13 Awesome 2017 Movies That Deserve Best Picture (But Won't Get Nominated)
6. A Ghost Story
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90% (7.9/10)
Why It Deserves Best Picture: David Lowery's art-house drama proves you don't need millions of dollars to make great art, making incredible use of a mere $100,000 budget to deliver a haunting, emotionally shattering meditation on life, death and love.
Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck's magnificent performances combine with Lowery's patient direction to make A Ghost Story one of the year's most unforgettable and truly original movies.
Why It Won't Get Nominated: Where to begin? It didn't even crack $2 million at the box office, and most crucially, it's an aggressive art-house film, with an infamous seven-minute sequence in which Mara does nothing but eat a pie.
Superb though it is, it's just too art-house and out of left-field for the more conventional tastes of the Academy.