IMDb Top 250 Oscar Nominated Films with Zero Wins
These films from the IMDb Top 250 list got at least 3 Oscar nominations each but did not win any.
Which of these films most deserved to win at least an Oscar?
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- DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTim RobbinsMorgan FreemanBob GuntonA banker convicted of uxoricide forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion.Nominated for 7 Oscars
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Morgan Freeman
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published: Frank Darabont
Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins
Best Sound: Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson, Michael Herbick, Willie D. Burton
Best Film Editing: Richard Francis-Bruce
Best Music, Original Score: Thomas Newman
Best Picture - DirectorSidney LumetStarsHenry FondaLee J. CobbMartin BalsamThe jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.Nominated for 3 Oscars
Best Director: Sidney Lumet
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Reginald Rose
Best Picture - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsPeter SellersGeorge C. ScottSterling HaydenA mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.Nominated for 4 Oscars
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Peter Sellers
Best Director: Stanley Kubrick
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, Terry Southern
Best Picture - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJonah HillMargot RobbieBased on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.Nominated for 5 Oscars
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Jonah Hill
Best Achievement in Directing: Martin Scorsese
Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay: Terence Winter
Best Motion Picture of the Year - DirectorsFernando MeirellesKátia LundStarsAlexandre RodriguesLeandro FirminoMatheus NachtergaeleIn the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.Nominated for 4 Oscars
Best Director: Fernando Meirelles
Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay: Bráulio Mantovani
Best Cinematography: César Charlone
Best Film Editing: Daniel Rezende - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.Nominated for 5 Oscars
Best Actor in a Leading Role: James Stewart
Best Director: Frank Capra
Best Sound, Recording: John Aalberg
Best Film Editing: William Hornbeck
Best Picture - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.Nominated for 4 Oscars
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Janet Leigh
Best Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White: John L. Russell
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White: George Milo, Joseph Hurley, Robert Clatworthy - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyA bored photographer recovering from a broken leg passes the time by watching his neighbors and begins to suspect one of them of murder.Nominated for 4 Oscars
Best Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Best Writing, Screenplay: John Michael Hayes
Best Cinematography, Color: Robert Burks
Best Sound, Recording: Loren L. Ryder - DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTom HanksMichael Clarke DuncanDavid MorseA death row guard learns that a gentle giant in his charge possesses a mysterious gift.Nominated for 4 Oscars
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Michael Clarke Duncan
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published: Frank Darabont
Best Sound: Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson, Michael Herbick, Willie D. Burton
Best Picture - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardJack OakieDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.Nominated for 5 Oscars
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Charles Chaplin
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Jack Oakie
Best Writing, Original Screenplay: Charles Chaplin
Best Music, Original Score: Meredith Willson
Best Picture - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantEva Marie SaintJames MasonA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.Nominated for 3 Oscars
Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen: Ernest Lehman
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color: William A. Horning, Robert F. Boyle, Merrill Pye, Henry Grace, Frank R. McKelvy
Best Film Editing: George Tomasini - DirectorJean-Pierre JeunetStarsAudrey TautouMathieu KassovitzRufusDespite being caught in her imaginative world, young waitress Amelie decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey during which she finds true love.Nominated for 5 Oscars
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration: Aline Bonetto, Marie-Laure Valla
Best Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel
Best Sound: Jean Umansky, Vincent Arnardi, Guillaume Leriche
Best Foreign Language Film - DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus WennemannA German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.Nominated for 6 Oscars
Best Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Wolfgang Petersen
Best Cinematography: Jost Vacano
Best Sound: Mike Le Mare, Milan Bor, Trevor Pyke
Best Film Editing: Hannes Nikel
Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing: Mike Le Mare - DirectorRichard MarquandStarsMark HamillHarrison FordCarrie FisherAfter rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempts to destroy the second Death Star while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.Nominated for 4 Oscars
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration: Norman Reynolds, Fred Hole, James L. Schoppe, Michael Ford
Best Sound: Tony Dawe, Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Randy Thom
Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing: Ben Burtt
Best Music, Original Score: John Williams - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMalcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael BatesAlex DeLarge and his droogs barbarize a decaying near-future.Nominated for 4 Oscars
Best Director: Stanley Kubrick
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Stanley Kubrick
Best Film Editing: Bill Butler
Best Picture - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.Nominated for 4 Oscars
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Robert De Niro
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Jodie Foster
Best Music, Original Score: Bernard Herrmann
Best Picture - DirectorBilly WilderStarsFred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. RobinsonAn insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.Nominated for 7 Oscars
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Barbara Stanwyck
Best Director: Billy Wilder
Best Writing, Screenplay: Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White: John F. Seitz
Best Sound, Recording: Loren L. Ryder
Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Miklós Rózsa
Best Picture - DirectorBilly WilderStarsTyrone PowerMarlene DietrichCharles LaughtonA veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.Nominated for 6 Oscars
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Charles Laughton
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Elsa Lanchester
Best Director: Billy Wilder
Best Sound, Recording: Gordon Sawyer
Best Film Editing: Daniel Mandell
Best Picture - DirectorJohn LasseterStarsTom HanksTim AllenDon RicklesA cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.Nominated for 3 Oscars
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Joe Ranft, Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, John Lasseter, Pete Docter
Best Music, Original Song: Randy Newman, for the song "You've Got a Friend in Me"
Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score: Randy Newman - DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsBruce WillisAlan RickmanBonnie BedeliaA New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.Nominated for 4 Oscars
Best Sound: Don J. Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton, Al Overton Jr.
Best Film Editing: Frank J. Urioste, John F. Link
Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing: Stephen Hunter Flick, Richard Shorr
Best Effects, Visual Effects: Thaine Morris, Richard Edlund, Al Di Sarro, Brent Boates - DirectorDavid LynchStarsAnthony HopkinsJohn HurtAnne BancroftA Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.Nominated for 8 Oscars
Best Actor in a Leading Role: John Hurt
Best Director: David Lynch
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: David Lynch, Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration: Stuart Craig, Robert Cartwright, Hugh Scaife
Best Costume Design: Patricia Norris
Best Film Editing: Anne V. Coates
Best Music, Original Score: John Morris
Best Picture - DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartMary AstorGladys GeorgeSan Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.Nominated for 3 Oscars
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Sydney Greenstreet
Best Writing, Screenplay: John Huston
Best Picture - DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsBruce WillisHaley Joel OsmentToni ColletteAfter being shot by a resentful former patient whom he failed to help, a Philadelphia child psychologist seeks redemption by treating a young boy with a disturbing secret.Nominated for 6 Oscars
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Haley Joel Osment
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Toni Collette
Best Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: M. Night Shyamalan
Best Film Editing: Andrew Mondshein
Best Picture - DirectorJim SheridanStarsDaniel Day-LewisPete PostlethwaiteAlison CrosbieAn Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.Nominated for 7 Oscars
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Day-Lewis
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Pete Postlethwaite
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Emma Thompson
Best Director: Jim Sheridan
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published: Jim Sheridan, Terry George
Best Film Editing: Gerry Hambling
Best Picture - DirectorDavid YatesStarsDaniel RadcliffeEmma WatsonRupert GrintAs the battle between the forces of good and evil in the wizarding world escalates, Harry Potter draws ever closer to his final confrontation with Voldemort.Nominated for 3 Oscars
Best Achievement in Makeup: Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
Best Achievement in Visual Effects: Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler, John Richardson
Best Achievement in Art Direction: Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
