'Great Pictures' Not Nominated For A Best Picture Academy Award®
Part 1
Year
Alternative Nominee(s) for
Best Picture
Best Picture Nominees and Winners
Not Nominated for Best
Picture: Sunrise (4
Nominations; 2 wins, one as 'Best Unique and Artistic Picture'),
Metropolis (0 Nominations, not eligible)
'Best Production' Nominees: The Last Command, The Racket, Seventh
Heaven, The Way of All Flesh
'Best Production' Winner: Wings
Not Nominated for Best Picture: The
Wedding March (0 Nominations),
The Wind (0 Nominations)
'Best Production' Nominees: Alibi, Hollywood Revue, In Old Arizona,
The Patriot
'Best Production' Winner: Broadway Melody
Not Nominated for Best Picture: Applause
(0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: The Big House, Disraeli, The Divorcee, The
Love Parade
Best Picture Winner:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Not Nominated for Best Picture: Little
Caesar (1 Nomination, 0 Wins),
Public Enemy (1
Nomination, 0 Wins)
City Lights (0 Nominations),
Dracula (0
Nominations),
Frankenstein
(0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: Skippy, East Lynne, The Front Page, Trader
Horn
Best Picture Winner: Cimarron
Not Nominated for Best
Picture: Dinner at Eight (0 Nominations),
Duck
Soup (0 Nominations),
King Kong (0 Nominations),
Queen
Christina (0 Nominations),
Trouble in Paradise (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: A Farewell to Arms,
42nd Street,
I Am a Fugitive
From a Chain Gang, Lady for a Day,
Little Women, The Private Life
of Henry VIII,
She Done Him Wrong, Smilin' Thru,
State Fair
Best Picture Winner: Cavalcade
Not Nominated for Best Picture: It's
a Gift (0 Nominations),
The Scarlet
Empress (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: The Barretts of Wimpole Street,
Cleopatra,
Flirtation Walk, The Gay Divorcee, Here Comes the Navy, The House of Rothschild,
Imitation of Life, One Night of Love,
The Thin Man,
Viva Villa, The White Parade
Best Picture Winner:
It Happened One Night
Not Nominated for Best Picture: Bride
of Frankenstein (0 Nominations),
A
Night at the Opera (0 Nominations),
The
39 Steps (0 Nominations, not eligible)
Best Picture Nominees: Alice Adams, Broadway
Melody of 1936, Captain Blood, David Copperfield, The Informer, Les Miserables,
Lives of a Bengal Lancer, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Naughty Marietta,
Ruggles of Red Gap,
Top Hat
Best Picture Winner: Mutiny on the Bounty
Not Nominated for Best Picture: My
Man Godfrey (6 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Swing
Time (1 Nomination, 1 Win), Fury (1 Nomination,
0 Wins),
Modern
Times (0 Nominations), Show Boat (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: Anthony Adverse,
Dodsworth, Libeled Lady,
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Romeo and Juliet, San
Francisco, The Story of Louis Pasteur, A Tale of Two Cities, Three Smart
Girls
Best Picture Winner: The Great Ziegfeld
Not Nominated for Best Picture: Angels
With Dirty Faces (3 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Bringing Up Baby, (0 Nominations), The
Lady Vanishes (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees:
The Adventures of Robin Hood, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Boys Town,
The Citadel, Four Daughters, Grand Illusion,
Jezebel,
Pygmalion, Test Pilot
Best Picture Winner: You Can't Take It With You
Not Nominated for Best Picture: Destry
Rides Again (0 Nominations), Gunga Din (0 Nominations), The Women
(0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: Dark Victory,
Goodbye,
Mr. Chips, Love Affair,
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men,
Stagecoach,
The Wizard of Oz,
Wuthering Heights
Best Picture Winner:
Gone With The Wind
Not Nominated for Best Picture: The
Sea Hawk (4 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Pinocchio (2 Nominations, 2 Wins),
His Girl Friday (0 Nominations),
The Shop Around the Corner (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: All This, and Heaven Too,
Foreign
Correspondent,
The Grapes of Wrath,
The Great Dictator, Kitty Foyle,
The
Letter, The Long Voyage Home, Our Town,
The Philadelphia Story
Best Picture Winner:
Rebecca
Not Nominated for Best Picture: That
Hamilton Woman (4 Nominations, 1 Win), Ball of Fire (4 Nominations,
0 Wins),
Meet John Doe (1
Nomination, 0 Wins)
Best Picture Nominees: Blossoms in the Dust,
Citizen Kane, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Hold Back the Dawn, The Little
Foxes,
The Maltese Falcon, One Foot in Heaven, Sergeant York, Suspicion
Best Picture Winner: How Green Was My Valley
Not Nominated for Best Picture: To
Be or Not to Be (1 Nomination, 0 Wins),
The Palm Beach Story (0 Nominations),
Sullivan's Travels (0 Nominations),
Best Picture Nominees: The Invaders,
Kings
Row,
The Magnificent Ambersons, The Pied Piper, The Pride of the Yankees,
Random Harvest,
The Talk of the Town, Wake Island,
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Best Picture Winner: Mrs. Miniver
Not Nominated for Best Picture: Laura (5
Nominations, 1 Win),
Meet
Me in St. Louis (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), Lifeboat (3 Nominations,
0 Wins), Hail the Conquering Hero (1 Nomination,
0 Wins), The Miracle
of Morgan's Creek (1 Nomination, 0 Wins), The
Curse of the Cat People (0 Nominations),
Murder,
My Sweet (0 Nominations), The Suspect (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees:
Double Indemnity,
Gaslight,
Since
You Went Away, Wilson
Best Picture Winner: Going My Way
Not Nominated for Best Picture: A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn (2 Nominations, 1 Win), They Were Expendable
(2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Scarlet Street (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: Anchors Aweigh, The Bells of St. Mary's,
Mildred Pierce, Spellbound
Best Picture Winner: The Lost Weekend
Not Nominated for Best Picture: Brief
Encounter (3 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Notorious (2
Nominations, 0 Wins),
The
Big Sleep (0 Nominations),
Gilda (0
Nominations),
My Darling Clementine (0 Nominations),
The Postman
Always Rings Twice (0
Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: Henry V,
It's A Wonderful Life, The Razor's Edge, The Yearling
Best Picture Winner:
The Best Years of Our Lives
Not Nominated for Best Picture: Black
Narcissus (2 Nominations, 2 Wins), Monsieur
Verdoux (1 Nomination, 0 Wins), Nightmare Alley (0 Nominations),
Out of the Past (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: The Bishop's Wife, Crossfire, Great Expectations,
Miracle on 34th Street
Best Picture Winner: Gentleman's Agreement
Not Nominated for Best Picture: On
the Town (1 Nomination, 1 Win),
White Heat (1
Nomination, 0 Wins),
Gun
Crazy (0 Nominations), They Live
By Night (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: Battleground,
The Heiress, A Letter to Three
Wives, Twelve O'Clock High
Best Picture Winner: All The King's Men
Not Nominated for Best Picture:
The
African Queen (4 Nominations, 1 Win),
Ace
in the Hole (1 Nomination, 0 Wins),
Strangers on a
Train (1 Nomination, 0 Wins),
The Day the Earth Stood Still (0 Nominations),
The
Thing (From Another World) (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: Decision Before Dawn,
A
Place in the Sun, Quo Vadis?,
A Streetcar Named Desire
Best Picture Winner:
An American in Paris
Not Nominated for Best Picture: The
Bad and the Beautiful (6 Nominations, 5 Wins),
Singin' in The Rain (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Member of the Wedding
(1 Nomination, 0 Wins), Pat and Mike (1 Nomination, 0 Wins), Rancho Notorious
(0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees:
High Noon, Ivanhoe, Moulin Rouge,
The Quiet Man
Best Picture Winner: The Greatest Show on Earth
Not Nominated for Best Picture: A
Star is Born (6 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Rear Window (4 Nominations, 0 Wins), Johnny Guitar (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: The Caine Mutiny,
The Country Girl, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Three Coins in the
Fountain
Best Picture Winner:
On the Waterfront
Not Nominated for Best Picture: Oklahoma!
(4 Nominations, 2 Wins),
East of Eden (4 Nominations,
1 Win), The Blackboard Jungle (4 Nominations, 0 Wins),
To
Catch a Thief (3 Nominations, 1 Win),
Bad
Day at Black Rock (3 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Rebel
Without a Cause (3 Nominations, 0 Wins),
The Night of the Hunter (0
Nominations),
Kiss Me Deadly
(0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Mister
Roberts, Picnic, The Rose Tattoo
Best Picture Winner: Marty
Not Nominated for Best Picture: Lust
for Life (4 Nominations, 1 Win),
The Bad Seed (4 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Written on
the Wind (3 Nominations, 1 Win), High Society (3 Nominations, 0
Wins), The
Seven Samurai (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1
Nomination, 1 Win), Bus Stop (1 Nomination, 0 Wins),
Richard
III (1 Nomination, 0 Wins),
The Killing (0 Nominations),
Invasion
of the Body Snatchers (0 Nominations),
The Searchers (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: Friendly Persuasion,
Giant,
The
King and I,
The Ten Commandments
Best Picture Winner: Around the World in 80 Days
Not Nominated for Best Picture: I
Want to Live! (6 Nominations, 1 Win), Some
Came Running (5 Nominations, 0 Wins), South
Pacific (3 Nominations, 1 Win), The Big Country
(2 Nominations, 1 Win), Teacher's Pet
(2 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Vertigo (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), The Tarnished
Angels (0 Nominations),
Touch of Evil (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: Auntie Mame,
Cat on
a Hot Tin Roof,
The Defiant Ones, Separate
Tables
Best Picture Winner: Gigi
Not Nominated for Best Picture:
Some Like It Hot (6 Nominations, 1 Win), Pillow Talk (5 Nominations,
1 Win), Porgy and Bess (4 Nominations,
1 Win),
North by Northwest (3 Nominations, 0 Wins),
Imitation of Life (2 Nominations, 0 Wins), Rio Bravo (0 Nominations)
Best Picture Nominees: Anatomy of a Murder, The Diary of Anne Frank,
The Nun's Story, Room at the Top
Best Picture Winner:
Ben-Hur
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