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** Then again, remember what it was [[Forrest Gump|up]] [[Pulp Fiction|against]].
** The next Darabont direction of a King adaptation was ''[[The Green Mile]]''...another prison piece with the [[Magical Negro]] (getting Michael Clarke Duncan a Best Supporting Actor nod), and was nominated for three others, including Best Picture...but whiffed itself. Probably why the next time Darabont directed a King adaptation, they went as far from Oscar Bait as humanly possible with ''[[The Mist]]''...
* ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', the first comic-book movie to win an acting nomination (for [[Heath Ledger]]), with three acting nominations for films based on graphic novels (or in one case, a comic strip) preceding this win.<ref>For those keeping score at home, these were Al Pacino for ''Dick Tracy'', Paul Newman for ''[[Road to Perdition]]'' and William Hurt in ''A History of Violence''</ref> Not to mention being one of the very few comic-book movies to be nominated in ''any'' of the non-technical categories ([[Dead Artists Are Better|Though it's debated how likely its win would have been if Ledger were still alive.]])
* ''[[The Departed]]'' along with its immediate successor to the Best Picture throne ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'' is one of the grittiest, most violent (non war related) movies to ever take the Best Picture Oscar. It also notably has the most profanity of any film to win Best Picture. Other than Martin Scorsese's involvement there's not really anything about it that screams Oscar Bait. People can't really agree on whether it won on the basis of it being good or [[Consolation Award|because Martin Scorsese had been denied the Oscar numerous times before.]] One thing is for certain though, The Departed is nowhere near the Oscar Bait levels reached by ''[[The Aviator]]'' and ''[[Gangs of New York]]'', Scorsese's two previous films both period pieces and one a biopic. Neither won Best Director or Picture (plus, the latter got shut out of 11 noms!).
* The two "dinner scenes" in ''[[The Nutty Professor]]'', which featured [[Eddie Murphy]] playing all the members of his family, were widely credited with giving the film the Best Makeup award over the favorite, ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]''. Thing is, this was completely accidental - the director hated the idea and didn't want to film the sequences, but Eddie Murphy and Rick Baker managed to persuade him to keep them in.
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** This particular joke has been around since the days of the original [[Looney Tunes]]. Given the Mask's personality, that's most likely where he got the idea.
*** The hilarious part is that the mobsters that were shooting at him also react to the audience, checking their hair and straightening their suits like they were on television.
* ''[[Wayne's
* The ''[[Road To]]'' series had a couple of spoofs:
** At the end of ''[[Road
** In ''Road to Bali'', when [[Bing Crosby]] finds the Oscar [[Humphrey Bogart]] received for ''[[The African Queen]]'', Bob Hope snatches it away from him, tells him he already has one. Hope then begins making his acceptance speech. (He never was nominated for a competitive one, but he would receive 4 Honorary Oscars and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award - plus, he frequently appeared at the show, often as the host.)
* In ''[[Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood]]'', after parodying one of the dramatic scenes from ''[[Boyz N the Hood]]'', the main character tells his girlfriend that he's trying to win the Best Black Actor at the Soul Train awards.
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