Should have been nominated for Best Picture Oscar

True. The Best Picture nominations that year are the superb America America, the overblown Cleopatra, the 1962 How the West Was Won, the good, but minor Lilies of the Field, and the winner, the spirited Tom Jones. The best director nods were a better list: Elia Kazan for America America, Tony Richardson for Tom Jones, Martin Ritt for Hud, Otto Preminger for The Cardinal and Federico Fellini for 8 1/2. Other worthy films that could have been Best Picture noms are The Great Escape, This Sporting Life, and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.