The 10 Best Sci-Fi Movies Nominated for Best Picture, Ranked

The Academy Awards have recognized several exceptional sci-fi films by nominating them for Best Picture, such as E.T., Star Wars, and Dune: Part Two.

February 6, 2025 · 1 min · 93 words · Lindsey Lewis

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Over the nearly 100 years ofAcademyhistory,nineteen different sci-fi films have been nominated for Best Picture.

8’E.T.

: The Extra-Terrestrialis still arguably thegreatest sci-fi family filmof all time.

Custom image of Everything Everywhere, Mad Max, and Dune.

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as one of the most iconic movie aliens of all time.

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Bella Baxter being reawakened by a machine in Poor Things.

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Poor Things Poster

Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) leans his head against a window, looking out and smiling in Her (2013).

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Elliott, played by Henry Thomas, bikes with E.T. in his bicycle basket in ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’.

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Leonardo DiCaprio intently watching a top spinning on a table in Inception.

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Aliens Abbott and Costello speaking with Louise (Amy Adams) with vaporous symbols in Arrival.

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Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and two of his droogs at the milk bar in ‘A Clockwork Orange’.

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A close up still of Paul Atreides in the desert with an apparatus up his nose in Dune: Part Two

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Max strapped to the front of a vehicle with mask on in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).

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Mad Max Fury Road Poster

Stephanie Hsu as Jobu Tupaki walks down a hall with glitter falling in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

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Dune: Part Two