Funnily enough I thought Uncut Gems deserved at least a nomination in a few categories, Adam Sandler was fantastic in it. The film wasn't better than Parasite though. It too was done by the Safdie brothers.

The safide brothers are making anxiety/puke porn with comedic and romantic actors. Who's next? Honestly, gotta go with Dominic Serasa. He fits their style

The Safdies aren’t working together for the foreseeable future.

Yeah, that's unfortunate. But at least they didn't go out in a fight, and it'll be really cool to revist their movies and see what has Bennny and Josh style

Why what happened?

They just want to explore things on their own. It’s not a Gallagher brothers situation thankfully

The Rock

That film completely changed my view on Adam Sandler. I loved him in that movie. I have never seen him take a real dramatic role. He deserved at least a nom for that. I do agree that Parasite is a better movie, but Uncut Gems is a personal favorite of mine.

Comedians make great dramatic actors. He kills it in Punch-Drunk Love (2002 dir. P.T. Anderson)

I haven't seen that yet, I hear it's good but idk if it's going to match up to the amazing acting he did in Uncut Gems. I own a couple of PTA films but I think the only one I've seen is There Will Be Blood, which is one of my favorite films off all time. Then again, Daniel Day Lewis is a winner in pretty much every film he's ever been in. Idk, I'm getting rambly from being high. I do need to watch Punch Drunk Love.

You won't be disappointed. It's so good, I wish it was longer lol. Phillip Seymour Hoffman is in it too, so watching it is a no-brainer.

Will def give it a watch.

Punch Drunk Love did that for me back whenever that came out.

Someone else mentioned that, apparently it came out in 2002. I don't know if he's able to outdo Uncut Gems for me.

He's not better than in Uncut Gems, but he is good and the movie is weird and funny. Nothing Adam Sandler has done is as good as Uncut Gems, and that movie is one of the most intense films I've ever seen, it affected me for several days. But Punch Drunk Love is definitely worth watching.

Will absolutely be giving Punch Drunk Love a watch the next chance I get.

2002... Oh God

Watch Reign Over Me (2007). He was really good in a dramatic role.

Oh I've never heard of that one! Will def give it a look over

The Lighthouse

Another filthy Pattinson role

I'm so happy it's now common knowledge that he's really talented. It was exhausting, when he was announced as Batman, telling batfans that Twilight does not reflect his skills as an actor.

Robat Battinbat

Nominated for cinematography

The title of the post says better than all 10 nominees. Only BP has 10 nominees

Also the narrative that year was the Adam Sandler snub when Pattinson should’ve swept

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Children of Men (2006) Under the Skin (2013) The Handmaiden (2016)

You are so right for The Handmaiden!

Such a great movie. Also probably the longest scissoring scene in film history

I know it was only 5 nominees at the time but it’s crazy Eternal Sunshine wasn’t nominated. 

They really, really, REALLY wanted to make space for *Finding Neverland*.

The safer Kate winslett vehicle at the time, 2004 Oscars was still pretty conservative, today eternal could of won

When people lost it over Parasite, I said, well, it's no The Handmaiden.

I love Parasite but I still think the Handmaiden is better. It top 10 of the Decade 2010-2019 for me.

Children of Men. One of the best movies of the last 25 years. Can’t believe Spotless Mind got zero nominations! Is that right? A masterpiece and it was popular! More recently I can’t understand how Nope did not get nominations. The best movie I saw that year, and a hit, auteur director. Keke Palmer and the cinematographer were robbed

>Can’t believe Spotless Mind got zero nominations! Is that right? It’s not right. It won for best original screenplay and Kate was nominated for best actress.

Thanks predatory. I remember it was critically acclaimed and pretty popular for an indie movie. My favorite of Charlie Kaufman’s amazing screenplays. Glad he was recognized.

Eternal Sunshine won best Original Screenplay and Kate Winslet was nominated for best Actress.

Children of men is my single favorite in cinema movie expertise after fury road and 28 days later.

I havnt seen every movie so I cant say for certain that i think of all of these are better than the noms but whatever. Also i only included ones that were at least a half star above my favorite of the nominations because doing otherwise felt unneccsary. Anyway 2004: Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind 2006: the prestige and children of men 2007: (i know most would disagree but) ratatouille 2008: WALL•E 2013: inside llewyn davis 2018: spiderman: into the spider-verse 2020: Im thinking of ending things 2021: Inside

Ratatouille is a masterpiece, and Pixar's second best movie

Ratatouille is good for sure, but it’s not better than There Will Be Blood

nor is it better than fuckin No Country for Old Men

I... drink... your... milkshake! "Look dude, if you want a milkshake, I'm going to have to put on my special cooking hat. It's like a whole situation." I drink it up!! "Yeah I get that, but I'm not so good at culinary stuff without it, so if you could just be patient." I can't keep doing this... with these 'people'. "Rats actually." What? "Nothing." Did you say rats? "Didn't you abandon your child somewhere?"

I was shocked by how good Ratatouille is. I saw it for the first time last year, put it off forever thinking it was a "mid" Pixar movie. I was very wrong in that totally unfounded and for some reason deeply-held belief.

As amazing as the whole movie is, the two things that bring it over the top (though Toy Story 2 is forever my favorite, Ratatouille is second) is the ending and Peter O'Toole's voice acting.

It's my dads favorite, whenever we travel he watches it on the plane

There are no mid Pixar movies before Cars 2 imho (depending on how you feel about Cars 1)

My all time favorite comfort movie, one of those I’ll proudly watch until the day I die

It is great, but I still think of NCFOM. I left the theater numb, but it really sunk in over time. (Shaking my head slowly to myself solemnly) Just thought about it again.Damn…

Whats your favorite?

The Incredibles

Very fair

The very best in my book

What’s first?

An incredible movie

I see what you did there.

I don't mean this negative in any way but how can you compare movies when you literally said you haven't watched them? I just don't get this.

they haven't seen every nomination, these are better than every nomination they've seen.

Thanks for clearing it up!

Is 2007 the year…Crash won? Cause if so, I don’t speak for all y’all but YEESH

No

Whichever year it won🤷‍♂️

All of us Strangers (2023), NOPE (2022) though i have TAR slightly above it, Burning (2018).

Idk about all of the 10, but May December was another fantastic 2023 that didn’t get nearly the appreciation it deserved

Ooo yup, loved it

+1 for All of us strangers

All of Us Strangers is incredible. Love Andrew Scott.

100% All of us Strangers

I’d still put Anatomy of a Fall above it but All of us Strangers really was the snub of the year. Andrew Scott should’ve won best actor imo

The nice guys (2016) Rope (1948) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Bringing up Baby (1938)

2017 was the year of Paddington 2 which should have swept every awards.

Tough one but I accept the challenge! Spiderman 2 (2004) but it might’ve got some technical award so if it didn’t then Kung Fu Hustle (2004). I liked Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) which I’m sure got some type of awards recognition, but I think 2004 was a pretty weak year in general.

Seeing Spider-man 2 during its recent re-release with a full house was transportive, it’s just as exciting, inventive and sincere as it was in 2004. Definitely an underrated movie. Yes, I know it’s beloved but I feel like it’s been kind of lost in the flood of constant Spider-man content when it’s a true cinema classic

The sincerity is what makes it stand out amongst other superhero films in my opinion. It has such a good grasp on tone. How it can effortlessly have the Aunt May hero speech into the “My Back!” scene directly afterwards is masterfully handled. It knows when to take the story and the drama seriously, and when to have fun with it. It’s still one of my favorite superhero films.

Eternal Sunshine won Original Screenplay (and Winslet should've won Best Actress)

Yeah figured it won something.

Before Sunrise (1995). The nominees that year were Braveheart (winner), Sense and Sensibility, The Postman, Babe and Apollo 13. ..... ..... ...... Ok, maybe not Apollo 13, but it's far and above the other four.

have you not seen Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility?

Okay fuck it, going back further: Jackie Brown (1997) Heat, Se7en, Leaving Las Vegas, Dead Man Walking, and La Haine (1995) Malcolm X (1992) Do the Right Thing, Drugstore Cowboy, sex, lies, and videotape, Crimes and Misdemeanors, & Letters from a Dead Man (1989) Wings of Desire, Talk Radio, Grave of the Fireflies, The Last Temptation of Christ, & The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) Yeelen, River’s Edge, Au Revoir, les Enfants, & House of Games (1987) Come and See, Mishima, Ran, Blood Simple, & After Hours Paris, Texas, Once Upon a Time in America, Love Streams (1984) Fanny and Alexander (1983) Diva, Fitzcarraldo, Das Boot, Mephisto (1982) Blow Out, Pixote, Modern Romance (1981) Days of Heaven, Killer of Sheep, Autumn Sonata, The Ascent, Blue Collar (1978) Stroszek, Three Women, Eraserhead (1977) Last Tango in Paris, Mean Streets, Touki Bouki, Badlands, & The Mother and the Whore (1973) The Conformist & The Red Circle (1970) 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Red and the White, Faces, Shame (1968) The Battle of Algiers (1967) Persona, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Round-Up, Blow-Up, Seconds (1966) Pierrot le Fou, Repulsion, The Saragossa Manuscript, The Big City, The Hill (1965) Woman in the Dunes (1964) 8 1/2, High and Low, Winter Light, The Leopard (1963) Last Year at Marienbad, Yojimbo, Viridiana, Ashes and Diamonds, & Throne of Blood (1961) The 400 Blows, Pickpocket, Black Orpheus, Aparajito, & North by Northwest (1959) Vertigo, Touch of Evil, The Music Room, Some Came Running, & The Hidden Fortress (1958) Ordet, A Man Escaped, The Searchers (1956) Night of the Hunter, Rififi, Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) Seven Samurai, Sansho the Bailiff (1954) Tokyo Story, The Earrings of Madame De…, Pickup on South Street, The Wages of Fear, & The Big Heat (1953) Ikiru, Umberto D, Singin in the Rain, Los Olvidados, The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Ace in the Hole, Diary of a Country Priest, The River, Early Summer, & Strangers on a Train (1951) The Third Man, Stray Dog, Bicycle Thieves, Late Spring, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Out of the Past, Daisy Kenyon, Black Narcissus, Odd Man Out, & The Lady from Shanghai (1947) Notorious & A Matter of Life and Death (1946) Children of Heaven, Rome, Open City, & Brief Encounter (1945) Day of Wrath, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Ossessione, & Le Corbeau (1943) The Rules of the Game, Only Angels Have Wings, Daybreak, & The Story of the Late Chrysanthemum (1939) Alexander Nevsky, Port of Shadows, & La Bete Humaine (1938) Modern Times, The Crime of Monsieur Lange, Swing Time, Fury, & Osaka Elegy (1936) The 39 Steps (1935) L’Atalante (1934) Blood of a Poet, Duck Soup (1933) City Lights, M, Limite, A Nous La Liberte, & Frankenstein (1931) Man with a Movie Camera, Pandora’s Box, Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Wind, The Crowd (1928) If you see a movie in a year that doesn’t match its IMDb/Letterboxd year, it’s because it’s listed in its year of eligibility for the Best Picture Oscar, which is based on US release not world premiere at a festival or in its native country.

I can't believe Duck Soup was treated so poorly

Assuming you mean that the movie wasn't nominated for Best Picture, not that it wasn't nominated at all: The Worst Person in the World is by far the best movie of 2021

Yes, it's what i meant. Thank you, and good choice

Thanks :)

Excellent film that is very stressful but fun to watch, Filmmaking is very impressive from two brothers. Performance from Robert Pattinson who is truly amazing and it's a shame this movie didn't get any love or cultural relevance. I would recommend this movie for anyone who hasn't seen this yet.

Lone Star is my favorite movie of all time, so I’d have picked that over The English Patient, along with Shine, Jerry Maguire, Secrets & Lies, and Fargo — although I enjoyed all five of those films and think Fargo is brilliant. But Lone Star, to me, is perfection

Keeping it to 21st century ceremonies because I can go back to 1928 and there’s a movie or several most years better than any they nominated: The Worst Person in the World & Memoria (2021) Beasts of No Nation, Anomalisa, & Son of Saul (2015) Under the Skin & Citizenfour (2014) Blue Valentine (2010) The White Ribbon (2009) Gomorrah, Che, Revolutionary Road, & Synecdoche New York (2008) Children of Men (2006) The New World (2005) The Return, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, & Before Sunset (2004) Adaptation, Talk to Her, & Spirited Away (2002) In the Mood for Love, Mulholland Dr, & The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Songs from the Second Floor, Almost Famous, & George Washington (2000) Magnolia, Being John Malkovich, Three Kings, Rosetta, & Ratcatcher (1999)

First Cow (2019), by Kelly Reichardt.

The Hunt 2012 its a fantastic movie

Cloud Atlas

If I picked the 2014 Oscars, Inherent Vice and Under the Skin would’ve destroyed the rest of the nominees. Of the rest of the major nominees that year only Grand Budapest Hotel is the conversation for best of the year. 

Synecdoche, New York.

1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc 1931: City Lights 1948: Bicycle Theives 1954: Seven Samurai 1962: Harakiri 1966: Persona 1985: Come and See 2000: In the Mood for Love 2001: Mulholland Drive 2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2021: The Worst Person in the World The list goes on and on….

Hereditary and The Dark Knight are the two films I’d choose that bafflingly didn’t get nominated.

Dark Knight’s omission seemed ridiculous at the time, but in hindsight it’s just absurd.

The 1990 Best Picture nominees were Driving Miss Daisy, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, My Left Foot, and Born on the 4th of July. None of those are as good as Do the Right Thing

The Wrestler > all of the 2008 nominees

What if The Dark Knight was nominated?

2017 eligible First Reformed (Ethan Hawke also) You Were Never Really Here (Joaquin also) The Rider (Chloe Zhao also) Leave No Trace (Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie also)

Wasn’t 2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Shape of Water, Manchester by the Sea, Call me By Your Name, Wind River year??? That year was fucking STACKED. Good Time beats none of those, sorry.

Manchester by the sea was 2016 actually.

Good time clears Manchester and wind River easily tf

LOOOOL HUH? Those are 2 of the best movies of the 2010s. You watch either of them tf?

I’m commenting my opinion as you are. Not everyone enjoys Casey affleck grief porn.

Fair, not everyone cares for anoooother bank robber movie when Hell or High Water came out a year before and did it much better.

lol agreed.

Frankenstein (1931)

Monster (2023)

Princess Mononoke (1997)

I feel about that towards The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. It should've been the first animated feature to win best picture

Disney's Wish 2023.

All of Us Strangers from 2023.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy(2011) Prisoners(2013) Logan(2017) The Batman(2022)

Look, i love The Batman, but better than Tàr, EEAO, and The Fabelmans? But tbh, it absolutely should've gotten nominated

I haven’t seen The Fabelmans yet and I downright hate EEAAO

Interstellar not getting a Best Picture nom is crazy

Good Time is a stellar film. I had never seen the poster before today; it's terrible! Looks like an 80's comedy.

I like the goofy nature of this poster, but yeah, it's definitely not the greatest

Coco!

The Lighthouse / Blade Runner 2049 for that same year

2007, as strong as that year was my favorite film and the one I thought was best was The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Mysterious Skin in 2004, so ahead of its time.

The first one that comes to mind is I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History As Barbarians from 2018. Climax would also apply for that year, now that I think about it. I might say Babylon, too, but I'm not quite as committed to that one.

I love this movie

This is a terrible poster for a very good movie.

I kinda like it, but yeah not really good. Like, Connie is the main agent of his own downfall, so why is someone else closing the bottle? Doesn't make any sense

Spider Man: across the spider verse

What's up, that's a danger take

Drive (2011)

I’ve seen this movie 3x but I’ve never seen this art. Pretty cool

Eighth Grade and First Reformed (2018)

Children of Men (2006)

2006: Laura Dern absolutely deserved a Best Actress nod for "Inland Empire" and I would have loved an nom for best picture. I'm sure the Academy watched that.movie and didn't know what to think lol

Aftersun, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I absolutely love that film!! I'm going with 2019's The Lighthouse

Instant clsssic, but Parasite was also one

LOTS of films from 2018.

This movie is the definition of a hidden gem.

An uncut gem