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10 massive errors In Oscar-winning movies

They might have taken home the little gold bald dude onHollywood’s night of nights, but these Oscar-winning movies weren’t perfect… We’ve
dug up the most heinous mistakes, continuity errors and goofs in Oscar history (with a lot of help from awesome film blog moviemistakes.com).

‘Titanic’ (1997) – Rose’s beauty mark

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The first big reveal of Kate Winslet’s character Rose comes
when her feathery purple hat is lifted and we get our first glimpse of our
heroine. The only problem is, the shot was clearly reversed, because if you
look carefully, the beauty spot on Winslet’s face is on the left of her lips –
all throughout the rest of the film, it’s on the right side of her face. We’re
surprised, because James Cameron was a stickler for detail: when astrophysicist
Neil deGrasse Tyson pointed out the star-map was wrong for that time and place,
Cameron changed it for the 2012 3D re-release.

'The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King’ (2003) –
Visible crew members

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Several times during the concluding episode of Peter
Jackson’s Rings trilogy, crew members can be spotted through the melee of Orcs
– if you’re a keen freeze-framer, anyway. Firstly, as Sauron’s army marches
upon the Black Gate, immediately after Pippin draws his sword, you can spot two
of Peter Jackson’s crew in the background. Later, as the Orcs advance, you can
see another between the gaps over their shoulders. They’re definitely not
supposed to be there – one of them is even wearing a hat.

'Gladiator’ (2000) – Hot air

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Ridley Scott’s gladiatorial epic has its fair share of goofs
and blunders, but you probably didn’t notice them because, as Maximus says,
“Are you not entertained?” Still, once you see this oversight, you
can’t unsee it: during the Battle of Carthage scene in the Colosseum, one of
the chariots falls over, and when it does, you can clearly see a gas canister
attached to its undercarriage. Turns out it wasn’t just sheer horsepower that
gave the Romans their oomph.

'Forrest Gump’ (1994) – Convenient shrimp

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Forrest manages to luck his way through a potted version of
American history in Robert Zemeckis’ Best Picture winner – everything he
touches turns to gold (see his accidental investment in “some fruit
company” Apple back in the '70s). So it is when he starts up the Bubba
Gump Shrimp Company with Lieutenant Dan – it’s one thing landing a massive
shipment of shrimp where the supply was thought to be dry, but it’s another to
catch a gigantic haul of clearly processed shrimp with the heads already
removed, practically ready to eat straight out the river.

'The Godfather’ (1972) – Punch drunk

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There’s no denying that Francis Ford Coppola’s 'The
Godfather’ is one of the greatest movies ever made, but it’s by no means
flawless. Take the scene in which James Caan’s Sonny takes out his rage on
wife-beater Carlo. It’s a cathartic scene, where Sonny lets loose on the man
responsible for abusing his sister Connie, but Caan is blatantly throwing the
punches several feet off target – at times you can see the air between fist and
face. All the fire hydrant spray in the world can’t distract you from the fake
beatdown.

'Braveheart’ (1995) – Revisionist history

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Prepare for a factual inaccuracy overload: in real life,
William Wallace was not a commoner as claimed but a minor nobleman; Sophie
Marceau’s Princess Isabella was 13 and living in France at the time of
Wallace’s execution, thus unable to be the mother of his child as insinuated;
Scots never sacked the city of York; the King of Scotland died in 1286 not
1280; no Irishmen fought at the Battle of Falkirk; the bagpipes Wallace played
would not have been outlawed at the time; Wallace’s father was not killed in a
minor scuffle with the British; and the final insult – Scots didn’t even wear
kilts until the 17th century. Mel Gibson, you sit on a throne of
LIES.

'Saving Private Ryan’ (1999) – Medic!

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Steven Spielberg strived hard to get the details right in
his heartstopping World War II drama – many veterans who saw it were blown away
by how authentic it was. However, there were a few errors that slipped through
the net. For example, when Giovanni Ribisi’s character Wade the medic is shot,
one of his fellow soldiers lifts his shirt to see the wound, but pulls back too
far, briefly revealing the ripped top of the 'chest vest’ prosthetic worn by
the actor to simulate injury.

'Slumdog Millionaire’ (2007) – Who wants to cheat a
Millionaire?

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A fairly obvious plot goof this one, but Danny Boyle’s
inspirational drama uses the mechanics of popular TV gameshow 'Who Wants To Be
A Millionaire?’ as its structure – except it completely changes those mechanics
when it suits the story. As you might expect, on no version of 'Who Wants To Be
A Millionaire?’ would the host pose a question and then allow the contestant a bathroom break before answering – for
obvious reasons. If that were the case, Millionaire cheat Charles Ingram
wouldn’t have had to had quite the coughing fit…

'Shakespeare In Love’ (1999) – Follow that boat!

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You can spend a fortune on period costume design, have your
actors taught proper historical dialects and have authentic sets designed
perfectly for the era – but you can’t control anything happening off the set.
'Shakespeare In Love’ suffers from one such misfortune, albeit a hilariously
timed one: when Will Shakespeare yells “Follow that boat!” as he’s
chasing Verona, you can see a distinctly modern-day speedboat pootling down the
river in the distance. Tis metalwork witchcraft, sire!

'Gone With The Wind’ (1939) – The lady and the lamp

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Back in 1939, it was considerably easier to mask continuity
errors and anachronisms in films like 'Gone With The Wind’, because audiences
weren’t really looking for mistakes back then, and the screens were of such
poor quality, you could get away with the odd scruffily dressed extra hidden as
a blur in the background. What you can’t hide in the modern day, with pause and
pin-sharp DVDs, is a gas lamp that is quite clearly plugged into the mains, as
in this scene with Rhett Butler. We know the chemistry between him and Scarlett
O'Hara was electric, but this is ridiculous.