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.
Time's Richard Corliss was perhaps more right then he knew when he opined of this 1990 film, "[Ghost is a] bad movie that a lot of people will like." Indeed, despite lukewarm reviews, the supernatural love story was a box-office hit that charmed Oscar voters. The film scored five nominations and won two awards, including a best supporting actress statuette for Whoopi Goldberg.
“There's something relentlessly superficial about the movie.” —David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor
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