Enya wss denied an award for performing May It Be from LOTR, FOTR because the academy decided to wait until all three movies were done and released before handing out any awards to those movies. Annie Lennox took home that prize instead. Sure, she's great and I like her, but I thought Enya's was better.

Fiendish Thingy

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8. Not to mention such atrocities as "the English Patient" and "Out of Africa" winning

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Mon Jan 13, 2020, 02:08 PM

Jan 2020

They snubbed Greta Gerwig for best director for “Little Women” (although she got a nod for adapted screenplay)

hlthe2b

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9. I truly never understood the hate for either movie. IMO, both were excellent.

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Mon Jan 13, 2020, 02:10 PM

Jan 2020

and the English Patient was more than deserving. SO THERE!

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)

4. Eastwood and the scriptwriter screwed his cast and crew

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Mon Jan 13, 2020, 01:50 PM

Jan 2020

It is a slam dunk story with plenty of villains, but he had to gild the lily by showing a real life character sleeping for a story where no evidence exists that this happened, and a lot of evidence exists that the story was broke on the phone in the newsroom. Bad form to slander someone when you are showing the excesses of slandering another individual especially when the male agent who would be more culpable is a composite.

I would have made Brockaw ("nearly enough for a conviction&quot my villain or the guy who equated Jewell with Wayne Williams.

I don't know if anyone explored that NBC had the coverage of the Olympics, and one of their most trusted figures was pushed out to ensure that the Olympics was safe (we know who the bomber is). Probably reason NBC so quickly settled.

Brockaw's quote:
"They probably have enough to arrest him right now, probably enough to prosecute him," he added. "But you always want to have enough to convict him as well. There are still some holes in this case."

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