It’s a time-honored custom for film obsessives to rationally acknowledge that the Oscars hardly ever awards the perfect film nominated in a given yr with Finest Image (exceptions: The Godfather, Parasite, and so on.) — and resolve to get indignant about it in any case. Certainly, when accumulating a listing of alternate-universe Finest Image winners, sure unlucky voting developments on behalf of the Academy come to gentle, notably its tendency to bathe sluggish, traditionally-minded historic dramas with awards as an alternative of extra edgy, groundbreaking work.
With that stated, rating artwork is at all times going to be subjective, and in any given yr there are sure to be a number of motion pictures deserving of Finest Image that don’t even make the nominations checklist. Nevertheless, when wanting again by Oscars historical past, there’s various clear-cut instances the place a movie has gone down in historical past as being considerably higher than the Finest Image winner that yr. Ranked by way of how egregious the snub is, listed here are 15 Finest Image-nominated motion pictures that ought to have received the highest award.