Top Ten Biggest Oscar Snubs – Nominations #9
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- Sam Wood for The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
- Michael Curtiz for Mildred Pierce (1945)
- John Wayne for The Alamo (1960)
- Lewis Milestone for Mutiny on the Bounty (1962, above photo, Marlon Brando being mean to Trevor Howard)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Cleopatra (1963)
- Richard Fleischer for Doctor Dolittle (1967)
- Charles Jarrott for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
- Gene Kelly for Hello Dolly! (1969, above clip, Barbra Streisand, Louis Armstrong, and the most painfully campy musical number this side of Can’t Stop the Music)
- Arthur Hiller for Airport (1970)
- Steven Spielberg for Jaws (1975)
- Bruce Beresford for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- Ron Howard for Apollo 13 (1995)
- Cameron Crowe for Jerry Maguire (1996)
- Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris for Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
The directors listed above — and I could add several other names to the roster — are those whose films garnered multiple Oscar nods, including Best Picture, but they (the directors themselves) failed to be shortlisted. (Most of the time, deservedly so.)
I should add that both Sam Wood and Arthur Hiller received best director nominations in, respectively, 1942 and 1970, for, once again respectively, Kings Row and Love Story. And that non-nominee Bruce Beresford’s Driving Miss Daisy did go on to win the Best Picture Oscar.
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As for Steven Spielberg’s Jaws snub (above), it must have been particularly galling for the director because he had a camera crew at his home when the 1975 nominations were announced. "I didn’t get it! I didn’t get it! I wasn’t nominated!" he moaned. "I got beaten up by Fellini!" (Federico Fellini’s Amarcord had won the best foreign-language film Oscar the year before; according to Academy rules at that time, it was eligible in other categories in 1975, the year it opened in the Los Angeles area.)
"It hurts because I feel it was a director’s movie," Spielberg later remarked. "But there was a Jaws backlash. The same people who had raved about it began to doubt its artistic value as soon as it began to bring in so much money."
Considering the intensity of the furor following their publicly announced nominationlessness, a couple of snubbed directors will have their own slots further down this list.
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That Spielberg video was quite something. Why would he be so upset to lose his spot to Fellini of all people? Amarcord was better than any of the other nominees that year.