![]() ![]() Sinking fast: Kevin Costner in Waterworld Waterworld (1995)įor a film so widely considered a cautionary tale of excess and ego in Hollywood, you’d think the powers that be would have snubbed it altogether on the big night. Once again it’s a blasted song getting it the red carpet treatment, courtesy of ‘Look What Love Has Done’. The film where Arnold Schwarzenegger gets pregnant could have potentially earned the right to stick ‘Oscar-winning movie’ on its cover. The movie may have been a pile of dog doo – but uber-cheesy ballad ‘The Day I Fall In Love’, a duet between Dolly Parton and James Ingram, also somehow bagged an Oscar nomination. Beethoven’s 2nd (1993)Īnother crap follow-up to a charming, much-loved original, this gives Beethoven a love interest and has a whole horde of St Bernard puppies wreaking havoc around the house. It was nominated for Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Sound – the only Seagal flick ever to be so honoured. That’s right: the tacky ‘Die Hard on a ship’ action movie featuring a naked birthday cake striptease, Gary Busey scoffing the scenery and Steven Seagal as a chef who ends up knife-fighting a bandana-wearing Tommy Lee Jones, actually made it to the Academy Awards. It lacked the simple, believable suburban saga of its predecessor, but signature tune ‘Glory of Love’ scooped the Academy Award for Best Song. ![]() The Karate Kid II (1986)ĭaniel-San goes to Japan to fight spear-wielding warriors, thwart an evil tycoon and save the populace from natural disasters in this weird martial arts meets disaster movie sequel. ‘What A Feeling’ was another ditty that the Oscars saw fit to crown. The story of a teenage welder who longs to be a dancing star, this bizarre romantic drama became an unlikely hit back in the 1980s, when corny storylines, outrageous hair and naff power ballads were all the rage. Flashdance was a box office smash but a critical flop Flashdance (1983) It’s a Roland Emmerich movie before Roland Emmerich was making movies – but that didn’t stop it bagging an astonishing four Oscar nominations, and winning two. The kind of thoroughly rubbish disaster movie that makes Airplane! look restrained, this critically-slaughtered heap of nonsense has Charlton Heston legging it away from crumbling LA landmarks while a host of melodramatic sub-plots bordering on self-parody take shape. Just a year after 2001 scooped the Best Visual Effects prize, this was apparently worthy of consideration. It’s a monster movie featuring scantily-clad cavewomen running around screaming for 90 minutes, while blokes with sharp sticks (vainly) attempt to fight the kind of fake-looking plastic dinos you played with as a kid. Its 1943 sequel Revenge of the Zombies somehow failed to follow suit. And yet, the daft caper ended up being nominated for Best Original Score. Given that’s it’s a horror comedy about a creepy mansion, voodoo ceremonies and the ravenous undead, you might not expect this wartime oddity to have been a hit with formal award ceremonies. It’s the story of a 19th century dance teacher who is kidnapped by pirates, and ends up becoming a kind of Saturday Night Fever superhero: hypnotising Spanish soldiers by teaching their wives to waltz, and inciting Native Americans to fight for him by performing a war dance. This black and white oddity was fittingly nominated for ‘Best Dance Direction’ – back when that was a thing. The following compendium of daft B-Movies, critically-slated blockbusters and cringe-inducing duds were all somehow in contention. ![]() However, if you think the Academy Award nominations are reserved solely for worthy, issue-based dramas, you need to look back at previous years. THE BOSS BABY is now an Oscar-nominated film. The Boss Baby has more Oscar nominations (1) than The Big Lebowski, Groundhog Day, The Long Goodbye and The Shining combined (0)
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