Please let Louis talk for 3 hours like this and release the whole thing.

A full series where Louis schools us on Oscar history? YES!! Right now please!

It's thrilling to listen to someone just go off on a topic they're this passionate about. Louis, we love you.

This needs to be a full 2 hours long

Toni Collette not being nominated for Hereditary

Finally someone agrees with me that Glenn Close should have won the Oscar for Dangerous Liaisons over Jodie Foster in The Accused.

Jodie Foster doesn't "accidentally" have two Oscars, she earned them

Barbara Stanwyck, snubbed for Double Indemnity

Lol - that verbal portrait you crafted of Judy’s hospital room being abandoned by the vulture press on Oscar night was quintessential Judy

No Oscar Expert worth their salt could ever leave out THE definitive "Most Shocking Best Actress Snub" of all time: Bette Davis for "Of Human Bondage". The term "Oscar snub" was coined for this most egregious omission. In 1934, Life magazine called Bette Davis's performance the greatest ever recorded on screen by an actress.

Myrna Loy was never nominated in any category in her career. She deserved nominations for "The Thin Man" and "The Best Years of Our Lives".

I could listen to you talk about Oscar trivia for hours!

Glenn Close in "Dangerous Liaisons" should have won just for the last, wordless scene after she's been humiliated at the opera, taking off her makeup.

Fernanda Montenegro losing to Paltron is to this day the most absurd thing that ever happend.

Witness for the prosecution is one of my favorite movies of all time - so happy Louis mentioned the movie and Marlene Dietrich

Amy Adams in arrival was heart breaking

More of this PLEASE.

Definitely Cher. My list includes Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard," Anne Bancroft in "The Graduate," Carrie Snodgress in "Diary of a Mad Housewife" and Leslie Caron in "The L-Shaped Room."

Completely agree with you on Garland. One of the greatest performances ever put on film.

Couldn't agree more with your list of snubs. My personal gripe was Annette Bening not being nominated for her touching turn as another Oscar winning actress, Gloria Grahame, in " Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool." And, speaking of snubs, Elvis Costello should have been nominated for his beautiful song " You Shouldn't Look at Me That Way " from the same film. (And I've never been a Costello fan.)

Wait wait wait we are not talking about Fernanda Montenegro not winning for Central do Brasil while that sad little movie Shakespeare in Love led Gwyneth Paltrow to the Oscar for best actress in 98?????????? That was a real mistake

Missed opportunities: Greta Garbo (Camille), Doris Day (should have been nominated for The Man Who Knew Too Much), Irene Dunne (5 nominations), Andrew Scott (not even nominated for All Of Us Strangers).

Gwyneth winning for Shakespeare in Love over Cate in Elizabeth was the first time I ever felt a sense of injustice over the Oscars.

Marlene Dietrich saying "you wanna kiss me, ducky" in Witness... is seared into my brain

I love how Oscars history intersects showbiz and cinephilia😊😊😊

Judy Garland got snubbed by the Academy twice, first for A Star Is Born and again a few years later when she was nominated for Judgement At Nuremberg. She should have won both.

Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins and Alfred Hitchcock for Psycho. Joseph Stefano too.

I’m glad Louis mentioned the snub of Annette Bening’s performance in “20th Century Women” but I think she was equally deserving of a nomination for her amazing portrayal of Gloria Grahame in “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool” (2017).

You are brilliant. Brilliant.

Peter Bogdanovich's best movie is "What's up, Doc"! 👍🏻

Marilyn Monroe for Bus Stop. Always overlooked but got several other awards for her performances in other films.

Part 2! Part 2! Bette Midler for The Rose 🧑‍⚖️

Couldnt thank you enough for these type of videos!!!!

At the 100th Oscar’s I hope you get a segment live on the show! Recapping all the times they fucked up over the years 😂

A few come to mind for me, but others may disagree. I love Elizabeth Taylor in “Giant” (1956) and Lee Remick in “Anatomy of a Murder” (1959) and feel they were both worthy of nominations.

Great video! Have to comment on my biggest snub which is Ellen Burstyn in “Requiem for a Dream” losing to Julia Roberts in “Erin Brockovich”. Julia is an amazing actress, but this seems like a popularity contest or political voting because I don’t think anyone can hold those two performances side by side and say Julia exceeded any aspect of performance compared to Burstyn. Both great performances, but one clear winner in my opinion.

YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!!!! So good.

“Cher is better than people” top tier quote

I'd love an "Oscar History" mini-series Podcast by Louis. It would be good for us because we get to hear Louis speak on this, and it'll be good for him because you know he'll enjoy researching that stuff.

Cate not winning for Elisabeth, the year Gwyneth won :/

Louis talking about Best Actress snubs? YES PLEASE!

I have never forgotten when Gwyneth Paltrow won best actress for the Shakespeare movie over the incredible Cate Blanchett performance in the movie Elizabeth, Cate can act circles around Gwyneth. I also think Glenn Close and Cate Blanchett were incredible in Paradise Road, as well as some of the other women in that movie.

One of the worst years based on results was 1999 (for movies made in 1998). You have Shakespeare in Love beating both Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line (both cinematic masterpieces--SiL--was it even one of the top 10 movies that year?), Gwyneth Paltrow (in SiL) beating both Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth and Emily Watson in Hilary and Jackie, Roberto Benigni (in Life is Beautiful) over Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters and Edward Norton in American History X, James Coburn (in Affliction) over Ed Harris in The Truman Show and Robert Duvall in A Civil Action, Judi Dench in SiL over Lynn Redgrave in Gods and Monsters and Kathy Bates in Primary Colors, and SiL winning Best Screenplay over Saving Private Ryan, The Truman Show, and I think I would have even voted for Bulworth over SiL. So, yeah, that was a bad year. (Also, Pleasantville came out in 1998 and missed in all the main categories--???) Other examples that stick in my craw include Dances With Wolves over Goodfellas in 1991 and Driving Miss Daisy for Best Picture in 1990; I do like it as a movie more than SiL, but was it really better than the movies it beat? There are so many talented actors who haven't won that it would be difficult to list them all, but my shortlist would include Annette Bening, Glenn Close, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Mary McDonnell, Amy Adams, both Joan and John Cusack, Ed Norton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Donald Sutherland, and I'm probably forgetting a bunch of people. Hitchcock never won Best Director--really?!?!? Terrence Malick? I guess the last one I'll mention is Forrest Gump beating both The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction in 1995. This situation BTW is not unique to film. In literature, for example, you have such major 20th Century writers who weren't even considered for the Nobel Prize such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Jorge Borges, J. R. R. Tolkien, Sylvia Plath, Ursula LeGuin, etc., etc. Salman Rushdie is still alive, but is he ever going to get this award? It's looking doubtful.

Cher is such an amazing actress. She’s so great in Mermaids too, another role and movie time seems to be forgetting, tragically.

"The Barbra version is… very long." 🤣 Also, I need a bigger sample size for Grace Kelly movies. I've only seen Rear Window and Mogambo, and in the latter was so horrid, especially with Ava Gardner being so awesome right next to her.

I will go to my grave saying that Audrey Hepburn was robbed of the Best Actress Oscar in 1959 for her tour de force performance as the tortured nun in "The Nun's Story." She lost to Simone Signoret for "Room at the Top." "The Nun's Story" was a world-wide, box-office hit. Also, Dame Edith Evans, who played Mother Emmanuel, the superior of the order of nuns, was bypassed for a Supporting Actress Oscar. One of the biggest travesties of justice occurred when Gladys Cooper, who played Sister Marie Vouzoux, a nun who did not believe that the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Bernadette Soubirous in the film, "The Song of Bernadette.". There is one scene between the two nuns where Sister Vouzoux pleads for a sign that the appearance did occur to Bernadette which is one of the most believable and memorable scenes ever recorded on film.

The Amy Adams snub is one that I hold onto still. That movie moves me to the core. So much love for that performance, and the source material is just as good as the movie!

More Oscar stuff please , especially old Oscar stuff. I agree with mask as much as I laugh at her moonstruck Oscar. Girl please. Great video. P s. I'll never get over the Judy Garland thing thank God I wasn't alive when it happened

I think mine would be Joan Fontaine not winning for Rebecca

Tar is real, and lives near all of us!

That was so wonderful! Thank you! More please!

Toni Collette in Hereditary, Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler. Liotta in Goodfellas. Lindo in Da 5 Bloods.

2016 had the most snubbed performances at the Oscars: -Taraji for Hidden figures -Amy for Arrival -Jessica for Ms Sloane -Hailee Steinfeld for Edge of seventeen -Alicia Vikander for Light between the oceans I love Meryl but it was a joke she did get in for Florence....

So, you mention Whoopi Goldberg and Geraldine Page, but you don’t include it as a legendary snub. While I do think that Geraldine Page fully deserved the Academy Award, so did Whoopi Goldberg, whose performance in The Color Purple was arguably one of the greatest premier performances of all time. To me, it’s a rare instance that was a legitimate snub, even though the actual winner fully deserved it. I thought it should have been a Hepburn/Streisand-like tie.

I'd love for Louis to do a show on what all was wrong with the tragedy that is Barbra's version of "A Star is Born" starting with whether it needed to be made.

As far as snubs go, the Academy really needs to get over their phobia of action, horror, and comedy. Uma was perfect in Kill Bill and should have been nominated for either role. They could've booted Diane in Something's Gotta Give or,. sorry, Annette for Being Julia (even though those are both comedies so I'm contradicting myself). Ruth Gordon was iconic in Harold and Maude. The Academy has done an okay job recently of nominating foreign films, they really should have nominated Anne Dorval for Mommy and depending on what year it was, booted either Felicity Jones or Jennifer Lawrence. Both Jodie Foster in Contact and Pam Grier in Jackie Brown were robbed, they probably could've booted Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, or Julie Christie. Gena Rowlands in Opening Night gives one of my favorite performances ever and she was totally robbed, Marsha Mason really didn't need that nom (when does Marsha ever really need that nom?) Kathleen Turner was robbed a few times, in 1984 for Romancing the Stone (they could've booted most of those noms, probably Sissy for The River), War of the Roses in 1989 (Jessica Lange in Music Box could be booted), and 1994 for Serial Mom (again, they coud've booted several of them, I'd say Susan for The Client). I know they always say this when they win, but 1995 really was a great year for women, and several were snubbed including Sigourney for Copycat, Kathy Bates for Delores Claiborne, Nicole Kidman in To Die For, Marina Zudina in Mute Witness, and Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls (okay, the last two are wishful thinking, but they're still great). And even though I know they had no chance, Elisabeth Shue in Adventures in Babysitting, Rebecca De Mornay in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and Christina Applegate in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead made my personal Oscars.

Two words: Thelma Ritter

Great segment. I did not like Out Of Africa for years but 15 years later, realized both film and Meryl Streeps performance were outstanding. I would have to disagree with you on that it being anything but. It took very long to realize that.

it's funny that they didn't nominate Marlene because of the spoiler yet they nominated Jaye Davidson for Best Supporting Actor.

Through the MN statewide library lending system, I just requested Silkwood. Thanks for the reminder!

Toni Collette, Hereditary Reese Witherspoon, Election Florence Pugh, Lady Macbeth & Midsommer Joan Crawford, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Myrna Loy, The Thin Man Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It Hot

Love this, using your power for good. What about zac efron & the entirety of iron claw being snubbed.

I loved "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" and I agree with you completely, Cher made that movie special.

Asian cinema represent!! Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love) Gong Li (Farewell My Concubine) Tang Wei (Decision to Leave) Hilda Koronel (Insiang) Jaclyn Jose (Ma’Rosa) Sakura Ando (Shoplifters) Jo Min-su (Pieta) And so much more…

The snub that I will go to the grave for is Toni Colette not getting nominated for best actress for Hereditary (2018).

Yeah, this is everything to me. More, please!

Absolutely great commentary. Definitely correct with garland for a star is born and Cher in mask. I actually stopped watching academy award when Cher didn't get that nomination!

More of this!

Good discussion, and great topic of conversation. But I came into this channel to find out who the good looking guy was in the thumbnail, and was pleasantly surprised to find it was Louis Virtel..!!

Judy Garland was an actress ahead of her time, compleyely natural and authentic. A true triple threat. She absolutely was robbed!

omg so funny, you have really cheered me up

Judi Dench LOST to Helen Hunt!? !? How f-ed up was that!?!?

Judy Garland - so so true

Arrival is just one of my top 10 films ever. Amy Adams really should have got that one.

I love listening to (and looking at) you. Your knowledge and passion are mesmerising. It’s just a shame you didn’t iron your top. Please don’t let something you so trivial distract your audience in the future. Everything else, I love, love, love.

Please do more of these. Kthanks bye.

Grace Kelly did win Best Actress for COUNTRY GIRL from the NEW YORK FILM CRITICS, NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW and GOLDEN GLOBE - Drama (Garland received it for Musical Actress). So her performance did have merit, recognition. Garland's performance was wonderful, but I think she was seen, at the time, more as the sentimental choice, having come back from a rough period in her life and career.

Annette Bening and Glenn Close have been snubbed so many times it's criminal.

I would love to just watch Louis go ham on sporcle quizzes.

I can’t believe Felicity Huffman lost to Reese Witherspoon

I also liked the make-up scene with Vivien Leigh, in Ship of Fools.

Jennifer Connelly in “House of Sand and Fog” for me. And although it would have been a long shot, would have LOVED to see Amy Adams for “Enchanted.”

Great video. Followup might be actors with multiple nominations but no wins (excluding honorary before they die) like Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter & Peter O'Toole. P.S. Love your Viertel It Like It Is spots on Jimmy Kimmel.

Do a segment on actors who won, but as appeasement for previous, snubbed performances. Ex.: Jennifer Connelly won for A Beautiful Mind, but it was really for Requiem for a Dream.

Excellent !

Sorry, I have to disagree with you about Jessica Lange's performance in "Sweet Dreams." I think she was sensational. And the film itself is quite good.

2001, Ellen Burstyns loss in Requiem for a Dream to Julia Robert’s Erin Brokovich. Burstyns performance was unparalleled, but she already had an Oscar for Alice doesn’t live here anymore. Julia Robert’s performance was fine, and she had yet to win an Oscar - until then.

Kathy Bates in Dolores Claiborne - she was so good!

Jodie Foster beat out Glenn Close because her performance in The Accused was electrifying. Glenn Close is a great actress and she turned in a great performance, but in a well done but pointless self-indulgent period piece about about bad, powerful people behaving badly, it just comes off as "Meh". On everything else, Louis, I think you were spot on.

Cher's performance in Mask was way better than in Moonstruck. Annette Bening was robbed in 1999/2000, she should've won for American Beauty

I agree with you about Glen Close in Dangerous Liasons. What a performance. I reviewed that performance in my review of this amazing film.

Definitely Toni Collette in Hereditary. Yeah it’s a horror flick which the Academy never bonds with for whatever reason. But damn!… Toni was captivating and phenomenal in that role. Not to mention Ari’s cinematography and direction is top notch and beautifully shot. Total snub all around

Thanks, but... why is the Judy Garland thumbnail from a decade prior to 1954?

love this!!!!!!!

Barbara Stanwyck!!!!

Toni Collette Toni Collette Toni Collete and Toni Collete for Hereditary (and Lupita Nyong'o for Us)

mORe like this please! Could listen to this for DAAAAYS

Jean Simmons was not nominated for Elmer Gantry. Alistair Sim was not nominated for Christmas Carol. Outrageous!

Louis is what I aspire to be

0:55 agreed.