20 Terrible Oscar Nominations From The Past Ten Years - Corrected

Despite 2014 being the best year for film of the decade, the Oscars rewarding that year were a total mess, including the Best Picture field.

Although Birdman and Boyhood are two of the decade's finest films, The Grand Budapest Hotel is excellent, Selma's one of the finest Oscar-Bait movies of recent times and Whiplash is a much-loved people's classic, the remaining three were Oscar-Bait that weren't even massively well-liked at the time.

American Sniper and The Imitation Game are not bad films; rather, they're just a bit forgettable, they didn't do anything very risky and they made some very questionable deviations from history. Meanwhile, the underwhelming (though superbly acted) The Theory of Everything being nominated was just awful.

Additionally, Morten Tyldum's nomination for Best Director (for The Imitation Game) is still one of the most ridiculous Oscar nominations in any category this decade.

Corrected:

Firstly, Whiplash should've been nominated for Best Director over The Imitation Game without a shadow of a doubt.

As for Best Picture, Nightcrawler, Inherent Vice and Calvary are all extraordinary films which deserved to take the places of those three nominees. As for the two remaining spots that should've been there, they should've been taken by the superb Australian horror film The Babadook and one of the many amazing blockbuster movies released this year; more specifically, either Dawn of the Planet of the Apes or Captain America: The Winter Soldier.