20 Terrible Oscar Nominations From The Past Ten Years - Corrected

This was one of the worst Best Picture line-ups Ever. Moneyball, Hugo, The Descendants and the eventual winner The Artist were fine, especially Moneyball and Hugo which were two of 2011's best films, but the other five are simply laughable.

The Tree of Life is a visually stunning but desperately dull exercise in pretentious self-indulgence, The Help is beautifully-acted but badly written Oscar Bait, Midnight in Paris and War Horse are both nice but very forgettable and worst of all, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, an insufferable, tedious and manipulative mess of a movie that only got 46% on Rotten Tomatoes, was easily the worst Best Picture nominee of the decade.

Additionally, Midnight in Paris and The Tree of Life's Best Director nominations were ridiculous.

Corrected:

Firstly, there were two appalling snubs: Drive and A Separation, which were the two best films of 2011, as well as two of the decade's greatest movies. In fact, there's a strong case to be made for A Separation being the rightful Best Picture winner of that year.

To round it off, the searing sports drama Warrior, Steve McQueen's harrowing sex-addiction drama Shame, Steven Soderbergh's terrifying medical thriller Contagion and the chilling We Need to Talk About Kevin (for the tenth spot that should've been there) would've been great. Drive and Shame should've taken the Best Director slots from Midnight in Paris and The Tree of Life too.

Make no mistake: this line-up is the biggest Oscar screw-up of the decade. Honestly, what were they thinking?