13 Awesome 2016 Movies That Deserve Best Picture (But Won't Get Nominated)
4. 13th
RottenTomatoes Score: 96% (8.8/10)
Why It Deserves Best Picture: Selma director Ava DuVernay serves up an infuriating documentary examining the means through which the deck is continually stacked against black people in America, primarily through use of the prison system.
In a time of grand racial tension in the U.S., it's hard to imagine a more incendiary, insightful or important film, grimly detailing the reality of being black in contemporary America, and how slavery very much appears to exist in an even more insidious form.
If you're not flipping tables by the end of this film, you probably don't have a soul.
Why It Won't Get Nominated: Firstly, no documentary film has ever been nominated for Best Picture, though Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 got very close about a decade ago.
This film is released at just the right time to touch the pulse of the American conscience, and voters can watch it at their convenience on Netflix, but even so, so many voters have it in their mind that docs must stick to their own specific category such that it almost certainly won't happen.