Some of the greatest pix weren't nommed for best pic

Jim Brooks' article does a winning job spotlighting some of Oscars' most shocking losers — performances and films that weren't even nominated! Oh, the infamy! (READ MORE) Well, let me rip back the curtain to reveal even more shockeroos.

Believe it or not, none of these gems was nominated for best picture:

"A.I.:Artificial Intelligence," "Adam's Rib," "Aliens," "Arthur," "Being John Malkovich," "Being There," "The Big Sleep," "The Birds," "Blade Runner," "Blood Simple," "Blue Velvet," "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "Brief Encounter," "Carrie," "Casino," "Central Station," "The China Syndrome," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Cool Hand Luke," "Days of Heaven," "Days of Wine and Roses," "Do the Right Thing," "Dreamgirls," "Duck Soup," "East of Eden," "Election," "A Fish Called Wanda," "Gilda," "Harold and Maude," "Hud," "In Cold Blood," "Leaving Las Vegas," "The Lion King," "A Little Princess," "The Manchurian Candidate," "Manhattan," "The Matrix," "Mean Streets," "Meet Me in St. Louis," "Melvin and Howard," "Memento," "The Misfits," "Modern Times," "Murder on the Orient Express," "North by Northwest," "Notorious," "The Opposite of Sex," "Out of Sight," "Paper Moon," "Peggy Sue Got Married," "The People vs. Larry Flynt," "Philadelphia," "The Player," "Pleasantville," "The Postman Always Rings Twice," "Ran," "Rear Window," "Rebel Without a Cause," "Rosemary's Baby," "Saturday Night Fever," "The Searchers," "The Seventh Seal," "Singin' in the Rain," "Spartacus," "Strangers on a Train," "The Stunt Man," "Suddenly, Last Summer," "Sullivan's Travels," "Sweeney Todd," "Thelma and Louise," "The Third Man," "To Have and Have Not," "A Touch of Evil," "Toy Story," "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," "The Truman Show," "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," "Victor/Victoria," "Viva Zapata," "The Way We Were," "When Harry Met Sally," "The Wild Bunch," "Wild Strawberries," "A Woman Under the Influence," "The World According to Garp" and "You Can Count on Me."