‘Bugsy Malone’ (1976)

For those who remember, Alan Parker (who would go on to direct “Midnight Cowboy,” “Pink Floyd’s The Wall” and “Evita”) made his feature directorial debut with the most bizarre children’s film, possibly ever. “Whaaa?” is how people will most likely respond when you try to jostle their memory into retrieving some scrap of “Bugsy Malone.” (It was a huge financial bomb in the United States.) Still, despite all of this, it secured a lone Academy Award nomination — for the now-defunct Best Original Song Score category (what?) for future Daft Punk collaborator and certifiable genius Paul Williams. It didn’t win.