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I love "All about Eve", I haven't seen Sunset Boulevard so I can't comment on whether Bette Davis was robbed or not, but she might be my all-time fave actress. I'm also a fan of "A Touch of Evil", one of the few Orson Welles films you can see the way he meant it to be, or pretty close anyways. There is a deluxe edition of Citizen Kane with documentaries about Welles where you can learn the sad story of his rise and fall, some his own fault, mostly the interference of others. My nomination for the most unjustly snubbed film is "M", a 1931 film by Fritz Lang, who also directed Metropolis, maybe the best silent film. M stars Peter Lorre as a serial child killer, which is probably why Hollywood snubbed the film, along with the fact that it was a German film. The energy in this film and the virtuosic filmaking is unmatched in modern films imo. Fritz Lang had it going on to the nth degree
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