater. What an Oscar lineup!
At the end of Saving Private Ryan no one immediately got up. You could hear a pin drop. We watched the screen with the flag fading and quietly left at the end of the credits. No other movie nominated that year had that effect.
harvey weinstein.... sus?
5) Life is Beautiful
4) Elizabeth
3) Saving Private Ryan
2) Shakespeare in Love
1) The Thin Red Line
I almost agree about everything that is well said and perfectly represented in this video, SAVE the numbering and the order of the reasons!!! Reason number "5" should to moved to be "REASONS" number "1 to 100" ,,, then the remaining 4 reasons to get from 101 to 104.
Unfortunately, it is too late now to fix that horrible mistake, I wish they create a rule to PULL Oscars from bad winners such as Shakespeare in Love , and to re-announce alternate well deservers like Saving Private Ryan who played fairly and lost with honor against the DIRTY Harvey!!!
are you telling me Harvey Weinstein was so influential that his PR blitz could out do Spielberg and Universal Pictures.
I agree with the opinion here that Shakespeare in Love timely release at just the start of awards season, a better ensemble performance and it being a movie about arts and romance could have helped it to win but to conclude SPR was a better picture is mistaken. In fact the video says why SIL won but it does not say why SPR should have won. Simply saying SPR should have won is an error of judgement. You have to make a point as to why it deserved to win. Pulling down a competitor is not enough.
SIL had a unique story, great screenplay, great costume design, and a fantastic performance. All of the actors gave a great performance.
Controversially I think The Thin Red Line deserved the Best Picture Oscar more than Saving Private Ryan. Shakespeare in Love is an amazing movie.
Yes, The Thin Red Line is a great film and would have been a worthy winner. Thanks for watching!
I think the most undeserving Oscar that Shakespeare in Love won is Best Original Score Musical/Comedy considering it beat out my 2 favorite animated films of 1998 The Prince of Egypt and Mulan. Shakespeare in Love’s score is schmalzy. The fact it beat out the best score from a non-Disney animated film The Prince of Egypt is stupid. Mulan’s score is also way better than Shakespeare in Love. I think that win is even more undeserving than Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture and Gwyneth Paltrow’s win.
Thanks for watching!
Gwyneth Paltrow shouldn't have won over Cate Blanchett
I've been following the Oscars since Ordinary People won in 1980 and I can say without hesitation that the 1999 Oscars are my least favourite, in fact, I despise them. The winners just made me roll my eyes. I disliked Life is Beautiful and especially it's egomaniac star Begnini - so hated his win. ANY of the other 4 would have been preferable to me. Nolte especially, I think, gave the performance of his career in Affliction. Dench knew she didn't deserve her Oscar - I would have much preferred Redgrave for Gods & Monsters. I was ok with Coburn winning for the aforementioned Affliction and for Best Actress, although she didn't have a chance, Fernanda Montenegro for Central Station who just made me weep in that movie. And if not her, Blanchett for Elizabeth. At least Spielberg won Director - the movie should've won instead. That cold blooded machine called Weinstein at the height of his abuse of power.
That year the Oscars were a complete shame, I still can't believe that the Academy allows itself to be influenced by ridiculous campaigns. Of all the Oscars that Shakespeare in love won, only deserved ONE and that Oscar is Best Costume design, you have to accept that the costumes are epic. The Academy should not be paying attention to these campaigns, they almost made the same mistake in 2019 when they favored Bohemian rhapsody and ignored great films like A star is born and The favorite, if Bohemian rhapsody won Best Picture it would surpass the shame of Shakespeare in love.
All your videos have made clear that the Academy has been wrong for decades.
Haha, thanks for watching!
Heard their a Pention to Change the award.
Why nobody talks about Forrest Gump defeating Pulp Fiction
Can you do a video about the influence Harvey Weinstein had over these award shows. He was a hardcore campaigner for his films and had crazy influence.
I hated “Saving Private Ryan” - I thought the story was cloying, melodramatic & manipulative. Especially the end where Hanks says to Damon “Earn this” - meaning earn the fact that he was the only one lucky enough to be left alive at the end of the film - ridiculous-it did not deserve the best picture award that year even with the opening sequence. I am glad it didn’t win the best picture Oscar.
SiL's disgraceful producer, in order to win an Oscar had to break the rules and talk BS about their main competitor. Unfortunately, that became the blueprint to campaign for winning an Oscar that still resonates today.
Shakespeare in Love Spring '99?
I am sooooo happy someone finally made a video about this injustice. I was a teenager when I saw Saving Private Ryan. I walked out of that theater with an unshakable respect for my grandparents generation - the hell they went through in WWII. They were drafted and they went into the service head held high. I’d seen war movies before, but in this movie it felt like Spielberg actually puts the viewer into the war to follow along. The shocking D-Day sequence seemed as close as a filmmaker could come to the real, brutal, mass slaughter that Omaha Beach was. And our soldiers, rather then turning around kept charging on. D-Day wasn’t just one day - it was the first day of many long hellish days & nights in constant fear of death for the members of the Greatest Generation. This movie HAD TO WIN BEST PICTURE I THOUGHT as I left the theater….
But that bloated, self centered criminal named Harvey Weinstein paid his bribes well, and took the most coveted award away from the film that delivered the best….How is Jail Harvey???
Thanks for your comment, and for watching!! Excellent insight!
Some World War 2 Veterans Said That "Saving Private Ryan" Opening Sequence Was Not Brutal, Enough!
Great Movie.
But, I Agree That 'Shakespeare In Love' Was Excellent Throughout The Movie.
"Saving Private Ryan" Was About 20 Minutes, Too Long!
And, Thus, Lost!
I just watched Shakespeare In Love yesterday. Pretty lame that this movie ended up winning Best Picture instead of Saving Private Ryan. This result is an ugly stain on the history of the Oscars, like Hitchock & Kubrick never winning Best Director.
At that time, SIL was better, intelligent and accessible. SPR was phenomenal, but detached. Love them both!
Thanks for watching!
I don't care at all about what happened behind the curtains...the TRUTH, and only TRUTH is that the movie of the Zionist got 10 ok first minutes followed by 2 unbearable BORING hours.
In the other hand, Shakespeare in Love, is witty, fresh, and FUNNY from minute one till the credits. Exuberant, Intelligent script. Layer after layer of different possible interpretations. A brilliant and intelligent, let's say, parody of Hollywood itself, and a passionate ode to the Art of entretaiment. Being pure Art itself. And, yes, Judi Dench may appear 8 minutes on screen, but OH MY GOSH what 8 minutes!!! By the way, nobody said a word about Brando appearing less than 10 minutes in Apocalypse Now back in 1979...
A final point, the best actor Oscar should go to Jim Carrey. It was disrespectful not do it. The Academy got a big debt to pay.
I adore Shakespeare in Love, and will defend its Best Picture win (and all other wins, except Paltrow's) to the death. The film has a great ensemble cast, a clever and funny script, a sound plot and ending that made sense, a lovely score, and familiar characters and themes to anyone who knows anything about Shakespeare or Tudor history. To me, Saving Private Ryan was just twenty opening minutes of noise and then snooze-ville.
Also, Gods and Monsters should have got more love that year.
Agreed!
That is why they call it an Oscar campaign, you have to sell it. Everyone knows that.
It's all politics. Just like when running for president. They never elect the best person to be president.
I remember that night well. Having seen both movies at the cinema, plus Life is Beautiful, I was completely shocked. I would have bet all my money on Ryan AND Hanks.
SPR is a classic, and Hank's performance his best or second best.
I was SO angry. :)
Today, we know why. F-ing Weinstein.
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I know I’m the only person that thinks this, but Saving Private Ryan was overrated. The first 20 minutes was great, but then the movie lost it. Thin Red Line was a better movie.
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I guess we should hardly be surprised that Weinstein behaved in an underhanded manner.
Elizabeth is an excellent movie
cuzzzzzzzzzzz its was a complete robbery
Roberto B was a Buffoon. When you look back at Life is Beautiful it is corny Carey was ronned
There is no many reasons, only one obvious reason…. Giant elephant in the room…. Hollywood mafia boss… his legacy aged as badly as this Best Picture “win”, and Gwyneth “win”.
Fernanda Montenegro should have won.
Saving Private Ryan was robbed. So sad.
Yup!
"Shakespeare in love" has my heart, "Saving private Ryan" has my respect and "Elizabeth" has my devotion. All 3 movies are exclusive members of my blu-ray collection. Before that they were part of my DVD collection and before that from my VHS collection. I don't keep count but I'm sure the one I've re-watched less is "Ryan" because it makes me cry. "Shakespeare in love" brings me joy, and was happy it won. Just because Harvey Weinstein is a convicted criminal who's rooting in a cell, his movies should not have to be punished. I also jumped of happiness when "Chicago" won and remains one of my favorite movies of all time
Personally, I was quite happy for Shakespeare's Best Picture win. While Ryan is, no doubt, a powerful film it was being referred to by many critics as "just another war movie" even with that impactful opening scene. I loved Shakespeare in Love, and felt (okay shoot me for this opinion) that Gwyneth Paltrow was well-deserving of her win for Best Actress.
Isn't The Artist the first foreign film to win best picture? And not Parasites...
Hmmm, The Artist was silent but not foreign. Thanks for watching!
@@TheAwardsContender French director and producers though...
@@fredd8556 I think they mean foreign _language_ film.
SPR is a cliched war movie filled with celebrity cameos and is way too long. Other than the beginning battle scene it's generic in every way. Being upset about this is just a meme at this point.
Saving Private Ryan was robbed that’s it!
Shakespeare in Love Spring '99?