13 Awesome 2018 Movies That Deserve Best Picture (But Won't Get Nominated)
12. Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97% (8.3/10)
Why It Deserves Best Picture: Critics and fans alike have been enthusiastically dubbing the sixth Mission: Impossible the best action movie since Mad Max: Fury Road - which was itself a Best Picture nominee - and it's incredibly hard to argue with that assessment.
Reaching a previously unimaginable peak for Tom Cruise, Fallout's knowingly absurd narrative is anchored by a killer ensemble - especially Henry Cavill's August Walker - and the year's most thrillingly kinetic batch of action sequences.
Watching Cruise pilot a helicopter for real during one of Fallout's hairier set-pieces is cinema in its most purely visceral, adrenaline-pumping form, effectively confirming that Cruise is basically a modern day Buster Keaton.
Why It Won't Get Nominated: This is as simple as many Academy voters just being unable or unwilling to vote for a Mission: Impossible movie.
If the Best Popular Film category had been added to next year's Oscars as originally planned, then this would be a strong contender, but as it stands, there's too much sneering disdain against its desire to be a movie first and a film second.