20 Terrible Oscar Nominations From The Past Ten Years - Corrected

With this particular line-up, while Amour and Moonrise Kingdom (which arguably should've won) were valid picks, Django Unchained, Flight and Zero Dark Thirty were far harder to justify.

Quentin Tarantino is a master of writing dialogue, but his screenplay for Django Unchained was one of his weaker ones thanks to the terrible third act and ridiculously excessive length. It was only the great cast that gave it much legitimacy; similarly, Flight is a very mediocre and simplistic look at addiction that only worked thanks to Denzel Washington killing it in the lead role.

As for Zero Dark Thirty, the screenplay for that is well-constructed as a mystery but it's incredibly hollow and full of clunky, poorly-written dialogue, so that's gone too.

Corrected:

Firstly, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master had an extremely well-written and haunting script with some exceptional dialogue scenes, so that should've been a shoo-in as well as a possible winner. The other two replacement nominations are the brilliantly subversive The Cabin in the Woods and Rian Johnson's hugely smart sci-fi thriller Looper.

Now that would've been an interesting line-up.