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Kaput: Failed Would-Be Oscar Films From 1964 to 2023

The films without any Oscar nominations that were at one point talked about in Oscar but fell apart entirely upon release or the ones which upon release were praised enough at the time to get into the race, but didn't. Some of these films are masterful, some are serviceable, some are bad, and then some are cryptbound. But It's all here, 60 years of failed Oscar Bait, with the intention of including earlier years at a future date.

  • Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
  • It's Complicated
  • Shy People
  • Waking Ned Devine
  • Garbo Talks
  • 3 Women
  • The Terminal
  • Badlands
  • After Hours
  • Truth
  • Hollywoodland
  • Burn After Reading
  • Hyde Park on Hudson
  • Suffragette
  • Persona
  • Rabbit-Proof Fence
  • The Company
  • About Time
  • Best in Show
  • Enough Said
  • Somewhere
  • The Good Dinosaur
  • A Dangerous Woman
  • Mad Dog and Glory
  • To Rome with Love
  • The Lady in the Van
  • Frenzy
  • Win Win
  • Big Eyes
  • Living Out Loud
  • The Man in the Moon
  • The Sugarland Express
  • The Impostors
  • The Two Faces of January
  • The American
  • Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Hello, My Name Is Doris
  • The Way Way Back
  • Heartburn
  • Miller's Crossing
  • Immediate Family
  • Life as a House
  • Intolerable Cruelty
  • Little Man Tate
  • Choose Me
  • The BFG
  • Housekeeping
  • Knight of Cups
  • Everybody's All-American
  • Men Don't Leave
  • By the Sea
  • State of Play
  • All the Real Girls
  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
  • The King of Comedy
  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • The Muse
  • 10 Rillington Place
  • Dolores Claiborne
  • Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
  • Play Misty for Me
  • High Plains Drifter
  • Money Monster
  • The Meddler
  • My Life So Far
  • The Boxer
  • Don't Look Now
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  • Marnie
  • The Seduction of Joe Tynan
  • They Might Be Giants
  • Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
  • Everyone Says I Love You
  • You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
  • Impromptu
  • Café Society
  • Labor Day
  • I ♥ Huckabees
  • Infinitely Polar Bear
  • Blood and Wine
  • Get Shorty
  • The Informant!
  • Mommie Dearest
  • Tell Me a Riddle
  • Barcelona
  • A Walk in the Spring Rain
  • The enger
  • Nuts
  • Loving
  • Downhill Racer
  • The Holiday
  • The Knack... and How to Get It
  • The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
  • Shoot the Moon
  • Opening Night
  • Plenty
  • Grace of My Heart
  • Stardust Memories
  • September
  • Safe