We already have a page that looks at all of the Best Picture Oscar Winning Movies, this page shows all the movies that got nominated for a Best Picture Oscar but did not win. Originally I thought this was going to be an easy page to do…..boy was I wrong….it literally took all weekend. It might have taken awhile….but I think this is a pretty cool page. There are over 440 movies on the following table. Every single one of the movies earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination…but did not win the big prize.
Best Picture Oscar Nominated Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In The Table Below
The really cool thing about ther table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Best Picture Oscar Nominated Movies by star of the movie
- Sort Best Picture Oscar Nominated Movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
- Sort Best Picture Oscar Nominated Movies by critic reviews and audiences voting. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Best Picture Oscar Nominated Moviesreceived.
- Sort Best Picture Oscar Nominated Movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score. The ceiling to earn points for box office is $200 million…once a movie passes that mark it stops earning points in that category.
- You can use the search button to sort by year
The following is the conversation that got this page done.
The setting: Cogerson and WoC are driving to a storage place on Friday morning.
WoC: Do you remember the code to get through the gate at the storage place?
Cogerson: Yep….It is A Streetcar Named Desire and Kramer vs Kramer.
WoC: What are you talking about?
Cogerson: The code is the year A Streetcar Named Desire won the Best Picture Oscar winner and the year Kramer vs Kramer won the Best Picture Oscar….the years 1951 and 1979……5179.
WoC: You are so strange sometimes!
Cogerson: Hey….it helps me remember things. (Silence as Cogerson thinks) Now that I think about it….A Streetcar Named Desire did NOT win the Best Picture Oscar. (Silence as Cogerson is thinking) I must be getting old…because I do not remember which movie DID win for movies made in 1951. (WoC googles 1951 Oscar winners)
Cogerson: Hmmmm….what won that year? 1950s winners? Let’s see From Here To Eternity and Marty came later. All About Eve was 1950. An American in Paris? The Greatest Show On Earth? I think it’s The Greatest Show On Earth.
WoC: It was not The Greatest Show On Earth. The five movies that got a Best Picture nomination were A Streetcar Named Desire, A Place In The Sun, Decision Before Dawn, Quo Vadis and An American In Paris.
Cogerson: – Well….I did mention An American In Paris. Did you say Showdown Before Sunset got a Best Picture Oscar nomination?
WoC: Not Showdown Before Sunset….it was called Decision Before Dawn.
Cogerson: I have never heard of that movie. That might be one of the most surprising movies to earn a Best Picture Oscar nomination. (Cogerson thinking again) Hmmmm….that might make a good UMR page.
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PART 3 of 3
When Irish eyes are smiling
Sure ’tis like a morn in spring
In the lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing
When Irish hearts are happy
All the world seems bright and gay
And when Irish eyes are smiling
Sure they steal your heart away
EXTRACTS FROM LIST OF 2023 OSCAR NOMINATIONS
BANSHEES IF INISHERIN
(Countries of Origin: Ireland/UK/US
BEST ACTOR Colin Farrell (Irish)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Brendan Gleeson (Irish)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Kerry Condon (Irish)
BEST DIRECTOR Martin McDonagh (British/Irish)
BEST PICTURE Banshees of Inisherin
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT An Irish Goodbye
(Country of Origin Ireland)
In rural Northern Ireland a pair of estranged brothers reunite following their mother’s untimely death
Oh, land of love and beauty
To you our hearts are wed
To you in lowly duty
We ever bow the head
Oh, perfect loving mother
Your exiled children all
Across the sundering seas to you
In fond devotion call
Ireland Mother Ireland
Dearest – best of all.
If you sigh, we hear you
If you weep, we weep
In your hours of gladness
How our pulses leap
Ireland Mother Ireland
Let what may befall
Ever shall we hold you
Ever shall we hold you
Dearest – best of all.
And whilst Sly was for my money a bit pretentious -with arguably much to be pretentious about – and overrated himself, the off-screen Mature didn’t seem to take it all over- seriously. For example after his screen retirement he built-up a used-car sales business and when an interviewer asked him if he took much of a hands-on approach to the biz he replied:
“No I have guys to do that. However about once or twice a year I fit-in the false teeth, don a rug on my head and mosey down there to saunter around. As they don’t know precisely when I’m gonna pop-up there people keep coming all year round in the hope of catching a glimpse of a Hollywood tough guy relic!”
Vic also deliciously sent-up himself and his screen persona in Peter Sellers’ 1966 “After the Horse” (sorry “After the Fox” that should be). In the film he plays a ham actor for whom, if my memory serves me correctly, it suits the Mob to fix a prestigious acting award and it goes to Vic’s character’s head. His career has hitherto survived via gimmicks organised by his agent.
At the end of “After the Work Fox” Mature’s character is looking out to sea when the agent comes up and says he has a new gimmick for him. Vic retorts “I don’t need any more gimmicks from you. I’ve got my own gimmick now. It’s called ACTING!” With that he charges off up the beach laughing uncontrollably.
“It’s no classic but in China Doll Mature does at last act again. It has been some time since he gave a performance on screen – any kind of performance!” – said Margaret Hinxman (Britain’s lead*** film critic in Photoplay magazine 1958. ***Joel wasnt’ in the critic business back then)
“I don’t care that he’s a big man and a Hollywood tough guy. I’m gonna be there and if he makes a pass at my Anita on set I will if needs be stand on a chair and club his head with a bottle!” – British actor Anthony Steele in a 1957 TV interview talking about notorious womaniser Vic Mature teaming up with Steele’s then wife Anita Ekberg in the movie Interpol (aka Pickup Alley-ignored by The Work Horse)
The Big Guy himself knows that (whilst I AM venturing out next week to see Brad Pitt’s Babylon) I don’t watch many modern movies these days; and the only movie I have probably seen in the past year is The Banshees of Inisherin (see part 3)
Bruce also knows – or if he doesn’t he should by now- that I watch a lot of modern television; and I am therefore aware that there are many fine current actors and actresses around on today’s screens big and small.
Indeed if I am honest: the worst actor I personally ever can recall seeing is Sly Stallone, even worse than Joe Pesci and that’s some reach down– and I formed that opinion long before I was aware that Tennessee Williams had outed Sly as a ham. Good call Tennessee!
Arguably the only actor that I personally can ever recall seeing who might give Sly a run for his money for the wooden spoon of acting -no pun intended! – was Victor Mature. HE was our Sly back when I was growing up; and critics gave his performances such a panning that adults like my Dad made fun of him nicknaming him “Victor Manure” for example.
For me though Victor had at least a hugely-entertaining genuine tough guy personality and unlike Sylvester ( seemingly a nice guy in private life but a bit of a snowflake on screen I always thought) Mature wasn’t a complete somnambulist on screen.
It took awhile to realize that the Best Picture Winners were not listed.