The Biggest Best Picture Snubs

A couple of weeks ago, the Academy Awards announced that Family Guy creator, Seth McFarland, would be hosting this year's Oscars and I couldn't be more excited about such a bold choice.  Not only is the guy a comedic genius, but he is also multi-talented.  He has a cool speaking voice and can sing a lot better than you would think for a guy who does the voice of Peter Griffin.  On top of that, I thought he was great on this season's Saturday Night Live premiere.  But let's get down to business.  Because of this announcement, I got to thinking about some of the worst Best Picture snubs in Oscar history and decided to compile a Top 10 list for you guys.  One of the big factors that I took into consideration when making this list was how well each movie has held up over the years which basically means - would you watch this movie if it came on TNT and you were bored?  Hell, a better question would be, would TNT even buy the rights to these movies?  So, here goes:

10)  2002
Who Won - Chicago
Who Should Have Won - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers or Gangs of New York
Why - A musical v. two violently awesome movies, sometimes I wonder if the "Academy" even knows what makes a good movie.

9)  2008
Who Won - Slumdog Millionaire
Who Should Have Won - The Dark Knight
Why - Do you realize that Slumdog is a movie based around the game show, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?  And did you know that The Dark Knight had nothing to do with a game show that no one under the age of 60 has watched in years and had more to do with fucking Batman?

8)  1941
Who Won - How Green Was My Valley
Who Should Have Won - Citizen Kane
Why - Come on, has anyone even heard of How Green Was My Valley?  Of course not.  And Citizen Kane is considered one of the greatest films of all-time.  What were the voters thinking?

7)  1996
Who Won - The English Patient
Who Should Have Won - Fargo
Why - I can honestly say that I have never seen The English Patient and I doubt anyone else has either.  But I have seen Fargo and the wood-chipper scene alone is definitely worth an Oscar.

6)  1979
Who Won - Kramer v. Kramer
Who Should Have Won - Apocalypse Now
Why - Kramer v. Kramer was actually a pretty decent movie, however, Apocalypse Now was definitely better.

5)  1977
Who Won - Annie Hall
Who Should Have Won - Star Wars
Why - Did you know that Annie Hall was supposed to be a murder mystery spoof and that the title character was only supposed to have a minor part?  When the editor watched it, he thought it sucked, so Woody Allen literally cut out the entire main plot and accidentally made an Oscar winner.  Yet, Star Wars changed movie history.  So, I could see Annie Hall winning Best Editing, but Star Wars should have won the big one.

4)  1990
Who Won - Dances With Wolves
Who Should Have Won - Goodfellas
Why - At the time, Dances With Wolves was great and Kevin Costner could do no wrong.  Today, Dances With Wolves is boring and Kevin Costner can't find steady work.  Goodfellas was great then and it's just as good today.

3)  2005
Who Won - Crash
Who Should Have Won - Brokeback Mountain or Munich
Why - I will admit that Crash was a good movie, but there is no way it was better than Munich or The Gay Cowboy Movie, but I have never seen the gay cowboy one, so I can't confirm that.

2)  1994
Who Won - Forrest Gump
Who Should Have Won - The Shawshank Redemption or Pulp Fiction
Why - Once again, the winner was actually a good movie but come on Academy voters, The Shawshank Redemption has to be one of the Top 10 Greatest Movies of All-Time and Pulp Fiction was incredible, how could they possibly get this one wrong?

1)  1998
Who Won - Shakespeare in Love
Who Should Have Won - Saving Private Ryan
Why - This Academy Award winner was just terrible.  Not only has no one every seen Shakespeare in Love, but Saving Private Ryan was easily the best World War II movie ever made.  The Battle of Normandy scene alone would have made a better movie than Shakespeare in Love.  This was easily the biggest Best Picture snub and the Academy should apologize to Steven Spielberg on a daily basis for this egregious mistake.

"This scene was incredible, I'm pretty sure it would have won the Best Picture no matter what year it was nominated."