Rick O'Connell and Short Round won Oscars and I'm all for it.

That vintage Chanel is goddamn beautiful.

Hell, “Ghostbusters” is a better and more deserving song (which also lost that year). Honestly, I’m willing to argue that every other nominated song in that category that year would have been a better choice. They were awarding Stevie, not the song.

I’d add Silkwood to the list of great Cher movie parts. No one ever mentions it anymore, but it’s one of my favorites and is still so creepy to me!

linda hamilton as well, i suppose.

Cool story, bro. I bet your ex Kathryn Bigelow would've ACTUALLY hit Weinstein in that same scenario...

Man if he did think this, he probably thought Platoon was a comedy. Wow.

Oh man. I run into idiots to this day who try to tell me that Cher couldn’t possibly have deserved an acting Oscar...without ever seeing Moonstruck, which is an astoundingly good film. She earned every bit of that Oscar, playing the most un-Cher character imaginable, and she might have deserved to win for Mask as…

Well, it came from James Cameron, and James Cameron is always happy to sing the praises of James Cameron.

You think Hurt Locker was a recruitment film?  

This is the only cool thing I’ve ever heard about James Cameron as a human being

Truly the most random appearance of Godwin’s Law I’ve ever come across

Thank GOD for the “American Beauty/The Insider” mention. The Insider is one of the greatest movies ever. Like you said... stone cold masterpiece. I was stunned it didn’t win (although I guess not really stunned given the clamor AB was getting).

But it is so far above American Beauty, I swear I spend a healthy portion…

the absence of gladiator on this list makes it null and void

You 100% cannot mention “I Just Called To Say I Love You” without mentioning that Wonder had to return the Oscar, because the song wasn’t written specifically for the movie.

Haha, not at all. But Pat Porter in the 1998 Steve Prefontaine biopic Without Limits looked like an Olympic caliber 10k runner.

This. I feel the same way about running in movies. That's not how actual fast humans run.

Oh I know. But Rocky’s fight strategy of letting opponents punch themselves out on his head was way over the top. In a real fight, one solid blow to the face might end it. He took like 50 every time out.

I remember Muhammed Ali being kind of diplomatic about Stallone’s movies... and being quick to point out that they were only movies. And that no boxer in his right mind would do so much weightlifting.

I’ll be honest - I remembered it as a draw.