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 another omission that is only partially the Academy's fault. Currently within a fraction of a point of overtaking Parasite as the #1-ranked film of 2019 (and it could get there if it picks up additional reviews when it returns to theaters later this month), Céline Sciamma's 18th century lesbian romance was not submitted by France as its official selection for foreign-language Oscar consideration. (Instead, the country submitted the good but less impressive Les Miserables.) Of course, Oscar voters could have nominated Portrait in other categories—indeed, many other groups did, recognizing Sciamma's direction and screenplay, Claire Mathon's cinematography, and Adèle Haenel's performance.
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