10 Amazing Movies That Didn't Receive An Oscar Nomination

5. Scarface

The Film: Remakes don't come much more striking and brutal than Brian De Palma's - then - bang up to date interpretation of Howard Hawks's thirties crime caper. Since its release in 1983, the film has gone on to spawn video games, comics, whispers of a sequel and has influenced an innumerable amount of rappers.

Adapted by a then cocaine-addled Oliver Stone, anything wholesome in Hawks's original is stripped back as Stone turned in a screenplay that was as much his own personal goodbye to the white stuff as it was a knockout rise and fall tale. The misadventures of Cuban immigrant come Miami kingpin, Tony Montana, only grow in resonance, with every crime flick in the genre taking its nods from De Palma and Stone's joint effort; from New Jack City all the way to Goodfellas. It also stands as not only Pacino's best role, but Steven Bauer's and Michelle Pfeiffer's as well. Come the 56th Academy Awards, De Palma and co weren't even in the running, with the awards that night going, ironically, to some rather tame efforts in Terms Of Endearment and not so tough The Year Of Living Dangerously. What Nominations It Should Have Received: Best Picture, Best Director (De Palma), Best Actor (Pacino), Best Supporting Actor (Bauer), Best Adapted Screenplay (Stone).