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My Ten Biggest Best Picture Outrages

My Ten Biggest Best Picture Outrages

A futile fist-shaking lament for great films scorned by the Academy

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Mar 05, 2024
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Double Indemnity (1944): Not listed, but another film that should have won Best Picture. Credit: Paramount

It may shock some of you to learn that I agree with less than one-third of the Academy’s Best Picture decisions over the last almost one hundred years. Several of their choices for the top prize have greatly irked me, and many have failed to stand t…

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