Best Picture Nominees that should have been best picture

[Detective Jim McLeod]

I have seen every Best Picture winner except CODA (2021), since I don't have Apple TV.
Here are the nominees from the 1930s that I liked better than the winner-

1930-31- Skippy r/t Cimarron
1932-33- She Done Him Wrong r/t Cavalcade
1937- Dead End r/t The Life Of Emile Zola
1938- The Adventures Of Robin Hood r/t You Can't Take It With You

[Dargo]

13. It's a Wonderful Life (#82)

Nope, can't agree with this one here.

Sure, while I might be a bit biased here and considering that 'The Best Years of Our Lives' has been my personal all-time favorite film for many decades now, and also even considering that I've also been a big fan of 'It's a Wonderful Life' years before its "rediscovery" by the public, there is no way Frank Capra's film should have won the 1946 Best Picture Oscar over William Wyler's film.

(...nope)

[Swithin]

Two best picture nominees that should have won Best Picture did not win for "political" reasons.

Much as I love British films, culture, and history, and much as I enjoyed Chariots of Fire, it's not really a great film. It stole the Best Picture Oscar from Reds (1981), largely because Hollywood was afraid of choosing a film that glorified an American Communist, particularly since Hollywood was sensitive about its own lefty image at the time.

Brokeback Mountain (2005) is another film that lost (to a film so trashy I don't even remember its name), because Hollywood was afraid of choosing a film that glorified gay love, particularly since Hollywood was sensitive about its own queer image at the time.

Both films -- Reds and Brokeback Mountain -- were love stories set against a magnificent backdrop. Reds was particularly significant in that it explored the very nature of truth in history, with the large array of witnesses.


Dora Russell and Rebecca West, two of the "witnesses" in Reds

[Detective Jim McLeod]

The 1940s-

1941-Citizen Kane r/t How Green Was My Valley
1942- The Pride Of The Yankees r/t Mrs. Miniver
1943-The Ox Bow Incident r/t Casablanca
1944- Double Indemnity r/t Going My Way
1947- Miracle On 34th Street r/t Gentleman's Agreement
1948- The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre r/t Hamlet
1949- The Heiress r/t All The King's Men

[Detective Jim McLeod]

The 1950s

1950- Sunset Blvd r/t All About Eve
1951- A Place In The Sun r/t An American In Paris
1956- The King And I r/t Around The World In Eighty Days
1958- The Defiant Ones r/t Gigi
1959- The Nun's Story r/t Ben Hur

[Detective Jim McLeod]

The 1960s-

1963- Lillies Of The Field r/t Tom Jones
1964- Becket r/t My Fair Lady
1966- Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf r/t A Man For All Seasons
1967- Bonnie And Clyde r/t In The Heat Of The Nigh
1968-Funny Girl r/t Oliver

[Detective Jim McLeod]

The 1970s-

1970-Five Easy Pieces r/t Patton
1972- Deliverance r/t The Godfather
1975- Jaws r/t One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
1976- Taxi Driver r/t Rocky

[Detective Jim McLeod]

The 1980s

1983- Tender Mercies r/t Terms Of Endearment
1985- Witness r/t Out Of Africa
1986- The Mission r/t Platoon
1987- Fatal Attraction r/t The Last Emperor

[Detective Jim McLeod]

The 1990s,

1990- Goodfellas r/t Dances With Wolves
1991- Beauty And The Beast r/t Silence Of The Lambs
1993- The Crying Game r/t Unforgiven
1994- The Shawshank Redemption r/t Forrest Gump
1995- Il Postino r/t Braveheart
1997- LA Confidential r/t Titanic
1998- Life Is Beautiful r/t Shakespeare In Love
1999- The Green Mile r/t American Beauty

[Detective Jim McLeod]

the 2000s

2000- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon r/t Gladiator
2002- The Pianist r/t Chicago
2003- Mystic River r/t Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King
2004- Finding Neverland r/t Million Dollar Baby
2005- Capote r/t Crash
2008- Frost/Nixon r/t Slumdog Millionaire

[Detective Jim McLeod]

The rest

2010- Black Swan r/t The King's Speech
2011- Moneyball r/t The Artist
2012- Django Unchained r/t Argo
2013- Her r/t 12 Years A Slave
2014- Boyhood r/t Birdman Or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance
2015- Brooklyn r/t Spotlight
2017- Lady Bird r/t The Shape Of Water
2018- A Star Is Born r/t Green Book
2019- Once Upon A Time In Hollywood r/t Parasite
2022- Tar r/t Everything Everywhere All At Once

[Swithin]

1917 should have won instead of Parasite (2019)

[CinemaInternational]

There were very few times that I actually agreed with their winner of out their own lineup, so I'll just write down what should have won of the nominees (it does include a few that actually won)

Wings/The Crowd (for artistic picture, a prize only given that year(
Broadway Melody (weak field)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Skippy
The Smiling Lieutenant
42nd Street
The Thin Man
David Copperfield (or maybe Top Hat?)
Dodsworth
Stage Door
Jezebel
Gone with the Wind
Rebecca
Citizen Kane
Random Harvest
Casablanca (really like Heaven Can Wait too)
Double Indemnity
Mildred Pierce
It's a Wonderful Life
Great Expectations
The Red Shoes
A Letter to Three Wives
Sunset Boulevard
An American in Paris
High Noon
Roman Holiday
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (sorry, but I get more enjoyment out of it tan On the Waterfront)
Marty
Friendly Persuasion
Peyton Place
Auntie Mame
The Nun's Story
The Apartment
Judgment at Nuremberg
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lillies of the Field
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music
A Man for All Seasons
Bonnie and Clyde
Rachel, Rachel
Hello, Dolly! (again, sorry)
Patton
Fiddler on the Roof
The Godfather
The Sting
Chinatown
Nashville
Network
Julia
An Unmarried Woman
All That Jazz/Breaking Away (constantly go back and forth on this one)
Ordinary People
On Golden Pond
Tootsie/ET (and this one too)
The Right Stuff
Amadeus
Out of Africa
Children of a Lesser God
Hope and Glory
The Accidental Tourist
Driving Miss Daisy
The Godfather Part III
Beauty and the Beast
Unforgiven
The Piano
Quiz Show
Sense and Sensibility
The English Patient
LA Confidential
Shakespeare in Love
The Sixth Sense
Erin Brockovich
Gosford Park
Chicago
Lost in Translation
Ray
Capote
The Queen
Atonement
Frost/Nixon
Precious
True Grit
Hugo
Les Miserables
Nebraska
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Brooklyn
Hidden Figures
Phantom Thread
Roma
Little Women (or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood or 1917)
The Father
Nightmare Alley (didn't see Coda)
Women Talking or Elvis