# Robbed of Oscars! Not even nominated!

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**Created:** [February 18, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-of-oscars-not-even-nominated/155876 "2003-02-18T13:51:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![ECJones29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@ECJones29](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ECJones29)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-of-oscars-not-even-nominated/155876/1 "2003-02-18T13:51:13Z")

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In your views, who was most overlooked/ignored at Oscar time?

I have to vote for James Stewart in “Vertigo.” Not even nominated. All time greatest performance not to be nominated, IMHO.  
A close second would be Jack Nicholson who BECAME Jimmy Hoffa in “Hoffa.”

And does it amaze anyone else that Donald Sutherland has never been nominated at all?

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-of-oscars-not-even-nominated/155876/2 "2003-02-18T14:04:49Z")

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**Three Kings**. Certainly one of the top films on 1999, yet it didn’t get a single Oscar nomination in any category.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-of-oscars-not-even-nominated/155876/3 "2003-02-18T17:47:38Z")

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The 50 Best American Movies (IMHO) with absolultely no Oscar nominations:

The Wind (Sjostrom, 1928)  
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Keaton, 1928)  
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932)  
Scarface (Hawks, 1932)  
Love Me Tonight (Mamoulian, 1932)  
King Kong (Cooper/Schoedsack, 1933)  
Footlight Parade (Bacon, 1933)  
Dinner at Eight (Cukor, 1933)  
Man’s Castle (Borzage, 1933)  
Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933)  
It’s a Gift (McLeod, 1934)  
The Scarlet Empress (Sternberg, 1934)  
A Night at the Opera (Wood, 1935)  
Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)  
Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey, 1937)  
His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)  
The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940)  
Sullivan’s Travels (Sturges, 1942)  
The Palm Beach Story (Sturges, 1942)  
Scarlet Street (Lang, 1945)  
The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)  
Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947)  
Force of Evil (Polonsky, 1948)  
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls, 1948)  
On Dangerous Ground (Ray, 1951)  
The Man from Laramie (Mann, 1955)  
Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955)  
Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)  
The Searchers (Ford, 1956)  
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Arnold, 1957)  
Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick, 1957)  
Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)  
The Pajama Game (Donen/Abbott, 1957)  
The Tarnished Angels (Sirk, 1957)  
Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)  
Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)  
Ride the High Country (Peckinpah, 1962)  
The Naked Kiss (Fuller, 1964)  
Point Blank (Boorman, 1967)  
Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971)  
Mean Streets (Scorsese, 1973)  
Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)  
Killer of Sheep (Burnett, 1978)  
This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)  
The Terminator (Cameron, 1984)  
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Burton, 1985)  
House of Games (Mamet, 1987)  
Simple Men (Hartley, 1992)  
Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)  
Smoke (Wang, 1995)