How 2021's Best Picture Oscar Nominee Rotten Tomatoes Scores Compare
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.
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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.
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
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