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The Oscar

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Oscar is a 1966 film directed by Russell Rouse adapted by Harlan Ellison from a 1963 novel by Richard Sale. The All-Star Cast includes Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten, Jill St. John, Edie Adams, Ernest Borgnine, and Tony Bennett.The film centers around Frankie Fane (Boyd), a Jerkass actor nominated for the Best Actor Oscar. At the ceremony, his former buddy Hymie Kelly (Bennett) recalls the events that got him there. Once, he had a girlfriend named Laurel (St. John), whom he dumped for Kay (Sommer). With the support of Hymie, he breaks into show business. After getting the Oscar nomination, he becomes an even bigger Jerkass than ever.Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson listed this as one of the most entertaining bad movies ever. Parodied on SCTV in "The Nobel", about a Jerkass surgeon nominated for the Nobel Prize.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })
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 Assumed Win: Frankie stands up when presenter Merle Oberon announces "the winner is Frank Sinatra!"note  Truth in Television: Frank Capra dashed up the stage in 1934 to grab the Oscar meant for Frank Lloyd. It didn't help that the presenter, Will Rogers, was a joker who proclaimed "come and get it, Frank!"
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 Curse of the Ancients: "Birdseed!"
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 Drama Bomb: Hymie reveals to Frankie that Laurel died years ago miscarrying Frankie's baby. One suspects the plot twist was going to be a botched abortion but there may have been a reluctance to mention abortion in a 1966 film.
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 Horrible Hollywood: Tries a little too hard to invoke this trope and ends up as Narm.
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 Jerkass: Frankie Fane, especially in the novel where he deliberately tries to sabotage his fellow nominees' chances for success.
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