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Oscar Injustice
List of Movies that Deserved Best Picture Honors but Lost
Saving Private Ryan (lost to Shakespeare in Love) - Spielberg takes on The Bard...and loses. Pulp Fiction (lost to Forrest Gump) - Gump's first victim. Shawshank Redemption (lost to Forrest Gump) - Gump's second victim. Best picture in any other year. Goodfellas (lost to Dances With Wolves) - One of the best Mob movies ever made takes on Costner's best. DeNiro gets clipped. Raging Bull (lost to Ordinary People) - DeNiro loses another one. Apocaplypse Now (lost to Kramer Vs. Kramer) - The horror! One of the most beautifully horrible films. Brando's performance alone is enough to see this one. Taxi Driver (lost to Rocky) - DeNiro loses yet another. Dog Day Afternoon (lost to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) - Tough battle here, but Dog Day remains strong over time. Chinatown (lost to Godfather 2) - Should a sequel win an Oscar? American Graffiti (lost to The Sting) - Tough competition. M*A*S*H (lost to Patton) - The year of the military pic. The Graduate (lost to In the Heat of the Night) - A serious injustice here! Bonnie and Clyde (lost to In the Heat of the Night) - What a great year this was. Dr. Zhivago (lost to Sound of Music) - Lost to the most over-rated Best Picture winner of all time. Dr. Strangelove (lost to My Fair Lady) - Up against My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins. The Ten Commadments (lost to Around the World in 80 Days) - Doesn't hold up so well over time, but still a classic. A Streetcar Named Desire (lost to An American in Paris) - Won 3 awards for acting but not Best Picture. Miracle on 34th Street (lost to Gentleman's Agreement) - Think the Academy Wants a Do-Over? It's A Wonderful Life (lost to The Best Years of Our Lives) - No movie on the list holds up better over time than Wonderful Life. A classic in every sense of the word. Citizen Kane (lost to How Green Was My Valley) - I assume the Academy is slapping its forehead right now. Doh! The Grapes of Wrath (lost to Rebecca) - The second biggest injustice of the list. The Queen (lost to Babel) - Even a career performance by Helen Mirren wasn't able to topple the Scorcese juggernaut.  Have some movies to add to this list? Don't agree with the ones we've included? |
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