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 the past year's biggest Oscar snubs, this Safdie brothers crime thriller isn't just a rare good Adam Sandler movie—it is by far the best movie the former SNL star has ever been in. Only two actors (Adam Driver and Joaquin Phoenix) have collected more awards and nominations over the past few months, but Sandler was surprisingly omitted from the Oscar field—as was the film as a whole. The lack of a best picture nomination is especially glaring in a year in which two of the nominees (that would be this one and this one) didn't even have good reviews.
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