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ACADEMY AWARDS
We asked Times readers if they were still mad about an Oscar snub. Technically a snub involves a film or an artist (or a song or any other possible contender) that was overlooked altogether at the awards. But a nominee losing to an unworthy rival was also fair game, and readers took both slights to heart. Readers felt strongly about the lack of nominations for “Paddington 2,” Danny Elfman’s score for the 1989 “Batman,” Will Ferrell in “Elf” and Abby Ryder Fortson in “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” But these weren’t the most notable omissions and oversights.
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‘Saving Private Ryan’
Steven Spielberg’s World War II drama lost best picture to the period romance “Shakespeare in Love” in 1999.
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Amy Adams in ‘Arrival’
Though up for the Oscar six times over her career, Adams wasn’t nominated for her role in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi tale in 2017; Emma Stone won best actress for “La La Land” that year.
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‘Brokeback Mountain’
In 2006, Ang Lee’s western romance about two gay ranchers lost best picture to “Crash,” a morality tale about race and class in Los Angeles.
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‘Goodfellas’
Martin Scorsese’s mob classic itself lost best picture to the Kevin Costner western “Dances With Wolves” in 1991.