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Academy Awards losers & major snubs

1/3/2014

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PictureCitizen Kane (1941)


The Academy can (and does) make mistakes sometimes… Especially when they have failed to award the best film of all times: Citizen Kane.

And the list goes on and on…


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Goodfellas (1990)
Biggest Losers in Oscar History

Films

  • Raging Bull (1980)
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  • It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  • Taxi driver (1976)
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  • The Godfather Part III (1990)
  • Goodfellas (1990)
  • In the name of the father (1993)
  • Brokeback Mountain (2005)
  • L.A. Confidential (1997)
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Actors/Actresses

  • Edward Norton (American History X, 1998) lost to Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful) 
  • Robert DeNiro (Taxi Driver, 1976) lost to Peter Finch ( Network)
  • Peter Sellers (Dr. Strangelove, 1964) lost to Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady)
  • Peter O’Toole (Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) lost to Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)
  • Marlon Brando (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951) lost to Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen)
  • Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth, 1998) lost to Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love)
  • Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven, 2002) lost to Nicole Kidman (The Hours)
  • Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves, 1996) lost to Frances McDormand (Fargo)
  • Judy Garland (A Star Is Born, 1954) lost to Grace Kelly (Country Girl)
  • Bette Davis (All About Eve, 1950) lost to Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday)
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Marlon Brando, A streetcar named desire (1951)
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Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth (1998)
As for directors, well, let's say that everytime that Hitchcock, Scorsese, Kubrick or Tarantino lost, well.. the Academy must have been blind! 

Finally, there have been times that brilliant films, actors or directors were not even nominated.
Here's a video that sums up the Academy's snubby choices over the years.....
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