Best Picture: What Should've Won...

[Markgway]

Here's some examples of mistakes I think the Academy made over the years... feel free to disagree and/or add yours... I'm only picking from films that were actually nominated.

1973
Won: The Sting
What Should've Won: The Exorcist

1975
Won: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
What Should've Won: Jaws

1981
Won: Chariots of Fire
What Should've Won: Raiders of the Lost Ark

1988
Won: Rain Man
What Should've Won: Mississippi Burning

1991
Won: The Silence of the Lambs
What Should've Won: J.F.K.

1994
Won: Forrest Gump
What Should've Won: The Shawshank Redemption

1997
Won: Titanic
What Should've Won: L.A. Confidential

1998
Won: Shakespeare in Love
What Should've Won: The Thin Red Line

1999
Won: American Beauty
What Should've Won: The Insider

2005
Won: Crash
What Should've Won: Munich

2006
Won: The Departed
What Should've Won: Letters from Iwo Jima