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"The Shawshank Redemption" voted the best "Non-Best Picture"

The Shawshank Redemption's been voted the greatest film to miss out on a best picture Oscar. The ...
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12.53 8 Feb 2013


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"The Shawshank Redemption" voted the best "Non-Best Picture"

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The Shawshank Redemption's been voted the greatest film to miss out on a best picture Oscar.

The movie was nominated in 1995 but was beaten to the prize by Forrest Gump.

Other films in the top 10 of the Sky Movies survey include The Green Mile, Pulp Fiction and Avatar.

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The full list is as follows:

  1. The Shawshank Redemption (lost out to Forrest Gump in 1995)
  2. The Green Mile (lost out to American Beauty in 2000)
  3. Avatar (lost out to The Hurt Locker in 2010)
  4. Saving Private Ryan (lost out to Shakespeare In Love in 1999)
  5. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (lost out to Gandhi in 1983)
  6. Star Wars (lost out to Annie Hall in 1978)
  7. Mary Poppins (lost out to My Fair Lady in 1965)
  8. Doctor Zhivago (lost out to The Sound of Music in 1966)
  9. Pulp Fiction (lost out to Forrest Gump in 1995)
  10. To Kill a Mockingbird (lost out to Lawrence of Arabia in 1963)

 You can watch the nominations ceremony for this year's Oscars below:

 


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