As the 2021 Oscars approach, we’ve run through 20 brilliant films that you would have expected to have won Best Picture winner – but didn’t.
It’s a depressing fact that films directed by previous winners have more chance of being nominated than those directed by newcomers.
Find a gallery compiling the films that should never have won an Oscar here.
Over the decades, there have been countless glaring omissions – films that were nominated but were beaten by far inferior films and classic films that failed to secure a single nomination.