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Oscar Snubs Throughout the Decade

by Baran Bener

With the Oscar Nominations for 2020's big night confirmed, filmmakers and moviegoers are worrying about how the Academy will disagree with their favorite movies, actors, and music choices from this year in cinema, like they always do.

 

The decade has come to an end, so I will be making a comprehensive list of the biggest snubs and mistakes that the Academy did while nominating and choosing winners.

2010 Oscars

 

2009 was a fantastic year for cinema with Inglorious Bastards, Avatar, Zombieland, and the hilarious The Hangover.

None of these movies were considered best pictures by The Academy; however, due to The Hurtlocker being an underdog next to these movies, The Hurt Locker won best picture in the 2010 Oscars.

The Hurt Locker also won an Oscar on an astounding five other categories, including best film editing, best sound mixing, best original screenplay, and best director.

2011 Oscars

 

The year 2010 was a fantastic year for cinema with excellent movies such as David Fincher's drama autobiography The Social Network, Martin Scorsese's thriller mystery Shutter Island and Christopher Nolan's action movie Inception.

 

Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, however, was unsuccessful in getting any Oscars and left the theatre empty-handed. Shutter Island went down in history as the only movie of the partnership between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo Dicaprio that failed to receive any Oscar nominations. 

 

The King's Speech won best picture in the 2011 Oscars.

2012 Oscars

 

2011 was a slow year for filmmaking, but The Academy still managed to snub fan favorites like Drive, Moneyball, and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Instead, The Academy went all-in on a movie that almost bombed in the box office and gave Hugo 6 Oscars.

 

All the main categories, best actor, best picture and best director, went to The Artist.

 

The movie Warrior went did not get any Oscar's in 2012.

2013 Oscars

 

2012 is the most influential year for movies this decade with, Django: Unchained, Lincoln, The Dark Knight Rises, Argo, The Master, Life Of Pi, Skyfall, The Avengers, and The Hunger Games releasing this year.

 

The Academy blindfolded themselves from Superhero movies due to them having too many visual effects, even though there is a category for that, The Academy gave this award to Life Of Pi.

 

Django: Unchained's score was ignored entirely and given to Life Of Pi. 

 

After Argo only winning in two other categories, the movie still got Best picture in the 2013 Oscars.

2014 Oscars

 

2013 was Leonardo Dicaprio's year for cinema. He had two big box office hits with him as the main character. These movies are Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby and Martin Scorsese's The Wolf Of Wall Street. The Academy, however, begs to differ because out of these two movies, only 2 Oscars were earned, and those Oscars were Production and Costume Design. The Wolf Of Wall Street, the movie that is superior to The Great Gatsby, won zero Oscars. 

 

The conjuring, which is one of the best horror movies of the decade, was ignored because The Academy did not accept the movie as a real choice due to its being a horror movie. 

 

12 Years a Slave won Best Picture in the 2014 Oscars.

2015 Oscars

 

2014 was an excellent year for cinema, with Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Edge Of Tomorrow, Whiplash, Fury, and Interstellar

 

Best Cinematography was given to Birdman even though Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel's every single frame is a masterpiece due to it being shot in a 1:85:1 ratio. 

 

The Grand Budapest Hotel snubbed the Interstellar soundtrack, which was a treat to ears composed by Hans Zimmer. 

 

Eddie Redmayne got best actor due to The Academy loving autobiography movies. All predicted the Lego Movie to get Best Animated Picture, but Big Hero 6 stole their Oscar.

2016 Oscars

 

2015 was a great year for action with movies such as Mad Maz: Fury Road, Ant-Man, Sicario, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Jurrasic World, Everest, Creed, Spectre and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Out of all these movies Mad Max: Fury Road won an astounding six Oscars.

 

Tom Hardy got snubbed in The Revenant by not winning best supporting actor.

 

Leonardo Dicaprio however, after 27 years of acting, finally won best actor.

2017 Oscars

 

2016 had a minimal number of high budget movies, but those movies that did not have a significant impact on the box office still had a ton of nominations, the most significant example of this would be Berry Jenkins' indie film Moonlight. 

 

The two big contenders of the night were La La Land and Moonlight. Moonlight won 4 Oscars, including best picture while La La Land won 5 Oscars.

 

Suicide Squad, which was a disaster with the critics, still managed to get an Oscar.

2018 Oscars

 

2017 was a remarkable year for the Horror industry with Get Out, a horror movie, winning an Oscar.

 

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver got snubbed entirely even though the whole movie's premise is about sound. It won zero Oscars in those categories.

 

Thor Ragnarok, a critically acclaimed movie by Taika Waititi, got snubbed due to the movie being a superhero movie.

2019 Oscars

 

The 2019 Oscars contain the biggest snubs this decade. A Star Is Born wholly snubbed. First Man was entirely snubbed. 

 

Black Panther was the first-ever superhero movie to be nominated as a Best Picture in The Academy's history. 

 

Emily Blunt got snubbed in Mary Poppins Returns

 

Green Book, which did not even deserve to be nominated for best picture, won best picture surprising everybody. Rome was thought to win Best Picture.

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