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A.V. Club - 90 Years, 90 Movies That Should Have Been Nominated for Best Picture

!With this year's ceremony just days away, The A.V. Club has singled out 90 important, terrific, even canonical movies that weren't nominated—one for every Best Picture lineup going back to the beginning. We've followed the Academy's rules about what qualifies, which mainly means only selecting movies that opened in the United States during each year's eligibility window, including foreign-language films that took a minute to make it to America. Most years, you could program a film festival from the list of viable alternative candidates and snubbed triumphs, so consider this a kind of parallel cinematic history—a much different window into a century of movies than the one the Academy has opened. Hindsight is, of course, 20/20, but you'd have to be legally blind to ignore most of these films, especially given what often made the cut instead."
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Metropolis (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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City Girl (1930)
City Girl (1930)
Rotten Tomatoes®   63%
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City Lights (1931)
City Lights (1931)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
5
Scarface (1932)
Scarface (1932)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
6
King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1933)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
7
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
8
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
9
Swing Time (1936)
Swing Time (1936)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
10
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
11
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
12
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
13
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
14
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
15
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
16
The Leopard Man (1943)
The Leopard Man (1943)
Rotten Tomatoes®   90%
17
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
18
Brief Encounter (1945)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
19
Children of Paradise (1945)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
20
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
21
Day of Wrath (1943)
Day of Wrath (1943)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
22
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
23
The Third Man (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
24
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
25
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
26
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
27
Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
28
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
29
Seven Samurai (1954)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
30
A Man Escaped (1956)
A Man Escaped (1956)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
31
Vertigo (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
32
Rio Bravo (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
33
Psycho (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
34
L'avventura (1960)
L'avventura (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
35
Cléo From 5 to 7 (1962)
Cléo From 5 to 7 (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
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8½ (1963)
8½ (1963)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
37
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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Alphaville (1965)
Alphaville (1965)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
39
Blow-Up (1966)
Blow-Up (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
40
Persona (1966)
Persona (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
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