You’ve heard this reason why the Oscars suck before, but this sums it up rather well and or is an interesting reminder. People should win Oscars when they should, not years fucking later as an apology award. Get with it, Oscar.
Spike Lee:
“Al Pacino [in “Scent of a Woman”] over Denzel [in “Malcolm X”]? When Al doesn’t win for ‘Godfather I’, ‘Godfather II,’ “Serpico,” “Dog Day Afternoon” — they fucked him over at least five times, I know. Then he does Scent of a Woman. Denzel [nominated that year for Malcolm X] already won for Glory: “He’s young, he’ll be back, he’ll be all right. We fucked over Al, we’ll give it to him.” [Whispering] “Denzel, we’ll hook you up, we got you.” “Training Day”! He wins for Training Day. So we don’t get it for Malcolm X. It’s like the makeup call in basketball. If you don’t get it when you should, it messes everything up. The problem is, you don’t get it when you need to get it. And when you get the makeup call, then you’re fucking somebody else over and it just keeps going on and on and on. Now I love Marty — does he think Departed” was the best film? Hell, no!” [Vulture]
