Trouble in Tinseltown WORST-EVER OSCAR MOMENTS
Alfred Hitchcock is ignored
Films like Vertigo and Pyscho are classics, but Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock never won a Best Director Oscar. He was nominated five times between 1940 and 1960, but went home empty-handed every time. In 1968, the academy gave him the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, handed out during the Oscar’s ceremony, which honours producers. His acceptance speech, in its entirely, was, “Thank you… very much indeed.”
Saving Private Ryan loses out
The hard-hitting Steven Spielberg World War II epic. Steven was named Best Director, but Tom Hanks missed out on Best Actor. Some disgruntled studio executives blamed the loss on an aggressive marketing campaign mounted for by now-disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein.
