This is my pic, followed by Titanic and Shakespeare in Love. What do you people think are the worst winners, being the results of weak years or poor choices by the Academy? Let's make this into a big post that goes on for a while. Please.
"Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head?"
Driving Miss Daisy must be one of the worst, at least since the early 50s, in spite of the always-great Morgan Freeman. Shakespeare in love is a Masterpiece compared to that!
Saigon... s**t! I'm still only in Saigon...
I would say that "Gentleman's Agreement" is the worst movie to win a best oscar and it is my least favorite Elia Kazan film.
shareWell, I'm not going to pretend that I've seen every Best Picture winner, like alot of people do. Non one on here has, yet, lol.
My least favorites from the one's that I have seen are The English Patient, which came out in 1996, which I consider to be the worst year in academt history. The other film I consider to be the worst Best Picture winner would be Chicago. I just couldn't wait for that film o end. Awful, just awful.
"Why was "The Royal Tenenbaums" not nominated for Best Picture?!?"-Me
How could you say that Driving Miss Daisy was bad? You must be a teenager still. The worst HAS to be Shakespeare in Love winning over Saving Private Ryan... It's simply stunning.
shareI liked Shakespeare in Love. I thought it was a sweet love story. But as good as Saving Private Ryan was, Thin Red Line should've won it that year, though, in my humble opinion.
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I have been on a mission to see all of the Best Picture Winners and have only 14 left. However, of those I have seen, The Broadway Melody (the second winner of best pic) is the worst. This should be followed by Tom Jones and then Annie Hall. I know a lot of people love Annie Hall but I guess I just didn't get it and it bored me to tears. When I am done with my mission in a week or two I can say I have seen all of them and then rank them.
shareDefinatly Tom Jones, and Shakespeare in Love, Out of Africa can also qualify as one of the worst.
shareI too am making it a goal to watch all the Oscar-winning movies from the beginning onwards, and while I have yet to see all of them, I would categorically say of the ones I have watched so far, Shakespeare In Love, A Beautiful Mind & Million Dollar Baby would have to be on the top 3 of the worst ones imho. Just goes to show that just because the panel of judges who decide who wins what on the Academy Awards are in the movie industry doesn't mean that they know any more than the hoi polloi.
shareThere is also a big difference between 'worst' and 'undeserving' More winners fall into this second catagory: An American in Paris, Oliver!, Rocky, The English Patient, In the Heat of the Night, Driving Miss Daisy, Shakespeare in Love, 12 years a Slave and a personal choice here, One Flew Over the *beep* Nest are a few off the top examples. Some undeserved because of politics, then relevant subject matter, or producers bullying and/or cajoling members to vote for their picture (guess who this is).
Some of the movies have not stood the test of time: Broadway Melody, The Great Ziegfeld,Gentleman's Agreement, Around the World in 80 Days, perhaps Tom Jones and even Rain Man and the hugely overrated Terms of Endearment.
But in the case of Cimarron and The Greatest Show on Earth for example, it's tough to think that these were even considered worthy in their own time.
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If you think Tom Jones is the worst Academy Award winner, you clearly haven't seen The Greatest Show on Earth.
shareTitanic, definitly.
A travesty of a movie.
Also a good fore runner for Most annoying song too.
Three words: Out of Africa
English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, West Side Story.
shareA little part of me dies every time I watch:
Titanic, Chicago, Shakespeare in Love
and Tom Jones would have driven a good friend of mine to suicide if the film hadn't made him so stupid he couldn't figure out how
"Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head?"
Million Dollar Baby
shareTop Ten Worst Best Picture Winners...
1.) The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
2.) Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
3.) A Man for All Seasons (1966)
4.) Tom Jones (1963)
5.) Crash (2005)
6.) Rain Man (1988)
7.) Chariots of Fire (1981)
8.) Rocky (1976)
9.) Million Dollar Baby (2004)
10.) A Beautiful Mind (2001)
antinichard, Great list! We have similar tastes. I have not seen all of those--never even heard of Crash (wonder where I was?). But if I saw it, I can't dispute it being on your list! Chariots of Fire was treated as the greatest thing ever, and I wanted to cry sitting through it! But The English Patient ought to be on the list. It was frightful.
share"A little part of me dies every time I watch:
Titanic, Chicago, Shakespeare in Love"
A little part of you dies every time you watch these movies. Every time? Which implies you've watched these movies a whole bunch of times -- even though you think they're bad movies?
How sad your life must be if you waste so much of it watching movies that kill you just a little bit every time you watch them!
I liked Shakespeare in Love, which most people on this board seemed to disagree with me. For me Forest Gump crawled along at a snales pace, and I was so bored by the end. Also hated Tom Jones, didn't much care for Chicago, and actually found Ordinary People excruciatingly dull. Only my opinions. Feel free to disagree.
There are very few Best Pictures that I think deserved the award. Almost every year, I think at least one other film nominated was better.
I was going to list them (Titanic was my first thought) but I realized it would be easier to list the good ones.
I have already reached the point where I ignore the Academy Awards.
I understand that many people on this site love a good western, so don't roast me when i state that Unforgiven might be high on this list. Honestly, i couldn't understand what was so great and acclaimed about it. If anyone could explain i would be happy to listen.
shareYeah, I'm answering a post from fourteen years ago. Sue me. "Unforgiven" was astronomically overrated because of its specious moralizing. It was seen as a more woke (before that ridiculous term was invented) version of the traditional western in which the bad guys get taken out, as they so richly deserve. Any previous Eastwood western where he expends several cylinders of cartridges cleansing the territory of miscreants and not worrying about it is better.
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