5. Raging Bull
What Won Instead: Ordinary People On the AFI Top 100 Greatest Movies List Raging Bull is ranked number 4 behind Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and Casablanca. Ordinary People didnt even make the list. Sometimes I think the Academy is amazed that an actor could possibly direct a good movie, so much so that when it happens they lavish them with awards. Case in point Robert Redford's Ordinary People. Like all of the actual winners on this list, its not a bad film; it just isnt nearly as good as Raging Bull. Scorsese did not even win the award for Best Director for his massively original and gripping story of masculinity, defeat, and isolation. It should have swept the awards that night, yet it only won two of the eight honours it was nominated for. Scorsese finally won Best Picture and Best Director for 2006s The Departed, which some saw as a consolation by the Academy for failing to recognise his achievement for films like Taxi Driver, Gangs of New York, and especially Raging Bull.