The 1928 film The Patriot is the only Best Picture nominee that is lost (about one-third is extant). The Racket, also from 1928, was believed lost for many years until a print was found in Howard Hughes' archives.
Star Wars was the biggest movie of 1977 and, for a while, the most successful film of all time. It was the rare blockbuster that was also a critical favorite and went on to be nominated for eleven Academy Awards. The movie took home seven Oscars but notably lost Best Picture to Woody Allen's Annie Hall.
'Shakespeare in Love' Wins Best Picture Over 'Saving Private Ryan' John Madden's “Shakespeare in Love” triumphing over Steven Spielberg's war epic “Saving Private Ryan” for best picture at the 1999 Oscars remains one of the most controversial upsets in Academy Awards history.
What film was not nominated for Best Picture 2023?
On the opposite end of the spectrum are “Nope,” “The Woman King,” “Devotion,” “She Said” and “Hustle,” all of which earned a combine zero nominations at the 2023 Oscars.
Charlie Chaplin. Ignored by the Academy for most of his career, the pioneering silent-film superstar received two honorary awards—one near the start of his career (in 1929) and another at the end (in 1972).
Top 10 Best Picture Nominees That Lost The Oscar (But Should Have Won)
Who did Leonardo DiCaprio lost Oscar to?
DiCaprio has starred in two Quentin Tarantino movies, but only Once Upon a Time in Hollywood earned him an Oscar nomination. That year, DiCaprio lost out on the Best Actor Oscar to Joaquin Phoenix for Joker.
Unlike George C. Scott or Dudley Nichols' refusal, Brando's was specifically designed to court public attention - and it did just that. The trade bibles quickly went to work on Littlefeather's background and ancestry, who claimed that she wasn't Apache at all.
However, a few surprises did sneak onto the roster of contenders and a couple shocking omissions made our list of Academy Awards snubs. While nine of our Top 10 predicted films earned spots in the Best Picture lineup, “The Whale” was replaced by “Triangle of Sadness.”
Snub: James Cameron While the successful “Avatar: The Way of Water” landed a spot in the best-picture race, Mr. Cameron did not receive a nomination for his direction of the film. Snub: Tom Cruise Mr. Cruise didn't receive an acting nomination for his appearance in the box-office smash “Top Gun: Maverick.”
Has anyone won Best Picture without director nominations?
Only six films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: Wings directed by William A. Wellman (1927/28), Grand Hotel directed by Edmund Goulding (1931/32), Driving Miss Daisy directed by Bruce Beresford (1989), Argo directed by Ben Affleck (2012), Green Book directed by Peter Farrelly ...
What movie beat Shawshank Redemption for Best Picture?
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
It's not all that surprising that, despite 1994 being such a standout year for cinema, the Oscars decided to honour Forrest Gump with the Best Picture prize – after all, it's one of the most awards-friendly films of the decade.
He has just been through a horrific, bloody battle in which his friends and allies were being killed all around him. He breaks down and cries after Caparzo gives him a Hitler Youth Knife taken off the dead body of a very young German soldier.
While the characters are fictional, the film is inspired by actual historical events and the "sole survivor" policy of the U.S. War Department. Steven Spielberg's personal connection to World War II influenced his decision to direct the film and his subsequent World War II projects.
It's the second-biggest film franchise of all-time and beloved by millions across the globe — and now available on Netflix — but although it was nominated for 12 Academy Awards across eight movies, the Harry Potter series never won one.
In fact, Titanic's Oscar trove tied the record for most nominations, alongside All About Eve (1950) and Ben-Hur (1959), as did La La Land in 2016. Out of the 14, James Cameron's period piece won a whopping 11 Oscars, including the great honor of Best Picture.
Within the first few moments of the 95th Academy Awards, winners like Everything Everywhere All At Once stars Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis (picking up their awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively) had celebs at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood tearing up, and viewers at home absolutely bawling ...
In fact, though there are those who have rejected their Oscars (Marlon Brando, Dudley Nichols), only one award has ever been revoked in Academy history — the 1969 prize for Best Documentary, which was given to Young Americans before it was determined that the film was released in 1967 and therefore ineligible.
As of now, no Oscar winner has ever had their award rescinded by the Academy, although producer and serial sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein was expelled from the governing body in 2017.
Who knows the winners before they're announced? According to the academy website, just two PricewaterhouseCoopers partners know the results beforehand.
Daniel Day-Lewis became the first and currently only man to win three best actor Oscars, while Frances McDormand became only the second woman and third of her counterparts overall to achieve the same. Finally, Walter Brennan won his three supporting actor Oscars every other year between 1937 and 1941.
Patton in Patton (1970), he became the first actor to refuse the award, having warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences months in advance that he would do so on the basis of his belief that performances can't be compared to others.
