Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (film)

Film yang diadaptasi dari novel berjudul sama karya Jonathan Safran Foer ini disutradarai oleh Stephen Daldry yang sebelumnya angkat nama lewat "The Hours, The Reader", dan "Billi Eliot". KIsah yang mengangkat kedekatan antara anak yang menderita sindrom asperger dan ayahnya ini mendapat nominasi best motion picture of the year dan best performance by an actor in a supporting role (Max Von Sydow) dalam ajang Oscar meski pada akhirnya tak memenangkan satupun.Before the film's release, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" was expected to be a major contender at the 84th Academy Awards (Stephen Daldry's previous two films had garnered Best Picture nominations). However, due to the film's polarizing reception and being ignored by most of the Critics Groups Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, the British Academy Film Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards, it was no longer deemed as a major contender. Nevertheless, the film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor. Critics and audiences criticized the film's nomination for Best Picture, with some calling the film one of the worst Best Picture nominees ever. It is the only widely reviewed film on aggregator Rotten Tomatoes with a "rotten" rating to receive a Best Picture nomination. Chris Krapek of "The Huffington Post" wrote very negatively about the film's nomination, calling the film "not only the worst reviewed Best Picture nominee of the last 10 years, [but] easily the worst film of 2011". "Paste" Magazine's Adam Vitcavage called the film's consensus for a Best Picture nominee "certainly the worst for at least 28 years", and David Gritten of "The Telegraph" calls the nomination "mysterious".