The first few months of every yr are a great meter to catch up on Oscar - nominated films before the Academy Awards . But while you ’re shinny to see all the new movies , why not make some time for preceding achiever , too ? While there have certainly been somebad Oscar winnersin the past , the Academy is fairly consistent with awarding the best flick .
Beetlejuice (1988)
Winner of the 1989 Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hair Styling , Beetlejuicegot a continuation 35 years later on in 2024 . WhileBeetlejuice Beetlejuicemight not earn much Oscar love , the original is well worth a watch , specially given how similar the cast is , even more than three decennium later . Sure , the special effects do n’t put up up intimately as well , but it ’s impressive how well the new movie paid homage to its predecessor and the seamless return that Michael Keaton , Winona Ryder , and Catherine O’Hara make into their now Old characters . In the original , a fresh dead couple calls in the devil exorcist Beetlejuice to frighten away off a kin that wants to buy their home plate , only to find the decision has calamitous consequences .
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Saltburn’sEmerald Fennellwon Best Original Screenplay , and Carey Mulligan earned a Best Actress nominating speech forPromising Young Woman , a non-white interrogation of potential derailed . Everybody said Cassie ( Mulligan ) was such a bright young woman until one mysterious night , she seemed directionless and unmotivated .
Nonetheless , she ’s still bright , cute , and leading a spiteful secret doubled life by night . But when she finally get the chance to rectify the damage of the past times , thanks to an unexpected face-off , she contract to make for on a plan .
Men in Black (1997)
Yes , trust it or not , Men in Blackis an Oscar - come through flick . Another Best Makeup winner , MIBwas also nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Music , but it was belike the monumental box office payoff that turn it into a franchise with four smash hit spanning more than 20 years . In the original ( and by far good ) motion-picture show , K ( Tommy Lee Jones ) is a veteran soldier of Men in Black , an agency so closelipped that almost nobody in the governing know it exists .
After the exit of his partner , K levy an unconventional New York cop , J ( Will Smith ) , to the agency , choosing him as his partner over Green Berets , Army Rangers , and Navy SEALs . Now , the unmatched span must discover how to work together to stop an alien conspiracy to wreak mayhem on the Earth .
Shrek (2001)
A runaway Best alive Feature succeeder , Shrekhas grow into one ofDreamWorks Animation’sbiggest franchises . The first movie is a true classic . In the Kingdom of Far Far aside , Lord Farquaad ( John Lithgow ) seeks to rid his demesne of faggot tale beast , banishing them to a swamp . unluckily , the swampland ’s already occupied by an ogre call Shrek ( Mike Myers ) .
To get the creature off his land , Shrek cuts a deal with Farquaad : If he can call up the adorable Princess Fiona ( Cameron Diaz ) from the clutches of a fire - breathing dragon to be Farquaad ’s wife , Farquaad will move the puppet . With the aid of a speak donkey ( Eddie Murphy ) , Shrek gets to shape .
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Finally , we ’re bending the rules just a bit for the last entrance because it was quite surprising thatThe Wolf of Wall Streetdidn’t earn a winnings in any of the five categories in which it was name . Leonardo DiCaprio delivers perchance his best carrying out ever as Jordan Belfort , a New York stockbroker who bugger off rich on penny stock and made a circumstances defrauding investor .
Belfort did this while partying beyond the limits of imagination and refusing to get together with a securities fraud investigation into Wall Street . Martin Scorsese allow all the actors in this one , from DiCaprio and Jonah Hill to a debuting Margot Robbie , just go completely bonkers , and it shows in the motion picture . It ’s not inordinate to suggest that DiCaprio eventually got his Best Actor Oscar in 2016 forThe Revenantbecause he was so egregiously ignore forWolf .
