16 Great Recent Movies The Oscars Outrageously Snubbed
6. Inherent Vice
Nominated For:
Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Costume Design. It lost to... (sigh) The Imitation Game and The Grand Budapest Hotel respectively.
Inherent Vice was always a long shot. It's weird, it's arty, it's divisive and it's a comedy, which is a genre that doesn't always do great at the Oscars. But still.
Inherent Vice is a fantastic film. It's thrilling, hilarious and touching in equal measure, boasts amazing direction, a flawless script, masterful performances and a real sense of heart and soul missing from so many movies. This is the unacknowledged masterpiece of 2014.
It's not even as weird and confusing as people say it is, and only 2 nominations simply wasn't fair. It was nominated for a couple of things so the Academy was aware of its existence.
It should have won Best Adapted Screenplay, since it was by far the best of the nominees, although in fairness The Grand Budapest Hotel deserved the Oscar for costume design more. Nevertheless, this should have been nominated for Best Picture, Paul Thomas Anderson should have replaced Morten Tyldum's direction for The Imitation Game (that nod was ludicrous) and more technical awards should've been headed its way.
It's unbelievable that Paul Thomas Anderson's worst film, the insufferable and tedious Phantom Thread, received plenty of nominations while this was left out.