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.
With this 2009 drama, Sandra Bullock won near-universal acclaim (and the best actress Oscar) for playing a well-off white Southerner who aids a homeless black teen and football prodigy. But the film fell short with critics who faulted its "blinkered middle-class pandering" (Time Out).
“A facile, feel-good fable that substitutes cliché for reality at nearly every turn.” —Marc Mohan, The Oregonian
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