The 17 best movies of all time that weren't nominated for a best-picture Oscar, according to critics

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Cate Blanchett in "Carol."

• Over the course of 90 years of Oscars, plenty of worthy films have been overlooked in the best-picture race.
• We listed the 17 best ones, based on their composite critic scores from reviews aggregator Metacritic.

When it comes to the Oscars, we all remember the shocking and infamous best-picture upsets - like "Crash" over "Brokeback Mountain," or "Shakespeare in Love" over "Saving Private Ryan."

But there are also some iconic films that never even got nominated.

Many lauded films have lost out on a best-picture nomination, including 2017's "The Florida Project" in this year's line-up.

We turned to reviews aggregator Metacritic to get a list of the top movies without best-picture Oscar nominations, according to critics. These Academy-snubbed movies span from foreign masterpieces like "A Separation" to animated films like "Wall-E."

And there's a lot of Hitchcock.

Here are the 17 best films not nominated for best picture, based on Metacritic scores: