#8: The Cardinal, 20th Golden Globes Awards, 1963

Category: Best Motion Picture

Best Motion Picture nominees that lost at the 20th Golden Globes:

• Cleopatra
• The Great Escape
• Liles of the Field

Otto Preminger’s directorial brilliance shone brightly in The Cardinals, a cinematic masterpiece that garnered six Oscar nominations. Yet, the absence of a Best Picture nod at the Academy Awards raised eyebrows, especially considering the film’s triumph in the same category at the Golden Globes.

What’s even more intriguing is that since The Cardinals, no film has clinched the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture without securing at least an Oscar nomination in the same category. The competition at the time only added to the mystery surrounding this curious anomaly.