Episode 617: Oscars 10 to 5

While Mikey and d$ looked ahead to the movies to come for 2024 in last week's auction ep (thanks to Roth from Wyoming and Lil G, aka The Spawn of Ryfun, aka the Pride of Columbus, Garrizzle Ryfizzle for joining us), this week... we take a look at the past.

It's Hollywood Lore that the Best Picture nominee list went from 5 to anywhere from 7 to 10 after "The Dark Knight" was denied the honor in 2008's list (hence, 2009's list of 10 films!), but we wondered what would happen if they kept it at 5 films only... 

Meaning, in some years, the list needed to be culled by a couple of films... in others, as many as 5 had to be cut.  It's a great discussion on movies loved and not-so-loved, movies worthy and therefore argued over, and movies passed over quickly, lucky to have been mentioned at all. 

List of Best Picture nominees each year from 2009 to current - first nominee listed was the Best Picture winner from the year, aside from 2024's list.  Beginning in 2013, movies with an * denotes Deucie Winner for Best Picture in that year. 

2009

• ·        The Hurt Locker
• ·        Avatar
• ·        The Blind Side
• ·        District 9
• ·        An Education
• ·        Inglorious Basterds
• ·        Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire
• ·        A Serious Man
• ·        Up
• ·        Up in the Air

2010

• ·        The King’s Speech
• ·        Black Swan
• ·        The Fighter
• ·        Inception
• ·        The Kids are All Right
• ·        127 Hours
• ·        The Social Network
• ·        Toy Story 3
• ·        True Grit
• ·        Winter’s Bone

2011

• ·        The Artist
• ·        The Descendants
• ·        Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• ·        The Help
• ·        Hugo
• ·        Midnight in Paris
• ·        Moneyball
• ·        The Tree of Life
• ·        War Horse

 

2012

• ·        Argo
• ·        Amour
• ·        Beasts of the Southern Wild
• ·        Django Unchained
• ·        Life of Pi
• ·        Lincoln
• ·        Les Miserables
• ·        Silver Linings Playbook
• ·        Zero Dark Thirty

2013

• ·        12 Years a Slave
• ·        American Hustle*
• ·        Captain Phillips
• ·        Dallas Buyers Club
• ·        Gravity
• ·        Her
• ·        Nebraska
• ·        Philomena
• ·        The Wolf of Wall Street

2014

• ·        Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• ·        American Sniper
• ·        Boyhood
• ·        The Grand Budapest Hotel
• ·        The Imitation Game
• ·        Selma
• ·        The Theory of Everything
• ·        Whiplash*

 

2015

• ·        Spotlight
• ·        The Big Short
• ·        Bridge of Spies
• ·        Brooklyn
• ·        Mad Max: Fury Road*
• ·        The Martian
• ·        The Revenant
• ·        Room

 2016

• ·        Moonlight
• ·        Arrival
• ·        Fences
• ·        Hacksaw Ridge
• ·        Hell or High Water
• ·        Hidden Figures
• ·        La La Land
• ·        Lion
• ·        Manchester by the Sea*

2017

• ·        The Shape of Water
• ·        Call Me By Your Name
• ·        Darkest Hour
• ·        Dunkirk
• ·        Get Out
• ·        Lady Bird
• ·        Phantom Thread
• ·        The Post
• ·        Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

(D(Deucie Best Picture winner was "BladeRunner 2049", not nominated in the Academy Awards)

2018

• ·        Green Book
• ·        Black Panther
• ·        BlacKKKlansman
• ·        Bohemian Rhapsody
• ·        The Favourite*
• ·        Roma
• ·        A Star Is Born
• ·        Vice

 2019

• ·        Parasite
• ·        Ford v Ferrari
• ·        The Irishman
• ·        Jojo Rabbit
• ·        Joker
• ·        Little Women
• ·        Marriage Story
• ·        1917
• ·        Once Upon a Time in Hollywood*

2020

• ·        Nomadland
• ·        The Father
• ·        Judas and the Black Messiah
• ·        Mank
• ·        Minari*
• ·        Promising Young Woman
• ·        Sound of Metal
• ·        The Trial of the Chicago 7

 2021

• ·        CODA*
• ·        Belfast
• ·        Don’t Look Up
• ·        Drive My Car
• ·        Dune
• ·        King Richard
• ·        Licorice Pizza
• ·        Nightmare Alley
• ·        The Power of the Dog
• ·        West Side Story 

2022

• ·        Everything Everywhere All At Once
• ·        All Quiet on the Western Front
• ·        Avatar: The Way of Water
• ·        The Banshees of Inisherin
• ·        Elvis
• ·        The Fabelmans
• ·        Tar
• ·        Top Gun: Maverick*
• ·        Triangle of Sadness
• ·        Women Talking 

2023

• ·        American Fiction
• ·        Anatomy of a Fall
• ·        Barbie
• ·        The Holdovers
• ·        Killers of the Flower Moon
• ·        Maestro
• ·        Oppenheimer
• ·        Past Lives
• ·        Poor Things
• ·        The Zone of Interest