10 Movies That Didn't Win 'Best Picture' [2] Quiz

Answer: Citizen Kane

Despite this loss, "Citizen Kane" did win the Oscar for 'Best Original Screenplay'. The American Film Institute kept "Citizen Kane" as the #1 film on its Top 100 list in both 1997 and 2007. "Citizen Kane" is also well-known for the name 'Rosebud', part of an integral mystery solved in the movie.

The film starred Orson Welles; it was also his directorial debut, and he was nominated for Oscars in both fields. "How Green Was My Valley", based on a novel about a Welsh family living on a farm, won five Oscars on the same night including 'Best Picture' and 'Best Director'.

It also beat out "The Maltese Falcon".

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Considered a Christmas-time classic, "It's A Wonderful Life", directed by Frank Capra, is about a man who tries to commit suicide by gets saved by his guardian angel. Although it wasn't as well-received originally, it has since become one of the American Film Institute's top films and is one of James Stewart's top films.

He never won the 'Best Actor' Oscar for "It's a Wonderful Life", but five years earlier, he won for "The Philadelphia Story", and in 1985 he won an honorary award for Lifetime Achievement. "The Best Years of Our Lives", about war veterans, also beat out "Henry V", "The Razor's Edge", and "The Yearling" for 'Best Picture' in 1946.

It won seven of the eight awards it was nominated for including 'Best Actor' and 'Best Supporting Actor' (for Fredric March and Harold Russell, respectively).

Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

Based on the well-known Harper Lee novel of the same name, the film was about the conviction of an African-American man in a sleepy American town and the lessons a family learns about their fellow man. Gregory Peck, who played the role of Atticus Finch, won the 'Best Actor' Oscar for his role, one which has been named AFI's Greatest Film Hero.

Other losing films from this year included "Mutiny on the Bounty", "The Music Man", and "The Longest Day". "How the West Was Won" lost to "Tom Jones" in 1963, and "West Side Story" won 'Best Picture' the year before in 1961. "South Pacific" won the 'Best Picture' at the Golden Globes in 1958, only taking home one Oscar for Sound. "Lawrence of Arabia" won seven Oscars. Actor Peter O'Toole received his first of many nominations but lost to Gregory Peck. Over more than forty years, he earned eight nominations without a single win.

Answer: The French Connection

Directed by William Friedkin, "The French Connection" is well-known for having been the first R-rated film to win 'Best Picture'. Two years earlier, "Midnight Cowboy" would become the first X-rated film to be honored with the same award. "The French Connection" starred Gene Hackman, who won 'Best Actor' and it also took home three other awards.

In addition to "A Clockwork Orange", "The French Connection" beat "Fiddler on the Roof", "The Last Picture Show" and "Nicholas and Alexandra" for 'Best Picture'.

The film is based on a heroin shipment scheme in the sixties in which drugs were smuggled into New York. "A Clockwork Orange", directed by Stanley Kubrick, was nominated for four awards but didn't take home any. Based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, the film and novel depict a group of gangsters in a dystopian future.

Answer: The Exorcist

Although William Friedkin's "The French Connection" won 'Best Picture' in 1971, his horror film, "The Exorcist", quickly became an instant classic in the genre. Starring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair (both of whom were nominated for acting Oscars as well), "The Exorcist" was a film about the demonic possession of a girl and the means through which a duo of priests attempt to remove the Satanic being from her body.

Although the film won awards in sound and screenwriting, it didn't win in eight of the nominations it achieved although it won four Golden Globes including 'Best Picture - Drama'. In 1972, "The Sting" took home 'Best Picture' while other nominated films included "American Graffiti", "Cries and Whispers", and "A Touch of Class". The only acting award to be claimed by any of these films was to Glenda Jackson in "A Touch of Class".

Answer: Mississippi Burning

"Rain Man", starring the Oscar-winning Dustin Hoffman, also won 'Best Director'. The film is based on Tom Cruise's character whose father dies and places his inheritance in Dustin Hoffman, his unknown autistic brother's, care.
"Mississippi Burning", a film about racial conflicts in the American south and murders surrounding them, was nominated in six different categories including 'Best Picture' and 'Best Actor' (for Gene Hackman) though both of these were lost to "Rain Man".
Other films to be nominated for 'Best Picture' in 1988 included "Dangerous Liaisons", "The Accidental Tourist", and "Working Girl".

Answer: Babe

"Babe", winner of the award for 'Best Visual Effects', did get seven different nominations including 'Best Picture', but along with "Apollo 13", "Il Postino", and "Sense and Sensibility", it lost out to "Braveheart" which gave Mel Gibson the awards for 'Best Picture' and 'Best Director'. "Babe" followed a small pig who tried to grow up to be a dog.

The film's sequel, "Babe: Pig in the City", was nominated for 'Best Original Song' in 1998 despite being much less popular than the original. Christine Cavanaugh voiced Babe along with many other popular animated characters found on TV in the nineties.

Her resume includes voices from "Dexter's Laboratory", "Rugrats", and "The Powerpuff Girls".

Answer: The Green Mile

Starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, "The Green Mile" was nominated for four Academy Awards becoming the second Stephen King film to get a 'Best Picture' nod. Director Darabont also helmed Stephen King's "The Mist", a horror film released in 2007. "The Green Mile" followed the supernatural events in a death row prison known as 'The Green Mile' and the people who discover that new inmate John Coffey has unmatchable powers. "The Green Mile" along with "The Insider", "The Cider House Rules", and "The Sixth Sense" were defeated by "American Beauty" in 1999. Both Kevin Spacey and director Sam Mendes won Oscars for their roles in the film, a story about the life of a contemporary, everyday family and issues they face.

Answer: Sideways

Nominated for five awards, but only winning for 'Best Adapted Screenplay', "Sideways" starred Paul Giamatti (who was later nominated for a role in "Cinderella Man" the following year) and Thomas Haden Church as two men who go on a wine-tasting tour of southern California and get into odd situations.

While the film was also nominated for 'Best Picture', 'Best Director' and 'Best Supporting Actor and Actress', it didn't prevail, instead losing to Clint Eastwood's popular title "Million Dollar Baby" which also took home four awards of its seven nominations. "Finding Neverland", "The Aviator", and "Ray" also had their fair share of nominations this year.

While all of them were up for 'Best Picture', the only major award achieved amongst them was Jamie Foxx's 'Best Actor' Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles.

Answer: Little Miss Sunshine

Nominated for four Academy Awards in 2006 (including 'Best Supporting Actress' for a then-ten-year-old Abigail Breslin), the film took home two awards at the end of the night, one for Alan Arkin as 'Best Actor in a Supporting Role' and one for 'Best Original Screenplay'.

The film, about a family who attempts to send their youngest child to a beauty pageant known as 'Little Miss Sunshine', was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival before being picked up by Fox Searchlight. Other films at this year's ceremony included "Babel", "Letters from Iwo Jima", and "The Queen", the last of which gave Helen Mirren a 'Best Actress' award. None of them matched up to the accolades of Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" which, in its depiction of a corrupt Boston police force and the mobs they opposed, took home four awards from its five nominations including 'Best Picture' and 'Best Director'.

It was the first time a remake of a foreign film had won the award as it had been adapted from the Hong Kong film, "Infernal Affairs".