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"Oscar Trivia: Day 7"
FILMS NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE BUT NOT NOMINATED FOR DIRECTING
by Tim Nasson
January 9, 2008

For today's "Oscar Trivia" - you'll find out all of the Films Nominated for the Best Picture Oscar But Were Not Nominated for the Best Director Oscar - and there are A LOT, including "The Color Purple," we were shocked to find out. "The Color Purple" was nominated for 11 Oscars, and won zero. We knew that. But we had forgotten that its director, Steven Spielberg, got the shaft. Since then, however, Spielberg has won the Oscar for Best Director two times, ("Schindler's List" & "Saving Private Ryan") and just may do so again in 2010 for "Lincoln."

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FILMS NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE NOT NOMINATED FOR DIRECTING +
(* indicates winner of Best Picture Oscar)

1927/28 (1st) The Racket (1 nomination)

1927/28 (1st) Wings (2 nominations) *

1928/29 (2nd) [Note: Nominations were not announced this year; only winners.]

1929/30 (3rd) The Big House (4 nominations)

1929/30 (3rd) Disraeli (3 nominations)

1930/31 (4th) East Lynne (1 nomination)

1930/31 (4th) Trader Horn (1 nomination)

1931/32 (5th) Arrowsmith (4 nominations)

1931/32 (5th) Five Star Final (1 nomination)

1931/32 (5th) Grand Hotel (1 nomination) *

1931/32 (5th) One Hour with You (1 nomination)

1931/32 (5th) Smiling Lieutenant (1 nomination)

1932/33 (6th) A Farewell to Arms (4 nominations)

1932/33 (6th) 42nd Street (2 nominations)

1932/33 (6th) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (3 nominations)

1932/33 (6th) The Private Life of Henry VIII (2 nominations)

1932/33 (6th) She Done Him Wrong (1 nomination)

1932/33 (6th) Smilin' Through (1 nomination)

1932/33 (6th) State Fair (2 nominations)

1934 (7th) The Barretts of Wimpole Street (2 nominations)

1934 (7th) Cleopatra (5 nominations)

1934 (7th) Flirtation Walk (2 nominations)

1934 (7th) The Gay Divorcee (5 nominations)

1934 (7th) Here Comes the Navy (1 nomination)

1934 (7th) The House of Rothschild (1 nomination)

1934 (7th) Imitation of Life (3 nominations)

1934 (7th) Viva Villa (4 nominations)

1934 (7th) The White Parade (2 nominations)

1935 (8th) Alice Adams (2 nominations)

1935 (8th) Broadway Melody of 1936 (3 nominations)

1935 (8th) Captain Blood (2 nominations) [plus 3 write-in candidates including directing]

1935 (8th) David Copperfield (3 nominations)

1935 (8th) Les Miserables (4 nominations)

1935 (8th) A Midsummer Night's Dream (2 nominations) [plus 2 write-in candidates]

1935 (8th) Naughty Marietta (2 nominations)

1935 (8th) Ruggles of Red Gap (1 nomination)

1935 (8th) Top Hat (4 nominations)

1936 (9th) Anthony Adverse (7 nominations)

1936 (9th) Libeled Lady (1 nomination)

1936 (9th) Romeo and Juliet (4 nominations)

1936 (9th) The Story of Louis Pasteur (4 nominations)

1936 (9th) A Tale of Two Cities (2 nominations)

1936 (9th) Three Smart Girls (3 nominations)

1937 (10th) Captains Courageous (4 nominations)

1937 (10th) Dead End (4 nominations)

1937 (10th) In Old Chicago (6 nominations)

1937 (10th) Lost Horizon (7 nominations)

1937 (10th) One Hundred Men and a Girl (5 nominations)

1938 (11th) The Adventures of Robin Hood (4 nominations)

1938 (11th) Alexander's Ragtime Band (6 nominations)

1938 (11th) Grand Illusion (1 nomination)

1938 (11th) Jezebel (5 nominations)

1938 (11th) Pygmalion (4 nominations)

1938 (11th) Test Pilot (3 nominations)

1939 (12th) Dark Victory (3 nominations)

1939 (12th) Love Affair (6 nominations)

1939 (12th) Ninotchka (4 nominations)

1939 (12th) Of Mice and Men (4 nominations)

1939 (12th) The Wizard of Oz (5 nominations)

1940 (13th) All This, and Heaven Too (3 nominations)

1940 (13th) Foreign Correspondent (6 nominations)

1940 (13th) The Great Dictator (5 nominations)

1940 (13th) The Long Voyage Home (6 nominations)

1940 (13th) Our Town (6 nominations)

1941 (14th) Blossoms in the Dust (4 nominations)

1941 (14th) Hold Back the Dawn (6 nominations)

1941 (14th) The Maltese Falcon (3 nominations)

1941 (14th) One Foot in Heaven (1 nomination)

1941 (14th) Suspicion (3 nominations)

1942 (15th) The Invaders (3 nominations)

1942 (15th) The Magnificent Ambersons (4 nominations)

1942 (15th) The Pied Piper (3 nominations)

1942 (15th) The Pride of the Yankees (11 nominations)

1942 (15th) The Talk of the Town (7 nominations)

1943 (16th) For Whom the Bell Tolls (9 nominations)

1943 (16th) In Which We Serve (2 nominations) [plus special award]

1943 (16th) Madame Curie (7 nominations)

1943 (16th) The Ox-Bow Incident (1 nomination)

1943 (16th) Watch on the Rhine (4 nominations)

1944 (17th) Gaslight (7 nominations)

1944 (17th) Since You Went Away (9 nominations)

1945 (18th) Anchors Aweigh (5 nominations)

1945 (18th) Mildred Pierce (6 nominations)

1946 (19th) Henry V (4 nominations) [plus a special award which mentions directing]

1946 (19th) The Razor's Edge (4 nominations)

1947 (20th) Miracle on 34th Street (4 nominations)

1948 (21st) The Red Shoes (5 nominations)

1949 (22nd) Twelve O'Clock High (4 nominations)

1950 (23rd) Father of the Bride (3 nominations)

1950 (23rd) King Solomon's Mines (3 nominations)

1951 (24th) Decision before Dawn (2 nominations)

1951 (24th) Quo Vadis (8 nominations)

1952 (25th) Ivanhoe (3 nominations)

1953 (26th) Julius Caesar (5 nominations)

1953 (26th) The Robe (5 nominations)

1954 (27th) The Caine Mutiny (7 nominations)

1954 (27th) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (5 nominations)

1954 (27th) Three Coins in the Fountain (3 nominations)

1955 (28th) Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (8 nominations)

1955 (28th) Mister Roberts (3 nominations)

1955 (28th) The Rose Tattoo (8 nominations)

1956 (29th) The Ten Commandments (7 nominations)

1957 (30th) - - - - -

1958 (31st) Auntie Mame (6 nominations)

1958 (31st) Separate Tables (7 nominations)

1959 (32nd) Anatomy of a Murder (7 nominations)

1960 (33rd) The Alamo (7 nominations)

1960 (33rd) Elmer Gantry (5 nominations)

1961 (34th) Fanny (5 nominations)

1962 (35th) The Longest Day (5 nominations)

1962 (35th) The Music Man (6 nominations)

1962 (35th) Mutiny on the Bounty (7 nominations)

1963 (36th) Cleopatra (9 nominations)

1963 (36th) How the West Was Won (8 nominations)

1963 (36th) Lilies of the Field (5 nominations)

1964 (37th) - - - - -

1965 (38th) Ship of Fools (8 nominations)

1965 (38th) A Thousand Clowns (4 nominations)

1966 (39th) Alfie (5 nominations)

1966 (39th) The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming (4 nominations)

1966 (39th) The Sand Pebbles (8 nominations)

1967 (40th) Doctor Dolittle (9 nominations)

1968 (41st) Funny Girl (8 nominations)

1968 (41st) Rachel, Rachel (4 nominations)

1969 (42nd) Anne of the Thousand Days (10 nominations)

1969 (42nd) Hello, Dolly! (7 nominations)

1970 (43rd) Airport (10 nominations)

1970 (43rd) Five Easy Pieces (4 nominations)

1971 (44th) Nicholas and Alexandra (6 nominations)

1972 (45th) Sounder (4 nominations)

1973 (46th) A Touch of Class (5 nominations)

1974 (47th) The Conversation (3 nominations)

1974 (47th) The Towering Inferno (8 nominations)

1975 (48th) Jaws (4 nominations)

1976 (49th) Bound for Glory (6 nominations)

1976 (49th) Taxi Driver (4 nominations)

1977 (50th) The Goodbye Girl (5 nominations)

1978 (51st) An Unmarried Woman (3 nominations)

1979 (52nd) Norma Rae (4 nominations)

1980 (53rd) Coal Miner's Daughter (7 nominations)

1981 (54th) - - - - -

1982 (55th) Missing (4 nominations)

1983 (56th) The Big Chill (3 nominations)

1983 (56th) The Right Stuff (8 nominations)

1984 (57th) A Soldier's Story (3 nominations)

1985 (58th) The Color Purple (11 nominations)

1986 (59th) Children of a Lesser God (5 nominations)

1987 (60th) Broadcast News (7 nominations)

1988 (61st) The Accidental Tourist (4 nominations)

1988 (61st) Dangerous Liaisons (7 nominations)

1989 (62nd) Driving Miss Daisy (9 nominations) *

1989 (62nd) Field of Dreams (3 nominations)

1990 (63rd) Awakenings (3 nominations)

1990 (63rd) Ghost (5 nominations)

1991 (64th) Beauty and the Beast (6 nominations)

1991 (64th) The Prince of Tides (7 nominations)

1992 (65th) A Few Good Men (4 nominations)

1993 (66th) The Fugitive (7 nominations)

1994 (67th) Four Weddings and a Funeral (2 nominations)

1994 (67th) The Shawshank Redemption (7 nominations)

1995 (68th) Apollo 13 (9 nominations)

1995 (68th) Sense and Sensibility (7 nominations)

1996 (69th) Jerry Maguire (5 nominations)

1997 (70th) As Good As It Gets (7 nominations)

1998 (71st) Elizabeth (7 nominations)

1999 (72nd) The Green Mile (4 nominations)

2000 (73rd) Chocolat (5 nominations)

2001 (74th) In the Bedroom (5 nominations)

2001 (74th) Moulin Rouge (8 nominations)

2002 (75th) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (6 nominations)

2003 (76th) Seabiscuit (7 nominations)

2004 (77th) Finding Neverland (7 nominations)

2005 (78th) - - - - -

2006 (79th) Little Miss Sunshine (4 nominations)

+ Note: For the first 20 years of Oscars ten movies were nominated for Best Picture.

Among all of the above directors given the shaft by the Academy - not receiving a Best Director Oscar nomination, even though their picture was nominated - the most glaring examples, in addition to "The Color Purple"...

"As Good As It Gets" - Both Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson won the top acting Oscars and the movie was nominated for Best Picture. But James L. Brooks, who won the Best Director Oscar a decade earlier, for "Terms of Endearment," was left out of the races.

And, of course, "Driving Miss Daisy" WON the Best Picture Oscar but its director, Bruce Beresford, was not nominated for an Oscar.

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