How in the world was Glory not even nominated for Best Picture?
FrozenCloud asked:
That 1989 Civil War film was one of the best movies I have ever seen. Great acting, story, directing, and music. A very moving motion picture. I know it won 3 Academy Awards for Best Sound, Best Cinematography, and Best Supporting Actor (Denzel Washington). But how was it not even nominated for Best Picture??? I think it was the best war movie ever. Better than Platoon and Patton, both of which won Best Picture in their respective years.
That 1989 Civil War film was one of the best movies I have ever seen. Great acting, story, directing, and music. A very moving motion picture. I know it won 3 Academy Awards for Best Sound, Best Cinematography, and Best Supporting Actor (Denzel Washington). But how was it not even nominated for Best Picture??? I think it was the best war movie ever. Better than Platoon and Patton, both of which won Best Picture in their respective years.
I thought it was nominated…
It was nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, and Best Film Editing but not best picture. That is odd. Driving Miss Daisy won that year. I didn’t like that movie at all. I didn’t like Glory either at the time (I was 14) but now I can appreciate it, though I don’t normally enjoy “war movies”.
It got bumped off by Driving Miss Daisy and Born on the Fourth of July. Morgan Freeman was in both Glory and Driving Miss Daisy so there was a conflict there. And Born on the Fourth of July was the big Oliver Stone production. That meant that a racial movie and a war movie were already in the final five.
because movies about black people never get nominated for best picture. check history. no for ‘boyz n the hood’ no for ‘malcolm x’. both critically acclaimed films with other nominations.
I completely agree. This is arguably the most underrated war movie ever.
Striking performances by M. Broderick, D. Washington, and M. Freeman, not just the Civil War as a platform (which would have sufficed in itself) but the contributions of a colored division and the battles they had to fight before any of them even stepped onto the battlefield. I love the redemption of the Colonel played by Broderick, when he finds he isn’t a coward after all but a fighter who paid the ultimate price for his courage. A great, great story.
1989 also failed to include Do the Right Thing in the Best Picture race.
BEST PICTURE 1989
Born on the Fourth of July
Driving Miss Daisy
Dead Poets Society
Field of Dreams
My Left Foot
So you basically had Oliver Stone’s bloated epic with Tom Cruise, which would most likely have won had Driving Miss Daisy not come out last minute. The bland Robin Williams film Dead Poets Society- which did not belong here- and the Actors picture My Left Foot. Oh, and Kevin Costner’s popular sleeper hit Field of Dreams.
Most likely Glory or Do the Right Thing would have replaced Dead Poets Society.
Remember, other great films in 1989 also failed to make the short list, including the still underrated comedy Parenthood.