Great Movies That Got Zero Oscar Nominations

Every yr we expend a lot effort on the Oscars. Who will win? Who ought to win? Who obtained snubbed? Who gave the perfect speech? It’s just about 5 straight months of this, continuous.

But are you able to identify final yr’s Best Picture winner off the highest of your head? Okay, you may keep in mind Moonlight due to the loopy fallacious envelope kerfuffle. What concerning the Best Picture in 2020? How concerning the yr earlier than that? (It was Coda and Nomadland. I regarded it up, as a result of I didn’t keep in mind.)

The Oscars are enjoyable, and sure, they’re necessary for lots of causes. But they don’t assure cinematic immortality. Plenty of essentially the most well-known and most beloved motion pictures of all time didn’t win a single Academy Award (together with Dr. Strangelove, It’s a Wonderful Life, Taxi Driver, Do the Right Thing, Vertigo, and The Shawshank Redemption). And then there are the classics that didn’t even benefit a single nomination. All 12 of the movies beneath are classics of their respective genres. Some of them have been watched for nearly a century. And none of them obtained even one (1) Oscar nomination. So don’t fret, followers of superior movies like Nope which can be virtually actually going to be ignored by the Academy this yr. Pundits could speak concerning the Oscars as a race. But within the macro view, they’re only the start of a for much longer journey.