Robbed By The Academy! These Incredible Films Somehow Didn’t Win Best Picture

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

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It’s not hard to see why Gregory Peck’s performance as Atticus Finch has become synonymous with unbending American virtue. Like the film around him and the Harper Lee novel from which it’s adapted, he’s hopeful but clear- eyed. Finch is aware of how hard it is to champion justice and tolerance in a world that often seems to want neither. In spite of the fact that To Kill a Mockingbird was nominated for eight Academy Awards, it only won three. None of those were for Best Picture.