And then the sun itself will turn us all to sand

[sovay]

Spurred by a gloomy desire to know what the hell movie Spike Lee's era-defining Do the Right Thing (1989) lost Best Original Screenplay to at the 62nd Academy Awards, spatch and I just spent the last hour reading Oscar nominations and results from 1990 onward, an activity punctuated by frequent cries of "[X] was robbed!" "[Y] should have been nominated!" and "That was poop!" I had forgotten how many years I had opinions about. I've seen even more of those movies now. I have more opinions.

The answer to our original question, by the way, was Dead Poets Society. My opinion about that is: "That was poop!"

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[gwynnega]

Also, the only actor nominated for an Oscar for Do the Right Thing was Danny Aiello! I'm still very annoyed about that, all these years later. (Though my ultimate Oscar gripe will probably always be Crash winning Best Picture.)

[ETA: Now it occurs to me that my ultimate Oscar gripe has been revised to Crash winning Best Picture while Get Out did not.]

[sovay]

[ETA: Now it occurs to me that my ultimate Oscar gripe has been revised to Crash winning Best Picture while Get Out did not.]

Both spatch and I had mercifully forgotten all about Crash until we got to the relevant year and screamed.

(That was the year I wanted Good Night, and Good Luck to win at least one of its nominations, had braced myself for it to get wiped off the map by Brokeback Mountain, and had to watch Brokeback Mountain get wiped off the map by Crash. It seems I'm still burned about that.)

[kore]

It's a stinking shame Mountain and Right Thing just didn't sweep every category. Like, they ought to be actually ashamed that's Academy history.

[kore]

CRASH, AUGH.