David Fincher’s Mank might have been the most nominated film of 2021, but his cult serial killer drama Zodiac failed to receive a single Oscar nomination.
Yet another Howard Hawks screwball comedy starring Cary Grant that criminally failed to secure a single Oscar nomination.
Starring future Oscar winner Christian Bale, Mary Harron’s adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel – in which the actor plays the psychopathic Patrick Bateman – didn’t receive a single nomination.
Breathless’ failure to receive a nomination is proof of why the Oscars do not generate huge amounts of respect among the film community.