The Biggest Oscar Snubs Of All Time

The most prestigious awards in the field of cinema, the Academy Awards, known as the Oscars is also the oldest entertainment awards in the world. But, as most critics would claim, even the Oscars did not get it right all the time. As the ceremony enters its 88^th year this weekend, let us take a look at some of the biggest blunders that the awards performed by not giving the ‘Best Picture’ award to the most deserving person.

The 1941 film Citizen Kane, which is considered as the greatest film of all time, wasn’t awarded the Oscar and the ‘Best Picture’, for some greater logic better known to the Academy. The Oscar went to How Green Was My Valley, a film about which hardly anyone talks about.

The year when man set foot on the moon for the first time, 1969, saw the Academy not acknowledging the bold and visionary film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film wasn’t even nominated. Instead, the Academy gave the award to Oliver, a movie which would have seemed dated had it been released in the 1940s.

The 1996 ‘Best Picture’ winner The English Patient was a perfectly fine movie, with two charismatic leads who had good chemistry, but it just wasn’t that interesting, and it certainly was not the best movie of the year. Fargo, the movie that it bet was almost every critic’s favorite, and not too forget, it was a fan-favorite too.

Fans were outraged when the 2008 film The Dark Knight wasn’t even nominated. Probably this served as one of the biggest reasons for the academy to increase the number of nominations in the ‘Best Picture’ category from the 2009 Oscars.

Supporters of the film 2005 film Brokeback Mountain engendered considerable discussion after Crash won the award for ‘Best Picture’. Some critics accused the Academy of homophobia for failing to award the award to the film. Prior to Brokeback Mountain, no film that had won the Writer's Guild, Director's Guild, and Producer's Guild awards failed to win the Academy Award for ‘Best Picture’. No film generated more outrage after failing to win the Oscar for ‘Best Picture’ among the fans in recent history than Brokeback Mountain, and for all the right reasons.