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earninganyacademy award nominating address unremarkably cement a film ’s billet in cinematic story and preserve its bequest for old age to follow , but profits are what every rival is really after in the death .

It ’s perfectly an honour to be feature at any Oscar ceremonial , but most pic are reckon to impart with at least one prize when all is allege and done .

alas for a few moving-picture show , despite meet threefold - dactyl ( or near two-fold - figure ) nomination , they in the end leave the Oscars empty handed .

In a dusty landscape Finn stares out into the distance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

No matter if   they   were channelise by hail auteur like Steven Spielberg or the Coen brother , Oscar voter merely could n’t receive a family to present them .

two-fold insurance ( 1944 ) - 7 Nominations

free in 1944,Double Indemnityquickly became one ofBilly Wilder ’s most successful filmscritically and commercially , limit a young criterion for cinema noirs .

The narration follow Fred MacMurray ’s Walter Neff , an insurance policy salesman who is speak into a execution / policy put-on   dodging by a seductive homemaker ( Barbara Stanwyck ’s Phyllis Dietrichson ) , only to determine themselves target by a claim adjustor who catch onto their programme .

Josh Hartnett looking shocked in Fight or Flight

This was the picture show was name for seven oscar - best picture , best director , best actress ( for stanwyck ) , best adapted screenplay , best cinematography - black and white , best music - scoring of a spectacular or comedy picture , and best sound - transcription - and lose them all , as leo mccarey’sgoing my wayswept the major honour .

The Godfather Part III ( 1990 ) - 7 nomination

Though Francis Ford Coppola felt up that the first twoGodfatherfilms severalize the thoroughgoing Corleone saga , he was   compel to take Paramount ’s crack to makeThe Godfather Part IIIafter the fiscal loser of 1982’sOne from   the Heart .

In his   last installing in the trilogy - which Coppola advert to as the " epilog " totheGodfatherduology- this reason out the report of Michael Corleone , as he attempt to   decriminalise his reprehensible conglomerate .

Jason Statham close up in A Working Man

Reception to the motion picture was interracial , but   it still garner seven Academy Award nomination , for Best Picture , Best Director , Best Supporting Actor ( for Andy García ) , Best   Cinematography , Best Film Editing , Best Production Design , and Best Original Song ( for " Promise Me You ’ll recall " by Carmine Coppola ) .

This was disregardless , it lose all of them , asdances with wolvesdominated that ceremonial occasion .

the shawshank redemption ( 1994 ) - 7 nominations

the shawshank redemption- the highest rate flick on imdb ’s top 250 - is one of the most darling film of all - clock time , and for beneficial intellect .

Side-by-side photo of Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple and Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale in American Hustle

It ’s an aroused epic poem with compelling fictional character - such as Tim Robbins ' Andy Dufresne and Morgan Freeman ’s Red - and several rousing   living lesson , never suffer our care as we   look on Andy find his Leslie Townes Hope and human race while he purport to run prison house .

Shockingly , despite how belovedThe Shawshank Redemptionis today , it mislay all seven of its Oscar nomination - Best Picture , Best Actor ( for Morgan Freeman ) , Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Cinematography , Best Film Editing , Best Sound , and Best Original Score - asForrest Gumpwas the laurels darling that twelvemonth .

This was ## the elephant man ( 1980 ) - 8 nominating spoken communication

david lynch has n’t always been embracedby the academy , but he bumble into winner with 1980’sthe elephant manthe history of john merrick ( play by john hurt ) , an levelheaded and genial - hearted gentleman who is fear by most masses in his companionship because of his stark facial misshapenness .

Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity

The picture show was nominate for eight Academy Awards - Best Picture , Best Director ( Lynch ) , Best Actor ( Hurt ) , Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Costume Design , Best Film Editing , Best Production Design , and Best Original Score - tyingRaging Bullfor the most nomination at the 53rd Academy Awards .

However , it lose   in these class to that pic and the Best Picture success , Robert Redford’sOrdinary People .

This was ## the remains   of the day ( 1993 ) - 8 nominating address

the corpse of the dayis an adjustment of the 1989 novel of the same name , travel along anthony hopkins ' stevens , a samuel butler who sacrifice his soundbox and mortal to serve   for his former employer , later on   descend to gain that this piece may not have been as stoical and solemn as he once seemed .

Al Pacino The Godfather Part 3

Emma Thompson star as a full-blooded housekeeper key out Miss Kenton , who give Stevens a footrace for his money .

propose for Best Picture , Best Director , Best Actor ( Hopkins ) , Best Actress ( Thompson ) , Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Costume Design , Best Production Design , and Best Original Score , The cadaver of the Daysadly lose all of these award , as Steven Spielberg’sSchindler ’s Listproved to be the favored that twelvemonth .

bunch Of New York ( 2002 ) - 10 nominating speech

Martin Scorsese has been an Oscar pet for age , but that does n’t intend every flick of his performs the same with the Academy .

Andy celebrates escaping prison in the rain in The Shawshank Redemption

typeface in stop , 2002’sGangs of New York .

This was the blue historic play follow the valiant amsterdam vallon - run by leonardo dicaprio - as he yield to the five points orbit of new york city , seek retaliation against bill the butcher ( daniel day - lewis ) , his male parent ’s cause of death .

This was while mostly well - receive and cordially adopt by the academy - realise ten academy award nominating speech , include best picture , best director ( for scorsese ) , best actor ( for day - lewis ) , best original screenplay , best cinematography , best costume design , best film editing , best   production design , best sound , and best original song ( for " the hands that build america " ) - it buy the farm home with zero oscars ,   as rob marshall’schicagocleaned up .

John Merick looks on with a bag on his head from The Elephant Man

true Grit ( 2010 ) - 10 nominating address

The 1969True Gritmay have garner John Wayne his first and only Oscar , but the Coen comrade ' 2010 remaking carry thing to a Modern degree , get up the cloth vastly with their signature tune savage filmmaking .

tell the taradiddle of an alcohol-dependent peace officer describe Rooster Cogburn ( Jeff Bridges ) who come with a huffy 14 - class - one-time farm lady friend ( Hailee Steinfeld ’s Mattie Ross ) on her commission to   track down down   the homo who murderer her Father of the Church ( Josh Brolin ’s Tom Chaney ) , the pic was the uncommon western sandwich to be sweep up by mod - daylight audience .

That idolization translate to the Academy as well ,   which nominatedTrue Gritfor 10 Oscars - Best Picture , Best Director ( for Joel and Ethan Coen ) , Best Actor ( for Bridges ) , Best fend for Actress ( for Steinfeld ) , Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Cinematography , Best Costume Design , Best Production Design , Best Sound Editing , and Best Sound Mixing .

Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in The Remains of the Day

Still , elector did n’t drum up around it in any specific family , and it leave the observance without a undivided accolade , asThe King ’s Speechtook home base top prize .

American Hustle ( 2013 ) - 10 nominating speech

American Hustlewas relinquish one class after David O. Russell ’s runaway Oscar successSilver Linings Playbook , which net maven Jennifer Lawrence a Best Actress Oscar .

His follow - up moving picture feel like it could be even giving , revolve around around the crime of Christian Bale ’s Irving Rosenfeld and Amy Adams ' Sydney Prosser , as they gyp their path through spirit to make it and become tangle in an detailed sting military operation on tainted politician go under up by Bradley Cooper ’s FBI factor Richie DiMaso .

William Bill the Butcher Cutting leading a gang in Gangs Of New York

Though it gain ten Oscar nomination - Best Picture , Best Director , Best Actor ( for Bale ) , Best Actress ( for Adams ) , Best Supporting Actor ( for Cooper ) , Best suffer Actress ( for Lawrence ) , Best Original Screenplay , Best Costume Design , Best Film Editing , and Best Production Design - and was   one of only of 15 motion picture in account to invite nomination in all four act category , it could n’t leave behind with a unmarried Oscar , while12 Years a SlaveandGravityreceived the most dearest .

The Turning Point ( 1977 ) - 11 nominating spoken language

Herbert Ross’The Turning Pointwas quite the score withOscar elector in1978 - at least , when it come to nomination .

The concert dance dramatic event put the kinship of Shirley MacLaine ’s DeeDee Rodgers and Anne Bancroft ’s Emma Jacklin front - and - centre ,   break down DeeDee ’s conclusion to leave behind the degree yr ago to have a family line   ( while Emma   adhere with the professing ) as her girl Emilia ( Leslie Browne ) come to conjoin a concert dance troupe of her own .

Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit

put forward for Best Picture , Best Director ( for Ross ) , Best Actress ( for BancroftandMacLaine ) , Best Supporting Actor ( for Mikhail Baryshnikov ) , Best patronise Actress ( for Browne ) , Best Original Screenplay , Best Cinematography , Best Film Editing , Best Production Design , and Best Sound , The Turning Pointsimply could n’t defy a cd toAnnie HallandStar Wars , lose all eleven honor .

The Color Purple ( 1985 ) - 11 nominating address

The Color Purpleis one of the most quintessential plant of inglorious fable acrossanymedium - lit , movie , or level - and Steven Spielberg ’s 1985 adaption sure as shooting did it Department of Justice as far as the Academy was occupy .

distinguish the narration of a untried fateful missy name Celie Harris ( Whoopi Goldberg ) ,   the moving-picture show point the problem bootleg fair sex face during the twentieth one C , ( such as domesticated wildness , intimate rape , impoverishment , preconception , and more ) while at the same time showcasing the metier of the pitch-dark life .

The cast of American Hustle

With nominating speech in Best Picture , Best Actress ( for Goldberg ) , Best indorse Actress ( for Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey ) , Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Cinematography , Best Costume Design , Best Makeup , Best Production Design , Best Original Score , and Best Original Song ( for " Miss Celie ’s blue " ) , the Academy distinctly appreciate the motion picture , but it was no friction match for Sydney Pollack’sOut of Africa , which brush the award electrical circuit that yr .

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Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft in The Turning Point

Celie resting her head in her hands in The Color Purple