Worst movies to win the Oscar for Best Picture

[Sandpiper]

My Top 3 (or un-holy trinity if you prefer):

1) Titanic
2) Forrest Gump
3) Rocky

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. Titanic

:puke: :puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[lenidog]

3. I will second that motion.

[ghostsofgiants]

30. I'll third it

[lenidog]

2. Every time I hear anyone mention Forrest Gump I think of the skit

that the late Sam Kinison did about it once. How women thought that the relation between hom and the girl he grew up with was so sweet and romantic.

[neuvocat]

6. I never thought of that.

Pretty funny.

[lenidog]

10. It basically it boiled down to this

You have this girl who more or less pushes him aside or teases him with her affections his entire life even though she knows he loves her . Then when she is down on her luck she shows up and then sleeps with him and then blows out of there the next day. She then returns ( again because she has no where to go) when she is dying of AIDs with his kid who she told him nothing about, marries him and then dies, leaving him all alone to raise a son. How sweet and romantic.:sarcasm:

Now just imagine Sam describing all of this and you will realize how hilarious it was.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

33. i think you have the wronfgcomedian

kinison died 2 years before gump came out

not to be a know-it-all and corect you, i'm merely curious as to who it actually was. it sounds funny

[lenidog]

35. You are right!!

Damn who was it then?! I swear I remember it as Sam Kinison and it would be right up his alley but that is impossible obviously. But I know the skit exists but for the life of me I can't recall who it was now. It was funny because in a cynical way it was true.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

37. lewis black? dennis leary? Bobcat Goldthwait?

trying to think of others who might deliver such a style

[lenidog]

38. Man that is going to bug me forever now.

I am almost positive it wasn't Leary or Goldthwait. But now I almost have a belief it might have Andrew "Dice" Clay.:shrug:

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

39. and black probaly wasn't prominent at the time

sorry to do this to you-having a hole shot through your memory can be quite irritating

[lenidog]

41. You are a very evil person

:P :spank: Yeah black wasn't that famous at the time. The more I study the matter the more I lean to Clay being the probable candidate.

[dxstone]

43. Bill Hicks?

Just a guess...
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[lenidog]

44. Can;t really confirm or deny it at this point

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

45. hicks died in feb 1994-gump didn't come out until the summer of that year

unless he saw a an early cut and spilled the plot in a routine just before his death, we can rule himout

[dxstone]

46. Richard Belzer?

He's been around forever... and he can lay down a nasty rant when the mood takes him...

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

48. i could see that

either he or clay seem to fit with the description we've been given

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. "Dances With Wolves" beat out "Goodfellas" for Best Picture in 1990

that is also a travesty!

[jobycom]

9. Sorry, but Goodfellas was like the 3,452nd gangster flick of that year

A good ganster film, no doubt, but about as original as a PB&J sandwich. Putting in on whole wheat and using gourmet jelly doesn't make it less of a PB&J sandwich.

I likeed DWW much better.

[bertha katzenengel]

27. Dances with Wolves was a better movie.

Better story. Better cinematography. Better actress (as much as I adore Lorraine Bracco (sp?), Mary McDonald was better).

And jesus fuck, there is no earthly reason to show the violence that "Goodfellas" just had to show us. Yes, murder happens, and it's committed by angry, crazy people like Joe Pesci's character. But when did it become entertainment -- and when on earth did we start drooling for it?

[dxstone]

42. Hello again, Bertha!

Y'know, me and you are really in synch tonight...
I think Martin Scorsese is the MOST overrated director in filmmaking history...
And beyond that, he's freakin' EVIL.
I mean, time after time I see a film of his and feel as if he has sullied my soul with his obnoxious obsession with gratuitous violence... when I saw his godawful remake of Cape Fear (which even DeNiro couldn't save), I felt violated by the face-biting scene (and I really like that woman, whose name now eludes me)... I came away hating Scorsese AND DeNiro, for having anything to do with that utterly vile piece of DRECK!!!...
And I'm a horror film fan...
Again and again, he contaminates our collective psyche with his ugly visions of humanity at their worst, and never a balancing element of hope or redemption in the lot of it...
Even his old classic Taxi Driver, when held to any reasonable scrutiny, betrays itself as one of the worst-written pieces of shit EVER foisted upon a dumb, gullible public... even 10 monkeys with typewriters could've written a better screenplay in just a few days...
I'll give him this: I actually liked his two comedies, King of Comedy and After Hours...
But everything else he's done is so filled with hatred for mankind, and a certain perverse love for random pointless violence, that if I ever meet him on the street, I'm going to bust his freakin' nose!
Unless Joe Pesci's there to guard him...
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"I love horror movies, man... I just don't want to LIVE in one."--D X Stone

[Celeborn Skywalker]

5. Ok...

1) Titanic
2) English Patient
3) Dances with Wolves

[lenidog]

13. The English Patient was the most incredibly boring film on the planet

[Kathy in Cambridge]

15. And it beat out "Fargo" for Best Pic

:wtf:

[benny05]

17. but Fargo won...

[Kathy in Cambridge]

21. Won What?

http://www.filmsite.org/aa96.html

Film Critics awards probably. I HATED "The English Patient". It was torture to watch.

[Burma Jones]

23. Oscars for Screenplay and Best Actress.......

[Kathy in Cambridge]

24. But not Best Picture. I still watch "Fargo" everytime it's on TV

it should have beat the freakin' English Patient.

[lenidog]

18. Go figure

Oscar history is filled with such stunning :wtf:s. Rarely it seems does a picture lose to a picture of equal power.

[jobycom]

7. The Return of the King, Braveheart. I liked one of your three, and could

stand another. I've never seen Rocky.

[Burma Jones]

8. I would add to your excellent list

Braveheart
Shakespere In Love
The Greatest Show on Earth
A Beautiful Mind

[hyphenate]

16. I liked Shakespeare in Love

It was inspired. It was certainly a lot better than English Patient, Room with a View and other hob-snob films!

It took a unique idea and managed to make it entertaining.

[benny05]

19. Shakespere in Love

Was not as good as "Elizabeth"...my mho

[lenidog]

20. I liked it too but it wasn't best picture for that year.

[Burma Jones]

22. I preferred Saving Private Ryan that year

I really didn't like Shakespere in Love, but I didn't see the English Patient, nor did I see Room With A View, so I can't say.....

I'd have to say that Shakespere in Love left no impression on me, which is also to say it wasn't my kind of Movie....

[lenidog]

25. It was the fact that many in Oscar voting pool dislike Spielberg

He won best director for that year, yet they said that the film he directed was not the best film of that year. Now that doesn't make any sense. Sometimes I can see that happening. Titanic was not the best picture by a long shot but I would have still awarded the Oscar to its director (pardon the pun) he accomplished a titanic job by actually getting the film done.

[GalleryGod]

11. Terms of Endearment

Wasn't even a good MOTW:sarcasm:
James Brooks later admitted, he wrote himself in to it and couldn't get out-so-he killed-off Debra Winger......:popcorn:

[Burma Jones]

14. How Could I forget that dreck

Of course, James Brooks made up for it with The Simpsons....

[hyphenate]

12. I'd say

the English Patient, although there are many others. I second the Titanic one--bad move.

[SaveElmer]

26. Gone With the Wind, English Patient, Annie Hall

In that order!!!

And even though Shakespeare in Love was an ok movie, that it beat Saving Private Ryan is ridiculous!!!

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

28. A Beautiful Mind

1. A Beautiful Mind
2. A Beautiful Mind
3. A Beautiful Mind
4. A Beautiful Mind
5. Braveheart

A Beautiful Mind, not only over hyped and undeserving of the praise the film recieved, beat out Mulholland Drive and The Fellowship of the Ring. I still pull my hair out thinking about this travesty.

Ron Howard is one of the most overrated filmmakers, EVER!

[ghostsofgiants]

31. Mulholland Drive wasn't up for best picture

Though it should have been.

But the fact that Ron Howard beat out Lynch for best director is a travesty.

But whatever, I consider the Oscars a farce anyway.

[tarkus]

29. Forrest Gump! It stole the oscar from Pulp Fiction!

I don't even know if Pulp Fiction was nominated for best Picture, but it deserved it that year. I think Hanks stole the Actor one from a Pulp Fiction person...

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

32. Titanic, a movie that was bad then and has aged even worse

dialogue that would make lucas cringe, moments that defy the laws of science (bodies at 98 degree teperature fall into unfrozen water and collect ice???), egomaniac director, bloated, over budget and overlong, horrid them by celine dion which beat out the late, great elliott smith, adequate effects that now look dated
i hate that film

in the upset category, 'how green was my valley' over citizen kane in 1941

[LiberallyInclined]

36. not to mention-(although i am)

all the time the two of them spent below decks in what would have been freezing cold water- but with no ill effects.

worst. best picture. EVER.

[BlueStateModerate]

34. "un-holy trinity"

How about Axis of Evil?

[Robeson]

40. Titanic, Unforegiven, Gladiator.

[dxstone]

47. Leaving Las Vegas!

I wish I could have called that Leaving The Theater... but alas, I saw the whole moronic thing...
I used to really like in his early days (Raising Arizona)... until the monolithic pr machine started insisting he was the best thing since sliced bread... I can't stand the guy now...
But LLV wasn't HIS fault; it was an extremely crappy movie with no redeeming social value whatsoever...
IMHO...

[Liberal In Texas]

49. Forrest Gump, hands down.

I saw the flick with my kids. We walked out of the theater thinking that we'd just seen the worst movie ever foisted on the American public.

I still have that opinion.

It had, perhaps, good special effects. That is all.