Other Crap

The Shawshank Redemption, a "feel good" movie about a convicted murderer, prison brutality and the enduring power of friendship, has been voted the best movie never to have won a major Oscar.
Of course, they didn't get the right films on the list. I like Shawshank, but I'm not sure it belongs on the top of the REAL list. I'm not sure what they consider a major Oscar, but

• The Seven Samurai didn't even win best foreign film. It was nominated for some minor set design crap, and lost.
  
  
  
• Citizen Kane won only for best original screenplay. Don't know if that is considered major. I would consider it major, they might not.
  
  
• Dr Strangelove was nominated for four Oscars, won none.
  
  
• Star Wars won six Oscars, but they were all for bullshit like sound editing.
  
  
• Crouching Tiger won best foreign language film and best cinematography. (I would consider cinematography major, but it is debatable, I suppose)
  
  
• Rear Window was nominated for four, won none.
  
  
• Paths of Glory wasn't even nominated for any Oscars.
  
  
• The Bicycle Thief was nominated for one, and lost.
  
  
• Raiders of the Lost Ark won only four bullshit awards.
  

My own opinion, excluding the two debatable ones, would order them like this:

1. Dr Strangelove
   
2. Raiders
   
3. Rear Window
   
4. Wizard of Oz
   
5. Shawshank
   
6. Samurai
   
7. Some Like it Hot
   
8. Star Wars
   
9. Paths of Glory
   
10. The Bicycle Thief
    
11. Psycho
    
12. The Great Escape
    
13. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
    
14. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    
15. It's a Wonderful Life
    

The order is arbitrary, of course, but I feel pretty confident that those other four belong above Shawshank, and perhaps some of the others do as well. Once again, I love Shawshank, but it is quite reasonable to argue that Shawshank didn't deserve any Oscars. It came out the same year as Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction, and was absolutely no factor in the pre-Oscar buzz. Everyone in Hollywood split into the Gump camp or the Tarantino camp.