So The Winning Nominee Isn't Always The Best
The 94th Academy Awards will determine which Oscar-nominated movies win Best Picture, but how do the nominees rank in Rotten Tomatoes? Ten total movies were nominated for Best Picture, including Belfast, Coda, Don't Look up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, and West Side Story. The Oscars are voted on by Academy members, so the winning nominee isn't always the best-reviewed, but as the year's best movies, they're generally still among the year's best-reviewed movies. While most nominees generally have high Rotten Tomatoes scores, there's also plenty of movies with high Rotten Tomatoes scores that don't get nominated, especially if they're more commercial mainstream blockbusters, although some of those still get nominated, including a couple this year. Outside of the most prominent Tomatometer score, the review data in Rotten Tomatoes provides more details to compare to find trends between the 2021 ...