The voting board that comprises the Academy Awards has a long and storied history ofbricking itwhen it comes to both nominations and the actual award, going back decades.This year, weep forDavid Oyelowo,other neglected stars fromSelma,and the like who came up with lint in their pockets and bare spaces on their shelves this year, but also keep in mind that they've just joined a prestigious crop of films, actors, and directors who've been frustratingly overlooked in years past.Here are some of the most glaring moments in history when the Academy gave the statue to the wrong people.The most epic Oscar snubs ever >>More From Complex:The 12 Most Painful Oscar Snubs of 2015Why the Oscars Don't Really MatterThe Oscars Are TrashSpike Lee on the 'Selma' Oscar Snubs: 'F*ck 'Em"John Legend Doesn't Think Selma Was Snubbed as Badly as Everyone Else Does'Pulp Fiction'Snubbed for: Best Picture; Best Director (Quentin Tarantino)Lost to:Forrest Gump; Robert Zemeckis'Year:1995Does any film elicit awards remorse more than the perfectly basic TNT staple "Forrest Gump"' It's a good movie, and props to Tom Hanks for flourishing in the easy awards route Robert Downey Jr. would later detail perfectly in what we shall now refer to as the "Tropic Thunder"Theorem, but something's got to give."Pulp Fiction's"screenplay was duly honored, but, considering the ways in which it would go on to influence film (and in some cases, be straight up swaggerjacked), Quentin Tarantino's first masterpiece deserved every award it was nominated for.And if a loss for the Big Two was in the cards, then at the very least not to a veritable Hallmark movie and its director. The world still waits for the Academy to finally give QT that Best Director statue he deserves.'Raging Bull'Snubbed for: Best Picture; Best Director (Martin Scorsese)'Lost to:Ordinary People; Robert RedfordYear:1981If "Goodfellas"isn't Marty's best, then the next logical choice is his boxing epic with his favorite actor collaborator, De Niro the god.At least the Academy recognized the greatness in that performance, but when it came down to the Big Two they instead chose to honor ... Robert Redford's Suburban Problems melodrama. Just an early entry in many head-scratching Scorsese Snubs.'Memento'Snubbed for:Best ScreenplayLost to:"Gosford Park"Year:2002Christopher Nolan had a way to climb before achieving his God Level status today when he hit us over the head with the narratively trippy "Memento."But if there's one area where his early genius couldn't be ignored, it's in the precisely-plotted, breathtakingly twisty script. "Gosford Park"is more fire from a fellow auteur in Robert Altman, but it's also aCluesend-up that nobody remembers half as fondly.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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