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
Originally debuting in the Un Certain Regard section at 2021's Cannes Film Festival—where it won that competition's Jury Prize—Austrian director Sebastian Meise's second narrative feature is a two-hander that takes place at various points in post-WWII Germany. There, Hans (Franz Rogowski) is repeatedly imprisoned (including, during the war, in a concentration camp) for being a homosexual under that country's infamous Paragraph 175 law. But while in prison he forms an unlikely relationship with his cellmate (Georg Friedrich), who has been convicted of murder.
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