20 Terrible Oscar Nominations From The Past Ten Years - Corrected
19. Cold War's Nominations For Best Director And Best Foreign Language Film
Cold War is a perfectly good drama film, but while it was wonderful to see a small independent film like this do well at the Oscars, there were several other better choices in 2018, which was a very strong year for independent cinema.
The nomination for the film's awe-inspiring cinematography was spot-on, but the film was too emotionally cold (no pun intended) to justify the nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and director Pawel Pawlikowski did a very good job, but he wasn't quite top five-level.
Corrected:
Luca Guadagnino's stunning, artistically brilliant and borderline Kubrickan directing of his superb remake of Suspiria really was one of the very best directing jobs of the year and in an ideal world he would've been nominated for Best Director.
As for Best Foreign Language Film, Norway's brilliant and harrowing recreation of the 2011 Norway Attacks, Utoya: July 22, would've been a far better and more interesting nomination. Alternatively, it would've been great to see South Korea's maddening (in the best possible way) mystery movie Burning in the line-up.