Oscar Best Picture Nominees (2000 - ), a list by Yao Alassane Kouadio

7.2

/86556/

70

/2005/

68

/1117/

3.8

/70084/

87

/205/

76

/2754/

86

/45/

4.0

age 14+

Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe—for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack—temperatures rise and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.

79

7.7

/203610/

77

/7440/

76

/3243/

3.8

/402987/

89

/344/

90

/454/

76

/49/

3.0

age 16+

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

77

7.6

/216600/

74

/4027/

73

/3675/

3.5

/84054/

83

/204/

87

/19178/

67

/38/

3.5

age 11+

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.

85

7.9

/109904/

77

/2063/

77

/1728/

4.2

/137277/

93

/219/

82

/1470/

95

/45/

4.0

age 16+

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

79

7.9

/747026/

77

/23937/

74

/10063/

3.8

/502986/

90

/309/

82

/39341/

81

/36/

3.0

age 17+

Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.

88

8.1

/142479/

83

/2590/

79

/939/

4.3

/720960/

97

/205/

97

/182/

85

/43/

4.0

age 14+

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

87

8.8

/1930207/

87

/53458/

84

/23284/

4.4

/1905291/

95

/288/

95

/72895/

87

/39/

3.0

age 11+

Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers--Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor. Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.

81

7.4

/44115/

70

/659/

69

/388/

3.9

/26685/

93

/141/

81

/1066/

86

/31/

4.0

age 16+

Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. His son is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.

77

8.5

/1822727/

84

/43708/

82

/20386/

4.2

/1872910/

80

/260/

87

/1652336/

67

/46/

2.0

age 16+

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

63

7.2

/173144/

71

/7027/

70

/3507/

3.5

/279288/

64

/366/

61

/1516/

61

/54/

1.5

age 15+

George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

86

IMDb 82

8.8

/2774788/

86

/84368/

83

/38502/

4.2

/3592910/

87

/363/

91

/41618/

74

/42/

4.0

age 14+

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

82

8.0

/202881/

80

/7111/

78

/2462/

3.9

/404492/

94

/301/

91

/561/

72

/46/

3.5

age 13+

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

76

7.5

/500111/

75

/11508/

73

/7013/

3.7

/431094/

72

/210/

81

/11173/

72

/39/

3.5

age 17+

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.

75

7.3

/563642/

74

/21830/

74

/13415/

3.4

/528933/

71

/299/

84

/7194/

73

/48/

3.5

age 17+

U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.

83

7.5

/132740/

74

/5431/

75

/2632/

4.0

/566468/

92

/399/

83

/727/

85

/65/

4.0

age 13+

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

79

7.3

/258614/

70

/4797/

68

/2957/

3.6

/131502/

88

/264/

79

/6350/

84

/43/

4.0

age 16+

With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

80

8.2

/1753475/

81

/59214/

80

/25369/

4.0

/3508357/

79

/283/

83

/9438/

75

/47/

3.5

age 17+

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

85

8.4

/1751707/

83

/45654/

82

/23598/

4.4

/3143924/

89

/332/

88

/36637/

69

/36/

4.0

age 17+

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

85

7.4

/348743/

73

/16031/

73

/7374/

4.2

/1321405/

98

/402/

79

/2199/

99

/53/

4.0

age 15+

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

70

7.2

/209235/

72

/4263/

69

/3434/

3.4

/104955/

63

/119/

83

/12986/

64

/31/

3.0

age 14+

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.

73

7.6

/272430/

74

/4057/

75

/3295/

3.6

/132222/

63

/201/

79

/10215/

58

/38/

3.5

age 17+

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

85

7.9

/368279/

77

/11220/

77

/7264/

4.0

/1312435/

95

/408/

85

/35/

94

/53/

4.0

age 16+

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

83

7.5

/98609/

75

/3419/

73

/2280/

3.8

/105295/

99

/310/

86

/2324/

79

/52/

4.0

age 13+

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.

81

7.3

/215033/

72

/7423/

71

/3226/

3.8

/507755/

93

/440/

82

/313/

87

/57/

4.0

age 15+

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

79

7.2

/101114/

69

/1958/

68

/1182/

3.7

/91057/

87

/163/

78

/2472/

90

/34/

4.0

age 15+

In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.

79

7.2

/124412/

74

/7878/

68

/2748/

3.6

/123711/

92

/271/

75

/1511/

79

/48/

4.0

age 14+

In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

80

7.5

/255397/

73

/9963/

74

/5775/

4.0

/878060/

93

/430/

71

/1580/

91

/53/

3.5

age 16+

England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.

83

7.8

/551564/

78

/13023/

76

/7617/

4.2

/1944132/

91

/216/

91

/45115/

80

/36/

3.5

age 16+

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

81

7.5

/252905/

75

/6513/

72

/3400/

4.0

/174648/

85

/227/

80

/5392/

81

/42/

4.0

age 13+

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.

80

7.5

/347420/

73

/10618/

72

/7515/

3.5

/434626/

93

/232/

78

/8429/

83

/41/

4.0

age 8+

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

79

7.1

/156654/

69

/3720/

68

/1916/

3.5

/102817/

94

/173/

76

/4472/

90

/38/

4.0

age 15+

After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.

81

7.8

/530720/

77

/24121/

73

/9576/

3.9

/995582/

89

/325/

88

/3076/

81

/45/

3.5

age 16+

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

75

7.7

/504829/

77

/16756/

78

/10932/

3.6

/616083/

81

/268/

84

/3075/

71

/47/

2.5

age 14+

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

79

7.3

/120314/

73

/2776/

73

/1719/

3.7

/141572/

92

/239/

76

/21/

78

/36/

4.0

age 17+

In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.

77

7.2

/392983/

69

/20578/

71

/5542/

3.8

/3144045/

89

/377/

76

/762/

78

/57/

3.5

age 17+

A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

77

IMDb 38

7.5

/593157/

75

/26524/

76

/13509/

3.6

/2283109/

76

/455/

92

/10882/

67

/68/

3.5

age 13+

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.

76

7.9

/481479/

79

/22491/

79

/10132/

4.0

/2062163/

81

/431/

94

/1374/

58

/57/

2.5

age 13+

Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, he begins to question his beliefs and confront the conflict between propaganda and his own humanity.

80

7.3

/119159/

71

/2207/

69

/1386/

3.5

/47482/

97

/202/

76

/9090/

90

/38/

4.0

age 13+

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.

86

8.1

/953914/

80

/29129/

80

/15636/

4.2

/2728073/

92

/313/

87

/5569/

88

/48/

4.0

age 16+

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

79

7.5

/403614/

73

/8524/

72

/5660/

3.8

/318729/

86

/227/

79

/7991/

77

/41/

4.0

age 16+

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

67

6.5

/68703/

62

/2206/

62

/803/

3.1

/323871/

78

/335/

57

/704/

77

/62/

3.0

age 15+

A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.

77

IMDb 98

7.3

/222033/

74

/12304/

69

/2796/

3.8

/2494358/

88

/407/

95

/15134/

73

/63/

3.0

age 10+

In the land of Oz, ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda at Shiz University, and the two's unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to fulfill their respective destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

79

8.0

/936569/

76

/38073/

75

/18918/

3.9

/1265658/

78

/401/

84

/6496/

76

/50/

3.5

age 18+

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

80

7.6

/342137/

75

/15820/

72

/7127/

3.6

/216848/

91

/314/

87

/2547/

81

/48/

3.5

age 13+

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

85

8.5

/1855278/

84

/53074/

81

/27425/

4.3

/2880991/

87

/295/

92

/16016/

81

/42/

age 18+

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

83

7.8

/284222/

82

/25384/

80

/10213/

3.9

/609771/

93

/323/

93

/2736/

74

/47/

3.5

age 10+

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

81

7.3

/161571/

69

/6210/

70

/2421/

3.9

/899395/

93

/357/

79

/114/

92

/59/

4.0

age 13+

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

71

7.2

/211930/

69

/8157/

70

/2690/

3.7

/847700/

72

/285/

80

/71/

63

/47/