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Everyone in PTP hates Crash and blach blah blah. Mostly this shows how crappy the nominations often are. Take 2001, when A Beautiful Mind won (not an outright bad movie, but guilty of the biopic problem of imposing a narrative arc and an uplifiting ending on a life that's a lot more complicated than that). On the other hand, you look at what it was up against (Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge, Gosford Park, In The Bedroom), and there's no particular one of those where you think "Man, that movie got robbed!" (My most vivid example of that is Titanic over LA Confidential). So, here are some that were overlooked in 2001.
Mulholland Drive
Amelie
Memento
The Royal Tenanbaums
Ghost World
I know some of those are too small and/or too foreign to get the nomination, but there's no real reason you couldn't have, say, Memento and one other in the slots that In the Bedroom and Gosford Park filled.
Or take 2002 (please!), it's a little trickier to find great American movies that year, or even very good ones, but for the love of god The Hours should not have been nominated, and in all honesty neither should Gangs of New York. About a Boy and Catch Me If You Can were better. Igby Goes Down and Adaptation were too. Oh for that matter, The Bourne Identity. You could do this for pretty much any year, easily enough pick off 2 or 3 movies and find 2 or 3 that would still fulfill the best picture criteria (big enough at the box office, though that's been relaxed a bit in some years anyway), and have a much stronger field of contenders. Of course, they'd probably still give the oscar to the one you don't want.
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