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.
84th Academy Awards
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close gets nominated while the much more nominated The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (1) is snubbed? Don't get me wrong, neither has room to be in contention, but nominations don't lie.
83rd Academy Awards
I actually have no beef with this year. Because, of all the nominees the only movie that pulled at least 3 nominations and didn't come away with a Best Picture nomination was Alice in Wonderland, which no one was clamoring to have nominated there. Although, yes, Chris Nolan probably deserved a directing nomination. Notice, that is an opinion, so it won't count as one of my 50 snubs.
82nd Academy Awards
The Blind Side pulls off a Best Picture nod based solely on the performance of Sandra Bullock. This, over Crazy Heart which had more acting nods or Star Trek (2) which pulled several technical nods.
81st Academy Awards
This was a particularly egregious year featuring two massive inconsistencies. First of all, based on the nominations, there is almost no reason Slumdog Millionaire should've been able to beat Benjamin Button (3). Second,the snub of The Dark Knight (4) from the best picture nomination field despite having a more deserving nomination haul than either The Reader or Frost/Nixon. And, let's not forget, the Academy created "the Dark Knight" rule specifically as a result of this snub.
80th Academy Awards
Another pretty consistent year. My made up metric puts No Country for Old Men as the slight favorite overall. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (5) was certainly more qualified for the nomination over Juno even though Juno was an attempt to include both an indie darling and a box office success.
79th Academy Awards
Everyone agrees that The Departed's wins were makeup calls for snubbing Scorsese, but Babel (6) certainly looked the part of the more deserving nominee to win.
As much as it pains me to say it, another indie darling, Little Miss Sunshine didn't have the look of a best picture nomination as much as Blood Diamond (7).
78th Academy Awards
This was the year that I tested my failed nomination metric on and the only thing I determined from it is that there's no excuse for Crash to beat Brokeback Mountain (8) (or Good Night, and Good Luck, or Munich for that matter).
77th Academy Awards
If you're looking for when that makeup call year should've happened for Scorsese, here you go. The Aviator (9) had all the makings of a winner but lost to the actors' showcase, Million Dollar Baby.
76th Academy Awards
This was a year that some movies could've benefited from the 5% rule we have now, as Cold Mountain and City of God were both good enough but got edged out.
75th Academy Awards
Overall, a pretty good year. The Two Towers definitely showed signs of voter fatigue over something with more nominations like Road to Perdition (10).
74th Academy Awards
Get this, The Fellowship of the Ring (11) actually dominated the nomination count more than The Return of the King. It lost, somehow, to A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard's makup call movie).
73rd Academy Awards
A pretty consistent year with the movie that dominated the nominations getting the overall win (Gladiator). It's a bit of a shame that Chocolat couldn't get a Directing nomination like all the other nominees.
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