The Academy Awards nominations always leave something to be desired.

There are films, actors, directors and others you think deserved nominations, but did not receive them.

So it goes with the 91st Oscars.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents the 2019 Academy Awards ceremonies honoring 2018 movie releases, 8 p.m. (EST) Feb. 24, Dolby Theatre, Hollywood and Highland Center, Los Angeles, televised live on the ABC-TV.

Oscar snubs shouldn’t be surprising, and yet, somehow, they always are.

It’s kind of like a questionable call, or no-call, by a referee in an NFL divisional title playoff game.

Never nominated for a competitive Oscar were classic cinema era directors, including Charlie Chaplin, Fritz Lang and Preston Sturges, and contemporary directors, including Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam and Christopher Nolan.

Never nominated for a competitive Oscar were classic cinema era actors, including Myrna Loy, Ann Miller and Marilyn Monroe, and contemporary actors, including John Cusack, Meg Ryan and Michael Keaton.

Female directors are noticeably absent from the 2019 Oscar nominees. There are none.

In the history of the Oscars, female director nominees total five: Lina Wertmüller, “Seven Beauties,” 1976; Jane Campion, “The Piano,” 1993; Sofia Coppola, “Lost in Translation,” 2003; Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker,” 2009 (the only female director Oscar winner), and Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird,” 2017.

The 2019 Oscar nominations seem, for want of a better term, all over the place.

“The Favourite” and “Roma” each have 10 nominations. Next is “A Star Is Born” and “Vice,” each with eight nominations, followed by “Black Panther,” with seven nominations; “BlacKkKlansman,” with six nominations, including Spike Lee’s first director Oscar nomination; “Bohemian Rhapsody,” with five nominations, and “Green Book,” with five nominations.

The nominations record is 14, held by “All About Eve,” 1950; “Titanic,” 1997, and “La La Land,” 2016.

In the 2019 best picture category, even though 10 movies could have been nominated, only eight were nominated. Nominees include the first superhero movie, “Black Panther,” the highest-grossing movie of 2018, with a worldwide gross of $1.23 billion. Oscar is now firmly in the Marvel Cinematic Universe orbit.

Among notable feature films absent in the best picture category are actor-director Clint Eastwood’s highly-regarded “The Mule,” which received no Oscar nominations. Eastwood deserved director and leading actor nominations.

Speaking of old men and the Oscar, Robert Redford was also overlooked for a leading actor nomination in “The Old Man & The Gun.”

Another snub-way was director Damien Chazelle’s superb Neil Armstrong biopic, “First Man,” which only received four technical category nominations, despite Oscar-nominee worthy leading actor and supporting actress performances, respectively, as the Armstrongs by Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy.

Jenkintown, Montgomery County, native Bradley Cooper didn’t receive an Oscar nomination in his theatrical feature film directorial debut for his labor-of-love, “A Star Is Born,” even though it received eight nominations, including best picture, as well as leading actor for Cooper, leading actress for co-star Lady Gaga and original song for “Shallow.”

While Regina King received a supporting actress nomination for “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and the film received a best score nomination (Nicholas Britell), director Barry Jenkins didn’t receive a nomination, although he received a nomination for adapting the James Baldwin novel to the screen. Nor did “Beale Street” receive a best picture nomination.

One of the biggest missing in action nominations is that for “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” the beloved documentary feature about public television children’s show host Fred Rogers. Another feature documentary left off the Oscar nominations list is “Three Identical Strangers,” about male triplets separated at birth, then reunited.

Also on the snub hub is Ethan Hawke, an anticipated leading actor nominee for “First Reformed,” for which the film’s director Paul Schrader received an Oscar nomination for original screenplay. “First Reformed” co-starred Allentown’s Amanda Seyfried.

Emily Blunt, who has never been nominated for an Oscar, was twice-snubbed for her stellar and quite opposite 2018 roles in “Mary Poppins Returns” and her husband-director John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place.”

Other snub-drubs included Marielle Heller, director, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” even though she directed Melissa McCarthy to a leading actress nomination and Richard E. Grant to a supporting actor nomination.

Also snubbed was Josie Rourke, director of “Mary Queen of Scots,” which received nominations for costumes (Alexandra Byrne) and makeup and hairstyles (Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher, Jessica Brooks). Saoirse Ronan wasn’t nominated for the title role of “Mary Queen Of Scots,” nor was Margot Robbie as rival, Queen Elizabeth I.

The favorite in the somewhat similarly-themed Great Britain costume-drama niche was “The Favourite,” with 10 nominations, which tied with director Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” also with 10 nominations.

“Roma” apparently won’t be among the Oscar-nominated films packaged for screenings in AMC and Regal movie theaters. That’s because Netflix, which released “Roma,” didn’t abide by the movie industry’s 90-day theatrical release window.

“Arrivederci, ‘Roma’” at the multiplexes.