The Best Movies Never Nominated for a Single Oscar
Last updated: January 24, 2023
Judging from the complaints that pour in each year, the Academy gets many things wrong—including, with surprising regularity, completely ignoring some of each year's most acclaimed films. In the gallery above, you can find the 30 highest-scoring films since 2000 that did not receive any Oscar nominations (in any category). They are ranked by Metascore, but all of these films scored or higher—suggesting massive critical acclaim.
Note that documentaries are excluded (since there are fewer opportunities for those films to receive nominations). Also excluded are movies that qualified for Emmys rather than Oscars (such as the Small Axe films).
Additional content by Keith Kimbell
Critics raved about this provocative, well-acted Israeli drama about a religious woman (Ronit Elkabetz, who also wrote and directed the film along with her brother Shlomi) who spends years before a tribunal of rabbis seeking permission to divorce her husband. But while it ranked among the 10 best-reviewed films of 2015, and was Israel's official Oscar submission that year, no nominations followed.
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