12 Hugely Iconic Movies That Shockingly Didn't Win A Single Academy Award

10. The Green Mile (1999)

Nominated For: Best Picture; Best Supporting Actor (Duncan); Best Sound; Best Adapted Screenplay. IMDB Ranking: #47 Rotten Tomatoes: 80% You'll do well to find anyone who hasn't cried at least once at The Green Mile. Frank Darabont's adaptation of the Stephen King novel both warms and breaks the heart in equal measure, as it takes the audience on a journey through the life of former death row guard Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), and how one of the prisoners, John Coffey, a seven-foot tall black man with an incredible gift (played by Michael Clarke Duncan), changed his life forever. The Green Mile was nominated for four Academy Awards, but lost out to American Beauty, The Cider House Rules (twice) and The Matrix. But perhaps most surprising was the omission of Hanks from the Best Actor category, who gave a typically scintillating performance as Edgecomb, but was less preferred than Sean Penn for lesser-known Woody Allen production Sweet and Lowdown, 79-year-old Richard Farnsworth for The Straight Story and eventual winner Kevin Spacey for American Beauty, which incidentally also won Best Picture.