10 Awesome Blockbusters That Deserved More Oscar Love

Earlier this year, the inherent king of the box office, James Cameron, had a lot to say about the Academy and their alleged “bias” towards big blockbusters, not “rewarding the films that people really want to see.” He connects the annual award show’s declining ratings to the idea that the members of the Academy use it to propagate movies audiences aren’t that interested in – the last Best Picture winner to gross over $100 million was Argo in 2013.

Luke Parker

Published: Aug 8, 2017 07:08 pm

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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In 1998, the Academy actually gave the Best Picture award to the biggest blockbuster of the year: Rain Man. Too bad Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the year’s box office runner-up by nearly $6 million ($349,200,000) – and perhaps the superior achievement – didn’t even get nominated.

The film, which followed a hard-nosed detective (Bob Hoskins) living in a cartoon world, found deserving success at the Oscars, mechanically speaking – it took home three awards: one for Film Editing, another for Sound Effects, and the last one most deservingly for Visual Effects. I mean, we see Donald Duck partake in a musical duel with Daffy Duck, we see real men shoot guns with animated bullets, and we meet a strangely beautiful “toon” who isn’t bad but’s just drawn that way.

Technically speaking, Roger Rabbit is a marvel. Not only do we see classic Bugs Bunny and Disney characters unite, but this was the FIRST time animators combined the cartoon world with the real world, and got it right. As deserving as those three Oscars were though, there’s no doubt that Roger Rabbit deserved a lot more.

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