Always An Oscar Bridesmaid, Never An Oscar Bride

Here is a little list of the most glaring omissions to that prestigious club known as Oscar winners.

Best Picture

1. Citizen Kane (Lost to: How Green Was My Valley)
2. The Wizard of Oz (Lost to: Gone With The Wind)
3. Chinatown (Lost to: The Godfather: Part 2)
4. Star Wars (Lost to: Annie Hall)
5. Raging Bull (Lost to: Ordinary People)
6. It's A Wonderful Life (Lost to: The Best Years Of Our Lives)
7. Pulp Fiction (Lost to: Forrest Gump)
8. The Graduate (Lost to: In The Heat Of The Night)
9. Shawshank Redemption (Lost to: Forrest Gump)
10. Taxi Driver (Lost to: Rocky)
11. The Grapes of Wrath (Lost to: Rebecca)
12. Double Indemnity (Lost to: Going My Way)
13. North By Northwest (Lost to: Ben-Hur)
14. Dr. Strangelove (Lost to: My Fair Lady)
15. Apocolypse Now (Lost to: Kramer vs. Kramer)
16. Singing In The Rain (Lost to: The Greatest Show On Earth)
17. The Maltese Falcon (Lost to: How Green Was My Valley)
18. High Noon (Lost to: The Greatest Show On Earth)
19. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (Lost to: Gone With The Wind)
20. Saving Private Ryan (Lost to: Shakspeare In Love)

Best Director

1. Stanley Kubrick (4 Nominations)
2. Martin Scorsese (5 Nominations)
3. Alfred Hitchcock (5 Nominations)
4. Ridley Scott (3 Nominations)
5. Akira Kurasawa (1 Nomination)
6. Robert Altman (5 Nominations)
7. Terrance Malick (1 Nomination)
8. Spike Lee (No Nominations)
9. Howard Hawkes (1 Nomination)
10. Ingmar Bergman (3 Nominations)
11. Orson Welles (1 Nomination)
12. Arthur Penn (3 Nominations)
13. Mike Leigh (2 Nominations)
14. Hal Ashby (1 Nomination)
15. David Lynch (3 Nominations)
16. Brian DePalma (No Nominations)
17. Fritz Lang (No Nominations)
18. Jean-Luc Godard (No Nominations)
19. Federico Fellini (4 Nominations)
20. Sidney Lumet (4 Nominations)

Best Actor/ Supporting Actor

1. Cary Grant (2 Nominations)
2. Charlie Chaplin (2 Nominations)
3. Peter O'Toole (7 Nominations)
4. Albert Finney (5 Nominations)
5. Clint Eastwood (2 Nomination)
6. Morgan Freeman (4 Nominations)
7. Peter Sellers (2 Nominations)
8. Richard Burton (7 Nominations)
9. Robert Mitchum (1 Nomination)
10. Tom Cruise (3 Nominations)
11. Fred Astaire (1 Nomination)
12. Montgomery Clift (4 Nominations)
13. Nick Nolte (2 Nominations)
14. Samuel L. Jackson (1 Nomination)
15. Kirk Douglas (3 Nominations)
16. Steve McQueen (1 Nomination)
17. Rock Hudson (1 Nomination)
18. Bruce Willis (No Nominations)
19. Bob Hope (No Nominations)
20. Harrison Ford (1 Nomination)

Best Actress/ Supporting Actress

1. Judy Garland (2 Nominations)
2. Barbra Stanwyck (4 Nominations)
3. Natalie Wood (3 Nominations)
4. Marilyn Monroe (No Nominations)
5. Deborah Kerr (6 Nominations)
6. Glenn Close (5 Nominations)
7. Angela Lansbury (3 Nominations)
8. Greta Garbo (4 Nominations)
9. Michelle Pfieffer (3 Nominations)
10. Marlene Dietrich (1 Nomination)
11. Cate Blanchett (2 Nomination)
12. Lauren Bacall (1 Nomination)
13. Jean Harlow (No Nominations)
14. Meg Ryan (No Nominations)
15. Rita Hayworth (No Nominations)
16. Ava Gardner (1 Nomination)
17. Kathlene Turner (1 Nomination)
18. Doris Day (1 Nomination)
19. Sharon Stone (1 Nomination)
20. Deborah Winger (3 Nominations)