20 Terrible Oscar Nominations From The Past Ten Years - Corrected

Yikes, this was a terrible category. Only the brilliant Inherent Vice deserved to be here and the other four needed to go.

American Sniper and The Imitation Game were examples of efficient but safe and forgettable Oscar-Bait dramas, so neither should've been nominated. Worse still, The Theory of Everything's scattershot, safe and superficial screenplay, which focused on Stephen Hawking's marriage instead of his achievements and his disability, being nominated was ridiculous.

As for Whiplash, Whiplash worked so well because of the fantastic directing and performances. The screenplay is... frankly, not great and consists mainly of horrible characters yelling at each other, while it's also predictable and thematically trite.

Corrected:

For starters, the excellent screenplay of the Russian drama film Leviathan would've been a good pick (it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film so the Academy evidently knew it existed), while there were also three wonderful blockbuster screenplays that really deserved nominations.

These were Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Lego Movie. Both of the former two films are amazing blockbuster movies that combine exhilarating thrills and heartfelt drama into a wonderfully satisfying whole; that's very hard to do but they make it look easy. The Lego Movie, meanwhile, was about as joyous as a movie gets and its hysterically funny screenplay was masterful.