Since its release in October, Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born has been tipped to storm the awards season, and has been nominated for seven categories in next week’s Oscars.
But if history is anything to go by, we shouldn’t get our hopes up for the dramatic musical to take home the night’s most coveted awards.
This latest version of A Star Is Born isn’t the first to be touted as an Oscar favourite only to miss out on the Academy’s favour.
Beginning with the 1937 original, all three previous A Star Is Born movies have had disappointing experiences at the awards night.
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I've said this a few times now, but this is the list of movies Steven Spielberg directed BEFORE he won an Oscar for directing;
- Jaws
- Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
- 1941
- Raiders of the Lost Arc
- ET
- Temple of Doom
- The Colour Purple
- Empire of the Sun
- Last Crusade
- Hook
- Jurassic Park.
Let's put the whole "THEY'VE ALL BEEN ROBBED!!" into some perspective hey. They've always been a bit wonky.
Small independant films no-one has heard of don't really count Funbun.
Indeed. No impact on popular culture or movie making either.
Although I just added up their box offices and hooooooly shit....
$4,315,300,000. Almost 4.5 BILLION dollars in box office BEFORE he won an Oscar for directing...
And the DAS crap starts again... ffs...
I'll try again...
Indeed. No impact on popular culture or movie making either.
Although I just added up their box offices and hooooooly shit....
$4,315,300,000. Almost 4.5 BILLION dollars in box office BEFORE he won an Oscar for directing...
Empire of the sun is an amazing movie.
I only recently watched A Star Is Born and I really don't understand people losing their minds over it. Lady Gaga's musical performances were pretty great, but I can watch any of her concerts for that. The story itself was rubbish and you could only make out about 30 per cent of Bradley Cooper's dialogue because of that ridiculous mumble he put on. Plus, do we really need another glorified story of a woman sticking by her emotionally abusive husband instead of kicking him to the curb like he deserved?