Random Oscar-Nominated Movies with Plot Holes You Can't Uns (23 items)

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  (#11) Back to the Future

  • Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Billy Zane, Jason Hervey, Huey Lewis, Thomas F. Wilson, Wendie Jo Sperber, James Tolkan, Norman Alden, Marc McClure, George Buck Flower, Casey Siemaszko, Courtney Gains, Deborah Harmon, George DiCenzo, Frances Lee McCain, Donald Fullilove, Read Morgan, Claudia Wells, Ivy Bethune, Elsa Raven, Maria Brewton, J. J. Cohen, Gary Riley, Will Hare, Walter Scott, Jason Marin, Richard L. Duran, Tom Tangen, Harry Waters, Jr., Sachi Parker, Charles L. Campbell, Tommy Thomas, Janine King, Jeff O'Haco, Robert Krantz, Lloyd Tolbert, Cristen Kauffman, Granville 'Danny' Young, David Harold Brown, Lisa Freeman, Karen Petrasek, Paul Hanson, Johnny Green, Katherine Britton, Jamie Abbott, Lee Brownfield, Robert DeLapp

  Film: Back to the Future

  Back to the Future was the highest grossing movie in 1985, received three Oscar nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing. Of course, it's easy to pick apart a time travel movie and a complete dissection would lead to one massive plot hole after another. But there is one gaping hole that must be addressed. Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) travels back in time, accidentally prevents his parents from meeting, and then must make sure they fall in love at the Enchanted Under the Sea Dance. During his stay in 1955, Marty becomes friends with both his mom and dad. The question that must be asked is how it's possible that neither his mother or father recognize their son to be the Calvin Klein they met when they were in high school?
  
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  (#7) Just Move To A Safer Place

  • John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe

  Film: The Quiet Place

  Nominated for sound editing, the John Krasinski-helmed horror pic created intense tension in its simple premise of noise-hating aliens invading Earth, killing off anyone who dares to eat a bag of chips. But it also created a weird plot hole.

  The movie establishes a loud, large waterfall as a safe place to talk since the noise is constant and ignored by the aliens. So why not just live near it? Especially if there will be a noisy newborn joining the group soon, why not live in the safe zone? 
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  (#20) The Big Bang?

  • Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, Don Johnson.

  Film: Django Unchained

  Quentin Tarantino's epic Western that won Christoph Waltz an Oscar for best supporting actor. Despite the reception of the movie, there seems to be a bit of an error when dealing with the timeline. And while the director is known to get loosey-goosey with history (Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Inglorious Basterds), this seems more like a straightforward error: 

  The movie is set in 1858, but dynamite wasn't invented until 1867. Since dynamite is a necessity for the final act, it seems this should have been researched a bit more. 
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  (#6) Terminator 2: Judgment Day

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton, Nikki Cox, Danny Cooksey, Robert Patrick, Dean Norris, Joe Morton, S. Epatha Merkerson, Xander Berkeley, Don Lake, Jenette Goldstein, Earl Boen, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Terrence Evans, Cástulo Guerra, Scott Shaw, Abdul Salaam El Razzac, Mike Muscat, Pete Schrum, Colin Patrick Lynch, Charles A. Tamburro, Van Ling, Denney Pierce, Jim Palmer, Joel Kramer, DeVaughn Nixon, Leslie Hamilton Gearren, Dan Stanton, Don Stanton, Robert Winley, Tony Simotes, Gerard G. Williams, Michael Edwards, Debra Casey, Ken Gibbel, Ennalls Berl, Noel Evangelisti, William Wisher, Jr., Diane Rodriguez, Dalton Abbott, Bret A. Arnold, Lisa Brinegar, Gwenda Deacon, Anne Merrem, J. Rob Jordan, Randy Walker, Jim Dahl, Shane Wilder, Ron Young, Takao Komine, Ed Arneson, Tom McDonald, Jared Lounsbery, Casey Chavez, Steven Stear, Misty Jo Walker, Michael Albanese, Charles Robert Brown, Richard Vidan, Pat Kouri

  Film: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  
  T2 is often cited as one of the best sequels ever made, some even contend that it's a better movie than the 1984 original. In total, it was nominated for six Academy Awards and took home four Oscars. Even still, you can't ignore this science-based plot hole. The franchise is sure to explain in great detail that only organic material can travel in time (which is why everyone is naked when they time travel to their set destination). So if the T-1000 is composed of liquid metal, then how is it possible that the cyborg is able to travel in time? Liquid metal is obviously not an organic material.
  
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  (#8) Interstellar

  • Anne Hathaway, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Topher Grace, Casey Affleck, Ellen Burstyn, David Oyelowo, Wes Bentley, Mackenzie Foy, Bill Irwin, Elyes Gabel, Timothée Chalamet, David Gyasi

  Film: Interstellar

  A lot has been made about the plethora of plot holes in Christopher Nolan's 2014 film, which received five Academy Award nominations and won for Best Visual Effects. Here's a big one that the entire narrative is based on: the earth is supposedly screwed as humans are losing the ability to grow crops because of a plague called Blight. However, it's shown that food can grow in space stations without issue. So why can't people just grow their food in a controlled green house set with the same parameters as the space station? That seems like it would be a lot easier than figuring out how to live on another planet.
  
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  (#12) Edward Scissorhands

  • Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Vincent Price, Anthony Michael Hall, Alan Arkin, Dianne Wiest, Conchata Ferrell, Kathy Baker, Caroline Aaron, Susan Blommaert, John Davidson, Dick Anthony Williams, O-Lan Jones, Biff Yeager, Robert Oliveri, Linda Perri

  Film: Edward Scissorhands

  Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands earned an Oscar nod for Best Makeup in 1991. The Fantasy film about a sweet and sensitive man with scissors for hands has one gaping plot hole. Edward (Johnny Depp) gets upset and runs off to the attic where he carves several amazing ice sculptures. One has to wonder, however, how did Edward get all those large, heavy blocks of ice up to the attic?
  

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