Top 24 Oscar Bait FAILURES of Each Year (2000 - 2023)
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- So...much...wasted tape! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the movies from each year that seemed specifically designed to win big during awards season but failed big-time. Our countdown includes movies “Alexander”, “Seven Pounds”, “Hyde Park on Hudson” and more! What was the most obvious Oscar bait you ever saw? Let us know in the comments.
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How About an Every Oscar Animated Movies list from 2000 to 2023 list
The ending was so forced and out of the blue as to be ridiculous and having 🍇 ing Kevin Spacey in it doesn't do the film any favors!
4:04 "Never go full r3t4rd!"
Love It WatchMojo.
“Maestro” is the most blatant Oscar-bait in history. It is irrelevant how many nominations it got, it is a terrible film.
Honestly, if your whole purpose to make movies is to get recognized at the Oscars then you’re completely missing the point of filmmaking.
Oscar is used as marketing tool, so it just means the movie is nothing but commercial flick
Sometimes you want to go for the gold and if it don’t work out, just make movies because you love the art of making movies.
Actors and directors alike
Even if these film makers do win an oscar....then what? That's probably it for them if they're not motivated or able to create the same success as they did with their first film. If winning an Oscar is their only goal in life then that is sad and like you said, not the point of making movies.
How do we know that was the whole purpose? What provable method do we apply to confirming that?
There should be an Oscar for “Best Oscar Bait”
This year, it honestly feels like Maestro’s award to lose
@@matheuslascasas134 - It is shocking “Maestro” was nominated for anything. Thankfully, it will hopefully get Netflix to reelection its Oscar-bait productions.
Yes, but no other nominations would be permitted. Like a "one to watch" category for the up-and-comers -- and equally a "look out for the drop" warning for the most celebrated.
Talk about a participation trophy
Honestly, the only way I could’ve seen cats getting an Oscar is if they had stuck with Steven Spielberg’s original idea to do it fully animated
People say that because of the look of the cats. TBT, the films issues went far beyond its look.....
@@lonellfletcher no I agree but cgi would've at least been a start!
"You told me you loved that musical I recommended to you."
"It was horrible, Moxxie! It was all a bunch of ugly, horny cats!"
Agree. Animation is the only way Cats would've been palatable at the bare minimum
I remember being so disappointed in The Tourist. It was insanely boring. "Lack of chemistry" is an understatement. It was as if Jolie and Depp were simply controlling avatars of themselves as they chilled in their trailers.
I thought the coldness of it all was by design.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was the most Oscar bait film I’ve ever seen and the funny thing is that the Academy ended up falling for it.
That's the movie I always think of when I hear "Oscar Bait".
Yes and No. It only received a nod for Best Picture (because they campaigned aggressively for it), and for Max Von Sydow (who genuinely deserved it). No other major award company nominated it for anything, or paid it any attention.
EL&IC is a case of Scott Rudin attempting to force the Oscar’s hand for legitimacy and failing.
That's a good movie
What a shity movie
@@tonydeb6793you forgot a '"t"
Babylon for last year, Maestro for this, Mank for 2020. even though some of them were nominated all of them was clearly shot in order to cash in on Oscar glory. Glad it never happened
Imo Babylon was terrible.
I would also add “Blonde” to last year’s failed Oscar-bait. Especially, since it won the Razzie for Worst Picture.
Mank won two Oscars tho
I thought Babylon was so wild and unapologetically insane that he knew it wouldn’t be recognized. That one felt like an act of pure unhinged love, but that’s just my opinion and experience with it.
Bbaylon is getting cult status among cinephiles during the last year, can't be an Oscar bait failure if it's well regarded despite not getting noms.
3:55 - a perfect example of what Lincoln Osiris from Tropic Thunder said about Simple Jack 😂
I thought it, You said it😅
Yup, heard the line in my head as they talked about it
Will Smith - "...a smack in the face." I saw what you did here.
cats was supposed to be oscar bait?! 😂
Looking at all the name’s associated, ie spielburg, and other Oscar winners, plus the huge budget for a broadway adaption… I think it’s fair to say they thought it was bait
Broadway shows that won the big prize at the Tony Awards tend to be Oscar bait.
Sad fact about Alexander (the movie): Stone spent 10 million dollars on a spectacular cavalry charge for the film. The undeveloped film (from the cameras) was then flown back to the States, it got put through the X-Ray machine in the airport and completely wiped. Stone asked to film the scene again but it was too expensive and the studio said no. I just feel bad, a film dogged with bad luck :(
That version of Pinocchio is still better than the Tom Hank's version.
And the “WHEN CAN I LEAVE TO BE ON MY OWNNNNN?”
Maestro to me seemed like Oscar bait this year. I found it to be unbearable but apparently the bait worked because it's nominated.
"About as subtle as a smack on the face" as Will Smith is shown.. 😂
'Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck'
Wow. That name alone deserves an award!
Maestro should be the 2023 Oscar bait movie
Agreed…. especially, since it is not going to win any awards and audiences hate it.
Music is one that came to mind. That movie was the modern-day Simple Jack and the fact Sia claimed that she's autistic despite many autistic actors, most notably Chloe Hayden, called her out on her portrayal of autistic people is mind-boggling.
that movie was a hate crime on celluloid, and i've seen the rodney king tape
@@ActuallyHoudiniid rather be married to Lea Michelle or Joan Crawford than have that dreck exust
It's called acting for a reason. There are good acting and bad acting
And the fact that it’s the woman who played main character isn’t autistic and was just faking adds more fuel to the fire Sia made. Which is why her music should be blacklisted.
@@Cornhollo26If the actor/actress can do the condition justice, then I don't see a problem. Problem is: whatever-her-name-is didn't. She came off more as "intellectually challenged" than any form of autistic to me.
2009- Nine starring Daniel-Day Lewis.
Released the same year as animated 9, which could also go on this list.
Another attempt at Blatant Oscar-Baiting in 2009 was NINE, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and a large number of star actresses (Nicole Kidman, Penélope Cruz, Sophia Loren, etc.) Directed by Rob Marshall, it was his return to musical movies after winning the Best Picture Oscar for CHICAGO (2002), with another adaptation of a respected Broadway musical - and it was a disaster. Not only was it very clear that Marshall and company had no idea how to turn the original NINE into a movie musical (they cut half the score, maybe more!), but the resulting movie was also so damn pleased with itself as Oscar Bait: it just keeps going on and on, and scenes pile on top of each other, and you realize you don't give a shit about any of the characters, and it keeps going, and the movie thinks it's saying so much, AND IT'S SAYING NOTHING.
It would be nice to hear specific reasons for why certain movies were bad instead of basically just saying "it was badly written". But even more importantly, it would be nice to hear what qualifies them as Oscar baits. It's obvious with something like Paying Forward or Seven Pounds but not quite obvious to me with something like Tourist.
The main problem with "The Tourist" was casting Johnny Depp, one of the world's most popular actors at the time, as a naive country teacher. Had they chosen some less known actor, the story would have been much more believable and immersive. That's why the French original works better at least for a non-French audience who is less familiar with the actor Yvan Attal.
I Saw Pay It Forward (2000) In 10th Grade Still hate when Haley Joel Osment got stabbed and Died
Such a random, forced moment.
Me too!
Simon Birch from 1998 comes to mind when someone mentions Oscar-bait. Although it was based off of John Irving's book "A Prayer for Owen Meany," Irving felt that his novel couldn't be successfully adapted into a film and he would be right. The movie's melodramatic plot line felt like the audience was watching an hour and a half of "Touched By An Angel." Of course the following year, another one of Irving's books "The Cider House Rules" was better received by critics and audiences and won 2 out of it's 7 Oscar nominations.
I always think The Curious Case of Benjamin Button when I think of Oscar bait. Just because it worked doesn't mean it wasn't Oscar bait.
Sure but then on the logic of it working out you could add massive amounts of movies in because so many are made purely for awards. Anything by Yorgos Lanthimos, for example, or Birdman, or the Revenant, or Spotlight, La La Land, and so and so forth
@@jonnybaynham1689 You've absolutely right. I only mentioned The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but there are plenty of Oscar bait movies where the bait was taken. Birdman being another of the most glaring examples. The Shape of Water being another, in my opinion. I wouldn't call Spotlight Oscar bait, though. To me, that was a story that was deserved to be told and deserved to be told well, same with The Imitation Game. I feel like those movies came off much more of passion projects than Oscar bait, though they could easily have gotten carried away and ended up coming off as too heavy handed. I think that's what happened with Benjamin Button...way too heavy handed. I could see someone thinking Spotlight may have come off that way, I just didn't see it. Maybe because it hit so close to home, being from the Boston area. As for La La Land, it never came off as Oscar bait to me at all. I thought it was going for more commercial success and entertainment value. Trying to appeal to the masses more than the critics.
An important point i think most people miss. Some of the worst Oscar bait movies actually won awards. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to take the Oscar’s seriously since The Shape of Water won best pic
I still don’t know wtf that movie’s even about beyond it’s logline.
The Butler
To be fair to Pay It Forward, it had a solid cast not just Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt, and yes, Kevin Spacey is in that movie. But it could’ve done a lot better if it weren’t for a baffling ending. The movie was very good.
I am baffled that Cats was EVER made into a movie.
I’d rather watch the taped broadway musical.
Tbh, that’s the best way to watch any musical.
3:23 From the small clip shown, it looks like Benini’s Pinocchio had an abysmal script.
Cats was so god damn terrible from beginning to end, and the only parts that weren't unintentionally funny were made almost unbearable by the lead actress's performance. The idea that anyone would have put even one iota of energy, time, and/or money into this movie thinking it might be Oscar-worthy is almost as funny as that scene where Jennifer Hudson has snot all over her face.
It was dreadful,but it was a little better than invasion of the bee girls,which was so bad it wasn't even worth a razzie 😂
How could you forget I Am Sam (2001)? Pure Oscar bait.
I thought of that, too. It is so notorious as Oscar bait that it was even talked about in "Tropic Thunder". Also Edward Norton's character in "The Score" from the same year comes to mind.
But didn't he win?
@@AnthonyJMurph He was nominated but didn't win. Denzel Washington won that year.
I actually liked that movie..
13:05 hey man, if bill Murray wasn't going to win with lost in translation then the powers that be weren't going to allow him to win.
My first thought was Cinderella Man, which when released everyone was calling a favorite for Best Picture. In the end it wasn't even nominated for Best Picture and won no Oscars that year. It was at least still a good movie though.
"Cinderella Man" was released too early in the year. Had Universal released it in October, it might have had a shot.
At least it got one nomination for Paul Giamatti in Supporting Actor.
2001: Life As a House.
Pure "American Beauty" knockoff and the first film I ever saw and recognized for the Oscar bait it was.
The only good thing about that dumb movie was the female nudity.
It would be interesting to see your selection of the most "unassuming movies that became a success at awards season" (or however you want to phrase it).
Napoleon just got 3 Oscar noms
It is not winning any of those.
Radio prompted the “full r-“ line in Tropic Thunder for the Simple Jack fake movie 😅
Marley and Me really stuck out as a desperate grab at Oscar attention.
Amsterdam was Oscar bait, but for 2022, I think the biggest Oscar bait was Empire of Light
Y’all really thought Cats was gonna win anything? 😂😂
Not after the first clip was released.
I remember watching Pay it forward as a kid in Primary school in the last days of school before holidays.
“I am Sam” was easily the worst of 2001.
A friend suggested I watch "Pay It Forward" The only problem was I had lost my son a few months before and it just brought up too many thoughts.
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton peaked in 2010 with Alice, one year later Depp makes The Tourist and gets DESTROYED by Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes starting his absolute downfall, not so long after he met Amber Heard and the rest is history. Not a single movie after The Tourist got Alice/Burton and Pirates levels of popularity, money and good reviews (except maybe Black Mass from 2015), not even the direct sequels of those.
From Oscar darling and blockbuster superstar to literally unemployed and blacklisted, The Tourist truly was the beginning of the end for him.
13:24 Some of these movies I don’t even remember seeing any sort of commercial or trailer for.
5:43 I remember thinking at the time that Colin Ferrell just seemed miscast and it just seemed like a horrible movie.
Even Chris Rock at the Oscar’s that year said what I (and I think a lot of people) thought, “If you want Russell Crowe, don’t settle for Colin Ferrell!”
I think The Secret Life of Walter Mitty with Ben Stiller comes to mind for me.
That's a good movie
@jesseowenvillamor6348 I'm gonna have to watch that again. I remember not liking it, but I keep seeing online that people thought it was one of his best movies.
@@WinsberryEntertainment It's just impossible not to like this movie.
I loved that movie
@@jesseowenvillamor6348it’s such an underrated movie
Priscilla, for me it's an Oscar Bait and the worst movie of A24, it doesn't quite stand out as Elvis's movie and the acting and representation of the characters, specially Elvis is gross and not very representable as an inspiration that made him look like a pedo and a cheap copy paste version, period.
I'm guessing that got nothing.
@@fromthehaven94 yah right, it's nothing like the 2022 indicator of the Oscar and a winning BAFTA movie
The trailer for the _Cats_ remake doomed the movie.
Along with the actual content of the movie itself
Pay it forward is a classic
I only saw one movie on this list. Elizabethtown and while most of the story was so so, I rewatch it just for the road trip.
i fell asleep on AMSTERDAM.....
For a second there I thought Saltburn would top the list
Good one, but you know why they really didn't nominate dude.
Can you do top 10 Oscar bait of 2023
I’m not a fan of the Napoleon film but it was nominated for 3 tech Oscars so the bait was successful. 2023’s real Oscar bait failure was Asteroid City
The original All the Kings Men is such a great film!
In the Heart of the Sea was oscar bait? I never got that from the film or the way it was promoted.
I kinda felt that way too.
I think Babylon would have been a good contender on this list. I movie I actually liked. Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, it was a sad, Old Hollywood tale.
Collateral Beauty “As subtle as a slap in the face.”😂😂😂 Was that on purpose?
I think Napoleon is going to be one that people will rediscover in 10-15 years and it will get far more positive reviews. Many of the movies that stood the test of time were the most polarizing. A lot of the films that did well financially or critically… nobody remembers anymore. Anyone remember The Revenant? Shakespeare in Love? I can’t recall many scenes, and I’ve seen them twice. But movies like Blade Runner, Fight Club, or Shawshank Redemption flopped horribly, and were barely mentioned in the Oscars… now they are classics.
Leo in 'J Edgar' looks like Max Headroom
Maestro. I don't think it's going to win any major awards.
Maestro will only win an Oscar for Makeup and Hairstyling.
@@ajpat9620 hm not sure about that. I can also see Poor Things winning. And even if it wins it's still an Oscar Bait failure. Because it's not a major category
@@Ninaofthe90s We'll just see about that, when the results of the Oscar wins happen on March 10, 2024.
@@Ninaofthe90s - I do not even think “Maestro” will win anything. Since, if it wins Best Hair & Makeup, everyone will criticize the Academy for being antisemitic.
@@ajpat9620wow Poor Things actually did win. Yeah Maestro failed.
I love Monument Men. Great cast, great story.
Sadly, I Treated Amsterdam as an Animated Movie. With tghe Usage of Tara Strong as Valerie Voze, Cathy Weseluck as Harold Woodman and Vincent Martella as Burt Berendsen. Amsterdam Was'n GTrying To and Oscar Contender. It wants to have Fun.
The people who made cats weren't intending to fail? Then why did they make it like that?
I dont really see anything wrong with pay it forward
The Producers from 2005 was fun to watch but it likely didn't have the charm the Stage version or the 1967 version did and Will was okay as Franz but he didn't have the same Grusto that Ken Mars had.
Pay it forward was a good movie. I dont care what yall say
Napoleon got 3 nominations for Oscars for visual effects, costume design, and production design
It should nominated more
“Napoleon” is not going to win any of those.
Pocahontas was Oscar bait. Disney even admitted that the main reason why they made it was to get another Best Picture nomination after Beauty and the Beast was nominated.
Sure, but that's not that uncommon. And Pocahontas did still win 2 Oscars. Also, this list only goes back to 2000 and Pocahontas was 1995.
@@steventhrasher3608 Yes but it still didn't get the Best Picture nomination they were hoping it would get.
@@bradcouch457 - While I agree that “Pocahontas” is Oscar-bait, due to its pretentiousness, it did lead to one of Alan Menken’s most complex scores. Remember, even “The Lion King” failed to accomplish what “Beauty and the Beast” did, because it came in sixth during the final voting.
@@ChienaAvtzon Don't know if The Lion King was Oscar bait or not but it definitely should've got a Best Picture nomination.
@@bradcouch457 - Like “Beauty and the Beast”, “The Lion King” was not Oscar-bait. It is just a film that failed to win a Best Picture nomination due to it being animated.
If this list went back into the '90s, I'm sure Wayne's World would have got a mention. It even has an overt Oscar bait scene.
I never heard of most of those movies
Get out of your cave
Loved “All the Kings Men”
What exactly was "Oscar Bait" about Roberto Benigni in Pinocchio? Can't it just be a lousy Pinocchio movie? It's not like Pinocchio has a disease or something , he's a puppet, and in this movie , a lousy one! But it's not Oscar bait.
I’ll never understand the hatred for Radio. Oscar bait or not, it’s still a great movie. Cuba Gooding Jr. did a great job with it.
It seemed very pandering, even from the small clip that they showed in this video
The first Cats musical was the only good one.
by the way...as i just saw him in this video...where the hell is richard gere???
Can we get a watchmojo top 10 of WatchMojo’s Best Top 10’s
As an Aussie i would have to say that Australia movie is the most cringe thing ever. Glad no one went to see it and it has been forgotten by all
The Insane Clown Posse’s Big Money Hustlas was obvious Oscar bait
Lol, I actually love that idiotic movie! It's a guilty pleasure. 😂
I agree. They completely missed the mark with these movies. For example,Cats,Seven Pounds,Colateral Beauty,The Monuments Men,Dear Evan Hansen.Just reacting to video. Haven't seen this.I like Alexander. I think it's great.Napoleon seems pretty good.Based on everything. Trailer,video here.Great video
Alexander sucks
Pay it forward DID make me cry!
1995 - Disney's Pocahontas.
Imagine casting Orlando Bloom in an oscar bait movie 😂
Napoleon got 3 Oscar nominations so it’s not really a failure
Considering that it didn't receive any nominations for Best Picture, director, acting, screenplay, or editing, the nominations it did receive is basically one big consolation prize
Agreed. Actually thought they'd include The Color Purple here, which broke my heart.
@@MorganKing95not how that works and multiple work on the movie
@blackguyofthesouth2161
I didn't literally mean that it's a consolation prize, and no matter how you slice it, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and the acting nods, are the biggest ones, closely followed by Best Editing. If you do everything in your might to win an Oscar, even if it's too obvious, try-hard, and "formulaic, and all you get are nods for some visual aspects, it definitely feels like a letdown, unlike with a movie that doesn't seem like it was made to win Oscars anyway (whether it's an indie movie, a fantasy flick, or an action thriller)
@@MorganKing95it has bad timing to release, Napoleon should have been nominated for atleast 7 accolades
"Hyde Park on Hudson..."
Ew, ew, ew! Why would they make a movie about Franklin and _Daisy?_ What about Franklin and Lucy Mercer or Franklin and Missy LeHand or Franklin and Princess Martha? Or how about Eleanor and Lorena Hickok? In every biography I've read, there has never been any claim that Franklin and Daisy's relationship was sexual.
Dear Evan Hanson is so beyond cringe
Another one is Decision To Leave
It was robbed of too many awards
That's the opposite, this list is of hack movies that tried to bait an Oscar
@@zumis1011Nah. Many of these movies are good.
@@jesseowenvillamor6348 well that's all subjective obviously but that was the intention of this list
@@zumis1011 Which is wrong
I personally loved Napolean
Awards are like home runs, if you’re trying to hit them you’ll usually strike out, and winning/hitting them should almost happen by accident.
Most obvious Oscar bait - Barbra Streisand in "Nuts". Meg Ryan in "When A Man Loves A Woman" and Michelle Pfeiffer in "Dangerous Minds".
15:26 the only movie on this list so far I've seen in theaters
I saw it in IMAX 3D and it was good.
I loved the books The Shipping News and Monuments Men. They just didn’t pop on screen. I’d add The Woman in Gold to something that had potential, but just didn’t go anywhere. Amsterdam had a huge cast, but man that movie was terrible and long.
21:36 Am I alone in feeling like Ben Platt just isn’t well suited for film? I know he’s big on Broadway, but they’re two very different mediums.
I'm courting controversy here, when I say The Fault in our Stars almost made me want to run out and get cancer -- to be more attractive, more charming, more effective in communication, more grateful for every moment. I didn't hate it, but if that wasn't Oscar bait, nothing is.
0:55 woah, is that Derek from Degrassi?
The curly haired dude? I think so.
@@crystalshaw8744 Yeah I looked it up last night. Apparently before he played arguably the worst character in the whole Degrassi franchise, he was a lil kid actor in a lot of weird TV shows and mainstream movies. He's even in Billy Madison apparently
No idea how Cats was oscar bait when the announcement was already a joke.
I actually thoroughly enjoyed Amsterdam. But all of these other movies Ive either never heard of or did watch them and they were awful lol.
Amsterdam was the only one on here I enjoyed.
Nah
Half these movies, I've never even heard of
Get out of your cave
I haven't either. The Tourist is the only one I've seen and I thought it was okay.
@@WinsberryEntertainment C'mon
I loved Monument's Men 🩵
you get a like for the Amber Ruffin clip at the end, well done.
lol cats