20 Worst Best Picture Film Nominees Since 2010

Django Unchained is a similar case to Midnight in Paris; it (probably) got nominated because the Academy loves its director, Quentin Tarantino. A movie this bloodthirsty, chaotic and undisciplined wouldn't normally get anywhere near the Best Picture field, after all.

Anyhow, Django is utter tripe. OK, fine, it's well-directed and beautifully-acted tripe, but it's still tripe. It's a load of bloated, self-indulgent nonsense that drags on for nearly three hours, has absolutely no soul whatsoever and ultimately devolves into an over-the-top gore-fest.

Django has many of the flaws you can find in the other films from this (arguably) overrated director - it's far too long, it's fairly ugly, the characters keep making stupid decisions, it doesn't have a shred of emotional substance - but what makes Django one of his worst films is that it lacks some of Tarantino's best attributes too.

The delightful non-linear storytelling of his other movies is absent, the dialogue is nowhere near as amazing as normal and while most of his other films, uneven though they may be, have quite a few standout scenes, there really isn't much to remember in this one.

The Academy might love Tarantino, but with Django the flaws are just too big to justify its inclusion and it's kind-of disgraceful that this movie got in when so many great big-budget blockbuster movies have been snubbed over the years (The Dark Knight, anyone?).