We're Back: With a List of the Best Oscar-Nominated Films That Did NOT Win Best Picture

Here are ten of our favorite films which were nominated for Best Picture, but didn't win the Academy Award. While researching this, I found out that the late Robert Altman's cinematic masterpiece "The Player" (1992) wasn't even nominated for Best Picture, though the second best film of that year "Unforgiven" (dir. Clint Eastwood) did win that award. Alas, "Unforgiven" doesn't make the cut.

Here we go:

1) Citizen Kane (1941)

2) Dr. Strangelove (1965)

3) The Graduate (1967, see top image)

4) Chinatown (1974)

5) Raging Bull (1980, see middle image)

6) Apocalypse Now! (1979, see bottom image)

7) A Clockwork Orange (1971)

8) The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

9) Sunset Boulevard (1950)

10) Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Happy Apocalypse Not Day

Yeah, we don't think volcanic eruptions and nuclear warfare is going to be happening today, either and we would love to make more fun of Harold Camping, the radical extreme evangelists who started this 'the world is going to end on May 21, 2011,' campaign, but frnakly, we've got to start watching a Japanese horror film double-header on TCM Underground here in (yikes!) three minutes.

Unless, the world does start coming to an abrupt end tomorrow, we expect that the University of Virginia's NCAA quarter-final men's lacrosse game against Cornell, which will be played in Long Island at noon, will go on as scheduled. The game will be broadcast on ESPN-2, unless they have to break away to coverage of aliens invading Baltimore.