Film Friday: 10 Best Picture nominees that should have won from 'The Grapes of Wrath' to 'Raging Bull'

5. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb - 1964, directed by Stanley Kubirck (lost to My Fair Lady)

One of the craziest things about the Academy is that it asks the industry to chose the best movie out of a cluster of films that couldn't be more different. This year, they have to pick a 1970s-set caper movie over a serious historical epic about slavery during the Civil War. In 1965, members of the Academy were asked to decide if Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove - a black Cold War comedy – was better than George Cukor's sweeping film of My Fair Lady. Unfortunately, they picked My Fair Lady.

It's almost a good thing that none of Kubrick's movies won Best Picture. His films are so unique, so of one mind, that they would not fit in a group of 80 other movies. That would mean that they conform to some mythical rules in someone's head and they fit none of the rules.

My favorite moment in the film isn't Strangelove's manic speech at the end, but Sterling Hayden's “precious bodily fluids” speech.