8 of the Best Movies the Oscars Snubbed This Year!

The competition for the Academy Award for Best Picture this year is strong. The pivotal plot point in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once hinges on the daring use of a dildo, while Triangle of Sadness is a capitalist-skewing triumph with a memorable central section that climaxes in literal explosions of vomit and shit.

If I may use an example… A Spielberg movie, a biopic about Elvis, and massive sequels to Top Gun and Avatar are also included. Certainly, it’s a varied and interesting collection.

Oscar, of course, has a history of being wrong and missing great films and directors. Here are eight films that should have been nominated for Academy Awards but weren’t this year. Some were overlooked, while others’ absences from the ballot are truly shocking. If you’re willing to go beyond the numbers, it’s clear that 2018 has been a fantastic year for movies.

An Oscar-winning actress (Viola Davis) in a historical epic directed by a renowned filmmaker (Gina Prince-Bythewood)? The Woman King, despite being financially successful, audience-rousing, and critically lauded, was snubbed by the Academy at award time. Interesting.

Where to Watch: Netflix

Nope

Nope is the latest in Jordan Peele’s increasingly unique brand of horror films, and it does a fantastic job of building suspense while playing its cards close to the chest right up until the end credits (and arguably beyond).

An exceptional director is required to make a film so bizarre that it doesn’t cave in on itself. At the eye of a storm, Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer play it cool.

Where to Watch: Peacock

The Northman

The stunning visuals and intense storytelling of Robert Eggers’ Viking epic, which stars Alexander Skarsgrd and Nicole Kidman (who can hold her own against any of Shakespeare’s complicated mothers), make it difficult to fathom the film’s underwhelming performance at the box office.

The Northman’s wildly uncompromising, even nihilistic tone is surprisingly refreshing in today’s climate of carefully test-marketed blockbusters. The film reportedly made money on streaming services even though it did poorly at the Academy Awards.

Where to Watch: Prime Video

Director Brett Morgan (The Kid Stays in the Picture) abandons his signature style to create a film that feels like it could have been made by Bowie himself if he were still alive.

Where to Watch: Digital rental

Bros

A witty and incisive romantic comedy that takes the bold stance that the queer experience of love may not be a simple analogy for the straight one. Though it’s an unflattering parallel to make in the year 2023, this film feels like the neurotic spiritual successor to the acclaimed works of Woody Allen (if way less problematic).

The two leads, Billy Eichner and Luke McFarlane, both give strong performances, and the original song “Love is Not Love” stands up to any of the other nominees in that category this year.

Where to Watch: Peacock

Descendant

The remains of the Clotilda were found in the Mobile River in Alabama this year (2019). In 1859, half a century after the importation of enslaved people from Africa to the United States had been outlawed, the ship carrying 110 Africans from Dahomey, the setting of The Woman King was scuttled.

Margaret Brown, a documentary filmmaker, spent the next three years examining the significance of the discovery through the eyes of the descendants of the ship’s survivors, illuminating stark contrasts between what is written in books and what people went through.

While the film’s streaming-only status disqualifies it from Oscar consideration, its winding distribution history suggests that it very well might have seen a theatrical run had it taken a different route to Hulu.

The point is that this gay-friendly update of Jane Austen deftly shifts between tones as it addresses issues of race and class. This is the kind of witty, well-acted romantic comedy that Oscar used to recognize and honor.

Where to Watch: Hulu

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