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
One of 2019's best-reviewed movies, this semiautobiographical, 1980s-set drama from British writer-director Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago, Exhibition) follows a young cinema student (played by Tilda Swinton's daughter Honor Swinton-Byrne, delivering what could be a star-making performance) who falls for the troubled Anthony (Tom Burke) in the 1980s. The film began collecting acclaim early last year, when it won Sundance's World Cinema competition, and it landed on dozens of year-end top-10 lists but has been mostly ignored by awards bodies. (And not just the Oscars; The Souvenir was also somehow shut out of BAFTA nominations in its country of origin.)
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