--- title: Oscars Honest Trailer Takes a Shot at Best Picture Nominees description: The 2016 Academy Awards are less than a week away. canonical: https://time.com/4234305/honest-trailer-oscars-best-picture-nominees/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-23T20:18:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:26.170Z og:title: The Oscars Honest Trailer Takes a Shot at the Best Picture Nominees og:description: The Big Short a.k.a. No Money Mo Problems og:url: https://time.com/4234305/honest-trailer-oscars-best-picture-nominees/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Oscars Honest Trailer Takes a Shot at the Best Picture Nominees twitter:description: The Big Short a.k.a. No Money Mo Problems twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Honest Trailer for the Oscars Takes a Shot at the Best Picture Nominees  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 23, 2016 8:18 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 23, 2016 8:18 PM UTC The [2016 Academy Awards](http://time.com/4185071/oscars-diversity/) are less than a week away, which means that time is running out for you to come up with some quality jokes to tweet during the ceremony. Luckily, the team at [Screen Junkies](https://www.youtube.com/user/screenjunkies/featured) is here to inspire you with an [honest trailer](http://time.com/4227149/walking-dead-honest-trailer/) for the [Oscars](http://time.com/money/4236531/oscars-how-to-watch-free-live-2016/) that pokes fun at the best picture nominees. “In a world where a bunch of rich people dress up in fancy clothes to give each other trophies, these eight films will compete for Hollywood’s highest honor: being the answer to the question, ‘what _did_ win the Oscar last year?,'” the voiceover begins. **Read More:** [Here’s Where You Can Watch This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Movies Online](http://time.com/4230888/watch-2016-oscar-nominated-movies-online/) The narrator then goes on to give a humorous rundown of the nominated films — _The Big Short_, _Mad Max: Fury Road_, _The Revenant_, _Spotlight_, _Bridge of Spies,_ [_The Martian_](http://time.com/4168240/martian-honest-trailer/), _Brooklyn_ and _Room_ — complete with a comical new name for each. Watch the full video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4234305/honest-trailer-oscars-best-picture-nominees/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4234305/honest-trailer-oscars-best-picture-nominees/"},"headline":"The Honest Trailer for the Oscars Takes a Shot at the Best Picture Nominees","datePublished":"2016-02-23T20:18:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:26.170Z","description":"\"In a world where a bunch of rich people dress up in fancy clothes to give each other trophies, these eight films will compete for Hollywood's highest honor\"","url":"https://time.com/4234305/honest-trailer-oscars-best-picture-nominees/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","honest trailers","Brooklyn","the oscars","screen junkies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4234305/honest-trailer-oscars-best-picture-nominees/","name":"The Honest Trailer for the Oscars Takes a Shot at the Best Picture Nominees"}}]}] ```