20 Worst Best Picture Film Nominees Since 2010
6. Gravity
Gravity is a very strange case. When watched on the big screen, it's a breath-taking cinematic spectacle that'll leave you in awe.
When watched on the small screen... it's garbage. No seriously, it's actually garbage. There is probably no other film that falls apart so dramatically on a second viewing.
Without the amazing big-screen experience you're left with an empty, flatly written and thematically trite survival drama that's only given the slightest bit of dramatic legitimacy by Sandra Bullock - and even then, her excellent lead turn can't quite rescue the movie. As well as this, George Clooney doesn't get nearly enough to do.
It's also got one of the very worst scenes from any Best Picture nominee this decade - that cringe-worthy moment when Bullock is on the phone to an Inuk on earth and starts imitating a wolf.
So, while Gravity was amazing at the time for most viewers (myself included) and seemed like a worthy Best Picture nominee, these days it just doesn't hold up at all. Most will no doubt wish a far better movie, such as Rush, The Great Beauty or Snowpiercer (a vastly superior sci-fi film) was nominated for Best Picture instead.