10 Movies that should have won an Oscar but didn't!
By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 06 August 2011, 16:28 IST   |    4 Comments
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Bangalore: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Hollywood's highest honors seldom coincides with critical opinion. The omissions made by it often provoke more outcry and buzz than the actual winners. Though the Academy Awards are quite controversial among film experts and fans, has honoured many of cinema's masterpieces but several other great movies have been unnoticed. The Oscars tend to fete populist, feel-good fare or sprawling epics but the other great movies, seems like, were not even worth the nominations! Let's look at 10 of the greatest movies that failed to get what they deserved! Citizen Kane (1941)
This sophisticated classic masterpiece is probably the world's most famed and highly-rated film. The movie with its many outstanding scenes, cinematic and narrative techniques, untried innovations (in photography, editing and sound) and outstanding performance by Orson Welles; had nine nominations but won only one Oscar- for Best Original Screenplay. Orson Welles, the mastermind who debuted with Citizen Kane, was the movie's director, star and producer. Budgeted at $800,000, the film acknowledged unanimous critical commendation even at the time of its release, though it was not a commercial success (partially due to its restricted distribution and deferred release by RKO due to pressure exerted by famous publisher W.R. Hearst). Who won instead? The less-lauded John Ford picture "How Green Was My Valley" (1941) won the Best Picture honor.

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