No Other Choice and Eddington imo but I also think they should go back to 5 and just pick better films
No Other Choice, Eddington, Sorry Baby, The Mastermind. In a perfect world they’d nominate It Was Just An Accident, The Shrouds, Misericordia, A Poet, Universal Language, Resurrection (not like that had a chance tho)… all snubbed but I’m okay with the list as it stands. They’re always gonna choose the popular/viral things.
Resurrection too But as I said I'd ideally go.back to 5 and leave foreign language films in their own category (mainly bc if it were actually done by quality, they'd dominate the entire thing)
Idk about keeping international films to their own category. People are actually watching them and taking them seriously now that they’re pitted up against the hollywood films. Before people were content to ignore the foreign category entirely
You're definitely right. I guess it's just that they expanded the field to 10 and started including foreign films which is great bc of the exposure to a wider audience but they still have the separate category too so it's just kind of strange. Does it makes sense to give the foreign language award to something other than Sentimental Value or Secret Agent when they made it into BP and the others did not? Expanding to 10 and having another category with more nominees just seems like a way to recognize more movies but is that really good if you're just nominating films to fill slots rather than nominating the best of the best? Ultimately the awards are flawed in many ways so as you pointed out, if it gets more people's eyes on good movies, I suppose that's what really matters.
Out of the current race I’d drop Hamnet, Frankenstein, F1 and Train Dreams and replace with any of the following: It Was Just An Accident, No Other Choice, Weapons, Eddington, Avatar: Fire and Ash, 28 Years Later, Eephus, The Naked Gun, Friendship, Superman, Cloud, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Die My Love, The Phoenician Scheme, The Shrouds, Blue Moon, Black Bag, Roofman, Final Destination Bloodlines, Wake Up Dead Man….
Imagine if they had to introduce Best Picture nominee The Naked Gun during the show and they just aired the full snowman sequence as the Oscar reel.
i know art is subjective and there's always gonna be convos about 'snubs' and what other films we would have liked to see be considered but i just slam on the brakes of taking a post seriously when you suggest the Roofman or Wake Up Dead Man should replace Hamnet or Train Dreams in consideration for Best Picture. no disrespect at all to Roofman, a little disrespect to WUDM.
I did not love Train Dreams but come on. Are we that starved for a big comedy that we need to overhype every one that comes out? Don’t make me tap the Game Night sign
This was my point exactly. 2025 was a strong year and I am just naming movies better than Train Dreams, F1, Hamnet - which includes The Naked Gun
They would never nominate something like Afternoons of Solitude, but if we were talking about films that could have realistically been nominated, The Mastermind and Blue Moon are better than quite a few nominees.
If i see a better movie in 2026 than Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie than it will be an all timer year