16 Great Recent Movies The Oscars Outrageously Snubbed

16. The Wolf Of Wall Street

Nominated For:

Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Supporting Actor (Jonah Hill) and Best Adapted Screenplay. It went home empty-handed alas.

Perhaps it was the film's rudeness and lack of morality that cost it the chance of winning. Whatever the reason, it was screwed over by the Academy and deserved to win at least one award.

The Wolf of Wall Street is let down a bit by being far too long at 3 hours, but on the whole it delivers with a vengeance. Leonardo DiCaprio is the best he's ever been, Jonah Hill is great and Martin Scorsese's direction shows an absolute cinematic master filling every frame with charisma, passion and energy.

It's also dramatically compelling, enormously entertaining and often very funny. Given how accomplished and enjoyable the film is on the whole, the fact that it didn't win any Oscars really doesn't do it justice.

12 Years a Slave and Gravity deserved their respective awards for Best Picture and Best Director, but this should have won Leonardo DiCaprio his Oscar and Terence Winter's script should have picked up Best Adapted Screenplay. This just wasn't fair.