Best Picture Oscar Snubs

Over the years, Oscar has failed to nominate dozens of worthy films, this year's omissions include Once, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and Zodiac. Below is my list (since 2000) and a list compiled by the LA Times. Go here to see all nominees for all years.

My list of recent snubs: Lives of Others, Pan's Labryinth, Cinderella Man, History of Violence, Constant Gardner, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, 21 Grams, City of God, About a Boy, Adaptation, Mulholland Drive, Memento, Requiem for a Dream, and Almost Famous.

LA Times list: Adam's Rib, Aliens, Arthur, Being John Malkovich, Being There, The Big Slee, The Birds, Blade Runner, Blood Simple, Blue Velvet, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Brief Encounter, Carrie, Casino, Central Station, The China Syndrome, [Click below for the rest of the list]Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cool Hand Luke, Days of Heaven, Days of Wine and Roses, Do the Right Thing, Dreamgirls, Duck Soup, East of Eden, Election, A Fish Called Wanda, Gilda, Harold and Maude, Hud, In Cold Blood, Leaving Las Vegas, The Lion King, A Little Princess, The Manchurian Candidate, Manhattan, The Matrix, Mean Streets, Meet Me in St. Louis, Melvin and Howard, Memento, The Misfits, Modern Times, Murder on the Orient Express, North by Northwest, Notorious, The Opposite of Sex, Out of Sight, Paper Moon, Peggy Sue Got Married, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Philadelphia, The Player, Pleasantville, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Ran, Rear Window, Rebel Without a Cause, Rosemary's Baby, Saturday Night Fever, The Searchers, The Seventh Seal, Singin' in the Rain, Spartacus, Strangers on a Train, The Stunt Man, Suddenly, Last Summer, Sullivan's Travels, Sweeney Todd, Thelma and Louise, The Third Man, To Have and Have Not, A Touch of Evil, Toy Story, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Truman Show, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Victor/Victoria (exception!), Viva Zapata, The Way We Were, When Harry Met Sally, The Wild Bunch, Wild Strawberries, A Woman Under the Influence, The World According to Garp and You Can Count on Me. Hat tip, Hollywood Elsewhere.