The Oscars went down this past Sunday. Jackman seemed more Gene Kelly then Wolverine, but at least it was enertaining. Jack Black surprisingly bombed, and the best joke of the night came from Steve Martin? Yes, the once funny man now star of the craptacular Pink Panther series. The big controversy of the night was the Best Acting award being supposedly snubbed from the great Mickey Rourke. This isn't the only win that caused controversy amongst us movie nerds. Below is the one that still haunts my dreams in all of its irony.




In 1998, the films American History X and Life is Beautiful were both generating a lot of buzz amongst Hollywood. The ironic thing being that they both revolve around anti-semitism but with one being about a jew facing anti-semitism, and the other about a former anti-semite who is trying to change his world view. As soon as the film American History X was released the critics were already raving about Ed Norton's performance. Ultimately it was Roberto Benigni who took home the gold. Still to this day many argue over this, proclaiming the ever present Hollywood politics as the killer of Norton's trip down the aisle.