Oscars 2014: 18 Sublime Moments That Define Best Picture Nominees

13. That's Not My Blood - Captain Phillips

After the pulse-pounding rescue, everything is set up for what feels like a fairly routine ending, until director Paul Greengrass tosses in an unexpected turn that rocks our emotions to the core. Instead of showing us that Phillips is alive and promptly cutting black to the credits, Phillips undergoes some serious post-traumatic stress. The reality of the hell he has just endured is finally settling in, and it's to the point where he seems to have developed some slight amnesia as he's unable to recall certain things doctors question him about. The kicker is that throughout it all, Phillips is beyond emotionally disoriented and distressed, crying up a storm. In movies with a lesser quality actor this would come across unintentionally hilarious, but Tom Hanks puts on some of the most sincere and believable crying in cinema history. This is the kind of scene that screams Oscar nomination, only Tom Hanks wasn't nominated. What the hell Academy!? The scene probably encompasses the single greatest piece of acting throughout the entirety of 2013!