3.Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
What Won Instead: My Fair Lady Stanley Kubrick was never an Academy favourite 2001: A Space Odyssey was never nominated along with several of his films. Dr. Strangelove is a Cuban Missile Crisis Era dark comedy that leaves you feeling uneasy. It makes sense that the film that won is My Fair Lady, a bright and charming musical spectacle that makes people optimistic. All that Dr. Strangelove offers is the chilling idea that the people in charge of the nuclear weapons are just people people who can be petty, incompetent, and crazy. Its so chilling that the only thing that you can do about it is laugh. I guess the Academy didnt want to bum everyone out.