10. Network, Taxi Driver, and All the President’s Men
Yes, you are reading the title correctly. In one single year, three incredible films lost the Best Picture award. Network, the incredibly prescient satire of mass media, All the President’s Men, which dramatized the Watergate investigation, and Taxi Driver, Scorsese’s chilling character study of Taxi Driver all lost to Rocky. While Rocky is doubtlessly a classic, it simply cannot compare to the other three films. Rocky also managed to knock out Sidney Lumet and Ingmar Bergman in the Best Director category.
