Top 24 Oscar Bait FAILURES of Each Year (2000 - 2023)

that's somewhat disappointing would you rather have me smoking for real welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the movies from each year that seemed specifically designed to win big during award season but failed Big Time whether it was at the Oscars with critics or with audiences these movies didn't win much more than a spot on this list I was like any second now you know I just kept like I was saying to myself any second now here they come so did they no nobody came 2000 Pay It Forward based on a popular novel this movie is trying so hard to make us cry that it's practically sweating from the effort Pay It Forward is the story of a young boy who begins a movement of kindness that sweeps the nation that's three people and I'm going to help them but it has to be something really big something they can't do by themselves so I'd do it for them starring Oscar winners Kevin spacy and Helen Hunt along with Haley Joel Osmond who was nominated the year before for the sixth sense it's got the ingredients for awards Glory according to the critics what it didn't have was Integrity many reviews accused it of trying to ring tears out of its audience so much so that it just felt cheap and exploitative instead of Life affirming and inspirational I guess it's hard for some people who are so used to things the way they are even if they're bad to change and they kind of give up it failed to win any major Awards let alone any Oscars 2001 The Shipping News when the book you're adapting to film has won the Pitzer you're already halfway there as far as respectability goes based on the Annie PR novel The Shipping News once again Stars Kevin spy this is a really bad time so I heard I'm here to visit his ashes no I mean this is a really really bad time this time he's a haunted new finlander with the most tragic backstory you've ever heard like spacy director Lassa halstrom and co-stars Julianne Moore Judy Dench and Kate Blanchett had all had brushes with Oscar Glory while the shipping news wasn't incompetent it was deemed thoroughly uninteresting by critics and audiences alike and it bombed at the box office there's nothing here boats in boats out what else is there if I knew I'd write it myself I took a chance on your car don't let me down given the caliber of talent involved it was a notable Miss at the Oscars although it did secure some precursor Awards 2002 Pinocchio Italy's submission for the best foreign language film Oscar was heavily advertised for its star writer and director two-time Oscar winner Roberto bonini listen Cricket I'm leaving because if I don't I'm going to have to read books and study and there's one thing I don't want to do I don't want to study books are vile I want nothing to do with them oh Wise Choice watching the middle-aged bonini Bounce Around pretending to be a little wooden boy brought to life is uncomfortable to say the least this bad special effects and a disastrous English dub sank Pinocchio's chances at Oscar Glory everyone will laugh at me I know they will how can I go out anywhere look at my nose look at my nose I don't like it I don't want it I don't want it its English language release is one of the few movies to score a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes despite the Original Italian versions middling reviews it was nominated for several Awards the Oscar however was not one of them 2003 radio if you wanted to write an Oscar bait checklist this Cuba Gooding Junior vehicle takes several boxes radio is a biopic about James radio Kennedy a man with cognitive disabilities and the high school football coach who took him under his wing see the young man over there believe some of you already know him he goes by radio and he's going to be helping us out for a while and we are not going to have a problem with that meant to be inspirational itics were put off by its formulaic storytelling obtrusive musical score and the story's treatment of radio as more of a mascot than a Flesh and Blood character despite winning an NAACP image Award gooding's performance in the lead role earned him a nomination for worst actor at the year's Razzi Awards 2004 Alexander when Gladiator snapped up the best picture Oscar in 2000 it heralded the return of what was once called The Sword and sandal genre Alexander was just one of many historical epics to be made in its aftermath I wear parmenon but I am Alexander and no more than Earth has two sons will Asia bear two kings these are my terms chronicling the life and battles of Alexander the Great it stars Colin frell Angelina Jolie and Val Kilmer and was made with a budget of over $150 million it had scope and big budget excess what it didn't have was an audience movie goers didn't exactly rush out to see it and the critics who did were not impressed but beware most of all of those closest to you they are like snakes and can be turned though director Oliver Stone has recut the movie several times the original release was only a hit with the worst of awards nominated for several razis 2005 five Elizabeth Town although this quirky romcom feels like what would happen if the Hallmark Channel remade its a Wonderful Life it had director Cameron Crow at the helm how's that going sort of a wait and see oh yeah but then I waited and I saw two of his previous movies Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous scored big with Academy voters and early predictions thought this movie might be a repeat success that was not the case this cloying and overly sentimental movie stars or orando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst whose character inspired film critic Nathan Raben to coin the term manic pixie dream girl I forgot I know I'm impossible to forget but I'm hard to remember reviews were almost uniformly negative with only its music winning any praise 2006 All the King's Men adapted from another Pitzer Prize winner this story of the power hungry Governor Willie Stark had every chance at success you trying to say to too much tell them what they need to know taxes wages highways well maybe it's how you telling them with a star studded cast and production team the project had a lot of publicity ahead of its release at the beginning of Oscar season this movie didn't just land with a thud it stunk up the theaters a lot of political dramas suffered a similar fate in the bush era Emelio estevez's Ensemble piece Bobby would fall short of Oscar Glory some months later but All the King's Men failed to inspire anything but vitriol and disinterest its failure was even harder to ignore because the 1949 version actually won best picture no such future awaited this abysmal remake I'd never hurt you like that you would and you have 2007 evening the cast for this ambitious film is almost comically stacked rounded out by Oscar favorites Merill stre Glenn Close Vanessa Redgrave and other well-respected performers if pedigree were enough evening might have had a chance come Oscar season what's with this fixation of yours anyway what fixation she mentions a couple of names and suddenly you're Nancy Drew despite some decent performances the movie was described as Unworthy of its actor's talents it was taken to task for its pedestrian screenplay and muddled narrative which made it a chore to sit through evening was such a disappointment the alliance of women film journalists not nominated it for its movies you wanted to love but just couldn't award a little slip up can happen to even the most determined commitaphobe needless to say it didn't show up in any major Awards rosters 2008 7 lb BOS lurman Australia is often cited as a prime example of ambitious Oscar bait gon aai but 7B is far more egregious after his nomination for the pursuit of happiness Will Smith career began to oscillate between action flicks and obvious bids for another chance at the award in s pounds he plays a man who inadvertently causes the deaths of seven people and resolves to redeem himself through Good Deeds unremarkable would be an upgrade for me it's clear that critics and viewers are supposed to be bowled over by the sheer emotional magnitude of it all instead they were shocked by how trite and phony it was Kinder reviews suggested the movie could be emotionally impactful if you turned your brain off for its entire runtime what happened stop it seriously stop it 2009 Amelia for such a legendary subject Amelia aarts biopic is a low energy non-starter that ironically never gets off the ground I give the orders and you take them and if you do as you're told you'll be a star and I will be nearby a small particle of dust than your constellation with its period costuming and Cavalcade of historical figures Amelia was certainly making its case to Academy voters who voted for this kind of thing before some early Buzz suggested star Hillary Swank was on her way to a third Oscar clearly they hadn't seen the movie yet I must say I'm a bit out of my element the distance between this world and where I come from is as great as the distance between the Sun and the Moon no one could say it was incompetent but for all the technical skill on display it was hard to ignore just how boring it was with a Rotten Tomato score of only 19% it's clear they didn't stick The Landing 2010 the tourist this Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie Thriller made waves in the precursor Awards but not in a good way it received backlash for competing in the comedy categories at the year's Golden Globes I'm aise I'm Frank that's a terrible name it's the only one I've got however it's award chances were already tanked by a lack of Chemistry Between its leads and uninspired directing from Oscar winner Florian hankle Von doners smk if movies were judged solely on the beauty of their locations the tourist would have been a shoin for any major prize unfortunately people come to the movies for good stories and characters to root for audiences for the tourist were out of luck on both counts and that's the face you choose do not like it it'll do 2011 Jay Edgar back in the days when Leo was still clawing for that trophy he was cast as the tyrannical and power abusing FBI director Jay Edgar Hoover I have worked too long and hard to just sit back and watch the the bad guys capture the spotlight again haven't I penned by milk writer Dustin Lance Black and directed by Clint Eastwood Jay Edgar was only Leonardo DiCaprio's latest attempt at a best actor win although it was a competent movie aside from his performance it didn't really stand out in any other departments many reviews called it a stuffy and hamfisted movie lacking Nuance depth or insight into the real Hoover's life while Jay Edgar did have its fans and DiCaprio did score some nods from the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards he was shut out come Oscar nominations morning who is the most famous man of the 20th century thus far the most famous is that you sir 2012 hi Park on Hudson Bill Murray has had his chances at winning the prestigious award his turn as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Hyde Park on Hudson was one of the most uncomfortable the movie is a massive miscalculation on every level I can't tell you how I've looked forward to this my mother has spoken of nothing else for months chronicling the alleged Affair between FDR and his cousin Daisy suckley it's profoundly weird and impossibly boring it even features is one of the most hilariously sentimentalized sex scenes in any movie of its kind outside of a few stray Awards here and there the movie didn't perform as expected can you imagine the disappointment when they find out what they really are Marie got most of the praise but the film was cited as one of the AV club's worst movies of 2012 and only has a score of 37% on Rotten Tomatoes 2013 Diana with the widespread coverage of her life and death and the award season success of the queen it seemed like a prestigious Princess Diana biopic was long overdue given how genuinely rotten Diana is maybe there's a reason it took so long I begged you to give me a preview so that we could build some firewalls before the shelling began now you see you you keep telling me everything's going to be all right it's not all right it's all wrong Naomi Watts is certainly a luminous screen presence but this movie about the last 2 years of Diana's life was was illc conceived from the jump although she received a Razzy nod instead of a Best Actress nomination critics were actually complimentary toward her saying she tried her best in an underwritten role that's no surprise I've never once been accepted by a family not my own the one I'm married into I think of the word I shutter a Diana story wouldn't find Oscar's success until 2012's Innovative and immersive Spencer 2014 The Monuments Men once again we have a stacked cast this time led by director and star George Clooney but let down by a lackluster story this corny World War II movie follows a group of soldiers rescuing Priceless pieces of art from the Nazi regime well I see you were born to be a Monuments Man I've never seen that painting no me IA though its message about preserving culture may be thought-provoking the movie's reviews pointed out its noticeable lack of tension and Meandering screenplay although the movie originally had an Oscar friendly release date of December 18th it was pushed to February of the next year whether that's because of the reported post- production delays or the fact that its Distributors realized it wasn't going to set the award season on fire we'll never know but if you destroy their achievements their history then it's like they never existed just ash floating 2015 in the heart of the sea set during the Wailing Expedition that inspired Moby Dick this historical Adventure movie had big stars and a big budget to play with Chris Hemsworth stars is the first mate on a whaling ship but this old-fashioned seaf fairing taale failed to make the splash any of its makers expected they probably want a little extra reassurance that's all well do keep an eye on me let me know if I'm doing anything wrong oh I know no other way C the movie bombed big time and reviewers found it lacking in the story Department while its computer generated whale was impressive not even this could Garner award's attention come Oscar time it didn't even make the preliminary short list for best visual effects let alone appearing among the five nominees do I live and breathe he's mine 2016 collateral Beauty after notably losing out on a nomination for the previous year's concussion Will Smith was added again with the sacarin story about a man discovering what really matters in life it'll never be fixed I hope you come back a cheap melodrama that's about as subtle as a smack in the face it's essentially a Hallmark Channel rendering of A Christmas Carol that nobody especially the academy asked for full of unintentional humor and cringeworthy dialogue it racked up a truly impressive 133% on Rotten Tomatoes while its modlin sentimentality might be some people's cup of tea it certainly wasn't Oscars you br broke my heart no I'm in all of it I'm the darkness and the light I'm the sunshine and the storm yes you're right I was there in her laugh but I'm also here now in your pain 2017 suburbicon another swing and a miss from George Clooney suburbicon has an interesting premise with some high-profile Talent behind it still this Cohen Brothers penned Thriller is a limp satile of the myth of squeaky clean postwar Suburbia is Mrs Myers about I'm Mrs Myers well all right uh welcome to suburbicon hope you enjoy your stay it was in short a mess its satire wasn't clever enough to juggle its heavy themes and its box office intake was one of the worst openings for a movie in wide release it didn't help that it was released in the same year as get out a masterpiece that directly tackles some of the same themes this movie only paw at I imagine that's true 2018 welcome to marwin this drama Stars Steve Carell as a real life artist Mark Hogan Camp who invented a fantasy Village called marwin to cope with a traumatic physical assault well what's going to happen to him that's a complicated story well tell me I'm fascinated several of Robert zc' movies had previously basked in the Golden Glow of the Oscars including Forest Gump cast away and Back to the Future by its December 2018 release date it's clear there was no hope for the same outcome with welcome to marwin those hopes were dashed after promotional screenings did not go well compelling its Distributors to cancel plans for a more intense advertising Blitz never seen anything like this and you're an artist I just see pictures he's just being modest despite its warm intentions visual effects and leading performance from Carell the movie was a financial and critical disaster 2019 cats while The Goldfinch was a notable piece of failed Oscar bait its biggest sin was how boring it was the same cannot be said of cats that always triumphant the house cat after Le miserable won three Oscars Tom Hooper was entrusted with directing another blockbusting musical movie unfortunately cats was not nearly as well suited to film that was true even before Rebel Wilson skinned herself where lay Miz got away with some of its problems by overwhelming you with pure emotion cats had only a thin plot and one big ballad to fall back on it scored a grand total of zero nominations the academy didn't even go for the movie best original song catnip shutting out star Taylor Swift's beautiful ghosts completely should I take [Music] chances 2020 music although it wasn't technically released in theaters until February 2021 music was eligible for the 2020 Oscars due to a relaxing of rules in the midst of the covid-19 epidemic of course this turned out not to matter in the slightest for music by you run here you come into my arm pop star and songwriter CIA added film director to a resume with this convoluted story of an autistic teen played by former Dance Mom star Maddie zegler controversial for what critics called a harmful and stereotype Laden depiction of autism the movie was skewed from all Corners what do you say no I say no don't put the pen down I say no I shouldn't even let you get this far don't dance given how much Hollywood has been criticized for handing out Awards to actors who play disabled characters while actual actors with disabilities struggle to get work it was a misguided project from top to bottom 2021 dear Evan Hansen by all accounts Ben Platt's award-winning stage performance as high schooler Evan Hansen was a breathtaking experience its producers were clearly hoping to repeat their Tony Award successes at the Oscars always looking in will I ever be more than I've always been cuz I'm tap tap tapping on the [Music] glass by the time the 2021 film adaptation came along though plat was pushing 30 and film close-ups aren't kind to an aging actor the makers hid his true age in a rather ingenious Way by giving him a haircut that made him look 10 years older that's just one of the more confusing choices that bog down this hit musical screen adaptation with as many missteps as this movie made it just magnified the original Show's flaws and ruined its chances to win over any new fans it isn't fair okay you can't you can't let people just blame you and your parents they need to know it was me okay I'm the one people should hate we're not telling anyone 2022 Amsterdam it's Awards magnet Alchemy take a former Oscar winning director a Powerhouse cast of Oscar favorites some period costumes and a real life event and they'll practically throw the statues at you I can't do it I'm sorry I spoke to a personal friend Mr Mr Ro said I have to be careful who did he scare you he said it was dangerous wait but David O Russell's Amsterdam did not manage to spin these ingredients into Oscar gold convoluted and overstuffed the movie was a confusing and quirky Maze of ideas that never came together it's clear the components for something special special were there but the execution was a let down the movie was estimated to have lost over $100 million and not to mention garnering some of the worst reviews of Russell's career I'd say it's a profound statement on the parasitic destructive behavior of nature including humans yeah before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications 2023 Napoleon it was actually waen Phoenix's Oscar winning role in Joker that convinced director Ridley Scott he would be perfect as the French leader Napoleon bonapart I found the crown of France in the gutter and place it at top my own head the two hadn't worked together since 2000's Gladiator which incidentally won best picture and earned Phoenix his first nomination polarizing for for its humor and excessiveness Napoleon received middling reviews and slow box office intake which is terrible news for its makers it needed an audience to recoup its massive $200 million budget although it has gotten praise for its visual design and elaborate battle sequences it performed far below initial expectations both at the box office and in the precursor Awards this Berlin has held the world hostage with his egotism and his lack of simple good manners what was the most obvious Oscar bait you've ever seen let us know in the comments Oscar bait checks off all the boxes racial tension can I help you with your groceries haven't you done enough Whitey did you enjoy this video check out these other clips from watch Mojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos

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Published: Tue Jan 23 2024