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 third feature from Berlin-based, Lesotho-born filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese stars the late Mary Twala Mhlongo (you may have seen her in Beyoncé's Black Is King) in her final film role as an 80-year-old woman in a small Lesotho village who, while preparing for her own death, must deal with her only son's death in an accident and the pending relocation of her lifelong home due to the construction of a dam that will flood her family's burial ground. It may not be the most cheerful film of 2021, but critics praised Mosese's mastery of composition.
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