25 best movies that never won an Academy Award

25 best movies that never won an Oscar

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 03: Director Greta Gerwig (R) accepts the Nomination Medallion for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 'Lady Bird' from actor Saoirse Ronan onstage during the 70th Annual Directors Guild Of America Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 3, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images for DGA) /

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9. Casino

Oh hey, it’s another Scorsese film that the Academy decided wasn’t worth rewarding despite incredible performances all around and Scorsese’s usual directorial brilliance. Casino is mostly known for being the film that convinced the world Sharon Stone could act, but it should be remembered as one of the best, most-celebrated films of 1995.

All the Academy decided to do with Casino at the 1996 Oscars was nominate Stone for Best Supporting Actress, which she promptly lost (arguably unjustly) to Susan Sarandon for Dead Man Walking. Buckle up, because there is a lot of revisionist history to be done with these Oscars that would’ve helped Casino‘s chances of taking home at least one golden statue.

First and foremost, this was the year Spacey won Best Supporting Actor for The Usual Suspects. That film no longer exists due to both Spacey and Bryan Singer’s involvement, which leaves room for Joe Pesci to at least be nominated in place of Spacey. The same goes for Braveheart because of Mel Gibson’s heavy role, which might’ve resulted in Best Picture and Best Director nominations for Casino.

Of course, that’s just what would hopefully happen if that race was occurring in 2019. It’s mostly wishful thinking that the Academy would ever be woke enough to disregard movies from problematic filmmakers and actors (*cough* Bohemian Rhapsody *cough*). Maybe Casino would’ve fared better in 2019 than 1996. We’ll never know.

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