Oscars Nominations 2022: 8 Ups & 9 Downs

3. Too Much Love For Don't Look Up

By far the worst-reviewed of all the Best Picture nominees this year is Don't Look Up, which with a middling 56% on the Tomatometer is also the only critically Rotten of the ten nominees.

Now, the hate for Adam McKay's timely satire may be wildly overblown, but such is the inevitable backlash when something is rewarded far beyond its station.

Don't Look Up ended up with four nominations for Best Picture, Best Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Original Score, when there's a fair argument to be made that it really didn't deserve the first two at all.

Screenplay and Score are fine, but considering one of the most common complaints about the movie has been its excessive 138 minute length, is Best Film Editing really appropriate, especially with the far better-paced Licorice Pizza missing out on a nomination?

But for most the real sting is that Don't Look Up took a Best Picture slot away from several other better-received films, namely Tick, Tick...Boom! and The Lost Daughter.

While it's unlikely that the film will walk away with much on Oscar night, the recognition itself seems excessive.