By the Academy Today were going to try to right those wrongs with our picks of the ten best films that deserved but didnt win an oscar starting with an american classic. The man went looking for america and couldnt find it anywhere a quote from the quintessential rebel road movie easy rider Dennis Hopper and peter fonda play two bikers riding the american highway like wild west out. There on a search for freedom in a conformist america full of paranoia bigotry and violence. Which. I dont think. But one thousand nine hundred seventeen midnight cowboy the oscar for best picture easy rider failed to convince the academy. This film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four including best soundtrack but not best picture. Yet high noon with gary cooper is possibly the best western ever made the plot unfolds in real time something that had never been done before. And now we can wait on hundred miles well never be able to keep that store any come after us and we have to run again lon
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