Worst Best Picture Winner
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TheAlwaysClassy — 20 years ago(January 11, 2006 12:45 PM)
Well, 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.
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leforcat — 20 years ago(February 13, 2006 10:12 AM)
Nope I'm very, very far from being a teenager these days! Yet, apart from good performances from Freeman and, in fact, Aykroyd, I think the film was not wotrhy the Best Picture award, not at all.
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MagnusCthulhu — 19 years ago(December 15, 2006 08:06 PM)
I 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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cdanielc_98 — 19 years ago(December 04, 2006 07:21 PM)
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.
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bebop63-1 — 19 years ago(March 23, 2007 07:36 PM)
I 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.
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gittes98 — 10 years ago(September 06, 2015 11:32 PM)
There 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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john kenrick — 6 months ago(September 06, 2025 08:29 PM)
I have seen
The Greatest Show On Earth
, which has dated badly over the years, however, for what it is, I found it entertaining, and its director, Cecil B. DeMille knew what he was doing. Some of it is a lot of fun. Just don't take it too seriously. It's a
circus movie
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john kenrick — 6 months ago(September 06, 2025 08:40 PM)
I liked
Out Of Africa
. Good, not great. The Academy Of Motion Pictures is a trade show sort of organization, not necessarily a sign of quality. It's more of a popularity contest. Even in its (relatively speaking) heyday, it was more about favorites, favoritism and box-office issues, not artistic achievement. A lot of the older Best Picture winners just strike me as old-fashioned, which for many people is a sort of "falling short":
Wings, Cimarron
and
Grand Hotel
are decent pictures for what they are; also, for those of us with a taste for classic Hollywood, they deliver the goods. Great films, not. -
theb_ronster — 20 years ago(January 17, 2006 06:34 AM)
A 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?"