Popsugar Entertainment Oscars Why Did The Boss Baby Get an Oscar Nomination? We Need to Talk About The Boss Baby's Oscar Nomination For a Quick Sec . . . 27 January 2018 by Quinn Keaney Image Source: Everett Collection The 2018 Oscar nominations definitely contained a few surprises, but few were as puzzling as the inclusion of The Boss Baby in the best animated feature film category. Like . . . really, Academy? The Boss Baby? Are you sure? Are you absolutely sure? Blink twice if you need help. While there's something to be said about the fact the animated comedy that stars Alec Baldwin as a suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying infant raked in nearly a half-billion dollars worldwide, it still scored just 52 percent on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes for both critics and audiences alike. Compared to other worthy animated movies that came out this year — The Lego Batman Movie (which scored 91 percent with critics and 80 with audiences) and Cars 3 (which got 68 and 70 percent), for example — it seems odd that The Boss Baby would be ranked among critically adored nominees The Breadwinner, Coco, Ferdinand, and Loving Vincent. It's so baffling that, at this point, we'd believe you if you said it was chosen simply because host Jimmy Kimmel, who voices the Boss Baby's father, needed a few more jokes for his monologue (kidding — we all know he has plenty of content to work with already). Fortunately, we weren't the only ones surprised by the Academy's choice. See Twitter's most hilarious reactions to The Boss Baby's nomination, which now joins Suicide Squad, Transformers, and 50 Shades of Grey as one of the, um, most unexpected movies to pick up an Oscar nod. Related: Wonder Woman Didn't Receive Any Oscar Nominations, and Fans Are Livid "Get Out?" More like "Get Out of The Boss Baby's way""The Big Sick?" More like "Big Sick of anything that isn't The Boss Baby.""Three Billboards?" They better be advertising for The Boss Baby, the best film of all time.— Anthony Carboni (@acarboni) January 23, 2018 1 / 22 The Academy: "We've nominated your favorite films from last year including Get Out, Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, and... The Boss Baby" pic.twitter.com/JdRO7Yxo7A— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) January 23, 2018 2 / 22 MY THERAPIST: How are you feeling?ME: I just think it's funny how The Boss Baby got an Oscar nom for best animated feature and The LEGO Batman Movie got snubbed I mean LEGO Batman was the first film in years to truly capture Batman's identity and internal struggle and—#Oscars— Devan Coggan (@devancoggan) January 23, 2018 3 / 22 i stand corrected. apologies to the boss baby pic.twitter.com/O5euh0wGaq— Netflix US (@netflix) January 23, 2018 4 / 22 THE BOSS BABY is now an Oscar-nominated film. What have you people done— Scott Wampler™ (@ScottWamplerBMD) January 23, 2018 5 / 22 RESPECT THE BOSS BABY #OscarNoms— The Iron Sheik (@the_ironsheik) January 23, 2018 6 / 22 wtf the boss baby has an oscar nom how disrespectful to the lego batman movie smh stop snubbing the lego movies— raymart (@reymerts) January 23, 2018 7 / 22 and the winner for best picture goes to; the boss babythis is the boss baby's 24th consecutive Oscar win tonight— john chaotic goodman (@the_nope_show) January 23, 2018 8 / 22 OH, COOL, WE’RE JUST GOING TO NOMINATE FERDINAND AND THE BOSS BABY OVER THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE AND GO ON ACTING LIKE WE’RE A VAGUELY RESPECTABLE SOCIETY???— Griffin Newman (@GriffLightning) January 23, 2018 9 / 22 Nobody is talking about the fact that the #%-€`$ Boss Baby was nominated?! Lego Batman Movie. Hello? pic.twitter.com/csJDJ2gJiX— Calib McBolts 🍿📝🎬 (@CalibTalksFilms) January 23, 2018 10 / 22 First, Academy Award-winning Suicide Squad.Now, Academy Award-nominated The Boss Baby. pic.twitter.com/ncjmeA2lad— Bobby Blabby (@john_tyler646) January 23, 2018 11 / 22 The Boss Baby is trending and I legit thought it was referring to Trump— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) January 23, 2018 12 / 22 We're so numb now that the ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES IS BEING INTERVIEWED FOR TREASON, and we're all like, "That's wild but Boss Baby got an Oscar nom??"— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) January 23, 2018 13 / 22 stay tuned for news regarding a screening of the oscar nominated animated classic "the boss baby" on the projector in my living room. black tie only. thank u.— Andrew Sampson (@andrewsampson_) January 23, 2018 14 / 22 I seriously doubt that any of you chuckleheads groaning about "The Boss Baby" getting an Oscar nomination have actually seen it, because if you HAD you'd be much, much angrier.— The Tony™ (@TweetsByTheTony) January 23, 2018 15 / 22 i don’t normally like 2 get sincere on twitter but today, two people who have helped me a lot got their first oscar nominations. it’s so surreal seeing ur friends succeed on such a huge level. congratulations 2 the boss baby and sufjan stevens— Brandon Wardell (@BRANDONWARDELL) January 23, 2018 16 / 22 The Boss Baby. Cancel the Oscars.— Robbie Collin (@robbiereviews) January 23, 2018 17 / 22 The Boss Baby beat Lego Batman for Best Animated Feature??! pic.twitter.com/aoWlt0Aqiy— Milez Das (@MILEZDAS) January 23, 2018 18 / 22 if the boss baby can be nominated for an oscar i can do anything— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) January 23, 2018 19 / 22 Happiest about:1. Nanjiani & Gordon2. Peele3. Gerwig4. Chalamet5. Kaluuya6. Deakins7. Greenwood8. Metcalf9. Ronan10. Blige (SA/Original Song!)I'm aware of their work:1. Oldman2. RockwellThe HELL?1. Boss Baby2. Beauty and the Beast— Glen Weldon (@ghweldon) January 23, 2018 20 / 22 Obsessed that Boss Baby is the only movie Tiffany Haddish clapped about in the noms this morning. Now I want to see it.— Bryan Safi (@bryansafi) January 23, 2018 21 / 22 Reminder that the phrase “academy award nominated film Boss Baby” actually is a truthful statement https://t.co/zvAPf7fO62— Left At London (Nat) (@LeftAtLondon) January 23, 2018 22 / 22 Award SeasonAcademy AwardsMoviesOscarsTwitter