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'''Sick Boy''': That means fuck all! It's a sympathy vote. |''[[Trainspotting]]'' on the subject of [[Sean Connery]].}}
What may happen as a result of someone getting one too many [[Award Snub
Ironically, this ends up continuing the cycle of snubs, since, well, ''someone'' better has to lose.
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* Cecil B. DeMille's 1952 film ''The Greatest Show On Earth'' is considered by many to be one of the worst films to ever win Best Picture. Some suspect the only reason it got the award was because DeMille's films had never won one yet, despite the man's career dating all the way back to the silent era. Ironically, they could have just waited a few years and given it to his last film and one of his best -- ''[[The Ten Commandments]]''. Instead, it lost Best Picture and [[Award Snub|DeMille wasn't even nominated as Best Director]].
* [[John Wayne]]'s Best Actor win in 1969 for ''[[True Grit]]'' is seen as a consolation for him not winning the award for his work in films like [[Red River]], ''[[The Quiet Man]]'', ''[[The Searchers]]'', and ''[[Sands Of Iwo Jima]]''.
* [[Henry Fonda]] finally won a Best Actor Oscar for ''[[On Golden Pond]]''
* By the time 2008 rolled around, [[Kate Winslet]] had been nominated six times and had yet to win an Oscar. What makes people believe that this occurred is that she won Best Actress for ''[[The Reader]],'' even though she won the Golden Globe for Best ''Supporting'' Actress for the same role. (Interestingly, she also won Best Lead Actress at the Golden Globes that year, but for ''Revolutionary Road''.)
* [[Al Pacino]] got a Best Actor Oscar in 1992 for ''[[Scent of a Woman]]'', despite the role not being nearly as critically acclaimed as ''[[The Godfather]]'', ''The Godfather Part II'' or ''[[Dog Day Afternoon]]''.
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