What movie SHOULD have won Best Picture

Thanks to OmahaBlueDog, who just posted a great thread about un-deserving winners of "Best Picture," I hope it's okay to build off of that and ask, What movie SHOULD have won Best Picture that didn't?

(Thanks OmahaBlueDog!)

To be consistent, and since I pinpointed "Crash" as being unworthy, I should say that I thought "Munich" was way, way more deserving.

Because there are so many films and so many favorites I am not making this a poll but just a free-for-all, and feel free to post more than once, since this is a huge topic with so many choices.

ON EDIT:

This year: CHANGELING

Others: MICHAEL CLAYTON, THE HOURS.

Not that "A Beautiful Mind" wasn't a good movie, but "Moulin Rouge" was so, so, SO much better.

instead of "Return of the King" and "Forest Gump."

I haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire, so it's unfair to comment, but I suspect they will be showing "The Dark Knight" and "Milk" long after people can remember what SM was about. Aside from Milk, I didn't even like the nominees this year.

DEFINITELY the Shawshank Redemption! I have never forgiven Forrest Gump for having won that year!

:grr:

what a fucking joke the Academy Awards are.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre should have won over Hamlet, Judgment at Nuremberg over West Side Story.

Goodfellas instead of Daces with Wolves

Quiz Show instead of Gump.

Secrets and Lies instead of the English Patient, okay disclaimer, i hated the English Patient but Secrets and Lies was an excellent movie, Brenda Blethyn was phenomenal in that.

In the bedroom over A Beautiful mind, C'mon, in the bedroom was a terrific film.

Capote over Crash, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, yes indeed, he owned it.

Barry Lyndon
Full Metal Jacket (at least nominated!)
The Shining

A word about The Shining. Not only was it not nominated, but didn't "Ordinary People" win that year? That movie was a well-intended nothingness, IMO.

Horrible decision.

The one the previous year was bad as well: Kramer vs. Kramer over Apocalypse Now.

No better social commentary has ever been committed to film.

doh.

Either 2001: A Space Odyssey or Once Upon a Time in the West over Oliver (1968). The fact that neither movie was nominated is a travesty in itself.

No offense to The French Connection (1971), but A Clockwork Orange or Last Picture Show would have been better choices.

2005 - Either V for Vendetta or Good Night and Good Luck were both vastly superior to the utterly overrated crapfest that was Crash.

Brazil (1985) . . . not even nominated. Unbelievable. Easily better than ANY that were nominated that year, even the timeless Witness.

1983 - Scarface. NOT even nominated. Terms of Endearment my ass.

1999 - The Green Mile over American Beauty. I DO not get why everyone beats off over this movie. The only likable characters were the bit-part neighbors. Everyone else could go eat a dick.

1997 - I would have placed ANYthing made that year over Shiteanic. GOD what a pompous and overlong weepy shitheap that was. Who would view that thing repeatedly?

"Star Wars" over "Annie Hall"

"Glory" (which didn't even get nominated) over "Driving Miss Daisy"

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" over "Chariots of Fire"

Someone mentioned "Dr. Strangelove" over "My Fair Lady". I actually like both films, but I feel that "Mary Poppins" was a better cinematic achievement than either of them.

"The King & I" over "Around the World in 80 Days"

"High Noon" over "The Greatest Show on Earth" (or even "The Quiet Man")

"Double Indemnity" over "Going My Way" (note: I like both films, but "The Bells of St.Mary's" -- the sequel to GMW, which loses to the very deserving "The Lost Weekend" a couple of years later, is a much better picture)

"The Wizard of Oz" over "Gone With The Wind"

I weep when, a few years ago, the "Academy" approached him about giving him an HONORARY oscar, and HE, so fucking MODESTLY said, "Oh, I think I still might be able to win one on my own, or no?!1"

Didn't even get a Best Picture nomination.

over Crash!

it got beat by the Deer Hunter...what joke.

Kal-el vs. Chris Walken, its no contest....Supes dominates

I really think No Country for Old Men was a gimmie to the Coen brothers to make amends for that past error.