Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction? The Oscars have frequently gotten it wrong with giving out Best Picture, and these 5 nominated movies should've won the award.
When the Academy Awards roll around each year, several traditions kick into high gear: guessing who will be nominated, lamenting over who got snubbed, judging the red carpet looks a little too harshly, and wincing at the cheesy musical numbers at the ceremony.
Related That Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name was nominated at all was a small miracle, as the film is bit too … European for the normally conservative Academy. Sensual, lyrical coming-of-age tales aren’t usually fully embraced by the Oscars, but this one should have been as it contains some of the best cinematography, acting, song selection , and writing in the last few decades.
Pulp Fiction over Forrest Gump Other nominees: Four Weddings and a Funeral, Quiz Show, The Shawshank Redemption It wasn’t a surprise that Forrest Gump won Best Picture on March 27, 1995. The Robert Zemeckis picture had been a critical and commercial smash in the summer of ’94, and had already situated itself in pop culture forever with the immortally stupid line, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.
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