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 Best Picture nominees. Between review averages, "Top Critic" scores, audience scores, and more comparisons there's a lot to be learned about how the 2021 Oscar nominees were reviewed.

There's A Lot Of Consistency In The Rotten Tomatoes Scores For 2021s Best Picture Nominees

It's not a shock that 2021's Best Picture nominees have consistently high Rotten Tomatoes scores, although there are a couple of outliers. The average Rotten Tomatoes score for all the nominees is 87 percent, with eight of the ten nominees falling within nine points of that average and half the nominees falling within six points of the average, with Belfast at 87 percent, Coda at 95 percent, Don't Look Up at 56 percent, Drive My Car at 98 percent, Dune at 83 percent, King Richard at 90 percent, Licorice Pizza at 91 percent, Nightmare Alley at 79 percent, The Power of the Dog at 94 percent, and West Side Story at 92 percent. Every nominee but one (Don't Look Up) earned Rotten Tomatoes' more prestigious "Certified Fresh" label.

One thing that stands out from typical high-scoring movies in Rotten Tomatoes is the consistency between the main "All Critics" Tomatometer score and the Top Critics score. Rotten Tomatoes' designated Top Critics are typically slightly harsher for more mainstream or commercial movies than they do for Oscar Bait and movies, but the average difference between the All Critics and Top Critics scores is only 2 points, and a few movies actually received higher scores from Top Critics, such as Drive My Car (2 points higher), King Richard (1 point higher), Licorice Pizza (5 points higher), The Power of the Dog (5 points higher), West Side Story (1 point higher), and then Belfast is close with identical All Critics and Top Critics scores.

The Tomatometer average isn't drastically higher than most higher-rated franchise movies, such as the MCU (the gold standard for Rotten Tomatoes consistency), which averages 84 percent across its 27 releases. Marvel has plenty of movies with Rotten Tomatoes scores in the 90s, and while many of the 2021 Best Picture nominee pool fall in a similar range, there's a higher peak. The MCU's highest-rated movie is Black Panther with 96 percent, the Best Picture pool's highest-rated movie is Drive My Car at 98 percent. The biggest difference between the MCU scores and the Best Picture pool is the Top Critic scores, with the MCU average 77 percent, 7 points lower than the All Critics average, while the Oscar nominees have a Top Critics average of 85 percent, which is only 2 points less than the All Critics average, highlighting the biggest difference in critical reception between typical MCU blockbusters and Oscar-nominated movies.

Don't Look Up Breaks All The Best Picture Rotten Tomatoes Trends

Don't Look Up's Rotten Tomatoes scores already have some really weird behavior compared to other movies, but it's also by far the biggest outlier amongst the other Best Picture nominees, most notably its status as the only nominee without a "Fresh" score, coming in at 56 percent, 31 points below average and 23 points below the next lowest scored movie, Nightmare Alley, at 79 percent. Its Top Critics score is even lower, coming in at 46 percent, which is 39 points lower than the Top Critics average and 28 points lower than the next lowest Top Critic score (again, Nightmare Alley).

The Rotten Tomatoes scores for Don't Look Up aren't simply lower than the other Best Picture nominees, but the data also behaves entirely differently than the other nominees, in the same way Don't Look Up's Rotten Tomatoes score stands out from Adam McKay's other movies. Every other nominee has an average rating that comes in a little lower than their Tomatometer scores, with 7.5 out of 10 average rating, 8 points lower than the average Rotten Tomatoes score when converted to a percentage, while Don't Look Up is the only movie in the batch with an average rating that comes in higher than its Tomatometer score, with a score of 6.3 out of 10, which comes out to 7 points higher (while also being the lowest average rating of all Best Picture nominees).

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Some Best Picture Rotten Tomatoes Audies Scores Are Way Lower

Audience scores diverging from critic scores is a constant point of conversation with Rotten Tomatoes, but the split between audiences and critics when it comes to the 2021 Best Picture nominees is especially wide in a few cases. The average Rotten Tomatoes split between audiences and critics for the Best Picture nominees is 8 points, which is significantly higher than the MCU's 1 point average difference.

While the average difference is already fairly significant, four of the nominees have especially high splits, with Don't Look Up's audience rating it 17 points higher than critics, Drive My Car's audience rating it 18 points lower, Licorice Pizza's audience rating it 28 points lower, and Power of the Dog's audience rating it 35 points lower. With the Academy often accused of snubbing popular blockbusters, this split could be one of the most telling differences between most Oscar nominees and the kind of mainstream blockbusters that don't get nominated, although Dune is among the nominees, and it also had a 3 point higher audience score, so it's obviously not an absolute rule.