Last updated on 2012-04-16, by Tony

3 Most Unfortunate Movies In Academy Award

Academy Award is the most authentic award bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in film industry with high reputation. Academy Award is held to recognize excellence of professionals.

Winning Oscar statuette is a great honor for all the actors. It not only means that their performance skills are recognized and praised but also symbolizes their victories over other actors that year.

There are too many Best Motion Picture winners in the history of Academy Award that have impressed the world. They all qualified as winners of Best Motion Picture. However, there are also some controversial Best Motion Picture winners in history.

In the history of Academy Award, Titanic and All About Eve rank first in terms of their 14 nominations and The Lord Of The Ring 3, Titanic and Ben-Hur ranks first as the winners of 11 awards. Usually, the more nominations you have the more chance to win the Oscar statuette. However, there actually exist some unfortunate movies. With many nominations in hand, they can’t get even one prize. This post will present you three most unfortunate movies in Academic Award.

1. The Color Purple

Nominations: 11 Prize: None

The Color Purple, a movie made by famous director, Steven Spielberg, mainly focused on the issues of black man. It is made in the perspective of a black woman and intends to show the living condition and social statue of the black. Not only family violence is involved, but also racial discrimination. Based on the Pulitzer winner The Color Purple, the movie presents us the panorama of the lives of black people.

More importantly, it performs well in terms of box office recipients. While people held firm that it could add its name to winner list, The Color Purple surprisingly failed in all the 11 competitions because theme about black man was not so welcomed at that time.

2. Gangs of New York

Nominations: 10 Prize: None

This is a movie with Hollywood gangster theme. With the guidance of Martin Scorsese and the powerful cast lead by Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis, it easily got 10 nominations. The epic movie about the battle between Irish and Italian gangs in New Yourk was quite popular at that time. However, unlike other movies, it ruined its own career with a mistake.

In order to publicize its movie, MGM not only hired former Oscar winner Robert Wise to help it publicize the film, but also asserted that Gangs of New York would be the winner. This irritated many people including members of American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. So the miserable fate of Gangs of New York was no strange to all.

3. The Shawshank Redemption

Nominations: 8 Prize: None

As a movie with prison theme, it doesn’t focus on the bloody and violent moment. On the contrary, it can be viewed as an encouraging movie. After watching you would probably be moved by some scenes. It was a milestone in film industry at that time because it led the world to a tide of making prison-oriented movies.

The Shawshank Redemption is viewed as one of the best movies in 1990s along with Schindler’s List. However, it was defeat by Forrest Gump. This amazingly wonderful movie could be the biggest winner in Academy Award if it had no met with Forrest Gump. Obviously, Morgan and Robbins were not that influential as Tom Hanks at that time.

Those are the three unfortune movies in Academy Award. To be honest, they are all good movies that worth watching. So you may just as well convert those DVDs to mp4 files with DVD Ripper to play it in your Apple TV.