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

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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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  (#18) The Sixth Sense

  • Bruce Willis, Mischa Barton, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, M. Night Shyamalan, Donnie Wahlberg, Olivia Williams, Firdous Bamji, Angelica Page, Trevor Morgan, Glenn Fitzgerald, Samia Shoaib, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Greg Wood, Lisa Summerour, Jeffrey Zubernis

  Film: The Sixth Sense

  M. Night Shyamalan shocked the movie world with his never-saw-it-coming twist ending in The Sixth Sense, which was nominated for six Academy Awards. Shyamalan received an Oscar nomination for Best Writing, despite the massive plot hole in his modern day ghost story.

  If Dr. Crowe (Bruce Willis) is really dead for the duration of the movie, how come he does not realize it? He lives in a house with his wife and he is also in Cole's house when his mother is around. He doesn't wonder why no one is talking to him, or why his wife seems to be ignoring him? He doesn't go to a grocery store or run errands or have any need for any interaction for the entire length of the movie?
  
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  (#17) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

  • Drew Barrymore, Erika Eleniak, Debra Winger, Robert MacNaughton, C. Thomas Howell, Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Anne Lockhart, James Kahn, K. C. Martel, Milt Kogan, Sean Frye, Ted Grossman, Pat Welsh, Jean-Paul Hellendall, Mitch Suskin, Frank Toth, Robert Barton, Michael Darrell, Richard Swingler, Michael Lepre, David Berkson, Barbara Hartnett, Kevin Jessup, Will Fowler Jr., Mary Stein, Robert Murphy, David M. O'Dell, Susan Cameron, David Carlberg, Alexander Lampone, Tom Sherry, Jonathan Wasserberger, Rhoda Makoff, Diane Lampone, Richard Pesavento, Gary Ordog, Richard S. Weisman

  Film: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

  E.T. was nominated for nine Academy Awards and took home four Oscars in 1983. A lot has been made about why E.T. doesn't just fly back to his home planet. The movie doesn't really explain the alien's ability to fly on his own, so we can assume he can't fly all the back home alone through space safely. However, we do know that E.T. can levitate. So at the very least, we must ask why he doesn't simply levitate when he's being chased by the agents at the beginning of the move. It certainly would have made life a lot easier for him.
  
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  (#5) The Lost World: Jurassic Park

  • Julianne Moore, Steven Spielberg, Camilla Belle, Vince Vaughn, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Mark Pellegrino, Eli Roth, Peter Stormare, Pete Postlethwaite, Richard Schiff, Ariana Richards, Ian Abercrombie, Thomas Rosales, Jr., Billy Brown, Thomas F. Duffy, Arliss Howard, David Koepp, Robin Sachs, Joseph Mazzello, Marjean Holden, Michael Milhoan, David St. James, Bernard Shaw, Vanessa Lee Chester, Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc, Harvey Jason, J. Patrick McCormack, Gordon Michaels, Geno Silva, Brian Lally, Tory Christopher, Larry Guardino, Ross Partridge, Kenneth Moskow, Jacqueline Schultz, Alan D. Purwin, Harry Hutchinson, Bob Quinn, David Gene Gibbs, Brian Turk, Colton James, Katy Boyer, Domini Hofmann, Michael Chinyamurindi, Ben Skorstad, Alex Miranda, C. Ransom Walrod, Sean Michael Allen, Bob Boehm, Michael N. Fujimoto, Patricia Bethune, Christopher Caso, Carey Eidel, Bari Buckner, Bradley Jensen, Elliot Goldwag, Jim Harley, Mark Brady, Darryl A. Imai, Cyd Strittmatter, Vincent Dee Miles, Brett Harman, David Sawyer, Rick Wheeler, Kenyon Williams, Paul Fujimoto, Thomas Stuart, Eugene Bass Jr., Darryl Oumi, J. Scott Shonka

  Film: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

  The second film in the Jurassic Park franchise earned an Oscar nod for Best Effects in 1998. A boat arrives in San Diego and the entire crew has been killed. The rub is that the T. rex is still locked up in the cargo hold when the boat docks. So how the heck did the crew meet their untimely demise?
  
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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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  (#13) The Matrix

  • Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Gloria Foster, Ada Nicodemou, Rana Morrison, Robert Taylor, Belinda McClory, Matt Doran, Bill Young, Marcus Chong, Paul Goddard, David Aston, Anthony Ray Parker, Julian Arahanga, Steve Dodd, Marc Gray, Nigel Harbach, Tamara Brown, Harry Lawrence, Robert Simper, Natalie Tjen, Chris Pattinson, Fiona Johnson, Rowan Witt, Bernard Ledger, Lawrence Woodward, Denni Gordon, Adryn White, Luke Quinton, Jeremy Ball, Janaya Pender, Michael Butcher, Eleanor Witt, David O'Connor

  Film: The Matrix
   
  The Wachowskis wowed audiences with their innovative bullet-time technology, which helped pave the way for four Academy Award wins in 2000. The Matrix is a complicated mind-bending film that has quite a few head-scratching plot holes. One of them deals with the fact (as it is explained to Neo/the viewer) that in order to enter or leave the Matrix, an operator is needed. However, when Cypher (Joe Pantaliano) schemed (and enjoyed a wonderful rare steak) with Smith to betray Morpheus and the rest of the group, no one dialed him in or out of the Matrix. There have been several attempts to explain this plot hole, but none of the theories truly cover how Cypher plugs himself in, and how he is able to "enjoy" his steak if his brain is merely reading code.
  

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