redford it was his directorial debut was more popular with voters than scorsese at the time hence the oscar going to redfords attempt regardless of the why revisionists would now give the oscar to raging bull as 32 years later scorseses masterpiece continues to pack audiences for screenings apocalypse nowwhich year 1979lost to kramer vs kramer1979 saw the year that praised the awkwardness of divorce more than the atrocities of evil on the battlefield of vietnam francis ford coppola received no recognition for this film whatsoever even after losing his mind to make it over the course of over five years the graduate which year 1967lost to in the heat of the nighta drama of crime and racism in a small town in the heat of the night took the honours over this groundbreaking dustin hoffmanstarrerbonnie and clydewhich year 1967lost to in the heat of the nightproduceractor warren beatty had to convince warner bros to finance this film which went on to become the studios secondhighest grosser it also caused major controversy by redefining violence in cinema and casting its criminal protagonists as sympathetic antiheroesalfiewhich year 1966lost to a man for all seasonsmichael caines first starring role was a foray into dramatic irony scripted by bill naughton from his novel and play the historical drama of one courageous man standing up against king henry viiis desire for a divorce is a fine film but a man for all seasons beat out the superior alfie the color purple which year 1985lost to out of africadespite a whopping 11 nominations steven spielbergs film that covers various dark themes like racism abuse lesbianism and incest found little favour with the academy another major letdown was geraldine page the trip to bountiful winning best actress over whoopi goldbergthe elephant manwhich year 1980lost to ordinary peopleagreed actor john hurt and director david lynch arent oscar favourites but this cult film didnt win a single oscar that yearall the presidents menwhich year 1976lost to rockyas enjoyable as rocky is the academy could have picked a more worthy winner from all the other choices in 1977 including all the presidents men bound for glory and network the postman always rings twicewhich year 1946lost to the best years of our liveswhile the best years of our lives is touching it has slipped from the public conscience and is probably only viewed on film courses however postman is superb film noirdr strangelove which year 1964lost to my fair ladystanley kubricks dr strangelove is a film that was ahead of its time in turns thrilling and vital my fair lady not so much though audrey hepburn does her best to salvage the situationbrokeback mountainwhich year 2005lost to crashla confidentialwhich year 1997lost to titanici do think it was a bit of a joke that la confidential got beaten by titanic 15 years ago guy pearce recently told a website i just kind of went ugh all right okay and so did we titanic was being praised as a spectacle