The Lowest-Scoring Best Picture Nominees of the Past 30 Years
As history—and Metascores—show, Academy Award nominations reveal best picture contenders, but not necessarily the best pictures.
We've looked through the best picture Oscar fields of the last 30 years, from the 1989 nominees through the recently announced 2018 field, cross-checked the nominees' Metacritic scores, and ranked the 24 lowest-scoring films, from the bottom to the relative top. Four of these films went on to become best picture winners—but none boasts a Metascore higher than 69.
This Rob Reiner-directed, Aaron Sorkin-scripted 1992 military-courtroom drama, starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, was a showy best picture contender that earned four overall nominations. But its Metascore suffers for the film being judged as only "passably entertaining" by the likes of the Wall Street Journal.
“Slick, overly deliberate and brimming with hammy performances.” —Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
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