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In the Academy Awards' 80-year history, many classic films, performers, and directors have been robbed of their statues. CNN's Screening Room names the 10 most crushing Oscars that weren't, many of which lost out to—gulp—musicals:
- 1941: Seminal Citizen Kane loses to sappy How Green Was My Valley
- 1956: James Dean gets bested by The King and I's Yul Brynner
- 1958: Vertigo's Hitchcock loses best director to the man behind Gigi
- 1964: Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove flattened by My Fair Lady
- 1976: Al Pacino as Michael Corleone gets whacked by Joel Grey in Cabaret
- 1979: Robert Duvall wows in Apocalypse Now, but Melvyn Douglas wins
- 1990: Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves bests Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas
- 1994: Pulp Fiction takes a backseat to family-friendly Forrest Gump
- 1997: LA Confidential gets sunk by Titanic and its flimsy script
- 2005: Brokeback Mountain loses to just-OK Crash
