Top 10 Failed Oscar Bait Movies of All Time

Great List

missed this

so...... no one is going to talk about the thumbnail huh...?

You forgot horrendous Lady Gaga in House of Gucci

"Cats" worked as Razzie bait!

Don't give Niomi Watts a hard time. Her acting is 🤌🏻 the issues with Diane are more to do with the production and writing

Amsterdam was quite good tho

The Last Duel deserved nominations for Jodie Comer, film editing, and costume design.

The last duel was really good.

I've never even heard "Anthropoid". Seems like quite a stretch to be No. 1.

Ive tried so many times to watch Cats it was the worst movie ive ever just looked at it was so terrible it hurt my eyes lol

Collin Farrell is a good actor, but he was miscast as Alexander. He simply could not carry the movie.

The merits of The Greatest Showman's true story? Seriously? Read up on the history. It's a slap in the face (at best) to the real historical people. You guys really don't spend much time at all researching

Love it. The Twitter Justice Warrior are here to tell us that Maddie Ziggler can't play an Autistic because she isn't. It's called Acting, they are called Actors. Thank God i was born 1980, we could have Movies like Rain Man without this weirdos complaining about everything. Gen X was the last sane Generation.

You guys forgot Oscar Gold by Tearjerker. Gritty performance about an mentally challenged alcoholic Jewish boy and his dog during Nazi occupation. It fell apart due to international spy games.

This list is crap. Cats and Greatest Showman were never serious award contenders.

I was really shocked seeing The Last Duel on this list, then my faith was restored going into the comments section and seeing it full of people singing the films praises. Its a great film in every category- performances, writing, cinematography, costume- certainly one of Scott's best in recent years. Poor timing, covid and clashing with bigger blockbusters along with non existent marketing is what affected the movie poorly, not it being failed bait

What's Oscar bait mean again??

I am Sam should be number one

Anthropoid was amazing. It was well researched, written, and acted.

More like failed oscar bait movies of the last 15 years

The last movie listed was actually pretty damn good

I'd add Life Itself to the list. I have no doubt the writer was putting his Oscar speech together in his head while writing that pretentious piece of garbage.

I liked the greatest showman. Loved the soundtrack!

The Last Duel was brillant movie, such a shame it tanked at box office 😕

Last Duel was not that awful. Not really Oscar-good, but not too shabby.

I honestly have to ask if Watch Mojo believes "Good movie with incredible cast and acting" is what makes an "Oscar Bait". Amsterdam, The Last Duel and The Greatest Showman where utterly fantastic films that I fully recommend, but they are not nor where they intended to be "Oscar Bait" in my mind.

Cats was a dreadful movie. But even if it had been good it's unlikely it would have been a big Oscar contender.

I didn't know "Welcome to Marwen" was an Oscar-bate style movie (but knowing the director, it makes sense). I enjoyed it, but it had the feel of an indie film. Maybe like it was an A24 film. As in, movies that are low budget because they don't have the backing of big studio Hollywood, but usually punch above their weight class in how entertaining they are.

The movie really was carried by Steve Carrell, Merritt Wever & Leslie Mann, iirc, but then again, its not like the movie had a big world. (If you catch my drift.)

Jodie Comer for Last duel was one of the biggest snubs that year......

No mention of Roger Smith's "Oscar Gold" ? Trash list. :D

This list is ridiculous…some of these aren’t even Oscar bait. The rankings make no sense. And some of the films mention are awesome but the Oscar’s snubbed them. I have no idea what the criteria for this list was. Go watch anthropoid, Babylon, last duel, and make up your own mind.

Release the butthole cut of Cats!!

The last dual had promise in its theory, but it was so boring.

I would put Hollywoodland on this list. It had all the makings of an Oscar winning movie, great cast(Ben affleck, Adrian Brody), based on a true story in American history(the death of George reeves, the first Superman) and really cinematic for that extra bit of drama and coming out near the end of the year which is prime award season. And the movie ended up being…okay…

I don't think The Greatest Showman was fishing for Academy attention.

Number ten sounds like an insect...lmbo

Will Smith finally won and then...ruh roh

Colin Farrell looks like Farrah Fawcett.

2: P.T barman once said, everyone is born a sucker.

Number 7: sia cant direct stick to her day job.

Number 9: the reason cats failed it has nothing to do with the original Play, were the original play was spectacular.

This movie change the gender of one of the charecters, and the plot.

Even rebel wilson and James Cordon was at the awards taking a stab at the effects.

My best friend and I snuck a handle of Jack into the Cats movie and made a drinking game out of the movie best decision ever only way we got though the movie

Star Wars episode 8.

Nah The Last Duel is a great movie.

Seven pounds was a great movie tho

Movies aside, I cannot figure out why Princess Di is still so famous as all that. What did she DO, other than marry and divorce Prince Charles? She made no scientific, political, artistic, or any other contributions to the world. Whatever you think of John Lennon, at least he contributed music to the world.