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
Here's one snub for which Academy voters are completely blameless. Even though Olivier Assayas’s five-hour look at the life of terrorist Carlos the Jackal (played by Édgar Ramírez) screened in theaters in North America (and, indeed, around the world), this 2010 project first made its world premiere as a miniseries on French television. This fact rendered it ineligible for any Oscar consideration, though it did pick up a pair of Emmy nominations (and a Golden Globe win) when it later aired on cable on Sundance.
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