The films that were nominated for best picture but never won, losing out more often than not to a lesser work
Some ground rules. It would take an aeon to go through the best films that simply failed to take thefor best picture. What we’re doing here is detailing the best films that were nominated but lost . That distinction explains why almost all the unfortunate runners up below are in English. We have picked only one film per director, which proved bad news for
It’s a lumbering beast that often slips into pretentiousness, but it still has enormous gut-churning power. As one of the dullest stretches for the Oscars loomed, it lost out to the none-more-different Kramer vs Kramer.If we want to grow the next generation of Cillian Murphys, we need to treat film like the tech industry24. LA Confidential
In these more careful times, we are a little unsure about the exoticisation of Japan in Coppola’s utterly original anti-romantic comedy. But no film better captures the numbed ambience of the postmillennial temperament. Lost to Lord of the Rings: Return of the King .Not Fargo? Not quite. The Coen’s finest film – a black comedy that dares the bleakest imaginable ending – profited as, for the first time since 1943, the academy nominated all of 10 films.
A finely oiled mechanism that makes the best of supremely gifted comics: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart. Everybody is assembled in a posh Philadelphia estate for squabbling of the most elegant fashion. That year saw the only best picture win for a Hitchcock project: the inky Rebecca.It was round about here that the promise of the early 1970s began to give way to mainstream fightback.
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