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What is the worst Best Picture nominee in the last 10 years?

The worst best picture nominee of the last 10 years is...

  • The Blind Side

    Votes: 85 15.7%

  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

    Votes: 86 15.9%

  • The Help

    Votes: 16 3.0%

  • Vice

    Votes: 13 2.4%

  • Green Book

    Votes: 94 17.3%

  • Bohemian Rhapsody

    Votes: 215 39.7%

  • other

    Votes: 33 6.1%
  • Total voters
    542
Stiler

Stiler

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Oct 29, 2017
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Bohemian Rhapsody.

it felt like a watered down made-for-tv version of the real story of Queen, they skipped a lot of the nitty gritty stuff, went straight to their "best hits" and then it was over. I also still think Sacha Baron Cohen would've been a better Freddie over Rami.
 
Shoe

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Oct 25, 2017
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I thought American Hustle was pretty much just straight up trash
 
Nothing Loud

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Oct 25, 2017
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hiredhand said:
I have to ask: why?

It would probably be in the top 10 for me. It's certainly a lot better than everything not called The Favourite or Roma from this year's nominees.
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Because as far as musicals go: the songs are shit, the singing is bad, and the story is formulaic and typical against a backdrop of such privileged, boring white people problems.

But yes the worst nominee is Bohemian
 
El Bombastico

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Oct 25, 2017
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Green Book, because goddamn, did we REALLY need a another feel-good white savior movie for white people to feel better about their own diet racism?
 
Prototype Viktor

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hiredhand said:
Well, the person I was replying said:

I interpreted that as the movie being bad just because it is appropriating jazz music. Black Panther is appropriating a typically white genre. I don't think anyone would argue that it's a bad film because of that.

The debate around La La Land being problematic is kinda tired. People often create art about the things they know or have experienced and Chazelle happens to be a priviledged white filmmaker that wanted to be a jazz musician at some point in his life. So it is quite natural that he has directed two films that are about aspiring white jazz musicians. Also if a character in a film says or does something "problematic", it doesn't mean that the film is automatically problematic.
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With what you just said in this post I dunno what to say to you at this point so I'm out of this instance of this conversation. *Throws hands up in confusion*
 
Eggiem

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Oct 27, 2017
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Bohemian Rhapsody for me because of the terrible editing (winner best film editing btw)


Gives me a headache.
 
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Bohemian Rhapsody probably. The rest of the movies in the OP have some element that is well done, even if they were bad overall and didn't deserve to win awards. Bohemian Rhapsody is bad filmmaking on every level.
 
Rygar1126

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It's Extremely Loud, and I'm not sure anything else even comes close. It's one of the worst films to be nominated period.
 

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Of the films I've seen, American Sniper, and Hacksaw Ridge I found to be laughably bad in places, Silver Linings Playbook (only half watched, so I'm reticent to count it) seemed utterly forgettable, so I'm surprised it even got a nomination.

Looking forward to The Goldfinch inevitably joining this ignoble list.
 
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Zolbrod

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Oct 27, 2017
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The only movies I've seen on this list are Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody.
I enjoyed BR well enough, but it absolutely did not deserve a nomination.
 
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hiredhand

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I have to say I'm a bit surprised by Green Book being 2nd in this poll. I originally was going to do the poll with only The Blind Side, Extremely Close and Bohemian Rhapsody because those felt to me like the obvious choices. I mean the fact that Green Book actually won is really really terrible but I feel like it is still mostly a well done yet sentimental and unambitious film.

Both Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody probably also gain votes due to recency bias and by being more widely seen by era members than The Blind Side or Extremely Close.

I personally would pick The Blind Side. It is cliched, sentimental and kinda racist. It's like one of those low budget christian movies that only get theatre distribution in the US except it has Sandra Bullock instead of Kevin Sorbo.
 
Kewlmyc

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Oct 25, 2017
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Bohemian Rhapsody.

Rocketman is a better film in almost every way, yet won't get anywhere near the recognition.
 

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Haven't seen any of the ones in the poll because I'm pretty sure they're all bad.

I absolutely loathed Birdman though, and someone mentioned that, so I'll go with that.

Although if Incredibly Loud and Obnoxiously Cloying is anything like the book, I might hate that even more.
 
CloudWolf

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Oct 26, 2017
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Most "bad" Academy Award nominees are middling films that don't really deserve the distinction as one of the best movies of the year, but are also often not necessarily the worst.

Bohemian Rhapsody is the rare nominee that is actually a fucking awful movie. It's incredibly by the book, insanely manipulative in regards to homosexual relationships, extremely disrespectful of its subject, utterly fails as a biopic as about the big emotional moments of the movie never even happened (not in a 'from a certain point of view'-way, they actually never fucking happened) and of course, it's made by an actual rapist.

Oh, and Rami Malek winning best actor was also some bullshit. He just did a pantomime performance of Freddie Mercury, mimicking ain't acting.

Fuck Bohemian Rhapsody.
 
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Cipher Peon

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Oct 25, 2017
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Easily Manchester By The Sea. One of the worst movies of the decade. Hated every frame of it.
 
Junior Asparagus

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I haven't seen Extremely Loud, but from what I've read about it, I think that would be my vote. Of the other ones, it's The Blind Side.
 
Jegriva

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Honorable mention to The Reader, 2008.

It was nominated, but Wall-E, Zodiac and The Dark Knight weren't.
 
higemaru

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Absurd pick, even at the time. Bohemian Rhapsody is a good pick too, especially considering the director.
 
scarlet

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Oct 25, 2017
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I watched Oscar religiously but I don't remember a movie titled Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
 
winjet81

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Oct 27, 2017
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Bohemian Rhapsody was terrible.

Among many problems, I found the horrible prosthetics and wigs to be mind-blowingly comical; worse than the spy get-ups in The Americans.
 

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American Hustle was maybe the movie with the highest level of hype/praise and the lowest level of quality I've ever seen. It had OK performances, but everything else was really bad. The story was really boring and I couldn't have cared less about it, the characters (though well acted) were all boring, the movie wasn't funny, I could go on. I really had no idea what others saw in it, but I saw nothing in it.
 
Aurongel

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Green Book is definitely the worst winner but the film itself isn't terrible - even if it's incredibly formulaic and old school white man oscar voter bait.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close on the other hand is a thoroughly saccharine film unworthy of the nomination in the first place.
 
Hamchan

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Oct 25, 2017
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The Golden Globes should be embarrassed that they gave the best drama award to Bohemain Rhapsody.

Though I guess that's why no one takes them seriously and they can only get people to watch when they hire Ricky Gervais to poop on people.
 
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American Hustle was maybe the movie with the highest level of hype/praise and the lowest level of quality I've ever seen. It had OK performances, but everything else was really bad. The story was really boring and I couldn't have cared less about it, the characters (though well acted) were all boring, the movie wasn't funny, I could go on. I really had no idea what others saw in it, but I saw nothing in it.
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oh wow yeah, forgot about this movie it was so unforgettable
 
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