Best horror movies nominated for the best Oscar picture

Summary

• The Oscars rarely recognize horror movies, with only the 7 best nominations for a picture and 1 victory for 97 years.

• Substance Author: Coralie Fargeat broke the mold by gaining 5 Oscar nominations, including the best image.

• Films like Get out and Exorcist They had important impacts on the horror genre.

At the age of 97, the ceremony, terror Genre was a great snub at Oscars. Since the first Academy Awards in 1929, only seven scary films have been nominated for the prestigious Best Picture Award and only one –Lamb silence In 1992 – the award has sometimes provided.

This year's nomination provided a rare embrace of a poorly represented genre. Bold Gore-Fest Carolie Fargeat Substance Five nominations landed, including the best image, and joined a handful of horror films ever considered a sought -after price. Here is Complete evaluation of any critically recognized horror film nominated for the best picture on the Oscars.

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Substance

Horror above the border of the body with the fabric

Gore horror filled with Coralie Fargeat Substance This year he broke the form of candidates for Oscar. The gross film was widely praised for his depiction of sexism contrary to the sexism and obsession of the youth industry. Demi Moore plays Elizabeth Sparkle, an aging celebrity that takes extreme measures to revive the younger, “better” version of itself, portrayed by Margaret Qualley.

As Fargeat's equally visceral debut film, Revenge, Substance It is a stunning sensory experience that is stylistically disorienting and excessive. He does not pull any strikes and does not want to be gentle about his feminist message and releases a heartbreaking and unforgettable story of self -destruction.

6

Black swan

A psychological horror film full of masterful performances

In 2010, Darren Aronofsky ended a 16 -year -old charm for the horror in Oscars Best Picture Race s Black swan. The film watches Nina, a perfectionist ballerina whose spirals of mental sense when pushed on the brink while training an iconic and challenging main role in Tchaikovsky's Swan lake.

Nina's emotional decay is marked by terrifying hallucinations in which Aronofsky uses psychological and physical horror and creates a disturbing story of obsession that is equally beautiful and frightening. The Academy correctly granted Natalia Portman's best Oscar actress for her fascinating performance as Nina, which made her the last actor to win an Oscar for a horror performance. Although Black swan I didn't take the best trophy of the picture, it remains one of the most spooky films that the Academy recognizes.

5

Get out

Pioneering and timely social thriller

When Get out In 2018 she received a nomination for the best picture, it was a welcome exception to the history of the Academy overlooking the horror genre. The directorial debut Jordan Peele brings a refrigerant test of racial relationships in contemporary “post-racket” America using the common setting of a young black man played by Daniel Kaluuya and meets his white girlfriend's parents for the first time. The film will soon develop into a surrealistic and grotesque story and uses the vocabulary of horror and comedy to reveal and satirize real social horrors.

The original peele story bears a thematic depth of classic social thrillers as Night of the Living Dead and Lamb silence, This is given to the critical respect of the academy rarely provides blood -soaked genre and solidifies its place in the history of horror.

4

Jaws

Timeless Monster Film

Mother of all Monster movies, Jaws, He was released in the summer of 1975 with huge commercial success. Steven Spielberg, the adaptation of Peter Benchley's bestseller on a shark of a killer terrorizing small beach city, became the first Summer of his time, revolutionized Hollywood film production and earned four Oscar nominations, including the best painting.

Unlike Shark Copycat, which followed, Jaws is celebrated for a tense narrative. Spielberg was sparingly using the terrible mechanical shark of the film that relied on the now-iconic musical score of John Williams and creative work with the camera to propose the presence of a monster to show her masterfully building tension from the invisible threat. As impressive as Jaws that was, that Failed to capture the best statue of the image, but its grade on pop culture, because the film that caused the generation to be afraid to enter the water.

3

Exorcist

Horror classic to rotate head

Half a century after the first ceremony of the William Friedkin Academy Awards Exorcist He made history as the shortest film ever made, and the first horror movie that secured a place in the Best Picture race. Published in 1973, Exorcist He immediately swept America controversy as an intense depiction of a demonic holding of a twelve -year -old girl frightened and disturbed by the audience, and with certain visceral scenes still burned into popular memory 50 years later.

While she managed to win only two out of ten Oscar nominations (for the best adapted script and the best sound mixing). Exorcist He broke the new ground for horror films in the field and became a classic of the genre.

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Sixth sense

Unconventional and genre defining the ghost story

When it opened in 1999, Sixth sense was a cultural phenomenon. Both the cash register and the critical sensation, earned six Oscar nominations and ejected M. Night Shyamalan to the center of attention as a polarizing filmmaker known for his trademark ends. The film watches a child psychologist who plays Bruce Willis when he begins to treat a disturbed young boy with a unique problem: he can see the dead.

Shyamalan's genre master class made him the name of the household, and while it brought the most talked films, the last revelation of the film was not his only force. Sixth sense Thoughtfully implemented jumping scary within a firmly structured emotional story, smoothly mixing of horror and drama that would affect the next generation of genre -watched horror films, including the Oscar -nominated colleagues Get out.

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Lamb silence

A terrifying movie that won an Oscar that rewrote the book of the rules

It was only in 1992 that the horror film managed to pull the best win. Sweeping all five main prizes of the Academy, Jonathan Demme Lamb silence It is one of the most respected films in history and is still the only horror film that has won the best title of the picture.

Based on the best -selling novel of the same name Thomas Harris, This is followed by coach FBI Clarice Starling, who has an interview with the imprisoned serial murderer Dr. Hannibal Lecter for insight into the mind of another murderer, Buffalo Bill. Classic Demme has increased the horror genre with its layered themes and dark realism and set the stage for the future best horror candidates And to prove that they can compete for the biggest prize in the film industry.