9. City of God
2002’s City of God was a heartbreaking look at life inside of one of Rio de Janeiro’s infamous favelas, or slums. Despite the worldwide acclaim the film received, it was not selected to even win a foreign film nomination from the Academy. The foreign film versus Best Picture category has long been controversial due to its American and Western-centric view, but not even nominating such an acclaimed Portuguese-language Brazilian film seems like a massive oversight.
