With the Oscars quickly approaching, and in honour of the academy nominating ten films this year, Real Style Network Celebrities and Entertainment Blog has compiled a list of the top ten nominated movies that have failed in the last thirty years to win the Best Picture award. Here are our choices for most deserving Oscar Best Picture:

10. Chariots of Fire whipped Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981. Chariots of Fire was a great movie, but it was also a very slow movie. Raiders of the Lost Ark brought a new age of action movies to an audience looking for something different.

9. Dances With Wolves had a bigger bat than Goodfellas in 1990. Dances With Wolves was good, Goodfellas was better. Enough Said.

8. Crash came out of the closet to beat Brokeback Mountain in 2005. Brokeback Mountain by all means should have won the Best Picture award for 2005. Ang Lee won for Best Director, and the movie won every other major award. Unfortunately the academy was squeamish about the subject matter.

7. Kramer vs. Kramer won the war with Apocalypse Now in 1979. In any other year I would have agreed with the academy’s choice of giving Kramer vs. Kramer the Best Picture award. Unfortunately it was up against one of the best war movies ever made.

6. Forrest Gump mowed down Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption in 1994. I loved Forrest Gump, and I still do. A lot of people would give Pulp Fiction the win here, but not me. I actually liked Shawshank Redemption better, and in my opinion it is one of the best movies ever made.

5. Ordinary People knocked out Raging Bull in 1980. Until he won the Oscar two years ago for The Departed, Martin Scorsese had seen many of his nominated movies go down in defeat. Raging Bull was the best of them.

4. A Beautiful Mind won the race against Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring in 2001. A Beautiful Mind told an incredible story, but Fellowship of the Rings literally blew my mind. I was under the impression that these movies could never be made, but Peter Jackson showed me that not only could they be made, but made spectacularly.

3. Shakespeare in Love won the battle against Saving Private Ryan in 1998. I guess the academy was trying to tell us that the bard tells a better story than Steven Spielberg.

2. The English Patient bored everyone to defeat Fargo in 1996. I’d love to be a fly on the wall for this one, and hear why anyone voted for The English Patient over Fargo. Fargo was unique, and by far the Coen Brother’s best movie. I’ve tried to like the English Patient, I really have, but I can’t.

1. Titanic sunk LA Confidential and Good Will Hunting in 1997. I know, Titanic was a blockbuster and people loved it, and unfortunately this was the year the academy bowed to the public’s wishes. Good Will Hunting is one of my top ten movies of all time, and LA Confidential isn’t too far behind. I would have easily preferred either one of these movies to win.