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The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars

This list attempts to pick a second film from the list of Best Picture nominees that would both make for a deserving winner and offer a fuller sense of film history. It's not an attempt to pick a winner from the year in its entirety.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
2
In Old Arizona (1928)
In Old Arizona (1928)
Rotten Tomatoes®   56%
3
The Big House (1930)
The Big House (1930)
Rotten Tomatoes®   75%
4
The Front Page (1931)
The Front Page (1931)
Rotten Tomatoes®   87%
5
Shanghai Express (1932)
Shanghai Express (1932)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
6
42nd Street (1933)
42nd Street (1933)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
7
The Thin Man (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
8
Top Hat (1935)
Top Hat (1935)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
9
Dodsworth (1936)
Dodsworth (1936)
Rotten Tomatoes®   90%
10
The Awful Truth (1937)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
11
Grand Illusion (1937)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
12
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
13
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
14
Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
15
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
16
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
17
Double Indemnity (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
18
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
19
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
20
Great Expectations (1946)
Great Expectations (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
21
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
22
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
23
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
24
A Place in the Sun (1951)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Rotten Tomatoes®   81%
25
High Noon (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
26
Roman Holiday (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
27
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
28
Mister Roberts (1955)
Mister Roberts (1955)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
29
Giant (1956)
Giant (1956)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
30
12 Angry Men (1957)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
31
The Defiant Ones (1958)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
32
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
33
The Sundowners (1960)
The Sundowners (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   75%
34
The Hustler (1961)
The Hustler (1961)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
35
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
36
How the West Was Won (1962)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
37
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
38
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Rotten Tomatoes®   84%
39
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
40
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
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