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
The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg’s 2019 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale of first love and a filmmaker finding her voice, was intended to cover just half the story, making it one of the few arthouse films to get a sequel. And this concluding chapter, released in the fall of 2021 after a Cannes debut, wowed critics much like its predecessor did. (It also duplicated the first film's Oscar nominations total of zero.) The sequel follows Honor Swinton Byrne’s Julie as she tries to process her love for Tom Burke’s Anthony by making her graduation film.
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