What do you think the biggest Oscar nomination snubs are? At the time of my head:

"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" 9 nominations (Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, etc). Should have been nominated: Best Picture.

"Arrival" 8 nominations (Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, etc.). Should have been nominated: Best Actress (Amy Adams)

"Sicario" 3 nominations for Best Achievement in Cinematography, Original Score, Sound Editing. Should have been nominated: Best Picture, Best Director (Denis Villeneuve), Best Actress (Emily Blunt), Best Supporting Actor (Benicio Del Toro), and Best Original Screenplay.

"Prisoners" 1 nomination for Best Achievement in Cinematography. Should have been nominated: Best Actor (Hugh Jackman) and Best or Supporting Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal)

"Seven" 1 nomination for Best Film Editing. Should have been nominated: Best Picture, Director (David Fincher), Best Actor (Brad Pitt), Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Spacey), and Best Original Screenplay,

"Nightcrawler" 1 nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Should have been nominated: Jake Gyllenhaal (Best Actor) and Riz Ahmed (Best Supporting Actor).

"Jackie Brown" 1 nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Robert Forster). Should have been nominated: Best Picture, Director (Quentin Tarantino), Best Actress (Pam Grier), Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson), and Best Adapted Screenplay.

"Zodiac" 0 nominations. Should have been nominated: Best Picture, Best Director (David Fincher), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr) and Best Original Screenplay.

"Dolores Claiborne" 0 nominations. Should have been nominated: Best Actress (Kathy Bates, her best performance IMO), Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Jason Leigh and Judy Parfitt), and Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Plummer).

"Hereditary" 0 nominations. Should have been nominated: Best Actress (Toni Collette) and Best Director (Ari Aster)

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2009) 0 nominations. Should have been nominated: Best Actress (Noomi Rapace)

Paul Dano should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Love & Mercy

And in The Fablemans. I love Judd Hersh as much as the next guy, but it was Dano who gave the heartbreaking and memorable performance in that.

I've long said one of the great 'snubs' (a term I don't like, it was just a miss), was not nominating Andrew Garfield in his first major role, as Edwardo Saverin in The Social Network. He was the heart and soul of that outstanding film, it doesn't really work without the humanity he gave in his performance -- everyone else is so cold. I still can't believe he wasn't nominated for it.

He's really fallen out of favor as a director, but I'm still stunned somehow Ron Howard was not even nominated for directing Apollo 13. That movie was a stunning technical achievement in 1995 and it really still is today. How do you nominate the film for BP and not recognize the remarkable skill involved in bringing it to the screen. While nominated, Ed Harris should have won for his role as Mission Control's Gene Kranz.

I think the best acting performance to NOT get an Oscar nomination (in my movie-going lifetime) was Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham. She was so smart and sexy and funny all at once. It's an iconic role and it just shows the bias against comedic performances. Some nominees like Melanie Griffin for Working Girl and eventual winner Jodie Foster for The Accused were also deserving, but come on -- Meryl Streep was nominated for something called Evil Angels? Is that right????

As well as best picture, Do The Right Thing deserved nominations for cinematography, and depending on how you feel about the other nominees maybe also worthy of costume design and editing nods.

Spike Lee wasn't nominated for best director, but got a nomination for screenplay, which is ironic, because the shooting script is just a frame work for the movie. So, so much was added during the shooting, that it's a testament to Lee's superior skill as a director that he was able to regulate all these contributions coming from a dozen different directions to create the singular vision of a near-perfect movie.

Kim Bassinger agrees with you!

No Sergio Leone film was ever nominated in any category for an Academy Award.

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There are so many. Just a few off the top of my head:

Acting:

Ian Holm - The Sweet Hereafter
Juliette Binoche - Three Colours: Blue

Movie:
The Seventh Seal
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Fitzcarraldo
The Double Life of Veronique

A snub has always be in context. I can name countless movies or actors, who I think should have gotten an Oscar or a nomination, but if I look up the movies which were actually were nominated the list shrinks. Everyone was sure that Leonardo Di Caprio got snubbed until he won for The Revenant, but Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club and Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland were just a little bit better, Jamie Foxx in Ray was on the same level als Leo in The Aviator and the only time I could see someone "worse" winning was in 1994, when Tommy Lee Jones won for The Fugitive, but the snubs were Ralph Fiennes for Schindler's List or even Pete Postlethwaite for In The Name of the Father and not Leo for Gilbert Grape.

I think he should have earned a nomination for Revolutionary Road instead of Brad Pitt in Benjamin Button, but then again the snub was Mickey Rourke, although I liked Sean Penn in Milk.

If Beale Street Could Talk for Best Picture (nominated for the Drama Golden Globe, top 10 of the year for National Board of Review & AFI, nominated for best original screenplay Oscar, and there were only 8 BP nominees that year)

Probably not “biggest” snubs because I’m sure most of these are unpopular opinions but

Hostiles, IMO the best movie of 2017: 0 Oscars noms.

First Man: IMO Damien Chazelle’s best movie: only nominated for a few technical Awards Oscars

Jesse Plemons for Civil War. This one would have been a stretch since it was such a short amount of screen time but years from now, his performance will be what people most remember from the movie.

Michael Keaton for Beetlejuice. Another limited screen time performance but it’s certainly an Oscar worthy performance, IMO.

I think it was the nature of the movie that it essentially had THREE lead actors, but they should have found a way for Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, and/or Kevin Spacey to get some kind of nominations for L.A. Confidential.

Bjork should have gotten a Best Actress nod for Dancer in the Dark. And won.

I know it's mostly based on the tear and snot-filled monologue at the end, but I too kinda wanted to see Mia Goth get some kind of nomination for Pearl.

The Florida Project should have gotten a BP nom. Same year, Ingrid Goes West.

"Drive it Like you Stole it" from Sing Street should have gotten a Best Original Song nod. Fuck it, that movie needed a BP nomination too.

Me.

I've never been nominated.

Takes the wind right out of your sails, believe you me.

Didn't you slap someone on TV once?

Yes, but it's not the incident you're thinking about.

Hostiles didn't do anything for me. I do think 2017 was the year of the overlooked film though. During the ceremony, I was rooting for Three Billboards, as it was the favorite of the movies I'd seen, but I wasn't crazy about it. It was only as I started checking out 2017 movies over the course of 2018 and on that I found so many movies I really loved from that year. I mentioned three already, The Florida Project (one acting nom for Defoe but no BP), Ingrid Goes West, and Sing Street. And then one movie I absolutely adored, Brigsby Bear. To me, one of the best "love letters to the art of independent filmmaking" examples out there, and it's tucked in beside a "fish out of water" story of a sheltered (kidnapped, actually) child acclimating to the real world. It hits two notes, and both perfectly.

The biggest snub this year, IMO, was the Challengers score, which is absolutely thrilling.

And speaking of music and the Oscars, how did Staying Alive (and every other song in Saturday Night Fever) not get an Oscar nomination?
No song from Purple Rain got an Oscar nomination, but Prince won a short-lived Oscar for "Best Original Song Score"

Not going to make a list, but all the great comedy performances over the decades.

Yep. For all the disrespect the horror genre gets, I'd say comedy is respected even less by the Academy. So much so that to this day, people still think Marisa Tomei's win for My Cousin Vinny was an "error" by presenter Jack Palance.

Clint Eastwood should at least have been nominated for Costume Design for A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS since he picked everything he wore himself.

Heat - 0 nominations

I'm a little late to the party but I only watched Bram Stoker's Dracula for the first time this past Halloween and kind of amazed at the Visual Effects and everything was done with practical effects. I'm kind of surprised they didn't even get nominated for it.

Do The Right Thing did not get nominated for best picture and Driving Miss Daisy the complete opposite and maybe offensive for todays standards did and won.

If it came out today it would be a lock it wins best picture.

Malcolm X did not get nominated in 1993 either though Denzel did not get nominated for best actor.

Scent of A Woman was the far superior film but maybe Downey deserved the win for Chaplin if he was not competing against one of the greatest actors of all time Al Pacino.

A Bronx Tale and Robert De Niro as director should have been nominated for Oscars in 1994.

Sure. Here are the directors whom DeNiro was "snubbed" for.

Like I said, people one consider the "deserving movie/person", but never consider the competition. In this case I take A Bronx Tale over The Piano, which to me was just boring, but I'm in the minority on that one.