ACADEMY AWARDS®
Best Pictures Not Nominated
for Best Picture
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ACADEMY AWARDS® Best Pictures Not Nominated |
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For A Best Picture Academy Award® See List of Best Picture Winners |
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Best Picture Nominees and Winners |
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Not Nominated:
Psycho (4 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Spartacus (6 Nominations, 4 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: The Alamo, Elmer Gantry, Sons and Lovers, The Sundowners Best Picture Winner: The Apartment |
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Not Nominated: Breakfast
at Tiffany's (5 Nominations, 2 Wins), Splendor in
the Grass (2 Nominations, 1 Win), The Misfits
(0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Fanny, The Guns of Navarone, The Hustler, Judgment at Nuremberg Best Picture Winner:
West Side Story |
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Not Nominated: The
Manchurian Candidate (1962) (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Ride the High
Country (0 Nominations), Long Day's Journey Into Night (1 Nomination,
0 Win), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1 Nomination, 0 Win), The Miracle
Worker (5 Nominations, 2 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: The Longest Day, The Music Man, Mutiny on the Bounty,
To Kill a MockingbirdBest Picture Winner:
Lawrence of Arabia |
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Not Nominated: Hud
(7 Nominations, 3 Wins), The Birds (1 Nomination,
0 Wins), The Haunting (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: America, America, Cleopatra, How the West Was Won, Lilies of the Field Best Picture Winner: Tom Jones |
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Not Nominated: A Hard Day's
Night (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Servant (0 Nominations), A Shot in
the Dark (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Becket,
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying..., Mary Poppins,
Zorba the GreekBest Picture Winner: My Fair Lady |
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Not Nominated: Repulsion
(0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Darling, Doctor Zhivago, Ship of Fools, A Thousand Clowns Best Picture Winner: The Sound of Music |
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Not Nominated: Cul-de-Sac
(0 Nominations), Blow-Up (2 Nominations, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: Alfie, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, The Sand Pebbles,
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Best Picture Winner: A Man for All Seasons |
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Not Nominated: Chimes at
Midnight/Falstaff (0 Nominations), Point Blank (0 Nominations), Two for
the Road (1 Nomination, 0 Win), Camelot (5 Nominations, 3 Wins), Cool
Hand Luke (4 Nominations, 1 Win), In Cold Blood (4 Nominations, 0
Wins), Up the Down Staircase (0 Nominations), Wait Until Dark (1 Nomination,
0 Win) Best Picture Nominees:
Bonnie And Clyde, Doctor Dolittle,
The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?Best Picture Winner: In the Heat of the Night |
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Not Nominated:
2001: A Space Odyssey (4 Nominations, 1 Win), Rosemary's
Baby (2 Nominations, 1 Win), Petulia (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Funny Girl, The Lion in Winter, Rachel, Rachel, Romeo and Juliet Best Picture Winner: Oliver! |
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Not Nominated:
The Wild Bunch (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Once
Upon a Time in the West (0 Nominations), Medium Cool (0 Nominations),
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (9 Nominations, 1 Win) Best Picture Nominees: Anne of the Thousand Days, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hello, Dolly!, Z Best Picture Winner:
Midnight Cowboy |
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Not Nominated: The Ballad
of Cable Hogue (0 Nominations), Little Big Man (1 Nomination, 0 Win),
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1 Nomination, 0 Win), Brewster McCloud (0 Nominations),
I Never Sang for My Father (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Landlord (1 Nomination,
0 Win), Ryan's Daughter (4 Nominations, 2 Wins), Women in Love (4 Nominations,
1 Win) Best Picture Nominees: Airport, Five Easy Pieces, Love Story, M*A*S*H Best Picture Winner: Patton |
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Not Nominated: McCabe and
Mrs. Miller (1 Nomination, 0 Win), Dirty Harry
(0 Nominations), Klute (2 Nominations, 1 Win), Macbeth (0 Nominations),
Walkabout (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler on the Roof, The Last Picture Show, Nicholas and Alexandra Best Picture Winner: The French Connection |
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Not Nominated: Play
It Again, Sam (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Cabaret, Deliverance, The Emigrants, Sounder Best Picture Winner:
The Godfather |
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Not Nominated: The Last
Detail (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), Last Tango in Paris (2 Nominations, 0
Wins), The Long Goodbye (0 Nominations), Mean Streets (0 Nominations),
Paper Moon (4 Nominations, 1 Win), Serpico (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), The
Way We Were (6 Nominations, 3 Wins), O Lucky Man! (0 Nominations), The
Paper Chase (3 Nominations, 1 Win), Save the Tiger (3 Nominations, 1 Win) Best Picture Nominees: American Graffiti, Cries and Whispers, The Exorcist, A Touch of Class Best Picture Winner: The Sting |
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Not Nominated: Alice Doesn't
Live Here Anymore (3 Nominations, 1 Win), Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(0 Nominations), The Parallax View (0 Nominations), Thieves Like Us (0
Nominations), Day for Night (3 Nominations, 0 Wins; Best Foreign Language
Film 1973) Best Picture Nominees:
Chinatown, The Conversation, Lenny, The Towering
InfernoBest Picture Winner:
The Godfather, Part II |
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Not Nominated: The Man
Who Would Be King (4 Nominations, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon,
Jaws,
NashvilleBest Picture Winner:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
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Not Nominated: The Front
(1 Nomination, 0 Win), Carrie (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Last Tycoon
(1 Nomination, 0 Win), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1 Nomination, 0 Win), Robin
and Marian (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: All the President's Men, Bound for Glory, Network,
Taxi DriverBest Picture Winner: Rocky |
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Not Nominated: Close
Encounters of the Third Kind (8 Nominations, 1 Win), Three Women
(0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: The Goodbye Girl, Julia,
Star Wars, The Turning PointBest Picture Winner:
Annie Hall |
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Not Nominated: Days
of Heaven (4 Nominations, 1 Win), Go Tell the Spartans (0 Nominations),
Interiors (5 Nominations, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: Coming Home, Heaven Can Wait, Midnight Express, An Unmarried Woman Best Picture Winner: The Deer Hunter |
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Not Nominated: Being
There (2 Nominations, 1 Win), Manhattan (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), ...and
Justice For All (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Black Stallion (2 Nominations,
0 Wins), The China Syndrome (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Electric Horseman
(1 Nomination, 0 Win), Escape from Alcatraz (0 Nominations), Hair (0 Nominations),
10 (2 Nominations, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: All That Jazz,
Apocalypse Now, Breaking Away, Norma RaeBest Picture Winner: Kramer vs. Kramer |
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Not Nominated: The Empire
Strikes Back (3 Nominations, 1 Win), The Long Riders (0 Nominations),
Melvin and Howard (3 Nominations, 2 Wins), Urban Cowboy (0 Nominations),
Stardust Memories (0 Nominations), Return of the Secaucus 7 (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man,
Raging Bull, TessBest Picture Winner: Ordinary People |
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Not Nominated: Cutter's
Way (0 Nominations), Absence of Malice (3 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Blow Out (0 Nominations), Body Heat (0 Nominations),
The French Lieutenant's Woman (5 Nominations, 0 Wins), Mommie Dearest
(0 Nominations), Pennies From Heaven (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), Ragtime
(8 Nominations, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: Atlantic City, On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reds Best Picture Winner: Chariots of Fire |
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Not Nominated:
Blade Runner (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Moonlighting (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees:
E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial, Missing, Tootsie, The VerdictBest Picture Winner: Gandhi |
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Not Nominated: Local Hero
(0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: The Big Chill, The Dresser, The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies Best Picture Winner: Terms of Endearment |
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Not Nominated: This is
Spinal Tap (0 Nominations), Blood Simple (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart, A Soldier's Story Best Picture Winner: Amadeus |
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Not Nominated: Brazil
(2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Ran (4 Nominations, 1 Win), Silverado (2 Nominations,
0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi's Honor, Witness Best Picture Winner: Out of Africa |
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Not Nominated: 'Round Midnight
(2 Nominations, 1 Win), Salvador (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Sid and Nancy
(0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Children of a Lesser God, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Mission, A Room with a View Best Picture Winner: Platoon |
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Not Nominated: Empire of
the Sun (6 Nominations, 0 Wins), House of Games (0 Nominations), Full
Metal Jacket (1 Nomination, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction, Hope and Glory, Moonstruck Best Picture Winner: The Last Emperor |
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Not Nominated: A World
Apart (0 Nominations), Talk Radio (0 Nominations), The Accused (1 Nomination,
1 Win), Big (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Bird (1 Nomination, 1 Win), Bull
Durham (1 Nomination, 0 Win), A Cry in the Dark (1 Nomination, 0 Win),
Dominick and Eugene (0 Nominations), Hairspray (0 Nominations), The Last
Temptation of Christ (1 Nomination, 0 Win), Married to the Mob (1 Nomination,
0 Win), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (6 Nominations,
3 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, Mississippi Burning, Working Girl Best Picture Winner: Rain Man |
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Not Nominated: Do The
Right Thing (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Henry V (3 Nominations, 1 Win), Crime
and Misdemeanors (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), sex, lies, and videotape (1
Nomination, 0 Wins), Drugstore Cowboy (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, My Left Foot Best Picture Winner: Driving Miss Daisy |
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Not Nominated: Miller's
Crossing (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Awakenings, Ghost, The Godfather, Part III, GoodFellas Best Picture Winner: Dances With Wolves |
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Not Nominated: Thelma &
Louise (6 Nominations, 1 Win), An Angel at My Table (0 Nominations), Barton
Fink (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), Boyz N the Hood (2 Nominations), Fried Green
Tomatoes (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Grand Canyon (1 Nomination, 0 Win),
My Own Private Idaho (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK, The Prince of Tides Best Picture Winner: The Silence of the Lambs |
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Not Nominated: Malcolm
X (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Player (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), Zentropa
(aka Europa) (0 Nominations), Hard-Boiled (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Howards End, Scent of a Woman Best Picture Winner: Unforgiven |
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Not Nominated: Short Cuts
(1 Nomination, 0 Win) Best Picture Nominees: The Fugitive, In the Name of the Father, The Piano, The Remains of the Day Best Picture Winner:
Schindler's List |
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Not Nominated: Bullets
Over Broadway (7 Nominations, 1 Win), Hoop Dreams (1 Nomination,
0 Win) Best Picture Nominees: Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pulp Fiction,
Quiz Show, The Shawshank RedemptionBest Picture Winner: Forrest Gump |
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Not Nominated: Dead Man
Walking (4 Nominations, 1 Win), Leaving Las Vegas (4 Nominations, 1 Win),
Nixon (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Usual Suspects (2 Nominations,
2 Wins), Clockers (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Apollo 13, Babe, Il Postino, Sense and Sensibility Best Picture Winner: Braveheart |
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Not Nominated: Sling Blade
(2 Nominations, 1 Win), Trainspotting (1 Nomination, 0 Wins), Big
Night (0 Nominations), The Crucible (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Emma (2 Nominations,
1 Win), Hamlet (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), Lone Star (1 Nomination, 0 Win),
The People vs. Larry Flynt (2 Nominations, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: Fargo, Jerry Maguire, Secrets and Lies, Shine Best Picture Winner: The English Patient |
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Not Nominated: The Wings
of the Dove (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Sweet Hereafter (2 Nominations,
0 Wins), Amistad (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), Boogie Nights (3 Nominations,
0 Wins), Grosse Pointe Blank (0 Nominations), Jackie Brown (1 Nomination,
0 Win), My Best Friend's Wedding (1 Nomination, 0 Win), Wag the Dog (2
Nominations, 0 Wins), Waiting for Guffman (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: L.A. Confidential, As Good As It Gets, Good Will Hunting, The Full Monty Best Picture Winner: Titanic |
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Not Nominated: The Truman
Show (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Big Lebowski (0 Nominations),
Gods and Monsters (3 Nominations, 1 Win), Pleasantville (3 Nominations,
0 Wins), Primary Colors (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Rushmore (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Elizabeth, Life is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line Best Picture Winner: Shakespeare in Love |
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Not Nominated: Being John
Malkovich (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), The End of the Affair (2 Nominations,
0 Wins), Magnolia (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Talented Mr. Ripley (5
Nominations, 0 Wins), Topsy-Turvy (4 Nominations, 2 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense Best Picture Winner: American Beauty |
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Not Nominated: Almost Famous
(4 Nominations, 1 Win), Billy Elliot (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), Pollock
(2 Nominations, 1 Win), Requiem for a Dream (1 Nomination, 0 Win), You
Can Count on Me (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Cast Away (2 Nominations,
0 Wins), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Wonder Boys
(3 Nominations, 1 Win) Best Picture Nominees: Chocolat, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Traffic Best Picture Winner: Gladiator |
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Not Nominated: Amelie (5
Nominations, 0 Wins), Black Hawk Down (4 Nominations, 2 Wins), Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), Iris (3 Nominations,
1 Win), Memento (2000) (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Legally Blonde (0 Nominations),
Mulholland Drive (1 Nomination, 0 Win), The Others (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge Best Picture Winner: A Beautiful Mind |
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Not Nominated: Adaptation
(4 Nominations, 1 Win), About Schmidt (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Far From
Heaven (4 Nominations, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Pianist Best Picture Winner: Chicago |
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Not Nominated: Cold Mountain
(7 Nominations, 1 Win) Best Picture Nominees: Lost in Translation, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River, Seabiscuit Best Picture Winner: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
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Not Nominated: The Passion
of the Christ (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), Fahrenheit 9/11 (0 Nominations),
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2 nominations, 1 Win), Spider-Man
2 (3 Nominations, 1 Win) Best Picture Nominees: The Aviator, Finding Neverland, Ray, Sideways Best Picture Winner: Million Dollar Baby |
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Not Nominated: Memoirs
of a Geisha (6 Nominations, 3 Wins), Walk The Line (5 Nominations, 1 Win),
Pride & Prejudice (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), King Kong (4 Nominations,
3 Wins), The Constant Gardener (4 Nominations, 1 Win), Cinderella Man
(3 Nominations, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night, and Good Luck, Munich Best Picture Winner: Crash |
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Not Nominated: Dreamgirls
(8 Nominations, 2 Wins), Pan's Labyrinth (6 Nominations, 3 Wins),
Little Children (3 Nominations, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: Babel, The Queen, Letters From Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine Best Picture Winner: The Departed |
| Not Nominated: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), Sweeney Todd (3 Nominations, 1 Win), American Gangster
(2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Into the Wild (2 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Charlie Wilson's War (1 Nomination, 0 Wins), Hairspray (0 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood Best Picture Winner: No Country for Old Men |
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| Not Nominated: The Dark Knight (8 Nominations, 2 Wins), Wall-E (6 Nominations, 1 Win), Doubt (5 Nominations, 0 Wins), Changeling (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), Revolutionary Road (3 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Wrestler (2 Nominations, 0 Wins) Best Picture Nominees: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader Best Picture Winner: Slumdog Millionaire |
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| Not Nominated: Nine (4 Nominations), Star Trek (4 Nominations), Invictus (2 Nominations), The Lovely Bones (1 Nomination), An Education (3 Nominations) Best Picture Nominees: Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, Up in the Air Best Picture Winner: ? |
Although
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® has awarded many
deserving honors to its nominees over the years (
