10 Amazing Movies That Didn't Receive An Oscar Nomination

4. Breathless

The Film: It took the academy a while to cotton on that this movie malarkey wasn't just an American thang and that overseas there were some pretty amazing movies being made. This all changed in 1956 when the 29th Academy Awards saw the Best Foreign Picture category surface, paving the way for the likes of La Strada and Nights Of Cabiria opening audiences' eyes to some avant garde greats.

Come 1960 and the 32nd Academy Awards, one of the ceremony's biggest nomination clunkers was present, as Jean-Luc Godard's € Bout de Souffle was nowhere to be seen. Black Orpheus went on to take the baldie, leaving film lovers across the decades baffled as to why Godard's jump-cutting, Parisian crime caper didn't receive the recognition it clearly deserved. Some blame the fact the film came out a month before the ceremony, but the sure bet is that academy voters had simply never seen anything like this before.

What Nominations It Should Have Received: Best Foreign Picture.
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Shaun is a former contributor for a number of Future Publishing titles and more recently worked as a staffer at Imagine Publishing. He can now be found banking in the daytime and writing a variety of articles for What Culture, namely around his favourite topics of film, retro gaming, music, TV and, when he's feeling clever, literature.