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The Biggest Academy Awards Best Picture Snubs

By Eric Schneider

Sometimes 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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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