15 Times The BAFTAs Corrected Huge Oscar Mistakes

7. Drive Gets Four Nominations, Including Best Picture - 2012

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This was a particularly satisfying case.

A visually exquisite and stunningly brilliant technical masterpiece that's ultra-cool, ferociously bloody and surprisingly tender all at once, Drive was not just arguably one of the best films of 2011, but it's among the decade's most essential classics too.

As such, it was very disappointing to see it almost entirely ignored by the Oscars. All it got was a single nomination for Best Sound Editing, but thankfully at the BAFTAs it was a completely different story. This movie picked up four nominations and, oh boy, was it satisfying as hell to see Drive get the awards love it deserved here.

The nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Carey Mulligan was perhaps less earned, as she's actually a bit under-used in the film, but the other nods - for Best Film, Best Director and Best Editing - were completely on-point.

Even if it definitely deserved the former two awards far more than The Artist, which took Best Film and Best Director, to see Drive get nominated at all was wonderful after how badly it'd been shafted by the Academy in favor of films like... Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, War Horse, The Help, and The Tree of Life. Yikes.

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