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Not Quite Good Enough
The Washington Post
Sunday, March 21, 1999 The following films, actresses, actors and directors, often considered among the greatest of all time, did not win Academy Awards. Did not win the Best Picture: "The Jazz Singer" (1927) "City Lights" (1931) "Frankenstein" (1931) "King Kong" (1933) "Duck Soup" (1933) "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1935) "Modern Times" (1936) "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937) "Bringing Up Baby" (1938) "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) "Rules of the Game" (1939) "Stagecoach" (1939) "Wuthering Heights" (1939) "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) "Ninotchka" (1939) "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939) "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) "The Letter" (1940) "Fantasia" (1940) "His Girl Friday" (1940) "Sullivan's Travels" (1941) "Citizen Kane" (1941) "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942) "Double Indemnity" (1944) "To Have and Have Not" (1944) "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) "My Darling Clementine" (1946) "Notorious" (1946) "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) "Red River" (1948) "Adam's Rib" (1949) "The Third Man" (1949) "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950) "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) "The African Queen" (1951) "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) "A Place in the Sun" (1951) "Show Boat" (1951) "Singin' in the Rain" (1952) "High Noon" (1952) "Shane" (1953) "Rear Window" (1954) "Sabrina" (1954) "The Caine Mutiny" (1955) "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) "Mister Roberts" (1955) "Giant" (1956) "The Searchers" (1956) "An Affair to Remember" (1957) "12 Angry Men" (1957) "Vertigo" (1958) "Touch of Evil" (1958) "Some Like It Hot" (1959) "North by Northwest" (1959) "Psycho" (1960) "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962) "Days of Wine and Roses" (1962) "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) "Hud" (1963) "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) "The Graduate" (1967) "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967) "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) "The Wild Bunch" (1969) "Easy Rider" (1969) "M*A*S*H" (1970) "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" (1971) "American Graffiti" (1973) "Last Tango in Paris" (1973) "Mean Streets" (1973) "Chinatown" (1974) "Jaws" (1975) "Taxi Driver" (1976) "Star Wars" (1977) "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) "Saturday Night Fever" (1977) "The Turning Point" (1977) "Apocalypse Now" (1979) "Raging Bull" (1980) "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) "Tootsie" (1982) "The Color Purple" (1985) "Brazil" (1985) "Bull Durham" (1988) "GoodFellas" (1990) "Pulp Fiction" (1994) "Fargo" (1996)
Actresses who never won an acting Oscar: Barbara Stanwyck Greta Garbo Lillian Gish Agnes Moorehead Jean Arthur Carole Lombard Gloria Swanson Judy Garland Deborah Kerr Rosalind Russell Edith Evans Irene Dunne Myrna Loy Marlene Dietrich Angela Lansbury Thelma Ritter Jean Simmons Cicely Tyson Liv Ullmann Madeline Kahn Gena Rowlands Bette Midler Glenn Close
Actors who never won an acting Oscar: Orson Welles Charlie Chaplin Ralph Richardson Fred Astaire William Powell Richard Burton Charles Boyer Montgomery Clift Mickey Rooney Cary Grant Robert Mitchum Peter O'Toole Leslie Howard John Garfield Kirk Douglas James Mason Albert Finney Peter Sellers Warren Beatty Robert Redford Woody Allen John Travolta
Never won an Oscar for directing: Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick Orson Welles Charlie Chaplin Preston Sturges Ernst Lubitsch Jean Renoir Cecil B. DeMille Federico Fellini Robert Altman George Lucas John Cassavetes Francois Truffaut Ingmar Bergman Martin Scorsese
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