Robbed of its Oscars!!!

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 1999)

Anyone out there who takes the Academy Awards seriously is out of touch to say the least. If there has ever been a film made that was actually deserving of sweeping the Oscars it's "Shawshank". Not only should it have won the 7 Oscars it was up for, but several others it did not even get nominations for.
Terence Marsh deserved another Oscar for his set design (yes, that was a set) of the amazing prison. James Whitmore gave a performance as great as any supporting actor that year. How Tim Robbins did not join Morgan Freeman in the Best Actor category (take your pick who to give the Oscar to) is beyond me. And the saddest thing, next to the film not winning Best Picture, is that Frank Darabont did not take home the Best Director Oscar that was so rightfully his.
The Academy will continue handing out its Oscars for "The Best Picture of the Year" to movies like Titanic, The English Patient, and Forrest Gump. I guess The Shawshank Redemption will have to settle for "The Greatest Movie Ever Made".