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.
An Oscar-winner for its score, this 2004 origin story about Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp) enjoyed solid support from audiences, critics and Oscar voters, who bestowed seven overall nominations on the film. Detractors, however, found it "sappy" (Philadelphia Inquirer) and "overproduced" (Wall Street Journal).
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