This coming Sunday, movie lovers will be watching the Academy Awards telecast and betting on which films and creative artists will take home the celebrated prize. Oddly, the history of the Oscars is heavy with classic works that failed to snag a single nomination \u2013 and the reasons for the omissions are among the great mysteries of movie history.
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For your consideration, here are 10 beloved films that Academy voters failed to bless with any nominations \u2013 but, somehow, they achieved classic status without Oscar\u2019s blessing.<\/p>\n
\u201cCity Lights\u201d (1931):<\/strong> Considered by many film scholars to be Charles Chaplin\u2019s masterpiece, \u201cCity Lights\u201d was conspicuously overlooked. Some claim that was because Chaplin stubbornly held on to the silent film format well into the sound era, but F.W. Murnau\u2019s silent \u201cTabu\u201d won the Best Cinematography Oscar that year. Ironically, the Best Picture winner in that year\u2019s competition, \u201cCimarron,\u201d is widely regarded as one of the worst films to snag Hollywood\u2019s grand prize.<\/p>\n