20 Worst Best Picture Film Nominees Since 2010

Could it have been anything else at number one?

There have been many undeserving Best Picture nominees over the past eleven years, but there has been nothing, absolutely nothing as egregiously awful as Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close getting nominated for Best Picture despite getting widely mixed reviews and being, you know, a terrible film.

Extremely Loud has many very fine performances and is also another film that clearly means well, but it just doesn't work at all. It's a nauseatingly treacly and overtly pretentious drama film that tackles many important issues - grief, isolation, trauma, the Holocaust, 9/11 and even Autism - with all the sensitivity, subtlety and artistry of a Michael Bay explosion fest.

Everything about this movie's emotional storytelling feels crass, manipulative and poorly put-together and as such, this movie's emotional impact is virtually non-existent. It's also led by one of the most infuriating kid characters in any recent movie (Thomas Horn), who keeps doing these ghastly philosophical monologues.

This being nominated at all is bad enough, but when you consider that so many great 2011 films were snubbed that year - A Separation, Drive, Warrior, Contagion, Shame, Deathly Hallows Part 2, We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - it's even more painful.

Here's to hoping we never get another nominee this bad again.