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Snubbed by Oscar: Mistakes & Omissions
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 'Great Pictures' Not Nominated for Best Picture (Part 1): Athough
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® has awarded many
deserving honors to its top nominees over the years (Academy
Awards® Winners from 1927/8 to the present), there were many other
Great Films Entirely Overlooked for Best Picture. Please note: Oscar omissions and losses are also described for each year in the complete Oscar history found on this site. |
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For A Best Picture Academy Award® Part 1 See List of Best Picture Winners |
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Best Picture Nominees and Winners |
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Not Nominated for Best
Picture: Sunrise (4
Nominations; 2 wins, one as 'Best Unique and Artistic Picture'),
Metropolis (0 Nominations, not eligible) 'Best Production' Nominees: The Last Command, The Racket, Seventh Heaven, The Way of All Flesh 'Best Production' Winner: Wings |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: The
Wedding March (0 Nominations), The Wind (0 Nominations) 'Best Production' Nominees: Alibi, Hollywood Revue, In Old Arizona, The Patriot 'Best Production' Winner: Broadway Melody |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: Applause
(0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: The Big House, Disraeli, The Divorcee, The Love Parade Best Picture Winner: All Quiet on the Western Front |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: Little
Caesar (1 Nomination, 0 Wins), Public Enemy (1
Nomination, 0 Wins)
City Lights (0 Nominations), Dracula (0
Nominations), Frankenstein
(0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Skippy, East Lynne, The Front Page, Trader Horn Best Picture Winner: Cimarron |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: Scarface:
The Shame of the Nation (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Arrowsmith, Bad Girl, The Champ, Five Star Final, One Hour With You, Shanghai Express, Smiling Lieutenant Best Picture Winner: Grand Hotel |
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Not Nominated for Best
Picture: Dinner at Eight (0 Nominations), Duck
Soup (0 Nominations),
King Kong (0 Nominations), Queen
Christina (0 Nominations),
Trouble in Paradise (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: A Farewell to Arms, 42nd Street, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Lady for a Day, Little Women, The Private Life of Henry VIII, She Done Him Wrong, Smilin' Thru, State Fair Best Picture Winner: Cavalcade |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: It's
a Gift (0 Nominations), The Scarlet
Empress (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Cleopatra, Flirtation Walk, The Gay Divorcee, Here Comes the Navy, The House of Rothschild, Imitation of Life, One Night of Love, The Thin Man, Viva Villa, The White Parade Best Picture Winner: It Happened One Night |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: Bride
of Frankenstein (0 Nominations), A
Night at the Opera (0 Nominations), The
39 Steps (0 Nominations, not eligible) Best Picture Nominees: Alice Adams, Broadway Melody of 1936, Captain Blood, David Copperfield, The Informer, Les Miserables, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Naughty Marietta, Ruggles of Red Gap, Top Hat Best Picture Winner: Mutiny on the Bounty |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: My
Man Godfrey (6 Nominations, 0 Wins), Swing
Time (1 Nomination, 1 Win), Fury (1 Nomination,
0 Wins), Modern
Times (0 Nominations), Show Boat (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Anthony Adverse, Dodsworth, Libeled Lady, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Romeo and Juliet, San Francisco, The Story of Louis Pasteur, A Tale of Two Cities, Three Smart Girls Best Picture Winner: The Great Ziegfeld |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(1 Nomination, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: The Awful Truth, Captains Courageous, Dead End, The Good Earth, In Old Chicago, Lost Horizon, One Hundred Men and a Girl, Stage Door, A Star is Born Best Picture Winner: The Life of Emile Zola |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: Angels
With Dirty Faces (3 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Bringing Up Baby, (0 Nominations), The
Lady Vanishes (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Boys Town, The Citadel, Four Daughters, Grand Illusion, Jezebel, Pygmalion, Test Pilot Best Picture Winner: You Can't Take It With You |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: Destry
Rides Again (0 Nominations), Gunga Din (0 Nominations), The Women
(0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Dark Victory, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights Best Picture Winner: Gone With The Wind |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: The
Sea Hawk (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), Pinocchio (2 Nominations, 2 Wins),
His Girl Friday (0 Nominations),
The Shop Around the Corner (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: All This, and Heaven Too, Foreign Correspondent, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, Kitty Foyle, The Letter, The Long Voyage Home, Our Town, The Philadelphia Story Best Picture Winner: Rebecca |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: That
Hamilton Woman (4 Nominations, 1 Win), Ball of Fire (4 Nominations,
0 Wins), Meet John Doe (1
Nomination, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: Blossoms in the Dust, Citizen Kane, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Hold Back the Dawn, The Little Foxes, The Maltese Falcon, One Foot in Heaven, Sergeant York, Suspicion Best Picture Winner: How Green Was My Valley |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: To
Be or Not to Be (1 Nomination, 0 Wins),
The Palm Beach Story (0 Nominations),
Sullivan's Travels (0 Nominations), Best Picture Nominees: The Invaders, Kings Row, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Pied Piper, The Pride of the Yankees, Random Harvest, The Talk of the Town, Wake Island, Yankee Doodle Dandy Best Picture Winner: Mrs. Miniver |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture:
Shadow of a Doubt (1 Nomination, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Heaven Can Wait, The Human Comedy, In Which We Serve, Madame Curie, The More the Merrier, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Song of Bernadette, Watch on the Rhine Best Picture Winner: Casablanca |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: Laura (5
Nominations, 1 Win), Meet
Me in St. Louis (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), Lifeboat (3 Nominations,
0 Wins), Hail the Conquering Hero (1 Nomination,
0 Wins), The Miracle
of Morgan's Creek (1 Nomination, 0 Wins), The
Curse of the Cat People (0 Nominations), Murder,
My Sweet (0 Nominations), The Suspect (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Since You Went Away, Wilson Best Picture Winner: Going My Way |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn (2 Nominations, 1 Win), They Were Expendable
(2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Scarlet Street (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Anchors Aweigh, The Bells of St. Mary's, Mildred Pierce, Spellbound Best Picture Winner: The Lost Weekend |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: Brief
Encounter (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), Notorious (2
Nominations, 0 Wins), The
Big Sleep (0 Nominations), Gilda (0
Nominations),
My Darling Clementine (0 Nominations), The Postman
Always Rings Twice (0
Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Henry V, It's A Wonderful Life, The Razor's Edge, The Yearling Best Picture Winner: The Best Years of Our Lives |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: Black
Narcissus (2 Nominations, 2 Wins), Monsieur
Verdoux (1 Nomination, 0 Wins), Nightmare Alley (0 Nominations),
Out of the Past (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: The Bishop's Wife, Crossfire, Great Expectations, Miracle on 34th Street Best Picture Winner: Gentleman's Agreement |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: Red
River (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Fort Apache
(0 Nominations),
Letter From an Unknown Woman
(0 Nominations), Oliver Twist (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Johnny Belinda, The Red Shoes, The Snake Pit, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Best Picture Winner: Hamlet |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: On
the Town (1 Nomination, 1 Win), White Heat (1
Nomination, 0 Wins), Gun
Crazy (0 Nominations), They Live
By Night (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Battleground, The Heiress, A Letter to Three Wives, Twelve O'Clock High Best Picture Winner: All The King's Men |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: The
Asphalt Jungle (4 Nominations, 0 Wins),
The
Third Man (3 Nominations, 1 Win), In a Lonely
Place (0 Nominations), Winchester
'73 (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Born Yesterday, Father of the Bride, King Solomon's Mines, Sunset Boulevard Best Picture Winner: All About Eve |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture:
The
African Queen (4 Nominations, 1 Win), Ace
in the Hole (1 Nomination, 0 Wins), Strangers on a
Train (1 Nomination, 0 Wins),
The Day the Earth Stood Still (0 Nominations), The
Thing (From Another World) (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Decision Before Dawn, A Place in the Sun, Quo Vadis?, A Streetcar Named Desire Best Picture Winner: An American in Paris |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: The
Bad and the Beautiful (6 Nominations, 5 Wins),
Singin' in The Rain (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Member of the Wedding
(1 Nomination, 0 Wins), Pat and Mike (1 Nomination, 0 Wins), Rancho Notorious
(0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: High Noon, Ivanhoe, Moulin Rouge, The Quiet Man Best Picture Winner: The Greatest Show on Earth |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: Stalag
17 (3 Nominations, 1 Win), The Band Wagon (3 Nominations, 0 Wins),
The Big Heat (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Julius Caesar, The Robe, Roman Holiday, Shane Best Picture Winner: From Here to Eternity |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: A
Star is Born (6 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Rear Window (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), Johnny Guitar (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: The Caine Mutiny, The Country Girl, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Three Coins in the Fountain Best Picture Winner: On the Waterfront |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: Oklahoma!
(4 Nominations, 2 Wins), East of Eden (4 Nominations,
1 Win), The Blackboard Jungle (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), To
Catch a Thief (3 Nominations, 1 Win), Bad
Day at Black Rock (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), Rebel
Without a Cause (3 Nominations, 0 Wins),
The Night of the Hunter (0
Nominations), Kiss Me Deadly
(0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Mister Roberts, Picnic, The Rose Tattoo Best Picture Winner: Marty |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: Lust
for Life (4 Nominations, 1 Win),
The Bad Seed (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), Written on
the Wind (3 Nominations, 1 Win), High Society (3 Nominations, 0
Wins), The
Seven Samurai (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1
Nomination, 1 Win), Bus Stop (1 Nomination, 0 Wins),
Richard
III (1 Nomination, 0 Wins), The Killing (0 Nominations), Invasion
of the Body Snatchers (0 Nominations),
The Searchers (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Friendly Persuasion, Giant, The King and I, The Ten Commandments Best Picture Winner: Around the World in 80 Days |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: A
Face in the Crowd (0 Nominations),
Paths of Glory (0 Nominations), Sweet Smell of Success (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Peyton Place, Sayonara, 12 Angry Men, Witness for the Prosecution Best Picture Winner: The Bridge On The River Kwai |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture: I
Want to Live! (6 Nominations, 1 Win), Some
Came Running (5 Nominations, 0 Wins), South
Pacific (3 Nominations, 1 Win), The Big Country
(2 Nominations, 1 Win), Teacher's Pet
(2 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Vertigo (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Tarnished
Angels (0 Nominations),
Touch of Evil (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Auntie Mame, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Defiant Ones, Separate Tables Best Picture Winner: Gigi |
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Not Nominated for Best Picture:
Some Like It Hot (6 Nominations, 1 Win), Pillow Talk (5 Nominations,
1 Win), Porgy and Bess (4 Nominations,
1 Win),
North by Northwest (3 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Imitation of Life (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Rio Bravo (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Anatomy of a Murder, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Nun's Story, Room at the Top Best Picture Winner: Ben-Hur |
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