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.
| CRITICAL LIST | |
|---|---|
| Citizen Kane | Orson Welles |
| The Graduate | Mike Nichols |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | George Roy Hill |
| Chinatown | Roman Polanski |
| The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese |
| Stars Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope | George Lucas |
| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese |
| Fargo | Joel Coen |
| There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson |
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