Movies that should have won Oscars, but didn't.

[Longgrain]

One of my all time favorite movies is Doctor Zhivago. It was nominated for an Oscar in 1965 but lost out to "The Sound of Music"

Any other's you know of?

[Sandpiper]

1. Pulp Fiction losing out to Forrest Gump

What the hell was the Academy thinking?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Goodfellas

Dances with Wolves won Best Pic in 1990 over Goodfellas. :wtf:

[Longgrain]

3. You got a point there

but I did like Dances With Wolves, some years I'm guessing it must be hard to choose just one.

[Leilani]

5. Second that!

And Marty Scorsese lost Director's Award to Kevin Costner.

[caledesi]

9. I actually fell asleep watching Dances w/ Wolves....

GoodFellas, however, I have seen 3 times...even bought the DVD. Excellent film.

[terrya]

4. "Network" SHOULD have won Best Picture...instead of that boxing movie.

That was just unbelievable. "Rocky" is a boring, crowd pleasing movie. Well, I wasn't part of that crowd, but it was popular.

"Network" was sheer genius.

[Redneck Socialist]

6. Didn't Raging Bull miss out on an Oscar?

If I recall correctly it did. If so it was a cinematic crime of the first degree.

[joeybee12]

7. Yup, lost to Ordinary People

[caledesi]

8. Doctor Zhivago is my all-time favorite movie. nt

[Longgrain]

10. I don't know how many times I've seen it but

it's one of those movies I can recite all most word for word...

I still watch it every now and then...

[ArmchairActivist]

11. Tron, dammit!

That sniveling piece of tripe 'E.T.' took the special effects award over 'Tron'?!?!?! Gaaah. I'll neither forgive, nor forget... :argh:

[Shadowen]

12. The Two Towers.

Now hear me out, lads and lassies. I don't mean it should have won Best Picture. I mean it should have won for Achievement In Makeup, or whatever that award's called.

Because it lost to Frida. The extent of the ground-breaking makeup in that movie was putting a unibrow on Salma Hayek. The rest was just standard Hollywood shite.

Two hundred Uruks, a couple dozen Morgul Orcs, fifty Elves, a Dwarf, and a king going through several stages of aging in a few seconds is more impressive than a unibrow.

[bettyellen]

13. goodfellas

[Kire]

14. Mystic River for Best Picture

it got Hobbited

[Kat45]

15. Goodfellas, and Scorsese for best director.

My all-time favorite movie.

[4_Legs_Good]

16. Malcolm X

wasn't even nominated. Neither was Spike Lee.

Denzel was, but he didn't win, in one of the greatest disappointments I can think of.

david

[Deja Q]

17. Contact

[ralps]

18. "Buena Vista Socal Club" for best music

I don't know if there is such a category but the music in that movie is just Awesome.
:hi:

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

19. Picture that should have been nominated: Fahrenheit 911

[mtnester]

20. What;s Eating Gibert Grape

Fabulous movie..really should have been nominated for more than one (supporting actor).

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

21. Do the Right Thing (Picture), Spike Lee (Director)

[derby378]

22. PULP FICTION

It took home one Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, which is more than can be said of The Prince of Tides, among others.

But Samuel L. Jackson should have clinched Best Supporting Actor. The soundtrack deserved an Oscar, too. And although I loved Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, I think Travolta deserved the Best Actor award at least as much as Hanks did. Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender fished Travolta's career out of the toilet.

[LiviaOlivia]

23. Chinatown lost to Godfather II

1974.

[calico1]

24. "The Shawshank Redemption " nt/