14 Films That Should Have Won the Oscar for Best Picture But Weren’t Even Nominated

Pajamas Media ^ | 03/01/2014 | KYLE SMITH

[hosepipe]

2001 could have been a good movie but wasn’t..
They took a wonderful basic plot and made it a sci-fi soap opera..

When it could have been cutting edge “proto-Star-Trek”..
with “Star Wars” ruminations.. and insinuations..
and “Alien” prognostications..

Instead they milked “HAL” when HAL should have been merely a plot twist.. a flea on the dog in the fight..

Unimaginative... it could have been good..
Still could be.... re-done under another name with much expanded plot..

[Nifster]

You must be thinking of some other movie. Stalag 17 is a classic....hardly melodrama or cringeworthy....

[Dave W]

We are a visual society...that's why. The movie wasn't made for you. The movie was made for others who may not know. There are alot of them out there that have no idea why Jesus was crucified.

[Political Junkie Too]

There might have been elements of both, but Stalag 17 has the most.

1. The tunnel.
2. Sgt. Schultz.
3. The secret radio and antenna (as volleyball net).
4. Escapes and returns.

-PJ

[Conservative4Ever]

I agree with your choice of Mr. Roberts. Debbie Reynolds should have won best actress for unsinkable Molly brown instead of Julie Andrews in that awful film Mary Poppins.

[Borges]

2001 was cutting edge. There was nothing like it before..neither in scale nor in the sophistication of the special effects.

[Dave W]

What a bizarre commentary. No one really knows exactly what happened and that includes you. There is no minute by minute recreation in the Bible.

I am sure you are aware the Bible states that Jesus was scourged beyond recognition.

[Dave W]

You are 100% correct. Conservatives are a horrible ornery bunch. A fussy whining bunch, too. One comma out of place, one line that is not purist in every nuance, conservatives pout and stay home. Bizarre behavior. Conservatives are their own worst enemy.

[Nifster]

At the time, Andrews had been passed over for the lead in My Fair Lady (even though she originated the part on Broadway). It was widely ‘rumored’ that the Julie Andrews award was to slap the film producers for picking the non singing Audrey Hepburn for the role of Eliza Doolittle.

Made sense then, still makes sense.

Loved Debbie in the Unsinkable Molly Brown

[GeronL]

I would love to see a group of conservatives at least create some internet-based films and programs. If you have seen fan-made stuff like “Star Trek Phase 2” then you know that good quality stuff is possible.

[hosepipe]

2001 was cutting edge. There was nothing like it before..neither in scale nor in the sophistication of the special effects.

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Could be why there was no there................. there..

[Borges]

Actually it was about something. It just told the story in an abstract and elliptical way.

[eclecticEel]

I saw the movie before the reading the book. Dune, the book, is fantastic, really top notch. The movie is okay. They don’t really have much to do with each other.

[octex]

...“2001” was just plain awful to me.
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I never watched the whole thing. It was so boring that I found myself falling asleep without anything like Ambien within about 10 minutes. Horrible movie, based on the little bits of it that I saw.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I enjoyed another Jesus film, which I am trying to recall, in which there was some blood shown, but it did have him risen and talking to his disciples afterwards, it also showed Satan as a mobster, and showed him having visions of WWII. Now, if someone could just gladly help me figure exactly what that film was I would so gladly get a hold of a copy for keeps...

Isn't that frustrating!! Sorry I can't help you. But I think a thread about "lines I remember from movies I forget" would be at least as worthwhile as this critique of old Best Picture awards.

Your example sounds interesting. My example, from the world of political theory, would be the movie I saw that was set in an Islamic country in the Middle Ages. In it, two counselors to the ruler see two young princes having at each other - and one of the counselors remarks, "They fight as only half-brothers can."

Which is what I think of whenever I discus The Road to Serfdom and its comparison of Stalin's "Communism" with Hitler's "National Socialism." FA Hayek makes clear in the book that they were fighting as much because of their similarity as because of their difference.

No luck trying to Google it . . . sigh.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Well, I know it’s not what the usual would expect, but really I thought The Haunting of Hill House, 1963, really should’ve won an Oscar."

The scene where everyone is sitting in the same room and the unseen ghoulies start banging on the walls outside in the hall and they get closer and closer and then when they get to the door it gets quiet and the door slowly creaks and bends inward!

I had the wife and daughter watch it for the first time and they shut it off after that scene.

One of the scariest scenes every made and you see no monster, no blood, no gore and everyone has their clothes on!

[dangus]

To wit, the lead paragraph of Wikipedia’s description:

“Son of God is a 2014 American epic biblical drama film based on Mark Burnett and Roma Downey’s ten-hour miniseries The Bible. The film will feature selections of the miniseries as well as deleted scenes cut from the miniseries.”

What do I mean by white-washed? For instance, any scenes with the devil have been removed.

[SeaDragon]

I loved “Dune”. Still do.

Loved the book also.

[driftless2]

“Dr. Strangelove” was a work of genius and “A Clockwork Orange” is one of my favorites. Apart from those two, I didn’t much care for his other stuff.

[CrazyIvan]

It always seemed to me that like so much of 60s art it was an “Emperors Clothes” scam. Throw out some symbolism for interpretation, roll your eyes when someone had the guts to say they didn't get it, and laugh all the way to the bank.