Best Films not to be nominated for Best Picture

[CheekyShepherd]

What are your favourite films of each year NOT to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar?

2001 - Memento (Christopher Nolan)
2000 - Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
1999 - The Talented Mr Ripley (Anthony Minghella)
1998 - Cube (Vincenzo Natali)
1997 - Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage)
1996 - Scream (Wes Craven)
1995 - The Usual Suspects (Christopher McQuarrie)
1994 - Legends Of The Fall (Edward Zwick)
1993 - Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
1992 - The Player (Robert Altman)
1991 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
1990 - Pump Up The Volume (Allan Moyle)
1989 - Say Anything... (Cameron Crowe)
1988 - Die Hard (John McTiernan)
1987 - Robocop (Paul Verhoeven)
1986 - Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
1985 - Back To The Future (Robert Zemeckis)
1984 - Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
1983 - Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
1982 - Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
1981 - An American Werewolf In London (John Landis)
1980 - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
1979 - Alien (Ridley Scott)
1978 - Superman (Richard Donner)
1977 - Close Encounters Of The 3rd Kind (Steven Spielberg)
1976 - Carrie (Brian de Palma)
1975 - Monty Python & The Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam)
1974 - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorcese)
1973 - Badlands (Terence Malick)
1972 - The Poseidon Adventure (Irwin Allen)
1971 - Duel (Steven Spielberg)
1970 - Performance (Nicolas Roeg)
1969 - They Shoot Horses, Don't They (Sydney Pollack)
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
1967 - Cool Hand Luke (Paul Rosenberg)
1966 - A Man & A Woman (Claude Lelouch)
1965 - Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
1964 - Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman)
1963 - The Haunting (Robert Wise)
1962 - Jules & Jim (Francois Truffaut)
1961 - A Bout De Souffle (Jean Luc Goddard)
1960 - Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
1959 - Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
1958 - Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1957 - Paths Of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
1956 - The Seachers (John Ford)
1955 - Rebel Without a Cause (Nicolas Ray)
1954 - The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
1953 - War Of The Worlds (George Pal)
1952 - Singin' In The Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
1951 - When Worlds Collide (George Pal)
1950 - The Third Man (Carol Reed)
1949 - White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
1948 - Portrait Of Jennie (William Dieterle)
1947 - Black Narcissus (Emmerich Pressburger & Michael Powell)
1946 - Brief Encounter (David Lean)
1945 - The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak)
1944 - Laura (Otto Preminger)
1943 - Shadow Of A Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
1942 - To Be Or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
1941 - The Devil & Daniel Webster (aka All That Money Can Buy) (William Dieterle)
1940 - Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske)
1939 - The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
1938 - Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
1937 - Snow White & The Seven Dwarves
1936 - Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
1935 - The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
1934 - Sons Of The Desert (William Sieter)
1933 - King Kong (Merian C Cooper & Ernest Schoedsack)
1932 - Freaks (Tod Browning)
1931 - Dracula (Tod Browning)

[Dumb-Fokker-**]

Um, how about Donnie Darko for 2001? The rest - ill get back to you.

[QUENTIN]

2001 -Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe)
2000 -Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
1999 -Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
1998 -Dark City (Alex Proyas)
1997 -Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith)
1996 -The People Vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman)
1995 -Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
1994 -Fresh (Boaz Yakin)
1993 -Menace II Society (The Hughes Brothers)
1992 -Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
1991 -Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton)
1990 -Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen)
1989 -Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee)
1988 -Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
1987 -House of Games (David Mamet)
1986 -Sid & Nancy (Alex Cox)
1985 -Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
1984 -Once Upon A Time In America (Serigo Leone)
1983 -Scarface (Brian DePalma)
1982 -Diva (Jean-Jacques Beneix)
1981 -Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
1980 -The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
1979 -Being There (Hal Ashby)
1978 -Superman (Richard Donner)
1977 -That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel)
1976 -Assault on Precinct 13th (John Carpenter)
1975 -Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
1974 -Day For Night (Francois Truffaut)*
1973 -Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
1972 -Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
1971 -Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
1970 -Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
1969 -The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
1968 -2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
1967 -Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
1966 -Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonionni)
1965 -Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
1964 -Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
1963 -8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
1962 -The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
1961 -Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
1960 -La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
1959 -The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
1958 -Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1957 -Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
1956 -The Searchers (John Ford)
1955 -Night of The Hunter (Charles Laughton)
1954 -The Seventh Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
1953 -Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
1952 -Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
1951 -Strangers On A Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
1950 -Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
1949 -The Third Man (Carol Reed)
1948 -The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
1947 -Black Narcissus (Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell)
1946 -Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
1945 -Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne)
1944 -Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
1943 -Sahara (Zoltan Korda)
1942 -Cat People (Jacques Tourner)
1941 -High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
1940 -His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
1939 -The Rules of The Game (Jean Renoir)
1938 -Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein)
1937 -The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
1936 -Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
1935 -Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
1934 -L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
1933 -Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
1932 -Freaks (Tod Browning)
1931 -City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
1930 -The Golden Age (Luis Bunuel)
1929 -Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst)
1928 -The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dryer)
1927 -Napoleon (Abel Gance)

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[CheekyShepherd]

Great choices Quentin.

But I believe Lenny was nominated for Best Picture in 1974.

[urbanlegend23]

2001 - HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
2000 - REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
1999 - FIGHT CLUB
1998 - AMERICAN HISTORY X
1997 - BOOGIE NIGHTS
1996 - BREAKING THE WAVES
1995 - THE BASKETBALL DIARIES
1994 - HEAVENLY CREATURES
1993 - THIS BOYS LIFE
1992 - ALADDIN
1991 - THELMA & LOUISE
1990 - MISERY
1989 - THE LITTLE MERMAID
1988 - BEETLEJUICE
1987 - BAD TASTE
1986 - STAND BY ME (I don't think it was nominated...)
1985 - BACK TO THE FUTURE
1984 - A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
1983 - RETURN OF THE JEDI
1982 - POLTERGEIST

That's all folks http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Michael Corleone]

2001: Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)
2000: Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
1999: Three Kings (David O. Russell)
1998: Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
1997: Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson)
1996: The People vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman)
1995: Casino (Martin Scorsese)
1994: Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
1993: Menace II Society (Hughes Bros.)
1992: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
1991: Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton)
1990: Hamlet (Franco Zeffirelli)
1989: Glory (Edward Zwick)
1988: The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
1987: Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
1986: Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
1985: Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
1984: Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
1983: Scarface (Brian De Palma)
1982: Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
1981: An American Werewolf in London (John Landis)
1980: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kirshner/George Lucas)
1979: Manhattan (Woody Allen)
1978: Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
1976: Ansikte mot ansikte (Ingmar Bergman)
1975: Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
1974: Murder on the Orient Express (Sidney Lumet)
1973: Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
1972: The Candidate (Michael Ritchie)
1971: McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
1970: WoodStock (Michael Wadleigh)
1969: True Grit (Henry Hathaway)
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
1967: Cool Hand Luke (Paul Rosenberg)
1966: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Sergio Leone)
1965: The Shop on Main Street (Jan Kadar)
1964: Seven Days in May (John Frankenhiemer)
1963: 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
1962: The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenhiemer)
1961: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
1960: Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
1959: Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
1958: Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1957: Paths Of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
1956: The Searchers (John Ford)
1955: Rebel Without a Cause (Nicolas Ray)
1954: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
1953: Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
1952: Singin' In The Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
1951: The African Queen (John Huston)
1950: Cyrano De Bergerac (Michael Gordon)
1949: The Third Man (Carol Reed)
1948: The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
1947: A Double Life (George Cukor)
1946: The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
1945: The Story of G.I. Joe (William A. Wellman)
1944: Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
1943: Sahara (Zoltan Korda)
1942: Tortilla Flat (Victor Fleming)
1941: The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle)

- I'll finish later... I need to leave now.

[ColinM]

I'm not going to go too far back right now, so...

2001 - Memento
2000 - Almost Famous
1999 - Fight Club
1998 - The Truman Show
1997 - The Game
1996 - I'm Not Rappaport
1995 - Seven
1994 - Clerks
1993 - Jurassic Park
1992 - Reservoir Dogs
1991 - Terminator 2
1990 - Dunno...um...Hamlet
1989 - When Harry Met Sally
1988 - The Naked Gun http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
1987 - The Princess Bride

[bankholdup]

I'll just do a few:

2001: Blow
2000: Almost Famous
1999: Magnolia
1997: Chasing Amy
1996: Scream
1994: The Crow
1992: Reservoir Dogs

k, I'm bored.

[notchreturns]

2001 - Vanilla Sky
2000 - Almost Famous
1999 - Three Kings
1998 - Out of Sight
1997 - Jackie Brown
1996 - The Birdcage
1995 - Dead Man Walking
1994 - Fresh
1993 - In the Line of Fire
1992 - Glengarry Glen Ross
1991 - Grand Canyon
1990 - The Grifters
1989 - Do the Right Thing
1988 - Big
1987 - House of Games
1886 - Aliens
1985 - Back to the Future
1984 - Ghostbusters
1983 - Scarface
1982 - Diner
1981 - Body Heat
1980 - The Empre Strikes Back
1979 - Being There
1978 - Superman
1977 - Close Encounters of a Third Kind
1976 - All The President's Men
1975 - Three Days of the Condor
1974 - Murder on the Orient Express
1973 - Mean Streets
1972 - Slueth
1971 - Duel
1970 - Little Big Man
1969 - The Wild Bunch
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
1967 - Cool Hand Luke
1966 - Seconds
1965 -
1964 - Goldfinger
1963 - Hud
1962 - Days of Wine and Roses
1961 -
1960 - Psycho

[Benny]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ETphoneHOME:
I can only go a few years back:

2001 The Royal Tenenbaums
2000 Requiem For A Dream
1999 Magnolia
1998 Rushmore
1997 Boogie Nights
1996 Welcome to the Dollhouse
1995 Clueless</font>


Hey! It's MovieDUDE (I think)!

[The Other]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Benny:
Hey! It's MovieDUDE (I think)!</font>

Yep, I was noticing that as well.

[Grebdron]

Rushmore, Grosse Pointe Blank, and Full Metal Jacket are all good calls.

However, FMJ was only half of a great movie. The second half was pure drivel. Unrealistic war scenes and bad dialogue nearly ruined the whole movie.

[pat00139]

Firstly, Duel was actually a TV-movie, so that's probably a very good reason why it didn't get nominated.

Secondly, L'Atalante and L'Age D'Or are much too sophisticated for the Academy. What chance did a foreign flick had in the '30s? Or the '20s (Joan of Arc, Napoleon, I doubt anybody in the Academy even saw this flick before 1930)? I mean, even Best Foreign was introduced in '48.

Anything by Lubitsch, and Bringing Up Baby(especially).

The Academy really should look at horror and satire much more closely.

[Hannibal21]

I'm not list the movies year by year, only the movies that first comes into mind

Chasing Amy, Singin' in the Rain, Wonder Boys, Adaptation, Heavenly Creatures, Misery, Dracula (1931), Psycho (Hitchcock), etc.

[zeppelin]

2002- Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
2001- Memento (Christopher Nolan)
2000- Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
1999- Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
1998- Happiness (Todd Solondz)
1997- Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
1996- The People vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman)
1995- Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
1994- Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
1993- Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
1992- Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
1989- Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
1987- Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
1986- Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
1985- Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
1968- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
1960- Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
1959- North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
1954 (I think)- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)

Hell, pretty much every Hitchcock movie that wasn't nominated for Best Picture. The only one of his movies that was ever nominated was Rebecca, which won. But he has done so many classics, and they weren't even nominated.

[MickeyKnox]

Originally posted by QUENTIN
2001 -Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe)
2000 -Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
1999 -Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
1998 -Dark City (Alex Proyas)
1997 -Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith)
1996 -The People Vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman)
1995 -Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
1994 -Fresh (Boaz Yakin)
1993 -Menace II Society (The Hughes Brothers)
1992 -Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
1991 -Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton)
1990 -Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen)
1989 -Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee)
1988 -Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
1987 -House of Games (David Mamet)
1986 -Sid & Nancy (Alex Cox)
1985 -Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
1984 -Once Upon A Time In America (Serigo Leone)
1983 -Scarface (Brian DePalma)
1982 -Diva (Jean-Jacques Beneix)
1981 -Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
1980 -The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
1979 -Being There (Hal Ashby)
1978 -Superman (Richard Donner)
1977 -That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel)
1976 -Assault on Precinct 13th (John Carpenter)
1975 -Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
1974 -Day For Night (Francois Truffaut)*
1973 -Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
1972 -Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
1971 -Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
1970 -Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
1969 -The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
1968 -2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
1967 -Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
1966 -Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonionni)
1965 -Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
1964 -Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
1963 -8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
1962 -The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
1961 -Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
1960 -La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
1959 -The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
1958 -Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
1957 -Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
1956 -The Searchers (John Ford)
1955 -Night of The Hunter (Charles Laughton)
1954 -The Seventh Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
1953 -Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
1952 -Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
1951 -Strangers On A Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
1950 -Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
1949 -The Third Man (Carol Reed)
1948 -The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
1947 -Black Narcissus (Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell)
1946 -Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
1945 -Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne)
1944 -Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
1943 -Sahara (Zoltan Korda)
1942 -Cat People (Jacques Tourner)
1941 -High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
1940 -His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
1939 -The Rules of The Game (Jean Renoir)
1938 -Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein)
1937 -The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
1936 -Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
1935 -Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
1934 -L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
1933 -Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
1932 -Freaks (Tod Browning)
1931 -City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
1930 -The Golden Age (Luis Bunuel)
1929 -Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst)
1928 -The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dryer)
1927 -Napoleon (Abel Gance)

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Quentin i agree with you 100% on all of these, especially The Wild Bunch and Once Upon A Time In America.

[Voodoodoll]

I'm surprised that the Ice Storm hasn't been mentioned; that's what came to mind for me,