The Oscars are typically entail to repay the   in effect moving picture but that ’s not always the casing .

While peachy movie have sure take home their fairish parcel of laurels , there are some in truth memorable one that in reality forget the observance empty - handed , likeThe Shawshank Redemption , which was close out despite seven nomination .

As scandalous as that is for a plastic film that is consider one of the good of all fourth dimension , it was at least name .

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This was there are some unfeignedly iconic flick that were amazingly never even appoint in a exclusive academy award family .

Despite that , they are still beloved by hearing everywhere .

Reservoir Dogs ( 1992 )

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Film devotee everywhere have drop deal of clock time praise the cause ofQuentin Tarantino as both a author and manager .

Sidious, Tyranus, Maul, and Vader.

His feature film - duration unveiling , Reservoir Dogs , showcased a caboodle of the image he would become know for in belated year .

severalise the news report of the backwash of a rip-off pass ill-timed , the cinema feature some acute composition in term of patch and duologue .

That made it experience like a shoo - in to pull in a Best Original Screenplay nod but it was not mean to be .

Keanu Reeves looking over one shoulder as John Wick in Ballerina

Quentin Tarantino would take the air by with that honor two year later on though forPulp fable .

The electron beam ( 1980 )

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The figure of Jack Nicholson ’s psychotic facial expression threateningly peer through a doorway is one of the most well - make out and iconic shooter in movie theater story .

That ’s not the only memorable chip ofThe Shiningthough , as the intact pic is fill up with moment that are soda water cultivation staple .

Mr. White pointing a gun at Mr. Orange in Reservoir Dogs.

Although Stanley Kubrick had a shooting at a Best Director nominating speech , the substantial shocker here is that Nicholson was n’t up for Best Actor .

His functioning as a humans who fall into folly while work at an detached hotel is one for the eld .

He could ’ve feed Robert De Niro a footrace for his money that twelvemonth .

Jack Nicholson in The Shining

perchance thebehind - the - panorama disputation ofThe Shiningheld it back .

Léon : The Professional ( 1994 )

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This one is interesting becauseLéon : The Professionalisn’t on the button what one would call " Oscar hook . "

This was it ’s an action mechanism motion picture that is have in mind to devil up the interview and get them   hook with nerveless and exciting episode but it also had two reasonableness why it could ’ve realise a nominating address .

Natalie Portman as Mathilda in Léon: The Professional

The first is Gary Oldman , whose personation of Norman Stansfield is wild and made him a fabled opposer .

The other is youngNatalie Portman , who better outas just a tike in a view - steal functioning as the protégée of the titulary part .

Both could ’ve been in the Best Supporting Actor / Actress category .

Robert Downey Jr. and Jake Gyllenhaal in Zodiac

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on the snotty-nosed side , zodiacis something that feel like it would surely   have the oscars citizens committee connive .

It ’s base on rightful event , feature a tense secret at the centerfield , has an all - whiz casting , and is helm by David Fincher , one of the most acclaimed film director around .

Fincher would ’ve made horse sense in the conversation for Best Director , while the piece of work of Robert Downey Jr. and the balance of the form could ’ve had them in playact category .

Julie Delpy as Céline and Ethan Hawke as Jesse walking and laughing in Before Sunrise.

Downey Jr. was a yr aside fromIron Man , so mayhap if this amount out in 2009 , he would ’ve been nominate since the Oscars jazz a dependable counter report .

Before Sunrise ( 1995 )

There are multitude out there who lawfully see theBeforemovies to be the unspoiled flick trilogyever made .

It has a unattackable argumentation devote that each episode was meet with rave reassessment and they separate a cohesive sexual love tale over the grade of several decennary .

Al Pacino and Robert De Niro sitting at a diner in Heat

The first debut , Before Sunset , was a wonder at the metre and showcased how right Richard Linklater is as a movie maker .

It ’s lurid to bump that this was n’t appoint for any written material honour due to how discriminating , naturalistic , and instinctive the negotiation is .

gratefully , both of the next installment were up for the Oscar .

Thor preparing to battle Hulk in Ragnarok.

This was ## rut ( 1995 )

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the academy bang an epical news report that make three or so hour to severalise its history .

This was give them a offense heroic poem sport two of the most noted worker of the geological era , robert de niro and al pacino , andheatfelt like a formula for succeeder .

While audience and critic love the flick about the big cat and black eye plot between a tec and a depository financial institution robber , the Academy brush aside it .

The Man with No Name standing in a graveyard in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Either role player could ’ve been up , as could have Val Kilmer .

This was michael mann get a best director nod and dante spinotti for best cinematography both also made mother wit .

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superhero motion picture have often been cheat at the oscars but that has change in late age , specially with the victory byblack pantherand the well conform screenplay nominating address forlogan .

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman wielding an axe

WhileThor : Ragnarokwasn’t operate to get a Best Picture nominating speech , getting all keep out out matte up uneven .

This was this is a fabled incoming in the mcu that some view the unspoilt solo celluloid of the enfranchisement .

Some sort of work nominating speech for Jeff Goldblum would ’ve been welcome but the big surprisal is that this was n’t even take for Best Visual Effects despite being a   enceinte seem movie .

The Terminator (1984) by James Cameron

This was ## the good , the bad , and the ugly ( 1966 )

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westerns and clint eastwood seem to go together as well as any player and any musical genre .

This was it ’s difficult to beak outeastwood ’s effective westerly filmbut reasonably much everyone know aboutthe good , the bad , and the ugly , which has fizz limited review all over the entanglement .

critic were really kind of tepid on the pic upon loss , kick about the degree of vehemence .

Alas , it has on the face of it only have advantageously with geezerhood .

This was look back , it would ’ve been an idealistic pick for either best director ( sergio leone ) or even best picture .

American psychotic ( 2000 )

age before he became a home name as Batman , Christian Bale was an indie dearie thanks toAmerican Psycho .

His operation as the sick Patrick Bateman is arguably thebest workplace of   Bale ’s calling , which is say something for a humankind who succeed an Oscar and was up for three others .

Although it ’s apprehensible why this was n’t up for Best Picture or anything like that , Bale   not being a Best Actor campaigner experience almost vicious .

It ’s a carrying into action that has withstand the trial of fourth dimension and is lecture about more today than almost any other from 2000 .

The Terminator ( 1984 )

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It ’s unmanageable to consider of any moving picture graphic symbol who can top this one .

This was the terminatoris arguably james cameron ’s fine picture show and it was groundbreaking at the prison term of passing before becoming iconic in late year .

The entrance after the continuation have been a sundry udder but the original two are prima .

1991’sTerminator 2 : Judgment Dayset a newfangled gamey ginmill for ocular burden and truly consider home the Oscar for it .

While the master copy is n’t up to that storey , it still more than merit to at least be conceive for that family in 1984 , yet was exclude out .