As promised,
here's the results of my insanely inefficient examination of Oscar's
snubs. But, before I begin, let me be clear what I mean by "snub". I'm
looking at which movies got all the right nominations but either still
couldn't get the Best Picture win or even get a Best Picture nomination.
These aren't the movies that couldn't even get nominated for anything.
These are the movies that seems to get all the love from the Academy
except for the big one. If you still don't understand what I mean, keep
reading. You will.
In case you missed my lengthy diatribe about why I'm doing this.
Here you go. And, in cased you missed my explanation of how I calculated the "snubs",
here you go.
and
All That Jazz are in a dead heat for the win. I think Jazz had a slight advantage, but looking at the results, I guess it didn't. No, the snub here was
The Rose (30) having more value nominations than
Norma Rae but not wrangling a best picture nod.
51st Academy Awards
Good. The favorite won one. However, a best picture nod for
Interiors (31) would've made more sense than
An Unmarried Woman.
50th Academy Awards
What a mess.
Annie Hall is probably the least likely winner ever when you look at things.
The Turning Point, Julia, and
Star Wars (32) all had much stronger nomination resumes. Even
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (33) had more going for it, except, oh yeah, it couldn't even get a best picture nod over
The Goodbye Girl: the only movie Annie Hall pulled better nominations than.
49th Academy Awards
People always bemoan
Rocky "upsetting"
Network, but look above. Rocky was the favorite in this race. Personally, I'm trying to figure out how
Taxi Driver managed to not get more big nominations in order to look the part of a best picture nominee over
Seven Beauties (34).
48th Academy Awards
Another big four winner,
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest was not actually the dominating force in the nominations that I thought it was. Still the favorite though. I guess
The Sunshine Boys (35) had more right to a Best Picture nod than
Nashville did.
47th Academy Awards
How's this for surprising? You know the classic movie
The Godfather Part II, widely regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time? Yeah, the eventual winner was not, by the numbers, really the favorite going in.
Chinatown (36) had a much stronger case.
And, did a second Coppala film (
The Conversation) make a good case to be there over
Murder on the Orient Express (37)? (Yeah, I see the typo too)
46th Academy Awards
A pretty predictable set of results here. It's not a snub, but I was surpised how close a runner-up The Exorcist was that year to The Sting. Horror movies don't get that kind of respect very often.
The Way We Were (38) collected enough technical awards to outweigh
A Touch of Class's screenplay nod.
45th Academy Awards
How's this for surprising? You know the classic movie
The Godfather, widely regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time? Yeah, the eventual winner was not, by the numbers, really the favorite going in.
Caberet (39) had a stronger case.
And, did the action movie
Deliverance make a good case to be there over another action movie:
The Posiden Adventure (40)?
44th Academy Awards
Finally! A year that makes sense.
43rd Academy Awards
Another predictable year. No surprises.
Five Easy Pieces did have slightly less claim to the last best picture nod than
Women in Love (41). That's about it.
Busy decade. A lot of bad choices, as always. Time for the final 9...
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