Most efed-up Oscar awards ever?

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31. '99 "Shakespeare in Love" over "Saving Private Ryan" AND '93 Pacino as Best Actor

As I’ve read Shakespeare was the Brits in Hollywood stealing thunder from Ryan because they felt it undercut the English contribution and costs in WWII. Having been IN the Army I had deep considerations of IF I could do that. That was an amazing 20 minutes of film.

1993
Robert Downey Jr. “Chaplin”
Denzel “Malcolm X”
Pacino in “Scent of a Woman”
Eastwood in “Unforgiven”
And Stephen Rea in “The Crying Game”.
We saw a lot of movies and I saw all of these. Denzel and Downey’s performances blew me away. Downey especially. WOW. I thought Pacino was just an acknowledgment of his career but that was such a nothing movie and we joked that he didn’t look the part at all AND totally screwed up saying “Hoo-ah”. That’s an Infantry term and he clearly spent no time researching it. I even heard done Infantry guys making fun of it. The Crying Game was a great movie and Rea, to me was #3 behind Downey then Denzel. At the time the Oscars didn’t usually award biopics but man they were great in those.
I was completely shocked when they basically gave him a lifetime award.