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And we're back after a brief hiatus with the final nominee of 1955, the lesser known (for a reason) Tennessee Williams penned The Rose Tattoo, starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster. Listen, there are more absurd romances out there, but somehow this one manages to be both less believable and less compelling. But in a year of nominees this bad, could this be the Best Picture among a field of duds? Find out!

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Year Eligible: 1955 (Nominated)

Additional audio from The Rose Tattoo (1955)

(Explicit language, as always)

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Kim Novak and William Holden star in Picnic, the CinemaScope adaptation of the William Inge play about (what else) a picnic in a small midwestern town. Which sounds super boring but is actually kind of weird and… good?

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Year Eligible: 1955 (Nominated)

Additional audio from Picnic (1955)

(Explicit language, as always)

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Love is a Many-Splendored Thing; Jennifer Jones in yellow-face is anything but.

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Year Eligible: 1955 (Nominated)

Additional audio from Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

(Explicit language, as always)

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Mister Roberts was the last movie William Powell ever did, and he’s great in it. Unfortunately, he’s not in it very much. Henry Fonda, Jimmy Cagney, and Jack Lemmon all co-star in this US Navy dramedy that had three directors before all was said and done, and the way the tone ricochets all over the place like a pinball launched from a shotgun, it shows!

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Year Eligible: 1955 (Nominated)

Additional audio from Mister Roberts (1955)

(Explicit language, as always)

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Marty was a one act play that was probably pretty good… So good, in fact, that Hollywood thought it was a great idea to make it into a movie, add a bunch of extraneous stuff, make it nearly twice as long, and ruin it.

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Year Eligible: 1955 (Won)

Additional audio from Marty (1955)

(Explicit language, as always)