30 Greatest Best Picture Oscar Nominees Of The Last Ten Years

A coming-of-age story in the most literal way imaginable, Boyhood was filmed over 12 years with the same actors, so we're basically watching people age on-screen. It's an incredible experience and even if Boyhood sounds a bit gimmicky at first, it really isn't.

Boyhood, despite its epic scope, is an incredibly intimate, down-to-earth piece that captures life in all its complexity, tragedy and beauty like few other movies ever have. It's a profound, potent piece of art that, despite being all about the mundanities of everyday life, is engages you far more than most Hollywood blockbusters ever could.

That's just how smartly-written, well-directed and (mostly) well-performed this movie is.

The lead character might be Mason (Ellar Coltrane) and the film focuses on him as he ages from six to eighteen, but every single character in the film is brilliantly fleshed out - especially Mason's parents (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette) - and as such, this is the rare film in which every single viewer will see part of themselves. A masterpiece.

So, why didn't this win Best Picture then? Well, believe it or not, there was something even better in the 2015 line-up...