Films that were surprisingly not nominated for best picture

Films that were surprisingly not nominated for best picture (February 2019)

These are films that were not nominated for best picture. I did not include foreign films, because, for the most part, foreign films have not been nominated for best picture very much. I can name three notable ones until recently. This list is not based on how good the films are but by how surprising it is that they were not nominated for best picture.

100. Scarface

99. The Breakfast Club

98. White Heat

97. The Magnificent seven

96. Fistful of dollars

95. Spellbound

94. Chaplin

93. Suspiria

92. Don’t look now

91. Kind hearts and coronets

90. Peeping tom

89. Alien

88. Halloween

87. To be or not to be

86. To have and have not

85. The Dirty dozen

84. A matter of life and death

83. The lady from Shanghai

82. The Omen

81. Camille

80. Suddenly last summer

79. Wall Street

78. The Empire strikes back

77. Repulsion

76. Requiem for a dream

75. Passion of the Christ

74. The Dark Knight

73. Boogie Nights

72. Mommie Dearest

71. Interstellar

70. Trainspotting

69. Rio Bravo

68. The Big Lebowski

67. Gilda

66. Do the right thing

65. Ryan’s Daughter

64. Close encounters of the third kind

63. Letter from an unknown woman

62. Sullivan’s Travels

61. The Shinning

60. Splendour in the grass

59. Richard III

58. Black Narcissus

57. The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

56. Red River

55. Last tango in Paris

54. The man who shot Liberty Valance

53. Lolita

52. The Good, the Bad and the ugly

51. Cool hand Luke

50. Brief Encounter

49. East of Eden

48. Breakfast at Tiffany’s

47. The Usual Suspects

46. Little big man

45. Mean Streets

44. Malcolm X

43. Full metal jacket

42. Notorious

41. Bride of Frankenstein

40. Blade Runner

39. Public Enemy

38. My man Godfrey

37. Little Caesar

36. Laura

35. Rosemary’s Baby

34. Once upon a time in America

33. Paths of Glory

32. Snow White and the seven dwarfs

31. Duck Soup

30. Stalag 17

29. Dracula

28. Back to the future

27. The sweet smell of success

26. Once upon a time in the West

25. King Kong

24. The Big Sleep

23. The Night of the hunter

22. Spartacus

21. The Manchurian Candidate

20. Bringing up Baby

19. Touch of evil

18. Frankenstein

17. Easy Rider

16. North by Northwest

15. Metropolis

14. The Third man

13. The Searchers

12. The Wild Bunch

11. The African Queen

10. Modern Times

9. Rebel without a cause

8. Singin’ in the rain

7. Sunrise: A song of two humans

6. Some like it hot

5. Psycho

4. Rear Window

3. 2001: A space odyssey

2. City Lights

1. Vertigo