20 Terrible Oscar Nominations From The Past Ten Years - Corrected
9. The 2016 Best Picture Line-Up
This was one of the decade's weaker line-ups. Spotlight, The Revenant, The Martian and Mad Max: Fury Road in particular were all deserving, but that can't be said for the other four nominees. Room, The Big Short, Brooklyn and Bridge of Spies are all good films but they each had issues and weren't among the top ten films of that year.
Additionally, The Big Short's nomination for Best Supporting Actor (for a highly forgettable Christian Bale performance) and Brooklyn's nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay were also misfires on the Academy's part.
Corrected:
Firstly, Steve Jobs, which was a very surprising snub, should've taken Brooklyn's Best Adapted Screenplay slot for Aaron Sorkin's electric, snappy script . As for Best Supporting Actor, it would've been far nicer to see Paul Giamatti recognized for his fantastic work in Love & Mercy.
The Best Picture slots should've been taken by the mesmerizing science-fiction drama Ex Machina, the superb NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, Pixar's excellent Inside Out and the brilliant, criminally snubbed Macbeth. To fill it out to ten, The Force Awakens and It Follows would've done nicely.