Robbed By The Academy! These Incredible Films Somehow Didn’t Win Best Picture

Raging Bull (1981)

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Scorsese’s searing Raging Bull loss to Robert Redford’s Ordinary People has become an easy example of how the Oscars often get it wrong. Initially, Martin Scorsese didn’t understand why Robert De Niro responded to the true story of Jake LaMotta. After bottoming out due to drug addiction and exhaustion, the director saw himself in the middleweight champion’s stumbles toward redemption. De Niro was ferocious, ugly, compelling, and never as brutally magnificent again.