Harvey Weinstein and the Oscars: How Gwyneth and Shakespeare in Love Won

In this video I talk about Harvey Weinstein's legacy at the Oscars and use Shakespeare in Love/Gwyneth Paltrow's wins as a case study for his strategy. I also talk about why he sucks.
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[@bkrewind]

New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey recently spoke to Terry Gross on NPR about breaking the Harvey Weinstein story. There are some great/important tidbits in their interview about Gwyneth Paltrow that would make a great follow up to this video. Here's a link: www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759384251/she-said-reveals-the-people-and-practices-that-protected-weinstein

[@thotianatheslamless1480]

Your channel is brilliant. Keep it up. Just wanted to say that you're sooo smart, a wonderful researcher, and yeah, keep making content.

[@tiaaaron3278]

What do you think about Michael Caine's win for The Cider House Rules? He was up against Tom Cruise in Magnolia,Haley Joel Osment in Sixth Sense,Jude Law in The Talented Mr.Ripley and Michael Duncan Clark in Green Mile. The Cider House Rules was a product of Weinstein company and Caine thanked him in his acceptance speech. Caine's win for The Cider House Rules is considered one of the most undeserving wins in history of Oscars. Likely another paid Oscar by Weinstein. Many believed the Oscar should have gone to Tom Cruise for Magnolia. It's noteworthy that Nicole Kidman once said Cruise had protected her from Hollywood rapists,thus she was never harassed. This must be why Cruise didn't win that year.

[@hectorayalasolivan7465]

Just came across your channel yesterday. Subscribed! I love the way you structure your videos!

[@danyellejones2799]

Be Kind Rewind can you PRETTY PLEASE 🙏🏽 do a video of Jennifer Hudson for her win in Dreamgirls? An her upcoming biopic RESPECT for Aretha Franklin

[@miamoore7530]

@Unism How dare you say the incidents with Louis C.K. were consensual, they absolutely were not! Two female comedians met him after the show-don't forget that he was more famous/more powerful then them; he pulls his pants down and starts masturbating! These women, who did not have the power that he did-absolutely feared career retribution! The bullshit with louis c.k. is that he came across in his comedy as a voice of conscience and he had NONE. Everyone has the right to work without someone masturbating in front of them! How would you like it if some dude masturbated in front of you while you're talking shop? Give me an f'ing break.

[@brendanscolamiero3558]

It feels like Harvey Weinstein was more a mafia boss than a movie producer

[@rangers94ism]

Pretty much

[@MrKrtek00]

unlike other movie producers...

[@likeasambud9817]

Looks like one too

[@Samanosuke1138]

Like an old school director/producer caricature. "YA WANNA BE IN DA PICTURES, DO YA???"

[@newperve]

The two industries did overlap a lot.

[@thestrangegod3173]

Nobody talks about Shakespeare in love these days. Everybody still remembers saving private Ryan tho

[@Blodia1990]

Shakespeare In Love is grossly overrated

[@otismichael2583]

Really. I didnt know saving private ryan came out in 98' thought it came out in the 2000s

[@blagger42]

I saw Shakespeare in love, boring it just about tedious actors and egos. I fell asleep.

[@NotoriousK_I_T]

Shakespeare in Love is a great film, brilliantly written. It shouldn't have won the Oscar though.

[@netajones2098]

The only reason I'd bring it up is to gripe about Cate Blanchette being robbed of that Oscar, she deserved it, IMHO. And also to complain about it winning over Saving Private Ryan, that movie deserved the Oscar for the first 20 minutes alone. SMH And now I know why The English Patient won so much, because I tried watching that movie twice and fell asleep both Times! Definitely one of the most boring movies EVER. IMHO

[@elsagaxiola8431]

Jennifer Lawrence benefited from Harveys campaign machine and then forgot to thank him when she won her Oscar. She seemed genuinely concern that she hadn't, she tried to correct that blunder for the rest of the night in her interviews. It seemed to me that Jlaw and her team were genuinely concern of what he would do because of the omission.

[@anthonyL1995]

Elsa Gaxiola lets be honest though Harvey and Harvey alone got her that win. She is a good enough actress to continue to work but to be given the Oscar for a role that was very average. I’m not saying Bradly Coopers role wasn’t challenging but she was just playing a woman who knew what she did and didn’t want and it wasn’t anything special.

[@deathbeforedecaf7755]

What did Gwyneth and Jennifer do get their award. Neither are that good

[@katesteventon5296]

What did Jennifer and Gwyneth do to warrant the support of Harvey and subsequent win???? Do I really need to spell it out for you 😮🍆💦🤢

[@anthonyL1995]

@@katesteventon5296 Jennifer is insistent upon nothing happening and not knowing anything. Everyone has known for years what Harvey is all about. Maybe she didn't sleep with him but he got something. None of those roles she played were Oscar worthy. Katniss got her a lot of good publicity but she grew an ego larger than her bank account in the process. She had to manipulate herself into getting another X-Men role. Disney's definitely not going to offer her to continue...

[@sakurathornsickle5681]

@@anthonyL1995 I don't think it is a coincidence that her popularity has decreased and her box office has also decreased since the whole Weinstein scandal. The same can be said of people like Ben Affleck as well.

[@pinkylula4771]

I would love to see a video about Jennifer Lawrence oscar win and the connection it had to Harvey Weinstein.

[@allier1867]

he slept with her, he boosted his career the end

[@riverplate0101]

@@allier1867 They say his dick has gangrene and can't use it. Like a real villain.

[@mariogamefreak1]

she sucked his dick and she got the role he was producing.

[@TheLauren800]

Same!!

[@harmoniaSINGS05]

Same! Like Gwyneth, Jlaw also thanked HW in her speeches NUMEROUS times during her run for Silver Linings.

[@MariaLuisa-vv4ug]

It's completely wild that at one point a considerable amount of people thought Gwyneth Paltrow could hold a candle to Cate Blanchett

[@tati.l.]

right? In the end, their bodies of work speak for themselves. Gwyneth "peaked" with SIL. Cate was just getting started with Elizabeth.

[@aaronmcdonaldful]

it was rather scandalous wasn't? Just imagine if she had've won, that would be 3 oscars to her name, add one more to the list for her role in TAR that she'll almost certainly take home in a couple of weeks! Not many actors have received 3 oscars, let alone 4. I think Catherine Hepburn might be it?

[@potato-whiz]

Cate Blanchett gave one of the best performances I’ve ever seen in Elizabeth. Her loss is an even bigger travesty than SPR losing Best Picture to Shakespeare in Love.

[@devanshepard9118]

​@@tati.l. I think the iron man franchise is Gwyneth highest grossing movie just saying

[@wickedlester5320]

She did hold a candle to Cate and it smelled like Paltrows pu$$y.

[@fifthseas0n]

“Historically, society has been very forgiving of talented men who do very bad things” THIS.

[@JohnSmith47534]

This is the good old question of ''should we separate the artist from the person?'' and I honestly still can't find an answer I'm convinced with.

[@GyitMulhaneski-GloriousYears]

That's when WE get judged!

[@djgreg8198]

Just money

[@GyitMulhaneski-GloriousYears]

@@AMpufnstuf Best illustration of Hollywood/US ents Ind. Hypocrisy was an old episode of the normally excellent Law & Order SVU which, surprise! surprise! had a guest appearance by Whoopie Goldberg. A show which AS IT'S FORMAT: REGULARLY HAS PLOTLINES ABOUT THE VULNERABLE (USUALLY YOUNG, USUALLY GIRLS) being preyed upon pretty much ALWAYS SEXUALLY (USUALLY BY MUCH OLDER MEN). This is the SAME WHOOPIE GOLDBERG who WAS one of ROMAN POLANSKI'S BIGGEST ADVOCATES / DEFENDERS (upon being asked about that small matter that keeps him in exile she said (exact words): 'but it wasn't RAPE rape though was it?', as if emboldening the term rather than saying it just the once somehow created 2 divisions or hierarchy of such crime. Whatever an ass it might be, The Law doesn't work like that in developed countries.

[@nomibynoother2786]

like Woody Allen sleeping with his daughter

[@CGZ26]

Imagine having Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line and La vita é bella nominated for Best Picture and it ends up going to Shakespeare In Love.

[@pacoramon9468]

Well Toy Story 4 won best animated film instead of Klaus.

[@CGZ26]

@@pacoramon9468 sadly, it's all marketing. Several actors have said that they don't even watch the movies, they just vote. Like Chloé Moretz on Jimmy's show.

[@jellylion2521]

paco ramon I haven’t seen Klaus but Toy Story 4 was fantastic

[@Beatrix24]

"La Vita è bella" was also distributed by Miramax (owned by Weinstein) and It won as best foreign film at the Oscars and Roberto Benigni won an Oscar as best actor the same night (Roberto actually thanked Weinstein during his speech). As much as I love that film and Benigni was magnificent in it, it's "weird" that two movies produced/distributed by the same company received so many awards in one night. Shakespeare in Love won as "Best Film", Gwyneth won as "Best Actress" and Judi Dench as "Best Supporting actress" for that film.

[@navyporpoises108]

She sucks as an actresses. Gwenith

[@brunomantovaneli6076]

I just got here after reading an interview with Fernanda Montenegro where she says she cried shortly after that ceremony, even though she already knew there was no chance she would win that award. The Academy is disgusting.

[@bluebird2604]

You didnt get it, entertainment industry is disgusting everywhere, worse in Brasil where they use public money to make movies by Ancine while poor people deal with a bad health and education sistem .

[@angeloantonio3968]

@@bluebird2604 burra

[@terciosonic]

@@bluebird2604 você é burra

[@user-yb8vr2ip2t]

The GOP is disgusting. The Academy is flawed.

[@jakeproven256]

I'll tell you what's even more disgusting Harvey Winstein, it's bad enough he did so many awful things to so many women, which is enough for me to hope he remains in prison for good, but the fact that he cheated to get that award is just repulsive! Harvey Winstein is an oxygen theif!

[@dimatadore]

You know, I’ve always wondered why so many acclaimed movies seemed sub-par, and why I never understood the appeal or what was so great about them and why they were just so cheesy to me. I always thought I was missing something essential in understanding the merit of film.. but now i know, it wasn’t merit, it was campaigning and strategy.

[@MrDavidaslv]

..... I had the same opinion. I was wondering what is so great about certain movies, what is so great about some actresses and keep asking myself, am I missing something. Now we know it is not merit but it is how Hollywood operates and now we know this person Weinstein was behind many awards. I watched those movies and they are boring as hell. I kept asking myself why did this movie win an Oscar? one more reason not to pay attention to Hollywood.

[@Chinayesok]

That sounds like some perv fantasy you invented.

[@Ravensroost81]

The Matadore yeah.. and it wasn't that you were too intellectually anemic to understand them, it was just that they were straight crap movies, and you actually have discerning taste!

[@bopeep86]

Yep

[@eshagcom3742]

Right

[@ladys8615]

This means we've been deprived of great female talents for decades.

[@TheOriginal_Unaleska]

And men. Both were targeted.

[@JoeCool90]

Of course : asteroid hits earth, women most affected.

[@ajsky1066]

Most of them waiting tables with crushed dreams!

[@Darren-ob6uh]

And instead we got Paltrow🤢

[@DM-it1qf]

Remember also that Mira Sorvino was a strong contender for the part of Galadriel in Lord of the Rings, then it just fell flat because she fought back against Weinstein. Peter Jackson commented that he never liked Weinstein, tried to avoid him and thought he was a bully, so it was pretty much out of his hands. Mira Sorvino could have really become a household name with the Lord of the Rings franchise.

[@VictorBalestrin]

As a brazilian, I just want to thank you for pointing out Fernanda Montenegro's "snub" at the Best Actress award (we're still mad about this one).

[@caiomarco879]

pois é rapaz, injustiça do kct

[@adagiobreeze8493]

I love that movie

[@anurodhpathak9725]

Honestly, I would've been rooting for Cate Blanchett instead.

[@VictorBalestrin]

Arnold Patterson Tough competition. But for us, brazilians, Fernanda Montenegro is "the ultimate actress". If you bring her into your project, it immediately gains weight and importance. Think Judi Dench and Maggie Smith combined, and you can have an idea of how much she means to us =)

[@anurodhpathak9725]

@@VictorBalestrin That's why I specifically said that I would root for her, instead of trying to act as if I was speaking for everyone and say that she deserved it without question. Nothing to disagree on your part either.

[@tfittread8907]

Brad Pitt stood up to Harvey re: hitting on Gwyneth when she was Brad's girlfriend. I wonder if that's why Brad (until now) never won an Oscar.

[@yonslash457]

That incident occured before or after Shakespeare's Gwyneth's Oscar?

[@Kevin-rg3yc]

Yon Slash before Shakespeare when Gwyneth did her first Miramax/Weinstein produced movie Emma

[@yonslash457]

@@Kevin-rg3yc Damn... didn't she feel shamed?

[@othmaneelmansouri6314]

@@yonslash457 That's nothing, she thanked him and called him her godfather.

[@rickardkaufman3988]

He won back in 2014 for producing 12 Years A Slave.

[@ardilloardilloso3382]

Notest how, Meryl calls Weinstein "the Punisher" it meant if you crossed him he would destroy your career, and he did destroy some. Hollyweird is sick as hell.

[@andreatoni6162]

Notice how Selma didn’t want to thank him

[@chrisprusinowski5287]

Then why do you continue watching Hollywood films?

[@ardilloardilloso3382]

@@chrisprusinowski5287 competition is cancelled, we live a monopoly of entertainment, even youtube is a monopoly, I haven't heard or seen anything that has the same functions, same thing happened with standard Oil and the Rockefeller, if you didn't want to make him rich don't buy Kerosene but there was no other brand.

[@ardilloardilloso3382]

@@chrisprusinowski5287 besides, you imply we should leave Hollywood to the molesters and abusers, which I find disturbing, I do not believe sexual abusers built Hollywood to be their party playground and even if it was so, the entertaining industry belongs to the people that pay for the maintenance it means the public.

[@jeremybeau8334]

Maby he punished her ass in a sadomasoquist way before she was famous.

[@mattbernabe]

Meryl Streep calling Weinstein "God," I always found disgusting.

[@iigogi6244]

harvey thank you for killing who you got to kill for getting me her today-Jennifer Lawrence after golden globe win for best actress

[@mattbernabe]

@@iigogi6244 That too

[@EvaSofie]

That was a joke, it wasn't praise. Neither she nor Jennifer knew because he needed them for credibility, and both of them have been outspoken women's rights activists for a while.

[@GGSLM]

That was because of his help in the campaign I don't see it as her saying "I don't care you're a rapist". She was just thankful.

[@izasolecka5843]

mattbernabe on the other hand, calling someone old testament god is kind of a veiled insult

[@AC00009]

I’m not a huge Oscars person, but her beating Cate Blanchett’s performance in Elizabeth still pisses me off to this day.

[@LimitedTimeRoman]

I suppose you can at least rest easy knowing Cate has one more Oscar than Gwyneth does.

[@fightscrimewhilesleeping4024]

Yeah, and I must have been one of the only people who actually liked Elizabeth and didn't much like SiL, lol.

[@pabloiranzo3371]

Yeah, but think about this, Cate has 2 Oscars now and both from great dramatic roles. And she is still going. Where is Paltrow now?

[@jo_verabradleyfan4743]

Same here. Cate was fantastic as Elizabeth!

[@appleslover]

And please don't forget crash over brokeback mountain

[@ichor2127]

Not gonna lie, seeing Gwyneth Paltrow win over Fernanda Montenegro was the first step for my villain origin story How the fuck anyone watches Central Station and Shakespeare in Love, sees Fernanda and Paltrow acting in those movies and gives Gwyneth the oscar? I'm genuinely convinced that the single most important part of brazilian culture is despising what happened to our Nandinha

[@sampalocboyhood]

Fernanda Montenegro is Divine. She deserved an Oscar for Central Station.

[@paulvoorhies8821]

I think Blanchett should have won.

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

Weinstein made her career, and you can be sure that he got something in return. Paltrow tried to ride on Winona Ryder's coattails but they ended up falling out; Ryder probably found out she was using her!😏

[@ignatiusjackson235]

I'm willing to bet that many of them didn't even watch the movie. I haven't either, but hey, I'm not in the AcAdEmY.

[@carolalves5779]

fernandona merece justiça!!!!

[@Ubeenpranked]

Who else was freaked out with the way he grabbed Nicole Kidman’s arm?

[@RobertoLorenzPianist]

Disgusting, right? This moment (including her smile for the cameras) is the best summary for Weinstein's career.

[@harrypotteravenclaw]

And that's what he does with cameras on him, disgraceful.

[@phoebexxlouise]

Yeah very entitled!

[@mobydick3769]

She looked like she was really trying to get away by saying hi to the other guy.

[@nehitaabraham8780]

I went straight to the comments when I saw that! S.C.A.R.Y !

[@morganstone897]

The Oscars are all about rich, wealthy people congratulating themselves with a huge party each year

[@phillipdennis8911]

Morgan Stone how to getting rich and keeping it. Until very wealth and richest people will be going broken plus lost everything’s nothing lefts as what they’ll getting nothings to loose. I don’t care if very wealth so very richest people has keeping on their problems so worse as I even reading newspaper magazines many times. Why not giving em poor people , march of dime, children have cancer at St Jude on tv need biggest support. Think about it. If they do then there will be new accounts in heaven as they’ll be blessing. Reading ur holy bible as what god’s words on his say so.

[@boromirinokripperino3928]

You use the words "rich" and "wealthy" as if they meant something bad.

[@wylier]

its actually meant to publicize the industry as a whole.

[@jimboramba]

Yes

[@percyweasley9301]

Morgan Stone No it is Not. It is about giving recognition to great work. But sometimes pigs like him tried to mess this goal.

[@EmpireRamzes]

so pretty much the oscars are bought, the grammy's are bought, and the earth is still round

[@chomar97]

Nope the earth is flat ask Eric Dubay

[@ThePipojp]

I doubt Guillermo Del Toro bought his oscars

[@sandranorman5469]

And water is wet

[@bs4e]

The earth is flat

[@fjpz]

@@ThePipojp he didn't, 20th Century did. The same people that made Bohemian Rhapsody a 'Best Picture' nominee.

[@jasonsdodd]

When Courtney Love is the voice of reason.

[@sealisa1398]

Ironic, isn’t it.

[@MissCane9]

LOL..True

[@mr.stauffersnaturechannel]

@Sheryl Dalton You had Kurt murdered.

[@Casslaydra]

Sheryl Dalton no she didn’t.

[@juliatheodoro1929]

the plot twist is, she is always the voice of reason

[@shashankchauhan7624]

I wonder who replaced Harvey at the Oscars and other awards? Because I am sure someone's grabbed his position in the circle!

[@wizz2081]

Such a scary thought but it's probably true

[@incisivecommenter5974]

True, at the same time, whoever it is. They know now, that eventually their harassment will catch up to them. HW thought he was God in Hollywood, now I'm sure he thinks very differently.

[@onlinecomment]

@@incisivecommenter5974 they dont. His successors just took over his position and money he wasn’t willing to share. Same system and model continues, just a new management.

[@incisivecommenter5974]

@@onlinecomment So you don't think Weinstein's downfall set up a new tone at all? If they caught him, why wouldn't they catch someone else?

[@incisivecommenter5974]

@@onlinecomment I don't believe that at all. Yes it's about money, but people are not so ready to let themselves be abused by the next HW, specialty after knowing that just like Harvey they too can go to prison.

[@gigglyme2001]

Gwyneth and Shakespeare in Love’s win is basically as legit as Lori Laughlin’s daughters being “accepted” into USC.

[@divamom7876]

gigglyme2001 Good one 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@lubabe9969]

It was just her oldest she paid to get in, I dont think her youngest was out of high school at that time.

[@gigglyme2001]

lubabe 99 lol weird knowledge flex but ok. Lol.

[@lubabe9969]

@@gigglyme2001 lots of useless knowledge in my brain.

[@MrMannyhw]

I guess we need to take the Oscar back and revisit the decision again.

[@guiteci]

As a brazilian Its very nice to see you speak so kindly about fernanda

[@WellingtonOliveira_well_author]

Yey! Other brazilian fan of these vídeos. I'm glad I'm not alone! hehe

[@karenzielke9387]

Central Station was an incredible work and Fernanda was stunning.

[@DianeCooperTW]

Tenho um odio mortal da gwenth Paltrow por causa disso

[@beatrizramos6074]

agree!

[@guiteci]

Here we have this general feeling of grief over the loss because it was our chance of getting an oscar, but I actually didn’t know that the consensus between critics in the U.S. was that she had the best performance! Thats amazing

[@sistahlamb]

Shakespeare in love didn’t even compare to Saving Private Ryan and still doesn’t. What a joke.

[@sistahlamb]

Ess Emm No, it’s just a mediocre romance film. People only remember it for getting the Oscar over Saving Private Ryan. That is it, period.

[@moazdefasi8897]

@@sistahlamb audience are tired of saving dead American soldiers

[@TheSongwritingCat]

Hot take: Critical arbiters are too obsessed with stories about men and stories about war. There's no reason to just write off romances and stories that center women as less serious and less worthy of acclaim.

[@jessip8654]

@@TheSongwritingCat Yeah sure, but that doesn't mean Shakespeare in Love was worthy of that Oscar. Also the Shape of Water won best picture a few years ago and it's exactly what you claim we need more of.

[@taliamason7986]

@@TheSongwritingCat There absolutely is if there no depth to them and they are straight up boring and not engaging at all like Shakespeare in Love was. A great romance story needs depth and needs to keep the audience engaged all the way. Such examples include Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany's, An Affair to Remember, When Harry Met Sally, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Silver Linings Playbook, La La Land, most recently Marriage Story on Netflix and any of the 4 versions of A Star is Born just to name a few. Most war stories about men or not tend to be very engaging and have a great deal of depth to them. Such examples include Saving Private Ryan obviously, Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, 1917 most recently, Platoon, Kubrick's Paths of Glory (one of his first films), Full Metal Jacket (one of his last films), Schindlers List, The Pianist and one of the best foreign films ever made famous for one of the biggest memes called Downfall just to name a few.

[@andrerb370]

As a Brazilian who loves your channel, I'm very happy to see Fernanda Montenegro here, even though in the midst of such a sad video. We are very proud of that performance and that movie.

[@RobertoLorenzPianist]

i'm German and even I am overwhelmed whenever I watch "Central do Brazil". Fernanda Montenegro is breathtaking, she makes us hate her, love her, laugh with her, cry with her.. In my opinion one of the most powerful performances ever.

[@nicknameidono]

And you should be proud: she´s an amazing actress and she deserved that oscar!

[@missmoxie9188]

Saving Private Ryan should have wiped the floor with Shakespeare In Love

[@tiaaaron3278]

Spielberg is a shady guy too. He is a powerful,influential director who did nothing to stop Harvey Weinstein's dirt.

[@phillinsogood]

You not lying

[@giabarrone7422]

I still think Life is Beautiful should have won. Americans don't like reading subtitles though.

[@giabarrone7422]

Marquis De Sade Nope, experience and observation. The only person I have ever convinced to see a foreign movie during my entire lifetime is my sister....once.

[@kathymyers7279]

Miss Moxie too pro American. Don’t forget that aspect.

[@tobinlbeach]

"The Academy 's excellent record on Latinas". Should be nominated for Best use of sarcasm in a KZbin video.

[@ms.rstake_1211]

Lol. Well said.

[@Alex-lv7mz]

rr rr but technically Brazilians are latinos because they are from Latin America

[@Gabrielecgomes1]

@rr rr Para ele nós somos latinos, mesmo que muitos de nós não se identifique assim, até mesmo portugueses e espanhóis são considerados latinos por eles devido ao idioma.

[@FOLIPE]

What is the Academy's record on foreign actors and actresses in foreign-language movies in general?

[@doralobo7853]

rr rr I’m a Brazilian and I know I’m Latina despite being light skinned, Portuguese descendant. We are still from Latin America

[@aurea.]

It's nauseating to hear so many of them thank Harvey... And what was Meryl thinking by calling him God?

[@grienardus12]

To them he was a god

[@danielapardo9776]

Yeah. If they didn't know about the abuse, wich I don't believe, they knew about his tactics and methods to get awards that were undeserved. It was just damage at every level, and there she goes and calls him god 🤢🤢

[@DanielFolsom]

​@@danielapardo9776 I mean those are now tactics that are embraced by every studio ... and I'm not sure you can say any of them were "undeserved." Do we need to take Robin Williams's Oscar back? Moreover, there's no such thing as a "deserved" Oscar. It's a farce to try to compare the best performances of any year and say which is the real "best"-as this channel has demonstrated, a ton of it has to do with name recognition! What does name recognition have to do with acting?

[@lt7378]

Blasphemy is what Meryl was thinking.

[@bingovegas4867]

Get with it...its called being sarcastic. Meryl made her career what it was and still is today.

[@rosserman2501]

Saving Private Ryan changed my perception of War. Never even heard of Shakespeare in love. Leave that with you.

[@kostajovanovic3711]

Sad

[@Nick-jb4xi]

It pushed the envelope on what was even ALLOWED to be IN movies. It was a struggle for them to get an R rating. As I recall, they had to edit the D-day scene a few times to get it through. But the fact that it was Spielberg, the guy that did schindler's list, let them argue that it wasn't gratuitous violence, but historical accuracy. Like a documentary. Nobody else could've gotten away with it (at that time) like Spielberg, so no one tried before him.

[@glittery_cucumber]

Well that's honestly up to personal preference. I forgot Saving Private Ryan and I've watched Shakespeare in Love probably 20 times.

[@ca9drop]

I've heard about about Savin Private Ryan a lot and seen it on a lot best movies lists. Whereas with Shakespeare In Love I never reallg thought of it as an actual movie. I thought it was a fake movie made for the cinema scene in Scary Movie.

[@kaisersoymilk6912]

You're right, as Samuel Fuller (a war veteran) used to say: "I cannot show how war really is in a movie: in movies you see people getting shot and falling to the ground, but in a real battlefield there's body parts flying everywhere."

[@pedroferia1988]

I love how Ricky Gervais threw shit at everyones bs including his own. Hollywood is such a dark place.

[@andrewforte3852]

It always was a dark dangerous place from its very inception.

[@pedroferia1988]

@@andrewforte3852 of course

[@pedroferia1988]

Although i might have to study the history of hollywood

[@aqualcunopiaceclassico3201]

Still you keep on watching only Hollywood movies.

[@Pranav-rp8wi]

@@aqualcunopiaceclassico3201 actually, the world itself is quite dark place if you happened to have stumbled into that spot.. The church.. pedophile priests Judiciary.. executive nominated Cops.. unionised to protect the dirty ones Schooling...outdated and loosing jobs each day to automation Marriage... Divorce rates skyrocketing each year

[@eggmerelda]

Whenever a credit for Harvey Weinstein pops up on a film I like I cringe. So disturbing.

[@Blodia1990]

Same

[@user-pn9jj5iy1k]

ands its forever plastered over tarantinos work

[@patodaful]

Name should be blocked out - like they do with dirty words

[@tur74d56]

Why ? You obviously enjoyed the film before , your just jumping on the band wagon now , yes what he has done is shocking but you can’t say the films were bad

[@errolmichaelphillips7763]

@@patodaful Why? He deserves credit for his work.

[@gabrielgreco9830]

I wish Fernanda won, at least Cate won two in the future. But Fernanda, that was her only chance (and she deserved as well as Cate)

[@caleb8066]

:( yeah

[@Duskets]

They all knew. Especially Meryl Streep.

[@CelticAngloPress2nd]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Empire_of_Their_Own

[@mrxrp4306]

Butt kissing until they had enough of him

[@NeoLegendX]

I wonder if she had sex with him

[@original6hockey402]

That would be like screwing a manatee.

[@percyweasley9301]

Although she is a democrate,Meryl Streep is a good person, I'm sure. She just gave speech without thinking. Some people really didn't know. It's not fair to accuse someone just because the person worked in a harvey produced movie.

[@LimitedTimeRoman]

God bless this beautiful channel that's as obsessed with Oscarology as I am.

[@angelcastaneda529]

Yay, I’m not the only one :)

[@abc92800]

Limited Time Roman It's such a...niche interest. I'm glad we have this

[@jewels8080]

Limited Time Roman Same! 😊

[@justincallang6367]

My people!

[@valhalla1240]

it's so funny how, till this day, people are like: nah, somethin's fishy about her winning... :D The movie felt like such a B-production and so cheesy and just ugh...

[@14AspenDrive]

No wonder Joaquin Phoenix hates the oscars

[@iigogi6244]

true

[@Aztecsoviet]

Yet he still shows up to these things.

[@michaeld8280]

@@Aztecsoviet They are pretty much forced too, the last guy with enough power tell them to take a hike was Brando.

[@shimmeringfairydust3275]

He so deserved the Oscar for “The Master.” Daniel Day Lewis was great in “Lincoln,” but Joaquin’s performance was one of the most incredible I’ve seen.

[@elusana]

Michael D who do you think is powerful enough these days? I can’t name anyone as prestigious as Brando when it comes to this

[@hankochai]

Cate Blanchett should have won Best Actress that year for “Elizabeth.”

[@vickilawrence7207]

I've never seen a hi hum performance from Kate Blanchet....she is hands down the better actor in regards to GP. She is 1 of our generation's top performers!

[@oliviarodriguez6693]

I agree. Cate was clearly the one who should have one. I always believed Gwen's oscar win was won by HW 's overwhelming campaigns. I don't think she's much of an actress.

[@sealisa1398]

Cate Blanchett is sublime...magnificent.

[@zimzimzalabim]

nah, that Oscar was Fernanda Montenegro's. But Oscars have always been white.

[@chateaupig826]

@@oliviarodriguez6693 Gwen sucks , literally - now I know where she got the name Goop , it's how those actresses react when they see studio bosses . . Go Queen Cate 👑 ,

[@serenabramble260]

16:14 - "Gwyneth, a very beautiful white girl from a prominent family, was petrified, convinced that her refusal would get her fired. Imagine how other women less lucky than her felt. " AMEN SISTER!

[@crossjay]

@PurelyAfrican I remember when people said they hated Gwyneth because she was obnoxious or stuck up. Now it seems people are resentful or even hate her simply because she's white - they don't even bother to pretend to have reasons. Is this progress?

[@fauxmanchu8094]

PurelyAfrican I agree. Gwyneth is an overrated lightweight actress and "beauty." She is average looking.

[@serenabramble260]

Repliers, I gotta say, taking a quote that dissects white privilege in the face of sexual harassment and turning it into judging a woman's looks is counterproductive AF.

[@soulscanner66]

@@fauxmanchu8094 she's actually very good looking ... the oscars are all political and any actor that partakes cares more about their ego than art ... it's also interesting how any discussion on KZbin quickly degenerates into insults about someone's looks ... toxic!

[@jefferyjones8399]

@PurelyAfrican I think she's beautiful. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, my friend.

[@Bangkok46]

Nobody even remembers Shakespeare in Love, not then, not now, nor will anybody in the future BUT Saving Private Ryan, now that's a Real Classic that will forever live on as one of the Greatest Movies Ever made.

[@hughmiller6389]

Saving Private Ryan is a overrated movie. Only the first 15 minute is memorable. The story was a cliché fetch quest like Lord of the Ring or Star Wars which make no sense why it would have been done, and never would have been done, where as the movie move on it widdle it cast down like action movie before it like Predator. The cliché stay where even the "villain" that is released come back for some reason to kill a character. The character beside Matt Daimen and Tom Hank are not rememberful, to the point I don't even know who dies when. Thin Red Line was better and it didn't deserve to win, Shakespear was a better story in every way compare to the three. Now against the remaining two I don't know, never seen those two.

[@mrgainz7252]

Red 46 exactly

[@nathanbrady5648]

@@hughmiller6389 You can over simplify any movie like that. Just like Shakespeare in Love is a bs girl power movie. It is very cliche girls can do anything even though only men were allowed to be actors of the era. Very unrealistic by the way that the queen would go to a common house to see a play they came to her. You don't seem to understand fetch quest either. Go here get this. What item was being fetched in Lord of the Rings or Star Wars? If you want to say a stupid journey fine but they were not fetching an item in either movie. "Only the first 15 minute is memorable" from your opinion I remember many scenes. Notable for me was when the Germans used a 20mm to shred men off a tank they were swarming. You see people shot often in movies rarely see men taken apart into little bits like that very realistic. You seem bias towards war movies. Rotten Tomatoes disagrees with you 80% and 80% against 93% and 95% I will go with them instead of just your single opinion.

[@Arthmael]

@Red 46 No one remembers Shakespeare in Love? The title of the video alone shuts down your opinion instantly. Hyperbole won't help make your point. I enjoyed both movies quite a bit, enough that I own both.

[@nathanbrady5648]

@@Arthmael Did you watch the video the point was Harvey engineered the wins behind the scenes to push his movies not the best movie? Lame duck excuse.

[@JoseliJunior]

This reminds of the 2013 oscars, there was a foreign actress(Emmanuelle Riva), a talented young lady with a solid performance(Jessica Chastain), a more stablished one(Naomi Watts) and the decent but not impressive american sweetheart newcomer won(Jennifer Lawrence).

[@adilelnhaily1960]

spot on

[@masterking1427]

Check out IMDB, Jennifer Lawrence won lots of critics' awards for her performance too. The Academy didn't make mistake there. She also nominated before Silver Linings Playbook, so you shouldn't say her newcomer.

[@Kevin-rg3yc]

Jennifer was winning more critics voted awards than her nominees leading up to the oscars and her performance is actually impressive she embodied female victims of the illnesses, borderline personality disorders and depression

[@CelticAngloPress2nd]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Empire_of_Their_Own

[@juainott5281]

Guess who sleep with the boss? The one with the oscar

[@msnogueres]

As a brazilian, i am still bitter about Fernanda Montenegro not winning for central station(Central do Brasil) that movie is such a classic in every sense that we still watch it in literature/portuguese classes in school

[@kathylee6591]

that performance is superb. I think it should get oscar at that year!

[@anamariapopa9431]

G Paltrow pushes products that have been proven to be at best scams and at worst harmful. she's due an accountability as well. I wonder if they'll ever retract oscars and regive them to the right person.

[@carolalves5779]

SIM fernandona merece justiça

[@daianemorrudo2985]

Nenhum brasileiro esquece essa injustiça!

[@DevaNeeramanii]

And where is Harvey now? And compare Gwyneth's career to Cate's, now.

[@WielkiMistrzuBe]

That’s the irony I’d appreciate in Meryl-Glenn scenario. And yet, here we are.

[@Wayzor_]

The sad thing is that he's still rich and probably still getting head from a hot 20 something.

[@Emy-fv5ny]

Cate is amazin. Talent prevailed in this case.

[@yourstruly7086]

I mean love them both, but Gwyneth was in multiple Marvel movies so she’s still quite relevant.

[@yourstruly7086]

dil oreo yeah but Gwyneth shows up more

[@ectoplasmicentity]

Will Miramax make an Oscar Bait movie about the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein? Imagine that actor playing Harvey wins for best actor and thanking Harvey during his acceptance speech. That would be amazing.

[@SmoothCriminal12]

@MsYogaGrrrl I've generally remained neutral on the whole MJ thing not wanting to jump to conclusions. But I will say your comment is very well written and informative.

[@thecollector4332]

@@SmoothCriminal12 What does that have to do?

[@stardustring]

Lol

[@qixxxz]

"I would like to thank the academy." - Future Jeff Garlin

[@JoseliJunior]

I remember watching an interview with Fernanda Montenegro after she lost the Oscar. Her nomination was a big deal in Brazil, I was a kid and I thought she was butthurt cause she lost, but she basically said the same things that are on this video, about how it was imposible for her to win and that it was all about the campaign and the image, that the “virginal”, girly, sweetheart, blonde girl was the perfect fit.

[@doogleticker5183]

She was robbed. Sad.

[@mattbernabe]

Sad that has to be based on popularity, instead of who gave the best performance of the year.

[@blackiesun]

Yeah, she would have never won at the time. I think it's also because the movie wasn't that big in North America etc. How many have watched Central do Brasil? We watched it at school. That's the only reason why I know of the movie. Unfortunately it wasn't as popular as Shakespeare in Love.

[@wylier]

@@kaylaz6576 If no one cares about 'other peoples opinions', why do so many media outlets hire professional critics? Why do so many movie ads use the quotes from said critics, to promote their movies?

[@dubbaddare]

I feel a bit sorry for Gwynny. It's remembered a shame Oscar and it was only a supporting role. Compared to Cate 's blazing performance as Elizabeth it's just a bit embarrassing now

[@luckyrabbitnumber]

But Gwynny, ever so bright and well-behaved, stole the script from Winona Ryder, that’s what ended their long-forgotten friendship. She did Winona a favor though!

[@peterb6512]

She was amazing that year and deserved that Oscar. People just like to hate on her.

[@Redwoodtree34567]

FERNANDA MONTENEGRO 👌

[@mel6867]

Cate should have won an oscar for that particular performance. I haven't watched central station, but if people say that fernanda montenegro was exceptional in it, then i would rather have cate lose to fernanda instead of the unimpressive SIL performance.

[@00st307-m]

@@peterb6512 because she represents nepotism over meritocracy

[@ferris_faktearenthlei5704]

He has a really punchable face doesn't he??

[@swissuz]

He's never been handsome....always looked like a thug, but today his face is warping into a rotten Jack-o-lanteern that has been slammed dunked a few too many times. He should be stripped of all 81 of his Oscars IN PUBLIC! Meryl Streep......omg...never been a fan for a number of reasons, and I'm beginning to see that she has a very unbalanced sense of good character. After seeing her put Harvey in the throne of God made me sick. They need to hold on to each other.

[@spacekoalalove]

I dunno... I'm not too interested in punching a bowl of oatmeal. Sounds messy and disgusting.

[@elissam.corsmeier469]

@The Law more like a millenial

[@TheRealKingMichael]

@ɮօʊռċɛ օʄʄ What has his looks to do with anything?? You think non-handsome are all bad because of their looks while handsome people are all good because they look good? Judge a man for his actions, not for his looks. Im sure you are not a hunk either

[@TheRealKingMichael]

@@swissuz Let see what your face will turn into when you reach 68 years old. Idiot. Steve Tyler is the ugliest dude and he gets women too. Physical apparence isnt the only thing that makes a person attractive. Weinstein was a highly intelligent, successful powerful man and power turns women on more than looks do

[@RexAlfieLee]

Cate Blanchett is & was the best actress on the planet. Gwyneth is ok but Cate is genius...

[@mrvegas4631]

Agreed. Not just that. But in same year brenda blethyn was incredible in little voice and basically the star of that movie. She deserved the oscar. But yet judi dench won for SIL . Judi is great in everything. She is barely in the movie 15mins and won. This was a terrible unfair year. along with a couple other years like chicago year. so many things should not have won. Gwyneth is great in proof. Good movie.

[@mrvegas4631]

​@Brownie lover Like when chicago won almost everything it was such bologna. Chicago sucked. Watch Roxy hart with ginger rogers. 100x better. That year best picture should have been the two towers. With the hours right behind it. Best actress was correct. Best supporting actress . julianne moore the hours. she was so robbed. Best supporting actor ed harris the hours.

[@mrvegas4631]

one day I got to send you a list of the ones I feel were snubbed and the ones that deserved to win. IN my film loving appreciation opinion.

[@mrvegas4631]

@Funk O'Matic I still Do not understand how master and commander was even up for best picture but not cold mountain. Cold mountain was such a good movie. Master and commander was drink eat sail. lol

[@mrvegas4631]

@Funk O'Matic speaking of quentin t. inglorious bastards should have won best picture.

[@ah_here_we_go_again5310]

Hollywood as a whole is freaky as heck. What a strange and shady industry.

[@michaela9967]

Hilarious how Oprah and Meryl give "women power" speaches now ..

[@henrychinaski5938]

@Electro Magnetic Wait they're both Jewish and atheists? How does that work ? 😂

[@carlapaz8534]

Electro Magnetic what how does atheist jews work that’s an oxymoron

[@henrychinaski5938]

@@carlapaz8534 I think this moron's on Oxy.

[@ammcroft]

So creepy. It's like demonic devil worship stuff.

[@reesetorres4369]

When I was a teen, I thought Shakespeare in love deserves that award more that Saving Private Ryan. Now that I've grown, I asked myself what the hell was I thinking. Shakespeare in love is more in the category of MTV awards while Saving Private Ryan totally deserves the Oscar.

[@nickyoude2694]

Weirdly both movies got nominated at MTV Awards (both lose to There's Something About Mary which is only famous for Cameron Diaz' hair malfunction.).

[@mirschultz9761]

I remember being shocked when Gwyneth beat Cate. I saw both performances and Cate was light years ahead in terms of brilliance. Oh, well....never underestimate clout and promoting....it works. (For the record, I like both actresses, and find Gwyneth charming, but Cate is a killer talent.)

[@agneteht]

The brazilian actress was great as well. So the film may not be as known but strictly speaking awards should be for filmic performance, not a popularity contest, or we might as well give the oscars to the biggest billion dollar film of the year.

[@tiaaaron3278]

Gwyneth's win was not worse than Michael Caine's win for The Cider House Rules. Caine was so bad in that movie and weakest of the nominees that year but he won. Tha movie was also produced by Harvey Weinstein and Caine thanked him in his speech.

[@mirschultz9761]

@Sho Tohara Cate is in my top ten fave actresses. She's LUMINOUS.

[@vickenator]

If Gwyneth had won for Emma, I would have been more in favor of it, but Shakespeare in Love really doesn't register. She *was* Emma; that was a perfect vehicle for her. But Harvey wanted the BP Oscar for SiL instead.

[@miguelvictor8002]

Fernanda Montenegro deserved it. Here in Brazil we cry until nowadays for what was our strongest chance to bring home an Oscar 😩💔

[@keelahrose]

Funny you say that but I literally had no idea who she was or that she was ever nominated for anything. I only remember the race as the one where Gwyneth stole Cate's Oscar.

[@musicaltheatergeek79]

*kaduzy* in 1960, "Black Orpheus" ("Orfeu Negro") won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Granted, the statuette went to France, but Brazil co-produced it and it's in Portuguese and it takes place in Rio de Janeiro.

[@miguelvictor8002]

kaduzy Fernanda is our best actress/actor of all time.

[@miguelvictor8002]

musicaltheatergeek79 We didn't take that home, did we?

[@jamincsc5099]

Fernanda was wonderful in Central Station. It’s not a movie that’s well remembered now in the US, but it is magical.

[@matthewsawczyn6592]

To be fair, I'd also assume a movie with the title "Sling Blade" starred Sylvester Stallone

[@danielfronc4304]

Why?

[@sherpaderpdingo3405]

I thought it was Bladerunner

[@jjkhawaiian]

Why Stallone? That sounds stupid to connect the two.

[@josestevam]

Thank you for remembering our great dame Fernanda Montenegro, she really deserved that prize.

[@jacobmorris3664]

Yes. Brilliant performance in a great film that I still watch at least once a year.

[@Scorch428]

So youre saying that the Oscars might be rigged? OH HEAVENS NO. This is shocking!!!

[@pabloliva87]

*Drops monocle*

[@MrSexydivas]

😂😂oh the horror

[@dilyaTebya]

Lol

[@flower_girl4983]

It's not exactly rigged. It's won by HEAVY companing

[@asandatapile8519]

Everything in Hollywood is rigged 😅

[@matthewhines9787]

Elizabeth was twice the movie Shakespeare In Love was. Even though Elizabeth was my favorite, Saving Private Ryan hands down deserved the Oscar.

[@graphiquejack]

Elizabeth played pretty fast and loose with history, but Cate was so captivating it still reads a pretty good film. Shakespeare in Love was fine, but I wouldn't have given it the Best Picture Oscar.

[@roxy5588]

PURE AND SIMPLE. Saving Private Ryan was ROBBED for best picture is truly ridiculous.

[@lonelychild32]

I knew Harvey Weinstein was a giant in the movie industry, but until this video, I don't think I realized just how much he TRULY was a giant. It's still shocking as a moviegoer to realize how much thanks was given to him in previous movies, and to see him hang out and fund movies that are full of well known actors today. It's a jarring feeling as someone who is young enough to recognize many of his movies, but only knows of his name from the #Metoo movement and his terrorizing actions to women.

[@RJT80]

And yet charges against him continue to get dropped. The emails that have been released show consensual relationships. That's why the prosecution is desperately trying to keep the other emails private. The uncomfortable truth that has existed since forever is women will engage in sex for fame, money, and security. Weinstein simply played a very old game.

[@terebertuccivoicemusic9821]

@@RJT80 yeah sure, because power and money don't buy the law and every man who has been saved from jail is innocent. YOU ARE SOOO WRONG MAN!! more than 80 women have spoken against him, do you know what is like to be marked as an abuse victim?? I can't believe I'm reading this in 2019, seriously.

[@Fairychamber]

@swave158 I was so shocked to hear the lengths that Weinstein went to shut down McGowan. She was just starting in Hollywood when he raped her and I believe he threatened her and others in all sorts of ways to keep them quiet. I can only imagine how it is like to keep something like that inside for decades. It´s horrible how much hate she is getting now that she is talking about it openly. There is so much shame connected to rapes in general the fact that these actresses are publicly humiliated again and again because of this person, tells something very sinister about our society. Some people decide to live in ignorance. Some die hard Michael Jackson fans are good example of this.

[@Presley3]

To any actor or actress out there. don't let somebody control your life, just to be famous.

[@stephaniemurria5534]

@@RJT80 I agree many were willing participants... They were also grown-ups.

[@PanicRoom1]

Saving Private Ryan is a masterpiece, i don't thing people even remember Shakespeare in love anymore.

[@Tolstoy111]

It’s shown in English classes. It’s witty and original. SPR was a mix and match of every war movie Spielberg had ever seen.

[@LynnHermione]

nobody i know watched private ryan past 10 minutes bc its so disgustingly violent, everyone LOVES shakespeare in love. not everyone is obsessed with yanki war movies

[@Tolstoy111]

@@LynnHermione A lot of people watched SPR to the end. The opening sequence is stand alone. The film as a whole is not the graphically violent.

[@arkain1]

@@LynnHermione You must be living in a very, very small bubble then. Everyone else loves Saving Private Ryan.

[@kostajovanovic3711]

​@@arkain1that's sad

[@mfmorag1]

The content here is obviously incredible but also it’s so nice to hear a KZbin channel voiced by a real professional. Music to my ears.

[@mahmoud98ify]

Do what piece is it?

[@Tinymoezzy]

It is very refreshing.

[@RobertoLorenzPianist]

7:19 I disagree that "Shakespeare in love" represents the best of the Elizabethean movies from 1999. I prefer "Elizabeth" a thousand times over that awkward romance-comedy.

[@homhable]

Amen!!!

[@loferx]

Preach

[@Elcapitaan5]

agreed

[@Bangkok46]

Agreed!!

[@kadiummusic]

Awkward.... you mean BRILLIANT! 🙄

[@Danbach90]

"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly." Mahatma Gandhi

[@israelcastillo2963]

Where's your god Now Meryl Streep??!!

[@piranha5506]

Same place DDL’s and the rest of them is.

[@ariesmars5492]

She is into money they all SCUMBAG In my eyes!!

[@kdkseven]

Pretty sure she was being sarcastic.

[@aishymoo5]

Now Cate Blanchett is miles past gwyneth.... to me at least

[@andrayathevampire]

Cate is amazing.

[@albireadingromance]

Part 2 Jennifer Lawrence

[@revar2583]

Do you realize that Jennifer Lawrence was a Oscar nominee before working with Harvey Weinstein, Jennifer Lawrence worked with him once but other actresses have worked with him numerous times like Meryl Streep, Cate blancett, Anne Hathaway, Lucita nyongo, Charlize Theron and many more but nobody say anything about that but the question is why ppl always blame female celebrities for mens crime like how many popular actors has worked with him Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, do people blame them as well like they constantly do with female celebrities?

[@johnnonamegibbon3580]

@ Preach my nigga!

[@catbyte0679]

Gwyneth Paltrow lost me for good the minute she gushed on her blog site that one of her "must haves" was a set of napkin rings that cost $1800. Puhleeze.

[@missmoxie9188]

catbyte 06 it was the cooch steaming and the $1,000 pajamas that did it for me

[@eartianwerewolf]

I think she went batty.

[@gabrielleporter553]

@Alden Buyer I fold mine

[@roxy20231000]

I always thought that part of the reason Shakespear in Love won was some left overs from the TITANIC-mania of the year prior. I mean, Romeo and Juliet-ish story, costumes, drama, historical figures blending with fictional characters, sad ending but with the message that a sad first love story won't define the female character happiness and that she will overcome it... sounds familiar?

[@gabeguarin1096]

Could be...you bring up the Romeo and Juliet parallels, it certainly doesn't hurt that it's part biopic about the writer of Romeo and Juliet.

[@deliquescencemusic]

Cate Blanchett was robbed (I say for the hundredth time)

[@loryoly2662]

Delique Scence 101st

[@KMBiG_29]

Fernanda Montenegro was robbed

[@jgrab1]

Agreed, and then they gave it to her for The Aviator, where she played Catharine Hepburn as if she were a Vegas drag queen.

[@vitorsilva94]

Fernanda Montenegro was robbed

[@henrychinaski5938]

Jake Gyllenhaal should've won for Nightcralwer and wasnt even nominated.

[@JohnDoe-gc5lt]

"...tripping over comparisons of her to Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly." *spits in disgust*

[@OcarinaSapphr-]

John Doe She’s not even the shadow of Kelly’s shoes... & as for *daring* to compare her to Hepburn? Excuse me while I go pierce my eardrums. I stan my fellow Antipodean, Cate 4eva!!!

[@duderama6750]

The Princess sucked her way to the middle.

[@bethulrich2686]

Not evennn close bud.

[@rael2099]

The comparison with Kelly stands. She was talentless but slept with the right guys to the extent she became royalty. Hepburn got there by work alone.

[@idontgiveafaboutyou]

John Doe didn’t they sleep to the top as well?

[@catteadams]

I always wondered why Shakespeare in love, won. It didn't do a thing for me. Kind of a snooze fest, and Gweneth an Oscar? God no.

[@unknownunknowns]

Voter manipulate by Weinstein. That’s why the voter pool should be expanded to make it harder to manipulate them.

[@pleaserewind295]

Shakespeare in Love is a forgotten gem.

[@hamburgcowboy]

Same as the English Patient

[@Greenmountainferns]

Please Rewind yep I totally forgot it right after I saw it because it was completely forgettable

[@vanyadolly]

This. What a ridiculous move, barely a step up from a romcom.

[@geoseward]

Harvey had a real jealousy trip with Stephen Spielberg and the thought of Spielberg winning another oscar for Saving Private Ryan was a great motivator. Gwyneth Paltrow as best actress, my cat can act better.

[@sqoobie]

oscars are fixed and anyone who believes otherwise need their heads examined. all the oscars are, are elites supporting other elites at the expense of working people. what a joke.

[@percyweasley9301]

*Don't compare 90s academy voters with present voters. And at the expense of working people? How? They entertain us, present our life stories, society on screen.*

[@kostajovanovic3711]

@@percyweasley9301 ???????

[@yannyrocha5289]

Too bad Fernanda didn´t win the oscar! her performance was just the best of the year!!!

[@sara78889]

I totally agree.

[@CoolPandaTheMovieNerd]

Gwyneth Paltrow: he tried to force himself on me. Rose McGowan: he made me do terrible things. Cate blanchett: he was an awful man. They all knew

[@DzinkyDzink]

And whored themselves anyway...

[@bobrail2647]

Been happening since films started you dont think the likes of Marilyn Monroe Jane Mansfield Ursula Andres and many more got into films for their acting abilities do you 👺👺👺👺

[@syedhassany9683]

@@DzinkyDzink it's kinda hard to say anything when your career is on the line.

[@yyg4632]

It was their choice to withstand the abuse to succeed in their careers. They did wrong but can you really make them the villain?

[@robfl100]

@@yyg4632 they have to claim that it was abuse because they don't want to expose themselves as talentless hacks who fucked their way to the top.

[@josephfigliuolo7286]

"Slept with the producer" was known to me at least 40 years ago!

[@ARCtrooperblueleader]

The day the Oscars lost any credibility.

[@KookiesNolly]

and they semented their worthlessness with Crash

[@philatio1744]

Lego movie snub. Still frustrated about that.

[@rael2099]

They never had any credibility to begin with.

[@EricTD1995]

I'm still pissed off that Alita Battle Angel got snubbed for Best VFX.

[@mattgrief6029]

Watch “Bette and Joan”, this shit’s been going on for a loooooong time.

[@freshstartification]

Gwyneth Paltrow is a mediocre actress at best.

[@phillinsogood]

freshstartification I agree ☕️☕️☕️ I was always thought she was pretty basic

[@iamtheruraljuror9257]

Just like Jennifer Lawrence 😂😂😂

[@MT-zo2eh]

Nick Smith incel much there boy?

[@tasheenajohnson602]

Philip Moore she’s defiantly not top tier; but she’s tolerable; but her Oscar win was purely based off of Harvey’s notable campaign push, hell he invented it.

[@Claptonfan]

@@rosselliswilkinson Her father WAS a director. Past tense.

[@frankzeppelin]

Thank you for making this. It's short, it covers a lot of ground, it's rooted in sourced material, and it asserts a clear position on a difficult topic. Keep up the good work.

[@KeldorDAntrell]

I guess you didn't notice the totally unprofessional bias e.g. when she said, "...and why he got away with *the shit he did* for so long" at around 1:45. Remember, Weinstein has only been accused. Nothing has been proved - but this videographer, consumate professional that she is (hah!), prefers the 'guilty until proved innocent' approach.

[@eddiePUGILIST]

My dad (Army veteran) said Saving Private Ryan is the truest depiction of war that he's ever seen on film.

[@thecinematicmind]

What was his thoughts on The Thin Red Line?

[@PeaceDragon9]

Thank you father for his service to America.

[@eatntell]

I am SO happy that his voice was never heard in this video.

[@AngelicaRamirez-ti6wi]

Ive never heard his voice, I have an idea on how it could possibly sound since family guy mocked him. But, god forbid I don't EVER want to hear how he sounds. Im afraid to hear a even a microsecond of it.

[@chrisaguilera1564]

I was never a big Meryl Streep fan but admired her as actress but my opinion just took a skydive. Total sellout.

[@princessjess2915]

Me too

[@sara78889]

She's fake.

[@dianasayson2846]

The Punisher sounded like a backhand slap more than praise.

[@tracyroweauthor]

to be fair, Meryl was never targeted by Weinstein because he didn't pursue strong women, and she didn't know about all the shit he was pulling. She's not a typical Hollywood type. She lives away from all the limelight, doesn't do the parties and hang with the industry types. She might have heard rumors, but rumors aren't facts. I worked in Hollywood for a number of years. We all heard rumors but they were usually not ascribed to one person but the industry as a whole. Believe me, Weinstein is just the tip of the iceberg. That kind of sexual abuse is rampant in Hollywood. I never experienced it cuz I was not young or pretty enough to be a target, but I heard stories. And before you ask, no, I couldn't have said or done anything. I was a nobody with no power and the stories and rumors I heard we unsubstantiated and, like I said, never named names.

[@jjkhawaiian]

@@tracyroweauthor You're delusional. She was totally in his pocket. Has been for years.

[@AngelaShrum]

God the way he swooped in at 4:40 and gripped and tugged on Nicole Kidman is frightening enough. That's power control, that's power play. Ugh. This whole story makes me sick. I was molested by a best friends uncle from 11-13 and raped at 19, I know all too well about being groomed and controlled and attacked and berated and belittled and threatened, you name it. Hearing this story makes me beyond sick. We need to go after his brother and everyone who knew and didn't care to tell, who looked the other way, who faked acknowledgement. We know it's more than just him.

[@zainab4132]

I'm so sorry to hear what you have been through - this really upset me. God bless you!

[@philippastore2228]

Angela, I am an abuse survivor and autistic.I SWAT at people who invade my tightly guarded space to TOUCH me BUT fail. Seems HW was redirecting her with NO resistance.

[@philippastore2228]

Also,her facial SMILE was UNCHANGED during their exposed time together.

[@jennifermcgoldrick6323]

I hope you’re okay now. Doubt your friends uncle saw any justice, right? I’m very sorry you experienced that. I wasn’t assaulted at work or raped until I was an adult and still messes with me.

[@seanomanary5691]

I'm soo sorry you went threw something so awful. ..I've got a 13yr. Old lit girl and it's my biggest fear to have someone close to the family doing something similar and I go to jail for castration or worse.... God Bless You..

[@iMdwag]

This make Bong Jon Ho’s Oscar win for Parasite even more awesome because he worked with Weinstein in the past and apparently screwed him over lol.

[@Ema-nt3gp]

I never understood why Parasite got so much praise from Hollywood. It’s a great movie, one of my favorites actually, but Hollywood has clearly a different view of social inequalities; it’s more optimistic and elitist. It sells the belief that everyone can be rich if they work hard enough, it even goes as far as humanizing criminals (Wolf of Wall Street). It was obviously a political strategic move, I don’t think they understood the movie or even watched it.

[@Qulize]

@@Ema-nt3gp what?

[@Ema-nt3gp]

Arkade look up for Hollywood for dummies.

[@masteryoda3947]

@@Ema-nt3gp I don't think The Wolf of Wall Street was humanizing Jordan Belfort, though it didn't criticise him it left it up to the audience. I also don't think that humanizing criminals is necessarily bad. The Shawshank Redemption, one of if not the best film of all time, humanizes criminals.

[@Ema-nt3gp]

masteryoda394 the movie humanized him and actually boosted his new career. Good for you to believe in his redemption, but I’m sure the ones who were screwed over by him think otherwise. It’s so like Hollywood, bad characters are portrayed as human and complex (American Sniper humanizing someone who beat his wife and enjoyed killing, Joker humanizing a white guy who shot people because he was ‘mentally ill’). And the naive (or the poor) ones are portrayed as annoying and dumb. Makes you even feel relieved when they end up defeated or even dead.

[@bluchocolate123]

This whole Harvey saga is similar to when dictators fall. During their reign everyone wanted and benefited from their power but after they've been overthrown, then the beneficiaries turn on him. Harvey was a bad man but calling the beneficiaries of his ruthlessness 'victims' is a stretch. Actors aren't exactly on breadlines,they could have said 'No', but they didn't. They knew the game and were happy to play along until the dictator fell and now they want to sanitize themselves as 'democrats'.

[@bopeep86]

Exactly! I think there were plenty of real victims with Harvey. But I don't think for a minute that Ashley Judd was one of them. I think even Gwyneth must have put up with a certain amount of molestation herself. There's no way he changed his stripes for one group of people vs another. Ashley knew what it would take to get herself in a main role, and she made that deal with the devil literally. Now, Now?! She wants to come forward and say- oh ugly man bad- but she was 100% complicite, and is really just angry at herself with her outcry. Which is years too late in my opinion to be such a noble hero for the metoo movement. The true heroic time is when you could come out and speak your truth when it HAPPENED. And she can't say she was too fragile, because her whole persona is based on how strong and confident she is. Just my thoughts

[@chateaupig826]

Which countries people benefit from dictators ? Russia ? Germany ? Uganda ?

[@bluchocolate123]

@@chateaupig826 The chosen elite and those connected to the regime. Putin has his own favored oligarchs, museveni in Uganda has his, Hitler had those who contributed to his campaigns etc. Every dictatorship has its own beneficiaries.

[@chateaupig826]

@@bluchocolate123 sorry I believe your words were " EVERYONE " , had to call you out on that

[@sasskvetch8617]

People are often forced to do unseemly things to get / maintain a job or promotion. Even a privileged young actress of old Hollywood stock was not immune to the casting couch phenomenon, and she was ABSOLUTELY a victim. She was probably leered at and commented on from a very young age, as celebrities were seen as commoditiies to be objectified, instead of human beings worthy of respect, It's easy to say "they knew the game", but sexual harrassment and abuse of women was ignored and brushed off for YEARS before women decided it was enough. People used to think it was OK to beat and imprison black people and homosexuals, should they have continued to deny their very nature and played along with the dictators? Or should they have stood up for their human rights? Just because abuse was normalized, doesn't mean it was right.

[@LucasArtX]

This was highly requested video (Gwyneth's win).... I'm glad it's finally here.. I appreciate your work!!❤️

[@maazparvez]

I wait for this channel's video essays with the same anticipation I have for channels like Nerdwriter, School of Life, etc

[@anjiexoxo]

Maaz Parvez I love those please could you give more video essay recommendations!

[@jessemyneiger]

@@anjiexoxo Yes, I agree!

[@launabanauna8958]

Maaz Parvez Agreed!

[@tigeramigos]

I cringe when I see Harvey wearing a wedding ring. It's completely meaningless.

[@Khushi-Shah]

I do feel bad for his wife and children though. So many people have been cruel to them.

[@SantanaOnDaBeat]

Wow this really opened my eyes to what goes on behind the scenes.

[@undergroundgirl74]

Cate is Better actress anyway.

[@DolfoLicks]

Fernanda Montenegro is the true rightful winner of 1999 oscar of best actress.

[@kolos2006]

Indeed!

[@eddisontollett8845]

If Harvey Weinstein was still in Hollywood, Joaquin Phoenix would have never won the oscar. Jonathan Pryce would have won.

[@bruins94laurent85]

Memcha Laishram he won an Oscar in 2012 already... and he worked for Harvey under Quentin for inglorious bastards

[@kajanadziejabiedron]

nah, Weinstein was behind The Master, the film that helped Phoenix get back on track after the "mocumentary" fiasco

[@akshanshgautam2941]

kaia whogivesashit He had already done spellbinding work in Walk the Line, Gladiator , 2 Lovers , To die for and a bunch of other James Gray films. Also he called the Oscars bullshit while campaigning was on. PTA and his exceptional acting ability is what got him back in not a monster with a million dollars.

[@kajanadziejabiedron]

@@akshanshgautam2941 there would be no spellbinding acting to display in this film if it weren't for Weinstein's money. And Phoenix struggled to get a job after "I'm still here" which he admitted himself. PTA gave him a chance and Weinstein backed the film therefore we can't deny Weinstein's contribution to the Phoenix's comeback

[@Forsaken-Orphan]

@@bruins94laurent85 brad doesn't have more oscars just the one he won last year dummy

[@iigogi6244]

Gwyneth win for Shakespeare in Love for best actress win is joke,so is Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook ,will go down in history as embarrassment

[@gracecheri997]

Jennifer can really act watch her performance

[@BrokenSocialScene23]

To be fair, Lawrence deserved a win for Winter's Bone. That role was shocking and raw and earnest. She hasn't come close to realising a character more fully since then which is sad.

[@iigogi6244]

@@gracecheri997 please,without harvey help she will not be oscar winner,her acting is mediocre at best at worst laughable

[@iigogi6244]

@@BrokenSocialScene23 her winter bone performance was fine,probably because her southern accent,which is her natural anyway,so s not like she work her ass for nomination

[@Kevin-rg3yc]

I disagree with J.Law she deserved it and was amazing in that movie.

[@mirandasummerset]

Jennifer Lawrence shouldn't have won for silver linings playbook....just saying

[@briananderson2452]

Totally agree with you on this. JL should NOT of won for Silver Lining Play Book. You and I are the only two who get it.

[@NeoSoldner]

Nope, I'm with you two.

[@LastlyMore]

Who should have won than?

[@reginarice7968]

Totally agree. Isn't she also friends with Weinstein???

[@reginarice7968]

@@LastlyMore Either Chastain or Riva should've won instead of her

[@jimmorrissy2276]

Shakespeare in love was utter crap. Paltrow should return that award.

[@roxy5588]

And the Best Picture award and give it to the more deserving Saving Private Ryan. Shakespeare in Love winning best picture was a joke.

[@kolacao8134]

She could sell it in Goop business

[@melydelagarza]

Preach!

[@shashankkj562]

Have seen many comments about her not deserving the award but your last line - she should return the award.. not sure why it cracked me up 😂😂

[@shashankkj562]

Kola Cao ouch!

[@johnr7279]

Shakespeare in Love was good...in fact, it was really good. However, how it beat Saving Private Ryan has always been beyond me and, I think, many others. Has always seemed a bit wonky. Tom Hanks and crew just hit that one out of the park altogether and it was one of the very best WWII dramas of all time. The D-Day scenes were so realistic that WWII vets often stated that they got it just right.

[@catbyte0679]

I still enjoy watching "Elizabeth" and still can't get through "Shakespeare in Love" without falling asleep.

[@slefievero5336]

I’d love to see a video about Brokeback Mountain losing the best film award in 2006.

[@tessa6300]

Slefie Vero PLEASE

[@joseaguilera6355]

The power he had in Hollywood was outrageous

[@christianschonberger9695]

Well I don't judge Gwyneth Paltrow at all. Perhaps she even was ashamed to win the Oscar and played along. I also never think for a moment: some had it coming - or variations of it. This guy is a monster, period.

[@holandesa1924]

*Let's be honest: they would never give an Oscar to a south american actress who was a total stranger in Hollywood (although in Brazil she is very well-known and highly respected!) It's nice that you recognized her talent, though.*

[@finismalorum9746]

Holandesa19 Well, Brazil is kind of shit.

[@VentraleStar]

Well, it is an American award so I'm not going to give them shit for not choosing a nonhollywood actress. Plenty of American latine and Hispanics that don't get recognition tho.

[@holandesa1924]

@@VentraleStar Yes, it's an American award but that doesn't mean only Americans can win! Don't forget all the British actors who already won Oscars before. Oh wait, it's OK for a British to win an Oscar even if they're not American because they look American maybe? Caucasian people? haha You Americans are pathetic with your lame excuses for everything!

[@holandesa1924]

@@finismalorum9746 Says who? And where are you from again? I bet that if you had enough money to go to Brazil, you would. Maybe not because the country itself is beautiful, but because Brazilian women have huge asses and you being a big ass yourself would certainly relate to that - HA!

[@finismalorum9746]

Holandesa19 Haha, I live in Europe, mate. You know, the FIRST world. I have a surplus of money. And if big asses and annoyingly hot weather are all your country has to offer, than I am good here. I will take my tall, blond hair, blue eyed and well proportioned girls over a dirty, tanned brown hair, brown eyed sub-Portuguese girl.

[@rexbanner4608]

At 15:19 when Gwyneth Paltrow is talking to David Letterman about Harvey Weinstein "He will coerce you to do a thing or two". 😱

[@HAL-vm3wn]

I think it's actually rather sad that Shakespeare In Love, which in itself is actually a very good movie, is only remembered nowadays as "one of the worst Oscar winners ever". Do I think it was better than The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan and The Truman Show? Of course not. But it is still very unfair to a very good movie

[@MbartM96]

HAL 9000 my personal opinion is that it is one of the most boring films that I have ever struggled to watch. I really can't stress how boring I found it. I attempted to watch it the second time to see if I had been mistaken, but no, it was still awful to me.

[@Kevin-rg3yc]

I agree I love the movie but I agree it's one of the worst Oscar best picture winners

[@LimitedTimeRoman]

I remember being 13 and super annoyed that SIL won when I saw the newspaper the next morning. But I've actually gone on to watch it far more often since then than SPR. It's just always had rewatch value, for me. Doesn't necessarily mean it was the superior film, but I don't even really consider this to be that big of an upset in hindsight. It was the one fairly upbeat movie in a sea of death and depression. Sure, its win was Harvey-led, but I could envision a lot of Academy members voting for it anyway, irrespective of Harvey's campaign.

[@abc92800]

Yes I liked the movie too. Far worse winners out there

[@mickeytor]

I remember seeing all of these movies at the time and I remember my reactions to them. I saw Saving Private Ryan on opening night and was blown away by the first 20 minutes. The story that followed was ok but didn't live up to the opening, and the final 30 seconds were so underwhelming that it actually ruined the whole movie for me. My personal pick of the movies nominated would have been Elizabeth (although Thin Red Line is quite brilliant). At the time I loved Shakespeare in Love, and was quite happy to see it beat out the odds on favorite that night. Now, looking back, my feelings for Private Ryan haven't changed. Shakespeare looks dated but is still a fine film to watch if you want to give the brain a rest. Elizabeth, however, still holds up as a classic to me. I've watched it many times over and I still love it.