A lot of great movies have been nominated for Oscars and a few lucky ones have managed to win the awards too. However, each year, there are controversies and debates surrounding the fact that the jury is biased and that the awards are not being given to deserving movies.
Although he has now won an Oscar, Leonardo Dicaprio deserved an Oscar for most of the movies he has worked in, if not all of them. Can it be that he was not given an Oscar because he was not liked by the jury?
Many other movies have made it to the big screen and have been taken off without awarding them with Oscars, even when they deserved it. Here is a list of all the movies that should have been Oscar winners, because they are all so great to watch.
On the eve of their high school graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night.
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A couple travel to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival, but what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Available on Amazon Prime, YouTube
Billi’s family returns to China under the guise of a fake wedding to stealthily say goodbye to their beloved matriarch — the only person that doesn’t know she only has a few weeks to live.
Available on Amazon Prime
Becky Something is a talented but self-destructive musician who seems determined to alienate everyone around her — even at the cost of her own band’s success.
A charismatic jeweller makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
Available on Netflix, Amazon Prime
Jimmie and his best friend Mont try to reclaim the house built by Jimmie’s grandfather, launching them on a poignant odyssey that connects them to their past, even as it tests their friendship and sense of belonging in the place they call home.
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Working as a stripper to make ends meet, Destiny’s life changes forever when she becomes friends with Ramona — the club’s top money earner. Ramona soon shows Destiny how to finagle her way around the wealthy Wall Street clientele who frequent the club. But when the 2008 economic collapse cuts into their profits, the gals and two other dancers devise a daring scheme to take their lives back.
Available on Amazon Prime
Clare, a young Irish convict, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness and is bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence the man committed against her family. On the way, she enlists the services of Aboriginal tracker Billy, who is marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
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A liberal-minded couple, Amy and Peter Edgar, are forced to reconsider their image of their adopted son after they discover he has written an extremely disturbing essay for his class at school.
Soccer mums Jill and Lisa compete for approval and acceptance in a bizarre suburbia while their kids battle it out on the playing field.
Available on Amazon Prime , Hulu
A sports agent pitches a controversial business opportunity to a rookie basketball player during a lockout.
Available on Netflix
On a faraway mountaintop, eight teenaged guerillas with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow. Playing games and initiating cult-like rituals, the children run amok in the jungle and disaster strikes when the hostage tries to escape.
Available on Amazon Prime
FBI agent Daniel Jones performs an exhaustive investigation into the CIA’s use of torture on suspected terrorists. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the CIA adopted new interrogation techniques.
Available on Amazon Prime
Fresh out of prison, a Scottish woman juggles her job and two children while pursuing her dream of becoming a country music star. She soon gets her chance when she travels to Nashville, Tenn., on a life-changing journey to discover her true voice.
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Performer Rudy Ray Moore develops an outrageous character named Dolemite, who becomes an underground sensation and star of a kung-fu, anti-establisment film that could make or break Moore.
Available on Netflix
Do you agree with our list of the Oscar snubbed movies? Which ones are you planning to watch first? Let us know in the comments if we have missed a movie that you think is worth watching and a snubbed Oscar winner as well.
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