Hillbilly Elegy might win an Oscar after all, despite being one of Netflixs worst movies of 2020 .

The Academy Awards released a shortlist of Oscar contenders for nine categories last week, including Documentary Feature, Visual Effects and music-related categories, among others. For what its worth, the Academy did not announce major categories such as Best Picture or the awards associated with acting, directing and writing.

Netflix earned 20 spots on these lists with 13 films featured.

A few movies made sense as official Oscar contenders such as Mank, Crip Camp and Ma Raineys Black Bottom. More surprising was the inclusion of the aforementioned Hillbilly Elegy and Eurovision Song Contest. I loved the latter movie as a fun break from the pandemic last summer and would love to see the Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams film win an Oscar. But I cant say I expected Eurovision Song Contest which features numerous Ferrell pratfalls and Demi Lovato playing an unhelpful ghost to compete at the Academy Awards.