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Oscars’ Biggest Snubs: Barbra Streisand, Audrey Hepburn and More Who Weren’t Recognized by the Academy Awards


The Academy Awards has overlooked some of the most iconic performances in movie history. Closer looks at the biggest Oscar snubs, including Audrey Hepburn.

She didn’t do her own singing, but her Eliza makes the transition from Cockney girl to lady “flawlessly and with heedless confidence,” said film critic Roger Ebert. “No matter how you slice it, this was a ball for winners,” recalled Lauren Bacall about losing to Juliette Binoche in the more popular 1996 film The English Patient. “It came out the year after An American in Paris won the Oscar for best picture,” explains NPR film critic Bob Mondello, who says the academy were reluctant to reward Gene twice in a row

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