Best film never nominated for any Oscars?

MakeEmLaugh

What do people think is the best film to never be nominated for any Oscars whatsoever?

Mine is Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (which deserved a Best Score for Ennio Morricone's music, at the very least).

What are others' thoughts?

From recent years, I'd put Blue is the Warmest Colour. It definitely deserved a Best Foreign Language Film nomination.

johnny_ultimate

A vast majority of great films that have had the fatal handicap of not being in the English language. I'd list them, but we'd be here a while.

MfMan

Wasn't it a clerical error that prevented Morricone from being nominated (and surely winning)?

I'll give you Night Of The Hunter

kunst nugget

Evil Dead 2.

MakeEmLaugh

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

A vast majority of great films that have had the fatal handicap of not being in the English language. I'd list them, but we'd be here a while.

I agree. I always complain that films outside the English language are the most overlooked at the Oscars.

What about in the English language?

e_e

Onw of the greatest documentaries of all time, Hoop Dreams.

shadowcomplex

Freddy got Fingered

MakeEmLaugh

shadowcomplex wrote: »

Freddy got Fingered

You're hilarious.

delbertgrady

None of these were nominated at all. The documentaries should have made the cut (Grey Gardens in particular is regarded as a classic of the genre), Let the Right One In and The Son's Room should have been shortlisted for Foreign Language Feature, and you could argue the respective cases with the others too.

The Big Lebowski (original screenplay, at least)
Blackfish
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (score, costume, production design)
Grey Gardens
Groundhog Day (original screenplay)
Let the Right One In
Once Upon a Time in the West (score, production design, possibly Fonda or Robards for their performances too)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (cinematography, production design)
Reservoir Dogs (original screenplay)
Senna
The Shining (cinematography, production design)
The Son's Room
Zodiac (cinematography, editing, production design, adapted screenplay, director)

kunst nugget

e_e wrote: »

Onw of the greatest documentaries of all time, Hoop Dreams.

Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.

kunst nugget

delbertgrady wrote: »

The Big Lebowski (original screenplay, at least)

Blood Simple, Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing as well were deserving of Oscars imo.

Others I think were deserving of Oscar recognition:
King of Comedy
Drugstore Cowboy
Clockers
Heat
Rushmore

Docutmentaires:
Blackfish
West of Memphis
Dear Zachary

A really notable omission in this year's Oscars was The Lego Movie. I thought it was very strange that it didn't get a nomination.

check_six

kunst nugget wrote: »

A really notable omission in this year's Oscar was The Lego Movie. I thought it was very strange that it didn't get a nomination.

Yeah, but I hear Emmet was really difficult to work with and rubbed a lot of powerful people up the wrong way. Such is the perils of being a super-diva!




Also, I think the Everything is Awesome song got a nomination.

kunst nugget

check_six wrote: »

Yeah, but I hear Emmet was really difficult to work with and rubbed a lot of powerful people up the wrong way. Such is the perils of being a super-diva!




Also, I think the Everything is Awesome song got a nomination.

Ah yeah, I forgot about that… that song's stuck in my head now for the day.

happysunnydays

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

What do people think is the best film to never be nominated for any Oscars whatsoever?
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Interesting question...because I had to check, so I learned something new today. Thank you. Some notables IMO...
69 Once Upon a Time in The West ..zero noms there
80 The Shining ...zero noms (that's a standout for me)
In 83 'The King of Comedy' and 'Scarface' both got zero noms
..and finally like c'mon....95 Heat, yep zero noms!

galljga1

kunst nugget wrote: »

Ah yeah, I forgot about that… that song's stuck in my head now for the day.

Yeah, thanks for that.

bullvine

Terminator 2 should have got a nomination for pure groundbreaking achievement!

exiledelbows

bullvine wrote: »

Terminator 2 should have got a nomination for pure groundbreaking achievement!

It did, and it won four.

bullvine

exiledelbows wrote: »

It did, and it won four.

Sorry I thought it meant Best Picture nom, my mistake.

Day Lewin

"Rabbit Proof Fence" :-(

So "Night of the Hunter" never got a Nom? I am shocked beyond belief; That's a superb classic.

poeticmakaveli

was "wrestling Ernest Hemingway" nominated?! such a nice movie and Richard Harris was absolutely brilliant in it!

LuckyLloyd

Take a list of Palme D'Or winners, Sundance Grand Jury winners and films preserved in the National Registry that didn't receive any nominations and you'd have a strong basic list to work from. Build out your list with the great non English language movies and then sprinkle in popular English language favourites that were overlooked for whatever reason.

You'd have a long list and a practically impossible job reaching any sort of consensus.

e_e

No Jim Jarmusch movie has ever been nominated for an Oscar.

Zeek12

e_e wrote: »

No Jim Jarmusch movie has ever been nominated for an Oscar.

That doesn't surprise me.....but it's still really not right.

Dead Man and Stranger than Paradise are masterpieces, to name just two.

e_e

I see your Dead Man and Stranger Than Paradise and raise you Ghost Dog and Down by Law.

But yeah, pretty underrated director by both the academy and the general public.

MadDog76

Movies
The Big Lebowski
Groundhog Day
Heat
Kind Hearts & Coronets
King Kong(1933)
Mean Streets
Miller's Crossing
Night Of The Hunter
Once Upon A Time In The West
Rushmore
Three Kings
Zodiac
Blood Simple
Reservoir Dogs
The King Of Comedy
Clockers
Hard Boiled(1992)
Casino Royale(2006)
Sin City

Documentaries
Crumb
Dear Zachary
Hoop Dreams
The Thin Blue Line