Best Movie Never to Win the Best Picture Oscar

[joeybee12]

Well, Goodfellas was robbed when that Kevin Costner tripe won, but I have to go with The Mission. Ten years earlier, it would have won easily, but in 1986 Hollywood's rationale for awarding these worthless little f**kers changed.

Oh, actually I do think all these were robbed, since most of the winning pictures when these were out were garbage. A Beautiful Mind, my ass.

[Emboldened Chimp]

1. Network

lost to Rocky.

[NashVegas]

31. Damn

damn, damn, damn.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Goodfellas-A Classic

They don't teach "Dances With Wolves" in film class...

[Kat45]

42. Abso-fucking-lutely!

My all-time favorite movie. And "Dances with Wolves" was soooo boring.

[qanda]

3. Where's The Color Purple?

Everyone knows it was robbed!!!!!!!!!!

[joeybee12]

16. You know, I can't even remember what one that year--

oh, now I do--Out of Africa. Pretty damn boring, that was.

[jobycom]

48. Some film with white people

in Africa.

Book is better, though.

[joeybee12]

51. I do believe, however, Klaus Marie Brnadeur was robbed of a best

supporting Oscar. They agave it to what's his name as a lifetime achievement award.

[jeter]

58. Cannonball Run II

That one was jipped.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. The Killing Fields, Withnail and I

Can you tell I'm a Bruce Robinson fan?

[meegbear]

5. Zapped ...

Scott Baio's masterwork should have walked away with 'em all.

[joeybee12]

10. It did! In The Onion's "Our Dumb Century"

It has a great photo of Scott Baio clutching two Oscars!

[Nailzberg]

6. Ski School

[theemu]

7. the classic answer is Raging Bull

But I guess, just for the sake of masturbation, I'll post my ten favorite films, none of which won best picture:

1. Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
2. Kurutta Ippeji (1926)
3. À bout de souffle (1960)
4. Manhattan (1979)
5. Pather Panchali (1955)
6. Nashville (1975)
7. Woman Under the Influence, A (1974)
8. Année dernière à Marienbad, L' (1961)
9. Vertigo (1958)
10. All That Heaven Allows (1955)

[PurityOfEssence]

8. Palm Beach Story, Dr. Strangelove, All That Jazz

Psssst: there were movies made before the sixties, you know...

[joeybee12]

13. Yeah, but they usually got it right back then!

Although Sunset Boulevard was better than All About Eve.

[Wickerman]

9. Pulp Fiction v. Forrest Gump

I know there are PF haters here, but it was a terrific film in its time, Gump never was (sorry Forrest, if you are on today) and never will be.

[wysimdnwyg]

11. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Best John Wayne movie ever.

[Faygo Kid]

37. The Searchers

An even better Wayne pic. He should have won also for best actor.

[montana_hazeleyes]

12. I'd say "The wizard of Oz"

Went up against "Gone with the wind" I believe.

[joeybee12]

14. You know, I almost put that...

...but I don't feel it was robbed since GWTW won that year, and should have. If it had been any other year....

[montana_hazeleyes]

35. I was kinda thinking the same way,

Such a deserving movie,but unfortunately ,wrong year.

[joeybee12]

54. 1939 was a great year for movies...

...someone here posted a list of them. Incredible, and it's been all downhill since then!

[nuxvomica]

45. Check this out: movies released in 1939

IMDB: 1939 Movies in order of popularity

Probably the single greatest year in film history. Note that TWOO tops the list.

[arwalden]

47. Yaay! "The Women" Comes In At Number TEN!!

hooray!

-- Allen

[joeybee12]

50. Did you know that Norma Schearer and Joan Crawford hated each other?

Remember the dressing room scene when they talk to each other while in their separate booths? Apparently each was shot on a separate day so they wouldn't fight!

[arwalden]

52. Norma Was Married To Irving Thalberg At The Time...

... and could pretty much have her way on most anything. Joan resented her for that.

-- Allen

[joeybee12]

55. Yeah, Jona always bitched about how all the good roles went to Norma!

Ah, what it would have been like to live back then when bitches were truly bitches!

Actually, I take Joan's side--I never thought Norma was that great, but she did show up in a lot.

[kodi]

15. saving pvt ryan.

.

[joeybee12]

17. Vote for Angel's Revenge, damn you!

I was hoping somebody would by now.

[study_war_no_more]

60. the hong kong Angels???

I have never viewed the ones on the back shelf of the vidio store but i love the deadly dolls (Hk)

[Rooktoven]

18. Raiders of the Lost Ark... nt

[mitchum]

19. "Taxi Driver" or "The Searchers"

[trogdor]

20. At least two flicks come to mind.

Both starred the same actor.


This guy.

One was The Sixth Sense, the other was directed by Steven Spielberg.

[WindRavenX]

44. "A.I" was a great movie

It really divided a lot of people, but the movie was brilliant.
And c'mon, it featured Gigilo Joe, so it can't be THAT bad :)

[argyl]

21. L.A.Confidential losing to Titanic.ROTK should sweep in 2004.

I can agree with Fellowship of the Ring,but with it being the first of a trilogy,with an edition coming out each year,I can see the logic of waiting until the last one to really bestow Oscars on it.Hope this is what happens.

[jdsmith]

22. Anything Orson Welles directed

like the Big Deal Its Own Self.

[joeybee12]

24. You must be glad that Citizen Kane lost to How Green Was My Valley

An ok movie, though, and might have won against another year also. But it's always held up as the movie that robbed Citizen Kane.

[joeybee12]

23. I think it will--Hollywood revolves around "buzz" and ROTK is the only one

getting buzz right now.

[regnaD kciN]

57. I hope so, but I suspect...

...that the LotR series is by now "old news." To have a chance at winning, the last installment will have to be substantially more impressive than either of its predecessors, otherwise it will be a case of "been there, done that."

In terms of "buzz," I would argue that we're already seeing a huge amount for Mystic River, which I would guess is now the film to beat, especially since Academy voters seem to love movies directed by star actors (think Braveheart, Dances with Wolves, Ordinary People, and, yes, Unforgiven).

[FlashHarry]

40. Agreed on L.A. Confidential.

Titanic? C'mon! :puke: Not sure if LOTR deserves the Oscar, though. Normally, I'd like to see Academy Awards go to smaller films that would otherwise not have a chance at a wider release. However, that being said, LOTR is such a monumental undertaking, I almost think it deserves a 'special' Oscar for Peter Jackson. Actually, I think he deserves an Oscar for direction more than the film deserves 'Best Picture.'

[joeybee12]

41. Watched Titanic again recently, and it doesn't hold up...

...the script was always lame, but without the overpowering effects being in a theater, it really was bad.

I still think Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio were the best things in that movie--they rose above such an awful script.

LA Confidential was great, but I still can't believe they gave Kim B an Oscar.

[regnaD kciN]

59. As a sign of how far Titanic has sunk (sorry)...

...note that IMDb voters don't even have it on their "Top 250" list anymore. And there doesn't seem to be any great demand for a "special edition" DVD release, either.

[denverbill]

25. It's a Wonderful Life.

[CanuckAmok]

26. Magnolia. n/t

[stopbush]

27. The Elephant Man

lost to Ordinary People.

[tridim]

28. The Shawshank Redemption

Forrest Gump better than Shawshank? Excuse me while I LOL. Shawshank got majorly screwed.

[mndemocrat_29]

29. I'd say The Philadelphia Story

But I love Rebecca, so I think I'm going to go with Citizen Kane.

[joeybee12]

30. Well, Kate Hepburn was robbed that year...

...Ginger Rogers won for Kitty Foyle over her.

She really made a comeback with The Philly Story because she carried the whole damn movie, and that's saying something when you're playing with Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant.

[i have issues]

32. Brazil....

one of my faves...nt.

[NightTrain]

33. I seem to recall that "Howard's End" did win an Oscar...

...for Best Picture, no less!

[joeybee12]

34. Nope, lost to Unforgiven

Got screenplay, best actress, costume, but not best pciture.

[NightTrain]

38. Hey, you're right!

I must've been thinking of the film critic at the HARTFORD ADVOCATE, who ranked "Howard's End" at #1 on his Best Films list for '92.

My boo-boo....

[joeybee12]

39. That's ok--guess they figured since Clint Eastwood couldn't act,

they decided he could direct!

[joeybee12]

36. One more kick for votes

[IndianaGreen]

43. Coming Home

Probably the best movie about Vietnam I have ever seen, starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, and Bruce Dern in excellent all round performances. It lost the Oscar to the idiotic "The Deer Hunter"!

Honorary mention goes to Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" and "Dr. Strangelove."

[piece sine]

46. Last Tango in Paris

fusion of passion, alientation, jazz, Brando, sex, empty apartments, and, with Francis Bacon's tortured portraits during the opening credits, the most brutally honest allegory I've seen yet.

[Jack Rabbit]

49. Citizen Kane

Orson Welles in Citizen Kane from Les medias aux Etats-Unis dans les années 20

[HawkerHurricane]

53. Star Wars

The original, which changed the way movies are made...

And lost to Annie Hall, a Woody Allen movie that wasn't funny or particularly good.

[Yavin4]

56. Pulp Fiction

Although, I could also go with Shawshank Redemption. Pulp Fiction was phenomenal story telling.

[KeepItReal]

61. Glory...The Hurricane...American History X...Arlington Road

"I met alot of people and alot of people know me...
Now where's my g**damn trophy?" - Geto Boys