Why The Social Network is the Best Movie to Lose Best Picture
You don t get to become an Oscar contender without making a few enemies.
Welcome to Debate Week: Best Picture Losers, a series in which we’ll be looking at some of the best movies that were nominated, but ultimately lost the Oscar race for Best Picture. In this entry, Anna Swanson discusses David Fincher’s eight-time nominated 2010 film, The Social Network.
The Social Network,
David Fincher‘s generation-defining opus about the founding of Facebook, is one of the finest films of the 21st century. At the 83rd Academy Awards, it took home three Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Original Score. These wins were certainly well deserved and cause for celebration, but not without the sting of knowing that the film was worthy of so much more. So, why did it lose out on some of the major awards? To explain that, we have to go a bit further back than 2010.
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