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
Nina Paley's highly praised animated 2008 musical adaptation of the ancient Indian epic known as the Ramayana features music from 1920s jazz singer Annette Hanshaw. The film played mainly on the festival circuit but did get a brief theatrical release in late 2009 courtesy of GKIDS. Still, a lack of awareness probably doomed the film's Oscar hopes even though the 2009 nominee list in the animated feature field was expanded from three to five titles.
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