The Oscars is the biggest night on the movie calendar when the film world turns out to celebrate all the terrific films and performances over the last twelve months.
The Shawshank Redemption
On Sunday night, Birdman, Eddie Redmayne, and Julianne Moore were the toast of tinsel town as they walked away with Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director - let's face it, there were no real surprises on the night.
However, more movies miss out on Oscars than win and there are some films that have not walked away with major gongs over the years that many thought should have. Ben & Jerry's have polled over a thousand Brits to find out which movies they feel should have had their moment in the Oscar spotlight.
1. The Shawshank Redemption - 40%
The Shawshank Redemption is a movie that is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year - yes, it really was released back in 1995. However, it is a movie that has become more appreciated since it was released on home video than when it was in the cinema.
Today, it is widely regarded as a classic but when it was released, it was a big box office disappointment. The movie saw Frank Darabont in the director's chair while Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman starred in the central roles as Andy Dufresne and Red.
The movie follows Dufresne after he is wrongfully convicted of double murder - receiving a life sentence for his crime. The film was based on the book Rita Heyworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King and chronicled the friendship of Andy and Red during their years spent in prison.
Shawshank Redemption went on to pick up seven Oscar nominations; Best Picture, Best Actor for Freeman, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Sound Mixing. However, it would walk away empty handed on the night - Forest Gump win Best Picture Tom Hanks won Best Actor.
2. It's a Wonderful Life - 14%
It's a Wonderful Life hit the big screen back in 1946 and is widely regarded as one of the Christmas movies of all time. The movie was based on The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern and saw Frank Capra in the director's chair.
When you think 'classic movie' It's A Wonderful Life is one that you always think of with James Stewart giving a terrific central performance as George Bailey. Bailey is a man who is on the verge of suicide, when an angel shows him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Much like Shawshank Redemption, It's A Wonderful Life is a movie that performed poorly at the box office when it was released and struggled to recoup its budget/costs. However, over the next fifty years, it has become one of the most loved movies of all time.
It's A Wonderful Life may be one of the most acclaimed and loved movies of all time, but it walked away empty handed from the Oscars. The movie was nominated for five gongs: Best Picture, Best Actor for Stewart, Best Director for Capra, Best Sound, and Best Editing.
Best Picture went to The Best Year of Our Lives that year, while Fredric March and William Wyler won Best Actor and Best Director for their work on the film.
3. Blade Runner - 9%
Blade Runner saw Ridley Scott return to the director's chair in 1982 with his movie that was based on novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
Over the years, Blade Runner has become science fiction cult hit, but when it hit the big screen in the early eighties, it was a movie that polarised both critics and audiences.
The movie was set in dystopian LA in 2019 and a blade runner who must try to destroy four replicants - the use of replicants has been banned on earth. Harrison Ford was in the central role of Rick Deckard, while Rutger Hauer, Michael Emmet Walsh, and James Hong were some of the other names on board.
Blade Runner is a movie that is now regarded as a great in the science fiction genre and is one of Scott's greatest movie achievements. However, it would be a film that was almost completely overlooked at the Oscars picking up just two nominations: Best Art Direction and Best Visual Effects.
That year Gandhi won Best Picture, while ET, Missing, Tootsie, and The Verdict were all also nominated.
4. The Wolf of Wall Street - 8%
The Wolf of Wall Street hit the big screen at the beginning of 2014 and saw director Martin Scorsese reunite with actor Leonardo DiCaprio for the first time since Shutter Island.
The movie was based on the memoir by Jordon Belfort, a wealthy stockbroker who gets caught up in corruption and crime. DiCaprio took on the role of Belfort in the film, while Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, and Kyle Chandler were all also on board.
The Wolf of Wall Street was one of the most critically acclaimed films of last year and was a movie that was part of the awards season from start to finish.
However, The Wolf of Wall Street was another of the critically acclaimed movies that did not triumph at the Oscars failing to win a single gong. The film was nominated for five awards: Best Picture, Best Actor for DiCaprio, Best Supporting Actor for Hill, Best Director for Scorsese, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
2014 was a hugely competitive movie year, which saw 12 Years A Slave scoop Best Picture, Matthew McConaughey won Best Actor for Dallas Buyers Club, and Alfonso Cuarón won Best Director for Gravity.
The Best Picture category was a very exciting one last year, as 12 Years A Slave, American Hustle, Captain Philips, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Her, Nebraska, and Philomena were all nominated alongside The Wolf of Wall Street.
5. Edward Scissorhands - 8%
For me, Edward Scissorhands remains Tim Burton's best film as a director - despite the fact that it was 1991 when the movie hit the big screen in the UK.
Edward Scissorhands kicked off a two-decade long partnership between Burton and actor Johnny Depp, as he took on the title role in a movie that would really show him off as a big screen leading man.
This new take on Beauty and the Beast saw a young man with scissors for hands taken into and accepted by a suburban family, where he falls in love with their beautiful daughter.
Depp was joined on the cast list by Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, and Anthony Michael Hall and was met with critical acclaim when it was released into cinemas in the early nineties.
However, Edward Scissorhands would only pick up one Oscar nomination for Best Make-Up - losing out to Dick Tracy. That year, The Silence of the Lambs won Best Picture, while Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK, and The Price of Tides were all nominated.
The rest of the top ten is: A Clockwork Orange (7%), Fight Club (4%), Chocolat (4%), Taxi Driver (4%), Scarface (2%).