20 Terrible Oscar Nominations From The Past Ten Years - Corrected
3. The 2013 Best Picture Field
This Best Picture line-up was, putting it kindly, abysmal. Admittedly, 2012 wasn't a brilliant year for film but even so, there were many better movies that could've been chosen.
The eventual winner, Argo, and Silver Linings Playbook are great movies and Amour and Beasts of the Southern Wild were also good picks, but the other five are highly questionable.
Django Unchained is a load of self-indulgent nonsense, Lincoln is decent but empty Oscar-Bait, Les Miserables is just awful and Zero Dark Thirty was severely hampered by TV movie-like directing and an emotionless, robotic script. Life of Pi is far better than those movies, but it was also a bit too long and hasn't really lingered since its release, so that's gone too. Lincoln's Best Adapted Screenplay nomination was also a mistake.
Corrected:
Once again, the blockbusters deserved more love. Skyfall, the extraordinary 23rd James Bond film and possibly 2012's greatest film, should've been nominated alongside the terrific The Avengers. Speaking of which, the amazing screenplay for The Avengers should've taken Lincoln's spot in Best Adapted Screenplay too.
As well as those two, Paul Thomas Anderson's hauntingly powerful The Master, modern science-fiction classic Looper and the wonderful Moonrise Kingdom should've filled out the other three slots. As for a tenth nominee, it would've been brilliant to see The Impossible, a genuinely great Oscar-Bait movie, in the line-up.