Editing Shakespeare in Love (section)

===Oscar controversy===
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| footer            = The performances of [[Gwyneth Paltrow]], [[Judi Dench]], and [[Geoffrey Rush]] garnered critical acclaim, earning them [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]], [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]  and [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] respectively, with Paltrow and Dench winning their categories.
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''Shakespeare In Love'' won the [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] Oscar at the [[71st Academy Awards]], controversially defeating critically favored ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' and becoming the first comedy to win the award since ''[[Annie Hall]]'' (1977). The Academy's decision was criticized by many for awarding the film over ''Saving Private Ryan'',<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://entertainment.time.com/2013/02/20/oscar-robbery-10-controversial-best-picture-races/slide/1999-saving-private-ryan-vs-shakespeare-in-love/|title=Oscar Robbery: 10 Controversial Best Picture Races|author=Susman, Gary|date=February 20, 2013|magazine=Time|access-date=May 21, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/feature/least-deserving-oscar-winners-and-snubs|title=The Least Deserving Best Picture Winners Since 1990|last=Hyman|first=Nick|date=February 22, 2011|website=Metacritic|access-date=May 21, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/4239180/oscars-best-picture-controversy/|title=The 12 Most Controversial Best Picture Oscar Winners of All Time|last=Dockterman|first=Eliana|magazine=Time|language=en-us|access-date=2020-02-12}}</ref> and [[Gwyneth Paltrow]] winning [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] over frontrunner [[Cate Blanchett]] for ''[[Elizabeth (film)|Elizabeth]]''.

Many industry pundits speculated that this win was attributed to the awards campaign led by Weinstein.<ref name="Keegan">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/shakespeare-in-love-and-harvey-weinsteins-dark-oscar-victory|title=Shakespeare in Love and Harvey Weinstein's Dark Oscar Victory|last=Keegan|first=Rebecca|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=8 December 2017 |language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/02/harvey-weinstein-oscar-lion-shakespeare-in-love-saving-private-ryan-warren-beatty-1201999291/|title=Harvey Weinstein On Oscar Races & The Truth Behind 'Shakespeare In Love' Vs 'Saving Private Ryan'|last=Weinstein|first=Harvey|date=2017-02-26|website=Deadline|language=en|access-date=2020-02-10}}</ref> Weinstein was reported to have strong-armed the movie's talent into participating in an unprecedented blitzkrieg of press.<ref name="Keegan"/> Terry Press, an executive at [[DreamWorks Pictures|DreamWorks]] at the time, stated that Weinstein and Miramax "tried to get everybody to believe that ''Saving Private Ryan'' was all in the first 15 minutes".<ref name="vanityfair.com">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/shakespeare-in-love-and-harvey-weinsteins-dark-oscar-victory|title=Shakespeare in Love and Harvey Weinstein's Dark Oscar Victory|last=Keegan|first=Rebecca|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=8 December 2017 |language=en|access-date=2020-02-12}}</ref> Mark Gill, an executive at Miramax at the time, claimed that Weinstein had a reliance on relatively cheap publicity. He stated, "This was not saying to the stars, 'O.K., you can go on a couple of talk shows to open the movie and do a weekend of interviews at a junket and thanks so much for helping{{'"}}, Gill said. "That was just 'Good morning. You've got three more months of shaking hands and kissing babies in you.{{'"}}<ref name="vanityfair.com"/>

In 2015, ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' magazine, stating it had interviewed hundreds of Academy members, indicated that, having to choose between ''Shakespeare in Love'' and ''Saving Private Ryan'', a majority of them would award the Oscar for Best Picture to the latter.  (The same article stated that the results of four other Best Picture winners would also be different, referring to their survey as "a referendum on what films have stood the test of time".)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/recount-oscar-voters-today-would-773522|title=Recount! Oscar Voters Today Would Make 'Brokeback Mountain' Best Picture Over 'Crash'|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=18 February 2015 |language=en|access-date=2020-01-03}}</ref> In 2020, [[Glenn Close]] stated in an interview with [[Peter Travers]] that she thought Paltrow winning Best Actress over [[Fernanda Montenegro]] for ''[[Central Station (film)|Central Station]]'' did not "make sense".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lattanzio |first=Ryan |date=2020-11-28 |title=Glenn Close Says Gwyneth Paltrow's 'Shakespeare in Love' Oscar Win Didn't Make Sense |url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/glenn-close-gwyneth-paltrow-oscar-win-1234601013/ |access-date=2024-06-28 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}}</ref> In response to that, Montenegro said she was grateful for Close's praise, but thought the Oscar should have gone to Blanchett.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-27 |title=Fernanda Montenegro agradece Glenn Close, mas diz que Oscar deveria ter ido para Cate Blanchett |url=https://revistaquem.globo.com/QUEM-News/noticia/2020/11/fernanda-montenegro-agradece-glenn-close-mas-diz-que-oscar-deveria-ter-ido-para-cate-blanchett.html |access-date=2024-06-28 |website=Quem |language=pt-br}}</ref>