Robert Osborne Quotes

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.

I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award.

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

'Lincoln' was OK; I thought it was a rock-solid eight out of 10, but it shouldn't win all the awards.

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.

I would do anything I could to try to make sure that Lena Headey wins an Emmy.

I know what a good movie is.

Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'

I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees.

You tell me that 'Date Night' was good? I'm not going to see it. I will debate you on it, having no knowledge of the footage in the film. I was next to someone on the plane watching it, and they were dozing off.

Am I disappointed occasionally by the lack of irony in some movies? Yes.

I gave John Wayne the push he needed to get that Oscar.

If you've been nominated for an Oscar, it would be ridiculous to say you didn't want to win. It would be lovely to have one of those statues.

Michael Fassbender is phenomenal in '12 Years a Slave.'

None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.