3 Netflix movies snubbed for Oscars

I’m still not over the Oscars last month and their disagreeable picks and snubs. So I’m here to talk about Netflix-distributed films left out of the Best Picture race.

Often, the Academy can snub some high-quality contenders and take other films for granted.  Alfonso Cuarón’s sweeping epic Roma managed to charm its way to the Best Picture nomination, but there are other features on Netflix left out of the Oscar recognition.

Here are my favorite Netflix movies snubbed by the Oscars over the last two years, starting with Private Life starring Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn.

Private Life

Tamara Jenkins’s 2018 comedy Private Life delves into a theme seldom explored: fertility struggles. A New York middle-class couple goes on a journey to have a child, which consumes their lives to the point of distress. They take in their spunky millennial step-niece, who becomes a potential egg donor. As they cope with the unpredictability of life and their bodies, they spend time with each other, sharing banter, thinking of lost dreams, and facing decisions.

Check out the trailer below!

Mudbound

Directed with sensitivity by Dee Rees, Mudbound is a multi-dimensional post-World War II story of many points-of-view: from a black soldier, to a black mother, to a white housewife. If you still have a bad taste over the Best Picture win for Green Book, Mudbound has considerably richer nuances about the subject of racism and how the institution of slavery will always haunt America.

While it received four Oscar nominations at the 90th Academy Awards, including a nod for cinematographer Rachel Morrison, many were peeved that it was not voted to the Best Picture slot and that Dee Rees was not recognized for Best Director.

Happy As Lazzaro 

Directed by Alice Rohrwacher, the 2017 Happy As Lazzaro seems ordinary but magic builds within it. A young sharecropper by the name of Lazzaro, so vacant in innocent in disposition, navigates the mundaneness of life and labor within his community. Because they operate in an isolated territory, no one but the landowner is aware that their sharecropper servitude is outlawed and exploitatory. Later, a-la Rip Van Wrinkle, Lazzaro becomes whisked into a world of modernity where everything is–and is not–the same.

What Netflix original film do you think got snubbed by the Academy and should have been nominated for Oscars?