11 Huge Screw-Ups From The 94th Oscar Film Nominations
2. Don't Look Up Gets Four Nominations
Nominated For: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Original Score.
This one is just strange.
Don't Look Up got fairly mixed reviews - it actually has a rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes - and has been divisive since its release, so it's hard to see how this managed to get four Oscar nominations, including three in pretty major categories. Unfortunately, the only one it deserved was for Best Original Score.
Much like Nightmare Alley, Don't Look Up is a perfectly good film but it simply shouldn't have been anywhere near the Oscars. It's an entertaining, thought-provoking and very well-acted flick, but it's also uneven and it's so in-your-face with its satire that it makes The Purge look subtle. Furthermore, it loses its way by the end and never quite nails the right tone, so to call it one of the best movies of the year is a complete joke.
Regarding the other nominations, as previously mentioned the editing was far from Oscar-worthy and the screenplay wasn't one of the best of the year by any stretch - hell, many of the year's blockbusters (i.e. the kind of movies the Academy never seems to nominate for awards like this) were legitimately better written than Don't Look Up.
Still, it hasn't got a hope in hell of winning anything, so that's something.