Who can introduce me to a few foreign movies that did not win the Oscar for Best Picture or Oscar nominations, but are also quite classic! !

The Aviator and The Shawshank Redemption are my favorites. There are also some commercial films and horror series that did not win awards. The best (in my opinion) Indiana Jones series. Brothers in Arms in France, Two Tigers, The Big-Nosed Lover, Angel Emily, Little Universe, The Bear's Story, The Courting Duo.

Ten best films that just missed out on the Oscars

In the four-hour Oscar awards ceremony every year, the highlight is the announcement of the "Best Picture Award". I believe that For a moment, many people expressed regret.

In fact, there are many outstanding works that should be strong contenders for the Best Picture Award, but they have already been rejected when they were nominated, and they were not involved at all.

1. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961) nominated films: "Fanny", "Guns of Navarone", "The Prodigal Son" (hustler), "Judgment at Nuremberg" Award-winning film: "West Side Story" (robert wise) If you want to choose a work that director Blake Edwards deserves to win the Oscar for Best Picture , then of course it is "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Blake Edward's always crazy and weird directorial style (such as "Pink Panther", "Carnival", "Male and Female", etc.) is controlled quite well in "Breakfast at Tiffany's". What's more, there is the elegant, beautiful and dazzling Audrey Hepburn under the lens!

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" is adapted from Truman Capote's novel. In the film, Audrey Hepburn plays a high-end escort girl who was born in poverty and lives an uninhibited life. I spent the day wandering around in Weizhi Village, hoping to find a rich husband-in-law. She often wanders outside well-known jewelry stores in the early morning, looking at the shining jewelry. She wants to forget her past, but the shadow of the past appears and haunts her from time to time.

Perhaps this is the problem. The audience is accustomed to her playing elegant women and cannot bear to see her polluted; perhaps the voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts believe that the character played by Audrey Hepburn Holly looks like a high-class prostitute. In 1971, Jane Fonda won an Oscar for her role as a prostitute in "Herbs in Willow Lane". At that time, it was regarded as quite a thing for the Oscars to nominate the role of a prostitute. But when "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was staged, it was still the conservative 1960s, and many people could not accept such a performance.

As the saying goes, people with the same disease have sympathy, Blake Edward and Audrey Hepburn should feel a little better, because John Hughes filmed the classic movie "The Misfits" for Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. "Music" was also the last regret of the Oscars that year.

2. "Ran" (1985) nominated films: "Color Purple" (Color Purple), "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (Kiss of the Spider Woman), "Modern Godfather" ( Prizzi’s Honor), “Witness” (Winning Film: “Out of Africa”) The Academy Awards are to xenophobia what the United States is to apple pie, it’s just normal! This can be used to explain why Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's epic adaptation of "King Lear" "Ran" was not nominated for the Best Picture Award.

Japanese film master Akira Kurosawa is internationally renowned for his films such as "Seven Samurai". His way of handling war scenes is unparalleled. "Ran" is the most expensive film in Japanese film history. The war scenes in the film are the most unforgettable and unrivaled by Akira Kurosawa so far. They are like the thunder and lightning of horse hooves, the sound of horns resounding in the sky, Coupled with the chaotic dance of swords and shadows, "Chaos" is a work full of sound and anger, and its meaning is particularly profound.

Although the film has gorgeous contemporary costumes and a vast historical background, its meaning is still too profound for Hollywood. The plot depicts the feudal monarchs of Japan at that time who felt desperate because of the disintegration of their country and homeland. Such a theme does not meet the conditions of a good Hollywood film.

However, the most fatal reason why this film is not popular comes from a common fear in Hollywood: subtitles! Everyone knows that people in Hollywood don't know how to read.

3. "The Africa Queen" (1951) nominated films: "Decision Before Dawn", "Place in the Sun", "The Tyrant Burns the City" "Quo Vadis?" (Quo Vadis?), "Streetcar Named Desire" (Streetcar Named Desire), award-winning films: "American in Paris" (American in Paris) With a large cast, exotic scenes, and a romantic adventure story, "The African Queen" ” sounds like an Oscar-worthy movie, but it wasn’t nominated.

The story describes a riverboat captain (played by Humphrey Bogart) who sells goods along the river during the First World War, escorting a prissy female priest (played by Katharine Hepburn) to the lower reaches of Africa. Bogart and Katharine Hepburn are both masters of bickering, and their performance of the mutually critical dialogue in the film is remarkable. Hepburn's acting skills are truly lifelike, and Humphrey Bogart is no less impressive. "The African Queen" can be said to be his highest achievement in the film industry.

When "The Spy Who" won the Oscar for Best Picture, Humphrey Bogart lost the Best Actor award. In 1951, the Oscars corrected this mistake. They finally awarded him the best actor award, but made another mistake: they nominated the actress, screenplay and director of "The African Queen" but let them go empty-handed. Return!

How can a movie be nominated for other major awards but not be nominated for Best Picture? The reason is, as the old saying goes, because people in Hollywood don't know what they're doing.

4. "Metropolis" (1927-1928) nominated films: "The Last Command", "The Racket", "Seventh" Heaven, the Way of All Flesh Winner: Wings What an important first Oscar ceremony, but they still screwed it up! The first Oscars was completely a "political event" because when the Oscars were established, Hollywood was in turmoil due to labor issues. Perhaps the founders believed that a grand banquet and the awarding of some dazzling awards could appease Hollywood. Those hard-working employees.

Because of this, the founder of the Oscars believes that the films nominated for the first Best Picture must be domestically produced. Unfortunately, Friedrich Lang's "Metropolis" is a German film, so it was struck out!

The story of "Metropolis" is about workers sweating and working underground, while the bosses on the ground are smiling ruthlessly. Perhaps this will remind everyone of their unions. question. In any case, we have to wait 50 years for a blockbuster film like "Blade Runner" and "Metropolis". But it's not even half as good as Metropolis, a German Expressionist classic.

To make matters worse, "Metropolis" even received a double snub later. MGM's Louis Meyer knew that the Oscars needed some international awards, so German director F.W. Monod's "Sunrise" (Sunrise, literal translation), won the so-called Best Artistic Quality Award, a confusing award that was later excluded from the Oscars.

5. Film nominees for "Do The Right Thing" (1989): "Born on the Fourth of July", "Dead Poets Society" ), "My Left Foot" (My Left Foot), "Field of Dreams" (Field of Dreams) Award-winning film: "Driving Miss Daisy" (Driving Miss Daisy), a provocative film by black director Spike Lee The film is called "Do the Right Thing," but the Oscars didn't give it the treatment it deserved. Ironically, three of the nominated films that year dealt with prejudice and politics. "The Right Thing" depicts the explosive events caused by racial issues on the hottest day in Brooklyn. It also explores race and prejudice, but it did not receive an Oscar nomination like "The Love".

It is very strange that a film by a black American director that explores racial tensions would lose to Australian director Bruce Beresford's "Love", which depicts racial prejudice in the southern United States.

From the beginning, Rosie Perez's provocative dance, to the final declaration of "fighting the power", "Do the Right Thing" stirred the audience's emotions to the highest point. Spike Lee's classic work did not disappoint. The unknown characters in the film later became famous in the film industry, including: Rosie Perez, Samuel L. Jackson, Danny Aiello, John Turturro, Martin Lawrence, etc. Director Spike Lee plays the pizza delivery boy Moki in the film, and his acting skills are also top-notch.

6. Film nominees for "Some Like it Hot" (1959): "Anatomy of a Murder", "The Diary of Anne Frank", " "The Nun's Story" (the Nun's Story), "Room at the Top" (Room at the Top) Award-winning film: "Ben-Hur" Billy Wilder's timeless classic film "Some Like It Hot" is A gangster comedy movie starring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. They were hunted by gangsters because they witnessed a murder. In order to escape, the two disguised themselves as women and mingled with a women's symphony orchestra.

Soon they discovered that escaping for their lives was a trivial matter, but how to express their feelings to the sexy band girl Marilyn Monroe was more important!

Billy Wilder won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for this film. The script is full of witty wisdom, and Jack Lemmon (nominated for Best Actor), Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe's top acting skills and the cinematography directed by Billy Wilder were also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. However, such a good film among good films was not nominated for Best Picture.

7. Film nominees for "The Searchers" (1956): "Friendly Persuasion", "Giant", "The King and I", The winning film of "The Ten Commandments": "Around the World in Eighty Days" The Oscars have always taken a let-graze-and-ignore attitude towards Western films, so for "The Searchers" 》’s fate, we are not surprised at all. Director John Ford was once asked about the genre of his work, and he replied: "I make Westerns." If the answer were based on Oscar preferences, he would definitely not say that.

John Ford has won the Oscar for Best Director four times, but each of them was not a Western. He created the Western film genre for the film industry and is one of the few original artistic genres in American films. However, the Oscar regarded his "The Searchers" as a broken tire.

This film can be said to be one of the most exciting performances of the leading actor Zun Zun. In the film, with realistic gun battles and exciting chases, it depicts a veteran of the Civil War who spent his life trying to track down the man who was murdered in Indy. The whereabouts of the little niece kidnapped by An people.

8. Film nominees for "City Lights" (1930-1931): "East Lynne", "The Front Page", "Sky" "Skippy", "Trader Horn" Award-winning film: "Cimarron" Many people think that Chaplin's last silent comedy "City Lights" was the highlight of his acting career. The highest artistic achievement, the reason is very simple. The story describes a little tramp who fell in love with a blind flower girl, and then devoted himself to helping her regain her sight. The film is full of a touch of sadness, but Chaplin's delicate, straightforward and humorous body language skillfully balances it.

In the film, the friendship between the little tramp and a millionaire drunkard adds a lot of laughter to the film, but the most talked about representative scene is still a scene in the film A boxing match and a wild dance in a restaurant.

Why is this film such a disappointment? Because Oscar discovered that "silence is no longer golden", the era of mime has passed, and talkies are the rule, but Chaplin never uttered a word in the film.

We should give the Oscars a kick. The Library of Congress included "City Lights" in their National Film Catalog, but none of the films nominated that year were included in the library. It seems that little Chaplin still won the final victory!

9. "Sinin in the Rain, 1952" nominated films: "Beautiful Love", "High Noon", "The Legend of the Hero", " The winning film of "The Greatest Show on Earth": "The Greatest Show on Earth". In a certain respect, the reason why "The Greatest Show on Earth" was not nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture is that the leading actor Kim Kelly can be said to be the chief culprit, because if he had not performed in the 1951 Oscar-winning Best Picture "Shadows of Flowers", the chances of winning "Spring Flowers" would not have been reduced the following year.

"Spring Flowers" is today regarded as the best Oscar-winning musical. Every condition of it meets the taste of Oscar. It is a movie about Hollywood and is highly praised by both refined and popular people. Plus witty and beautiful choreography, photography, direction, soundtrack, songs, dance and acting.

The songs in the film are all top-notch, including Donald O'Connor's hilarious "Make em Laugh", Donald O'Connor and Jim Carrey's innocent "Moses Supposes", and Jim Carrey’s awkwardly endearing “Broadway Melody.”

In fact, "Spring Flowers" is not only the missing piece of the Best Picture, it is absent from all major awards, and even the Oscars did not even award it with the Best Soundtrack. It was awarded to another film, "With a Song In My Heart."

10. "Rear Window" (1954) nominated films: "the Caine Mutiny" (the Caine Mutiny), "the Country Girl" (the Country Girl), "Seven Couples" ( Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Three Coins in the Fountain Winner: On the Waterfront The Oscars are like a runaway horse sometimes, and no one knows where it will go. ? Therefore, horror master Hitchcock's film has never been nominated for best picture. Just think: 1959's "North and West" was not nominated, 1960's "Psycho" was not favored, and 1963's "Birds" struck out!

But if we were to choose one Hitchcock film worthy of an Oscar in both hands, Rear Window would definitely stand out. (Some might argue it's "Vertigo," but it's too complex and tumultuous for Oscar consideration, and it has structural problems.) "Rear Window" has the brightest cast and the most exciting plot , is the most perfect suspense film in Hollywood so far. Every shot is arranged just right and there is no waste. It describes a reporter (played by Jimmy Stewart) who has limited mobility due to a foot injury. He accidentally witnesses a murder through a telescope at the back window of his home. So with the help of his beautiful girlfriend (played by Grace Kelly), he tries to solve the murder case. Find out the truth about the murder.

As for the Oscar, perhaps Hitchcock dug his own grave, because he once said a very famous saying: "Actors are all beasts." Later he revised it to: "I mean, actors All should be treated like animals.

"This sentence is so classic! But for those Oscar voting committee members, how can they stand it?