Warner Bros. "Goodfellas" was beat out at the 1991 Oscars by Kevin Costner's "Dances with Wolves." Starring Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese's gangster epic remains one of the best films ever made about the mafia, along with Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather."
The film stars Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, and Joe Pesci and is considered to be a staple of the genre and, to many, Scorsese's best film. While it received no shortage of praise and nominations upon release, Goodfellas ultimately lost out on the top prize to Kevin Costner's best picture nominee, Dances With Wolves.
John Madden's “Shakespeare in Love” triumphing over Steven Spielberg's war epic “Saving Private Ryan” for best picture at the 1999 Oscars remains one of the most controversial upsets in Academy Awards history.
How Green Was My Valley beating out Citizen Kane — for years the consensus choice for the greatest film ever made — to win Best Picture is one of the easiest examples to point to of Oscar getting it wrong.
Goodfellas received widespread acclaim upon release: the critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes calls it "arguably the high point of Martin Scorsese's career". The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, with Pesci winning for Best Supporting Actor.
Welles was given unprecedented artistic control by RKO Pictures, allowing him to create a groundbreaking and innovative film. Welles' ego and behavior, along with a smear campaign by media mogul William Randolph Hearst, contributed to the film's mixed reception and Welles being booed at the Oscars.
Daniel Day-Lewis became the first and currently only man to win three best actor Oscars, while Frances McDormand became only the second woman and third of her counterparts overall to achieve the same. Finally, Walter Brennan won his three supporting actor Oscars every other year between 1937 and 1941.
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles. Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote the screenplay. The picture was Welles' first feature film. Citizen Kane is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made.
While the characters are fictional, the film is inspired by actual historical events and the "sole survivor" policy of the U.S. War Department. Steven Spielberg's personal connection to World War II influenced his decision to direct the film and his subsequent World War II projects.
Bittersweet Ending: By the end of the final battle, Upham, Reiben, and Ryan are the only main characters to survive, with the latter two having to witness Captain Miller's death. Ryan gets to go home and live a full life, but he's still haunted by the others' sacrifice and wonders whether his life was worth it.
As expected, despite all the nominations, it was not Citizen Kane's night. The voters, Hollywood insiders, weren't about to reward Welles — detested, despised, and envied for his youth and his early success. Kane lost out in virtually every major award — save one.
The ceremony is now considered notable as the year in which Citizen Kane failed to win Best Picture, losing to John Ford's How Green Was My Valley. Later regarded as the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane was nominated for nine awards but won only one, for Best Original Screenplay.
Murphy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on January 23, 2007, but lost to Alan Arkin for his performance in Little Miss Sunshine—it was speculated that one of the reasons Murphy lost out on winning the Academy Award was the negative reviews of his subsequent film Norbit, released in early ...
The person who has triumphed more times at the Oscars than anyone else in history is Walt Disney. America's most iconic filmmaker racked up a whopping 26 Oscars, four of which were honorary awards, and he also holds the record for the most nominations on record – 59.
Who is the youngest person to win multiple Oscars?
There are only three people in Oscar history who have won two Oscars by the age of 30 or younger: Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth. Jodie Foster for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs.
To date, no film has won all four Academy Awards in the four acting categories (Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress). However, there have been fifteen films containing at least one nominated performance in each of the four Academy Award acting categories.
In 2012, the movie world was abuzz when Orson Welles' “Citizen Kane,” which had topped the poll of critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics for a half century, was dethroned by “Vertigo.” Turns out the reign lasted a short 10 years.
He dies alone in his bedroom one night in 1941, after uttering his last word, "Rosebud." The death of the "Great Yellow Journalist" is a national news event and is the lead story in many newspapers.
This is why Citizen Kane is the American tragedy. The pain and sadness of Charles Foster Kane's life in this film is the result of the belief that money brings all the good things of life. This is the flaw that haunts Charles Foster Kane and it is a most American flaw.
Although Liotta's story is at the heart of "GoodFellas", it is the supporting cast that is the film's calling card. Robert DeNiro gives one of his greatest performances, Paul Sorvino is quietly effective, and Lorraine Bracco (in an Oscar-nominated role) does the best work of her career.
Only three films have won all five of these major awards: It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Eight films failed to win any of the five major awards after being nominated.
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a cantankerous river steam launch skipper opposite Katharine Hepburn's missionary in the World War I African adventure The African Queen (1951).
