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What is the worst Best Picture nominee in the last 10 years?

The worst best picture nominee of the last 10 years is...

  • The Blind Side

    Votes: 85 15.7%

  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

    Votes: 86 15.9%

  • The Help

    Votes: 16 3.0%

  • Vice

    Votes: 13 2.4%

  • Green Book

    Votes: 94 17.3%

  • Bohemian Rhapsody

    Votes: 215 39.7%

  • other

    Votes: 33 6.1%
  • Total voters
    542
hiredhand

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It has been ten years since the Academy moved from five Best Picture nominees to a wider category. The change has resulted in indie and genre films getting more exposure at the Oscar but it has also resulted in some truly terrible choices in the Best Picture category. The latest group of nominees was widely considered to be the worst one since the introduction of the wider Best Picture category.

But which of these films is the absolute worst? The nominees were mostly chosen based on Metacritic scores. I did drop out Les Miserables in favor of Green Book because I thought that would be the more popular choice here.

The nominees are:

The Blind Side: Sandra Bullock in full white saviour mode teaches a black kid cliched life lessons.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: Basically The Book of Henry but with more 9/11.

The Help: It sure was pleasant being a black maid in the civil right era south.

Vice: Maybe the most platant case of riding the re-release hype and very heavy campaigning straight to the nominations.

Green Book: Driving Miss Daisy 2: Pianist Bogaloo

Bohemian Rhapsody: A biopic so formulaic and forced that it's like Walk Hard never happened.
 
ascii42

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I actually haven't seen any of those. Apparently the last Best Picture winner I've seen was 2007's No Country For Old Men
 
Piston

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I really didn't like The Blindside when it came out. The Help was actually good. The rest of this list I haven't seen.
 
mattiewheels

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Was War Horse anything special? All I know about it is it was supposedly one of those magical Spielbergian joints but I never heard a thing about it since.
And I'm not sure if True Grit was worth a nomination, it was probably the coen's most forgettable film.
 
Uncle at Nintendo

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They should have never doubled the amount of nominees for BP. Maybe bumped it up to 6 or 7.

For this list it's The Blind Side. It's just really fucking boring.
 
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Given that Green Book was my favorite Oscar movie from last year alongside with Roma I already have to disagree with the possibilities.
The last one I was hyped to see because of oscar nomination and good critical reception that disappointed me was Lady Bird.
 
Meg Cherry

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Joni said:
Nominee? La La Land.
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Uncle at Nintendo said:
They should have never doubled the amount of nominees for BP. Maybe bumped it up to 6 or 7.

For this list it's The Blind Side. It's just really fucking boring.
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They've since started to use a sliding scale, so anywhere from 5-10 films can get a nomination provided they meet a certain threshold of votes.

But yeah, the first few years of 10 films allowed some real trash to qualify.
 
spx54

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a year ago I would've been mad that Vice was an option here, but its surprisingly bad on rewatch. Bale is still great in it though
 
gforguava

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Wow, seeing them lined up is quite a thing. When Vice might be the best of the lot you got yourself a problem.

Toss up between Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Bohemian Rhapsody for me.
 
Soliloquy of a Dogge

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mattiewheels said:
Was War Horse anything special? All I know about it is it was supposedly one of those magical Spielbergian joints but I never heard a thing about it since.
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Give it a watch. I thoroughly enjoyed it and thought it was done well from an emotional and storytelling perspective. Some may not enjoy the more fantastical and melodramatic aspects of it, however.

As a BP nominee there have certainly been far worse things nominated and I don't think War Horse is undeserving of its selection.
 
Joni

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hiredhand said:
I have to ask: why?

It would probably be in the top 10 for me. It's certainly a lot better than everything not called The Favourite from this year's nominees.
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It just feels so cookie cutter, which is blinded by the songs. So I was just seeing a concert without connecting emotionally. And of course, like Green Book there is the racial element. It is appropriating a typical black genre.
 
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hiredhand

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Joni said:
It just feels so cookie cutter, which is blinded by the songs. So I was just seeing a concert without connecting emotionally. And of course, like Green Book there is the racial element. It is appropriating a typical black genre.
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So white people playing jazz is in itself offensive?
 

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Joni said:
It just feels so cookie cutter, which is blinded by the songs. So I was just seeing a concert without connecting emotionally. And of course, like Green Book there is the racial element. It is appropriating a typical black genre.
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The planetarium scene and opening on an LA Freeway is cookie cutter?
 
ElectricBlanketFire

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Les Misérables (2012)

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aBIGeye

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Haven't seen them all, but Sandra Bullock as a white blonde upper class suburban wife was difficult to watch.
 

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How on earth did OP leave American Sniper out of the poll? Ignoring how big of a piece of shit the subject of the file was as a human being, American Sniper is legitimately garbage bin tier film making. It's easily the worst 'best picture' nominated film that I have ever seen. It's a movie that tries its hardest to self congratulate the American conservative narrative during the Bush era. Just like their narrative at the time, the movie is poorly constructed and profoundly stupid.

The movie is basically beating you over the head that a psychopath keeps having to go to the desert to shoot people and be a general piece of shit; and that makes him and his awful wife sad. This goes back and forth until the main character just kinda quits, and the movie abruptly ends to photographs of the real person accompanied with sad music. Throughout all this there are continuity issues and the pacing fees off. It feels like a propaganda filmmaker's first attempt at a feature film. It's really sad that this is from the same director that made the excellent Letters from Iwo Jima.
 
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Hound said:
How on earth did OP leave American Sniper out of the poll? Ignoring how big of a piece of shit the subject of the file was as a human being, American Sniper is legitimately garbage bin tier film making. It's easily the worst 'best picture' nominated film that I have ever seen. It's a movie that tries its hardest to self congratulate the American conservative narrative during the Bush era. Just like their narrative at the time, the movie is poorly constructed and profoundly stupid.

The movie is basically beating you over the head that a psychopath keeps having to go to the desert to shoot people and be a general piece of shit; and that makes him and his awful wife sad. This goes back and forth until the main character just kinda quits, and the movie abruptly ends to photographs of the real person accompanied with sad music. Throughout all this there are continuity issues and the pacing fees off. It feels like a propaganda filmmaker's first attempt at a feature film. It's really sad that this is from the same director that made the excellent Letters from Iwo Jima.
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American Sniper was a no brainer, fun action movie nothing more.
The overly patriotic portrait of Kyle and he as a person sucked, the story telling was off and then there was the doll.

I don't get why people hate Bohemian Rapsody though.
 
Bronx-Man

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Most of these movies are bad by Oscar bait standards, Bohemian Rhapsody is legitimately a terrible movie.
 

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Patrick Bateman said:
American Sniper was a no brainer, fun action movie nothing more.
The overly patriotic portrait of Kyle and he as a person sucked, the story telling was off and then there was the doll.

I don't get why people hate Bohemian Rapsody though.
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A fun dumb action movie stops being fun when it's propaganda dressed up as an historical account.
 
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Bohemian Rhapsody isn't even a well-made movie - without going into the actual narrative structure. It was nominated and won awards because people love Queen. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is also a badly made movie. The rest are at least competent, even if they have insulting narrative elements.
 
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hiredhand

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Hound said:
How on earth did OP leave American Sniper out of the poll? Ignoring how big of a piece of shit the subject of the file was as a human being, American Sniper is legitimately garbage bin tier film making. It's easily the worst 'best picture' nominated film that I have ever seen. It's a movie that tries its hardest to self congratulate the American conservative narrative during the Bush era. Just like their narrative at the time, the movie is poorly constructed and profoundly stupid.

The movie is basically beating you over the head that a psychopath keeps having to go to the desert to shoot people and be a general piece of shit; and that makes him and his awful wife sad. This goes back and forth until the main character just kinda quits, and the movie abruptly ends to photographs of the real person accompanied with sad music. Throughout all this there are continuity issues and the pacing fees off. It feels like a propaganda filmmaker's first attempt at a feature film. It's really sad that this is from the same director that made the excellent Letters from Iwo Jima.
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I left it out because it was better received (according to Metacritic) than all the films in the poll and even some that were not in it (Les Miserables, Lion, Hacksaw Ridge, Inglourious Basterds).

Personally, I don't think it's that bad though I agree that the choice to end it with real footage is pretty terrible.
 
Garlador

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It's been more than 10 years, but I'm still going with "The Reader".

Barely 63% on Rotten Tomatoes, nominated for Best Picture of DOZENS of much better films.

My roommate and I both watched it and, yeesh, it was actively insulting to the audience's intelligence.
 
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