Which movie should have won but was denied?

TRE’VELL ANDERSON It’s a travesty that Queen Angela Bassett doesn’t have an Oscar. With that being said, 1993’s “What’s Love Got to Do With It” in which Bassett and Laurence Fishburne chronicle the rise of Tina and Ike Turner deserved all the awards. (It was nominated for only its lead actors.) JUSTIN CHANG I could easily choose an all-time favorite like “Vertigo” and “Rio Bravo” that wasn’t even nominated for best picture. But I’ll bang the drum for one that was: Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life,” a magnum opus that seems to compress all the contradictions of existence — the intimate and the cosmic, the sublime and the ridiculous, the fleeting and the eternal — into 2 hours, 19 minutes. AMY KAUFMAN I’m gonna go old-school on this and say that Victor Fleming’s musical-fantasy classic “The Wizard of Oz” was robbed in 1939. Nearly eight decades later, I’m still upset that “Gone With the Wind” stole it from Dorothy and company. MARK OLSEN It wasn’t even nominated for best picture, but I would say “2001: A Space Odyssey.” That movie just feels so monumental, an enormous marshaling of vast resources, skill and visionary imagination, that it deserved recognition for the totality of its undertaking and achievement. (And I say that without even needing to bag on “Oliver!” which did win the award that year.) JOSH ROTTENBERG I’m tempted to say Robert Altman’s “Nashville” because it’s probably my favorite movie, but it lost to another great film, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” so it’s hard to gripe too much about that. So I’ll go with “2001: A Space Odyssey,” which has been blowing minds for 50 years but, absurdly, wasn’t even nominated for best picture. KENNETH TURAN Celebrated today by critics and audiences alike, “Singin’ In the Rain” got but two Oscar nominations on its original release and won nothing. With the exuberance and joy of performance as one of its themes, it’s the most beloved example of the Hollywood musical, the real tinsel underneath all the fake stuff. GLENN WHIPP During my teen years, my favorite mindaltering experience was heading to the revival theater showing “2001: A Space Odyssey.” You didn’t need to be stoned to have your mind blown. Stanley Kubrick took care of that with images and ideas that transcended a certain space opera that was popular at the time. “2001” wasn’t even nominated for best picture. You know what won that year? “Oliver!” Consider yourself ... ashamed, academy. JEN YAMATO

MGM IT’S LIKELY that not even HAL could make sense of why the monumental “2001: A Space Odyssey” was not even nominated for best picture.

Merie Wallace Fox SOME of us are still contemplating the sweeping “Tree of Life” years later.

D. Stevens Fox “WHAT’S Love Got to Do With It” deserved much more than it got in 1993.

MGM / Getty Images BELOVED musical “Singin’ in the Rain” saw only two nods and no wins.

MGM NEARLY 80 years later, the snub of “The Wizard of Oz” still burns.