Best Films That Never Won a Best Picture Oscar

Some interesting examples of movies that generally enjoyed runaway success at the box office, yet did not receive Oscars for Best Picture, or even Best Director.

We can hope our favorite movie will come away with the big prize, but in the long run, some of the best pictures ever made did not receive Best Picture Oscars. A good example would be the AFI’s choice for number one movie of all time, Citizen Kane.

2001: A Space Odyssey, a favourite of mine, directed by Stanley Kubrick, also features on the list.

Kubrick’s lack of recognition by the Academy was something Keir Dullea, who played 2001 astronaut David Bowman, expressed his anger at while speaking during a special screening of the movie in Sydney, in 2006.

David Stratton, the event MC replied, “Nor did Hitchcock or Welles*, so he’s in good company.”

That seems to say a lot, or perhaps, not a lot, about the Academy Awards.

* I’m pretty sure Orson Welles was the director, other than Hitchcock, whom Stratton mentioned (though there have been many others)… can anyone else at the 2001 screening verify this?