Can you name the Worst Oscar Winners of All Time? by brusox20

Award	Winner	Snubbed
1994 Best Picture		Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption
1990 Best Picture		Goodfellas
1941 Best Picture		Citizen Kane
1979 Best Picture		Apocalypse Now, Breaking Away
1983 Best Picture
2001 Best Picture
1998 Best Picture		Saving Private Ryan
1933 Best Picture
1952 Best Picture		High Noon
1956 Best Picture		Giant
2005 Best Picture		Brokeback Mountain
1995 Best Picture
1980 Best Picture		Raging Bull
1976 Best Picture		Network, Taxi Driver
1968 Best Picture
1996 Best Picture		Fargo
1990 Best Director		Martin Scorsese
1941 Best Director		Orson Welles
1994 Best Director		Quentin Tarantino
2001 Best Director		Peter Jackson, David Lynch
1968 Best Director		Stanley Kubrick

Award	Winner	Snubbed
2002 Best Actor		Daniel Day-Lewis
1998 Best Actor		Edward Norton
1993 Best Actor		How did Liam Neeson not win?
1974 Best Actor		Al Pacino
1955 Best Actor		un-nominated James Dean
1948 Best Actor		un-nominated Humphrey Bogart
1943 Best Actor		Humphrey Bogart
1998 Best Actress		Cate Blanchett
2000 Best Actress		Ellen Burstyn
2010 Best Actress
1987 Best Actress
1998 Best Supporting Actor		Geoffrey Rush
1996 Best Supporting Actor		William H. Macy
1993 Best Supporting Actor		Ralph Fiennes
1991 Best Supporting Actor		0
2003 Best Supporting Actress		Shohreh Aghdashloo
2000 Best Supporting Actress		Kate Hudson
1999 Best Supporting Actress		0
1996 Best Supporting Actress		0
1992 Best Supporting Actress		Judy Davis
1990 Best Supporting Actress		Lorriane Bracco

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Worst Oscar Winners of All Time Quiz

by brusox20

Created Feb 3, 2011 in Movies
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	istalkblink182:	Feb 3rd, 2011 at 23:38 GMT	-2 points
	this is pretty subjective to say "worst". also i think the reason that the "Fellowship" didnt win is that they figured the Return of the King was prolly gonna win so they didnt want one trilogy to dominate three years in a row. Two Towers probably deserved to win more the Chicago as well. the Return of the King basically won for all three of them. however there were a lotting of acting nomination snubs in all 3 movies

	Munkenstein:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 00:04 GMT	2 points
	Because Pacino was hosed in 1974, the academy screwed the pooch on a Scent of a Woman in 1992. Denzel as Malcolm X was the clear winner.

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	TheArcher:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 00:31 GMT	6 points
	I don't think that beating a beloved film is automatically grounds for calling something worst. I don't love "Kramer vs Kramer" and no way is it better than "All That Jazz" or "Apocalypse Now" but to call it worst is a bit extreme. And while there's not a lot of great films/performances here, I would say Juliette Binoche is one of the best wins in supporting actress and Adrian Brody was excellent too. I also have a soft spot for "How Green Was My Valley" and "Oliver!"

	brusox20:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 00:31 GMT	3 points
	Natalie Portman will probably win @Munkenstein. She has won every award this season and yes Al Pacino should have never won for Scent of a Woman.

	jism:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 02:47 GMT	7 points
	Laurence Olivier should never be even thought about in a worst Oscar winner list.

	dummo:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 03:05 GMT	4 points
	This list is very subjective. 1994 was a tough call with three of the top 5 films of the 90's released that year, so there could only be one winner and Forrest Gump was it. And Babe snubbed in favour of Braveheart, really? Just because one person or 'critic' favours one film, or performance above the other, doesn't mean the wrong decision was made. That is why they have a whole academy who vote on the awards and tally the votes up, as opposed to one solo judge.

	pelination:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 03:15 GMT	5 points
	This may make me incredibly unpopular, but I still think Heath Ledger was very overrated in "The Dark Knight". He certainly deserved to be nominated, but all 4 other nominees (with the possible exception of Philip Seymour Hoffman) deserved the Oscar more in my opinion.

	Etheridge2:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 03:15 GMT	3 points
	FARGO losing to The ENGLISH PATIENT and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN losing to SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

	brusox20:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 03:29 GMT	1 point
	@jism Let me explain the logic of Laurence Olivier on the list. Many people thought Humphrey Bogart should have been nominated for Casablanca yet was not nominated. The word "Worst" I perhaps have used a bit too loosely. Laurence Olivier is probably one of the greatest actors to have ever appeared on screen.

	AndrewH:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 03:34 GMT	11 points
	English Patient won in 1996. Titanic was the winner in 1997 (and probably should be on this list - LA Confidential was far superior).

	noldcw:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 04:53 GMT	4 points
	1948 was Olivier's win for Hamlet, considered one of the best performances of Shakespeare we have seen. Bogart was not nominated for Treasure of the Sierra Madre. His loss to Lukas was Casablanca.

	greasytony:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 07:24 GMT	6 points
	Any "worst of" list is incredibly subjective, and allows personal biases to skew the selections. Example: Sandra Bullock nauseates me. I think she's a one-note actress who ruins a film any time it's not a rom-com (e.g. "Crash"). Yet she won Best Actress last year, so I'm clearly in the minority. Doesn't make me right or wrong. A glaring inconsistency is on this list, however. How come "Shakespeare In Love" and Gwyneth Paltrow were both "worst of" choices, yet Geoffrey Rush was snubbed in the same film?

	alias571:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 15:03 GMT	4 points
	Geena Davis, snubbing Sigourney Weaver's performance for Working Girl.

	leviper:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 15:45 GMT	0 points
	So Renée Zellweger didn't deserve her Oscar when nearly every critic gave her their award?

	leviper:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 15:46 GMT	5 points
	And I see you're an Edward Norton fanboy. Robert Benigni's performance in 'La vita è bella' is one of the greatest in all of foreign film.

	TheLuggage:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 17:34 GMT	5 points
	I don't like how you picked and chose from the given source. makes this quiz far too subjective. That and the source seems to have half of every winner on its list (including 'The Sting',' Gandhi' and 'Silence of the Lambs') It also mentions that the first two LOTR movies were snubbed but the third was a worst choice. I think you should find a consensus list somewhere if you want to do this quiz right.

	ixidor:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 18:37 GMT	2 points
	Can't necessarily agree with these, dude. You don't even have substitutes for like 4 of them.

	brusox20:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 20:31 GMT	0 points
	I have to reiterate I did not make this list I made this quiz so that people can talk and debate the choices on this list. Do I agree with some of these choices, no, but it you can debate each pick and I feel it has been done.

	aekimel:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 21:43 GMT	1 point
	Scorsese with a third 's', not a 'c'.

	RyanBeingManny:	Feb 5th, 2011 at 03:28 GMT	2 points
	Not only was Washington a better choice over Pacino, but Steven Rea for The Crying Game and especially RDJ for Chaplin was a better choice. Ironically, Pacino probably should have won over Hackman (Unforgiven) for Glengary Glen Ross

	greasytony:	Feb 5th, 2011 at 05:59 GMT	2 points
	Oh, yeah, and the biggest Oscar snub of all time is Malcolm McDowell NOT EVEN NOMINATED for "A Clockwork Orange". It's nominated for picture and director, but the actor who's in nearly every frame of the film isn't nominated? Ridiculous.

	ballen2824:	Feb 5th, 2011 at 19:43 GMT	1 point
	Waaay too subjective. We could argue all of this all day. For instance, Adrian Brody did deserve to win. Daniel Day-Lewis' performance was more supporting than a leading role. The only snub I would argue for that year would be Nicolas Cage. Tom Hanks winning for Philadelphia was the right call. Liam Neeson was AMAZING as Schindler, but awarding Tom Hanks was more for the fact that his performance was the first major gay role recognized by the Academy. It was purely political. Oh, and he did a fantastic job. And who do you suppose should have won over Angelina Jolie? That performance was intense and superb!

	ballen2824:	Feb 5th, 2011 at 19:49 GMT	3 points
	Also, @greasytony, I am still trying to figure out why the hell Bullock won last year. That performance was terrible and the film not much better. Just because she put on a southern accent and played a "heart-warming" character does not qualify for a good performance. Carey Mulligan or Meryl Streep should have won that award hands down.

	hahobigshot:	Feb 5th, 2011 at 21:55 GMT	-1 points
	Im willing to bet money brusox hasnt seen most of the those older movies that he says dont deserve oscars, and basically any award goodfellas didnt win was "the worst?" i wonder what your favorite move is. very original

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	brusox20:	Feb 5th, 2011 at 22:29 GMT	-1 points
	@hahaobigshot I have seen a few movies on this list and they are good movies HOWEVER I DID NOT MAKE THE LIST. LOOK AT THE SOURCE LINK AND YOU WILL REALIZE I DIDN'T MAKE THE LIST. By the way, Goodfellas is one of my favorite movies and it did get robbed of Best Picture and Best Director by Dances With Wolves which I was not a fan of. Forrestr Gump is another one of my favorite movies and was deserving of Best Picture. I also liked Kramer vs. Kramer and I do watch movies new and old. You don't know me so don't assume I don't watch older movies and don't critize me for a list I DIDN'T CREATE.

	hahobigshot:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 12:57 GMT	0 points
	so you didnt create this list but you didnt include everything on the original list?? to me that means you only included what you agreed on. why else would you not include the whole list? and I've never heard of Forrestr Gump. maybe you should learn to spell before going far and beyond to defend yourself. The ratings of this quiz speak for itself.

	greasytony:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 15:35 GMT	3 points
	@ballen: I agree that "The Blind Side" is one of the worst Best Picture nominees of all time. Bullock won as a thank you from Hollywood for all the money her films have made. Bad actress and all, she's still a huge draw at the box office. Mulligan's and Streep's performances were clearly the best last year, and I bet even the members who voted for Bullock would admit that. But Hollywood likes to congratulate its big names, and they probably figured this was her only shot at ever winning.

	brusox20:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 16:10 GMT	-1 points
	@hahaobigshot You've never heard of Forrestr Gump it is a great movie it is strikingly similar to Zemeckis' Forrest Gump there were a lot of lawsuits about plagiarism but all in all a great movie. The list on the source indicated and asterisk for "Worst of the Worst" for Best Picture, As for the rest I simply could not put all of it on so I picked and choosed the ones that are known for not deserving Oscars and some for great debate material.

	soshoreman:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 00:56 GMT	2 points
	This list is invalid for the simple fact that neither Kim Basinger nor Halle Berry are on it.

	NinedenLtD:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 04:40 GMT	3 points
	Could be worse... but Kramer vs. Kramer was a worthy winner, A Beautiful Mind was way better than LOTR, Art Carney was worthy, Ernest Borgnine was a FAR better choice than James Dean in '55, and Cuba Gooding Jr., James Coburn, Jack Palance, and Marisa Tomei were all fantastic in those roles. By far the worst winners: Forrest Gump and Terms of Endearment (which is AWFUL besides the truly great performances of Jack Nicholson and Shirley Maclaine).

	NinedenLtD:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 04:41 GMT	2 points
	Oh, and Cavaclade is bar-none awful.

	heatherh:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 12:07 GMT	2 points
	Shakespeare in Love was by far one of the worst, especially winning against something like Saving Private Ryan. Shakespeare in Love is pretty boring, unremarkable, unmemorable, and apart from Dench, the acting's not exactly up there with the greatest performances, is it?

	heatherh:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 12:10 GMT	3 points
	Brokeback Mountain also should have won best picture over Crash as well, but tackling racism is far more crowd-friendly than tackling homophobia.

	nahtanoj:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 18:13 GMT	2 points
	julia roberts should never have won for erin brokovich. all she did was either shout at someone or feel sorry for someone the entire film. ellen burstyn should have won for requiem for a dream, that was one of the greatest performances i've ever seen.

	beaujarkko:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 18:24 GMT	1 point
	@thearcher: Agree about Brody. Day-Lewis, a fine actor, turned in a fine performance in "Gangs of New York" but there was nothing special about it. Brody was magnificent, however.

	strags11:	Feb 9th, 2011 at 03:05 GMT	1 point
	This list, and the spirited discussion above, illustrates why no academy should hand out Best Of The Year awards until at least 10 years have passed. Let the hype, the sentimentality, and the trendy hipness wear off, then look back clear-eyed and see what has stood the test of time and what hasn't. Maybe it's not too late. I'd sure like to see, say, 1952 re-voted on -- High Noon vs. Singin' In The Rain, now THAT would be one hell of a contest! (Plus, Jean Hagen can finally get the Best Supporting Actress award she deserves, IMO the snub to end all snubs.) Or 1995 -- not that Braveheart was bad in any way, but it might not even earn a nomination today with the likes of Dead Man Walking, Se7en, The Usual Suspects, Toy Story and Apollo 13 in the mix. (And don't get me started on the Grammies...sheesh...)

	johnlk:	Feb 9th, 2011 at 04:27 GMT	1 point
	I don't see how you can make a list like this and not include Helen Hunt.