30 Greatest Best Picture Oscar Nominees Of The Last Ten Years

16. Little Women

Birdman Michael Keaton
Columbia Pictures

Greta Gerwig's second feature film might not quite be as brilliant as her debut, but damn does it come impressively close.

Little Women is an extraordinarily effective adaption in more ways than one. Not only is the film offer great writing, flawless performances and beautiful visuals all the way through but, without going into spoilerific territory, it cleverly plays around with the novel and brings out new dimensions that weren't there before.

Aside from Emma Watson's terrible American accent, this is an absolute bull's eye that, depressingly, kind-of underperformed at the Oscars.

It got six nominations and won for Best Costume Design, but it's arguable that Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh were the best performers in their categories (both were comfortably superior to the eventual winners) and the film outrageously got robbed of Best Adapted Screenplay by... Jojo Rabbit. Depressing.

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