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

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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There’s long been a strand of self-loathing to the film industry, and sometimes that self-loathing leads to great movies. It’s essentially the core of Billy Wilder’s darkly funny Sunset Boulevard. A struggling screenwriter (William Holden) discovers Hollywood’s gothic underbelly after stumbling into an intense relationship with an unstable star of the silent age (Gloria Swanson).