The Biggest upsets in Oscar history

Set to write the Academy Award in breach and immediately begins to shift the ground under your feet. Yes, some neck-snappers we all remember - such as Jack Nicholson is to present the prize for Best Picture in 2005, opened an envelope and said: "Wow" - a time when the name of the movie knew all to win all of a sudden no one reading aloud.

But this I-hadda-be-there moments. Looking Oscar history, you find that we could call violates the opposite - cases in which a film or play that has long been a part of racial unconscious is not a day, won due recognition. Then you get into a kind of "What do they know, and when they know?" situation. How would they have been so blind? We have collected some of this kind, and upset.

Violate come in all valences, triumphant and horrifying. Truly the way Oscar passes understanding. But this does not spoil the party.

1939
It was Hollywood's golden year. "Stagecoach" ... "Mr. Smith Goes Washington" ... "Ninotchka" ... "The Wizard of Oz" ... "Is it the wings of angels ... "Mr. Young Lincoln" ... "Wuthering Heights" ... "Of mice and men ... "Gunga Din" ... "Drums Along Mohawk" ... "Roman" ... "Four Feathers" (OK, made in England, but still). Nevertheless, it was producing a film that obsessed fans throughout the year, and when it was at that time record 13 Oscar nominations, no one doubts that David O. Selznick 'S almost four-hour Technicolor megaproduction "gone with the wind will take the brass ring. Lots of bronze rings, including for best director Victor Fleming, despite the fact that some half-dozen directors (George Cukor and Sam Wood) worked on the film. Most major players have been appointed (including Thomas Mitchell, although to "Stagecoach", not "GWTW"): a newcomer in Hollywood Vivien Li won Best Actress, as Scarlett O'Hara, and Hattie McDaniel edged out Olivia de Havilland for Best Supporting Actress. However, what was wrong with this picture? While writer Margaret Mitchell had written a book of visualization Clark gable as Rhett Butler, the fronton had to settle for a nomination (best actor went to Robert Donat for "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" -- but in reality, we would give it to Frank Capra in Mr. Smith, Jimmy Stewart). The king took him as a man, of course. But the clock "GWTW" today, and try telling us all that nonsense will be tolerated without Selznickean gable movie stars standing in the middle of it.