Award Snub/Quotes

"Welcome to the Academy Awards. Or as it's known in my house, Passover."

—Bob Hope, hosting the 1968 Oscars

"Who can forget movies like Raging Bull, E.T., and Citizen Kane? The Oscars, that's who! They all lost!"

—Jay Shermam, The Critic

"No one votes for Wicked!"

—Forbidden Broadway, to the tune of "No One Mourns The Wicked"

"1989 Grammy award LOSERS"

—The packaging of some pressings of ...And Justice for All

"I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic — the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win."

—Roger Ebert, Playboy 20q

"Remember Will Smith won the first Grammy?^[1]
And they ain't even recognize Hov until Annie^[2]
So I don't tap dance for the crackers and sing Mammy
'Cause I'm 'posed to juggle these flows and nose candy (yugh)"

—Pusha-T, "Infrared"

↑ DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince were the first hip hop act to win a Grammy Award, for "Parents Don't Understand"
↑ "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" by Jay-Z, from Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life, winner of the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, sampled "It's The Hard Knock Life" from the 1982 film adaptation of Annie.

[1] DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince were the first hip hop act to win a Grammy Award, for "Parents Don't Understand"

[2] "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" by Jay-Z, from Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life, winner of the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, sampled "It's The Hard Knock Life" from the 1982 film adaptation of Annie.

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