The Biggest Academy Awards Best Picture Snubs
By Eric SchneiderSometimes the Best Picture isn't always the best picture. The benefit of hindsight being what it is, history has shown the Oscars haven't always awarded the films that became most lasting and significant. (Ordinary People beat down Raging Bull?) And, occasionally, there are just too many outstanding movies in one year--see 1974, when The Godfather II whacked both Chinatown and Coppola's other phenomenal film, The Conversation.
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 Citizen KaneOrson Welles |
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 The GraduateMike Nichols |
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 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidGeorge Roy Hill |
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 ChinatownRoman Polanski |
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 The ConversationFrancis Ford CoppolaA landmark 1970s thriller. >> |
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 Taxi DriverMartin Scorsese |
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 Stars Wars Episode IV: A New HopeGeorge LucasIt's still a good idea to let the Wookiee win. >> |
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 Raging BullMartin Scorsese |
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 FargoJoel Coen |
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 There Will Be BloodPaul Thomas Anderson |
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