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

Taxi Driver (1976)

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Sylvester Stallone’s sleeper hit, Rocky, took home the gold statuette this year. But Rocky Balboa’s journey looks downright triumphant next to that of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) — the alienated cabbie for whom New York had become a living hell. Director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader took the film to the sort of dark places few movies dare to go. The Academy responded with a nomination but no award (sadly).