The Academy Awards have come and gone. As with so much in life, it is not the films which were nominated or the awards which were given that mattered. Our lives today are filled with gold stars and certificates of achievement. What strikes me each year when the American Film Institute cranks out the “best” that Hollywood can produce is just how little that is important ever winds up becoming cinema. What are the films which should have been made and which never were? Here are my “nominations.”