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.
Director Tom Hooper's 2012 adaptation of the hit musical about revolutionary-era France won three Oscars (including a best supporting actress triumph for Anne Hathaway), and was nominated for eight awards in all. But critics who weren't caught up in its "emotional wallop" (Los Angeles Times) really, really hated it. Said Time's Richard Corliss, "This is a bad movie."
“I screamed a scream as time went by.” —Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
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