For over nine decades, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has recognized the very best in film with the prestigious Best Picture award. However, not all of their choices have been met with unanimous praise. A recent internet poll asked audiences which terrible movie somehow got nominated for Best Picture?” Here are the top 26 answers.
Bohemian Rhapsody
“It was dull, historically inaccurate, and was poorly edited, but somehow it wins the Golden Globe and gets multiple Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.”
“I kind of hated it; it just breezes through everything. It felt like there really wasn’t anything going on. The writing was so unbelievably bland.”
Pearl Harbor
“The Team America: World Police song “Pearl Harbor Sucks” is the funniest reaction to that film’s entire existence I’ve ever heard. I know that song better than the movie itself.”
“Treating it like some kind of historical drama that’s meaningful when it was literally all back-seated for a painful love triangle plot.”
The Artist
“I cannot believe how much people bought into that movie that year.”
“True! Moneyball should’ve swept the Oscars that year, but since it’s a “sports movie,” it was perceived as a lesser film. The acting, writing, direction, everything is far superior.”
Crash
“What a forgettable schmalzy overhyped rubbish movie that was. Brokeback mountain was the far superior movie that year and should’ve taken Best Picture.”
“Crash was like being lectured to by a college freshman who just discovered racism exists.”
American Sniper
“Can’t believe I had to scroll down so far to find this. I remember Fox News running the headline “AMERICAN SNIPER SNUBBED” when it didn’t win, and a bunch of white conservatives screaming, “It was better than Selma!” That made me laugh.”
“I was just laughing at how cheese-ball the whole movie was.”
Avatar
“Even though the visuals and CGI were great, I hated the generic story for Avatar.”
“Watching it at home on Blu-ray was almost a chore.”
“I watched Avatar last week, and this is 100% accurate to how I felt. Terrible.”
Boss Baby
“The animation category is really thin, and bad movies get nominated all the time if they’re from a major studio. I mean, Shark Tale got nominated.”
“Agree! Terrible movie, but the category isn’t thin; the academy is allergic to nominating foreign animation. And even if a few make it through, they don’t win.”
La La Land
“When I watched it, I constantly thought from start to finish: ‘How did THIS win best picture?!'”
“I saw La La land and just felt like it was a failure at capturing the magic of musicals from back in the day. It just completely falls flat. Moonlight should have won best Oscar that year.”
Nomadland
“The feel-bad hit of the year. It wasn’t just nominated. It won best picture.”
“I couldn’t stand it. It felt more like a bad documentary.”
“It was so boring and depressing I couldn’t finish it. And I probably never will. I still want the time back I spent attempting to watch it.”
The Reader
“It’s about a Nazi who we are supposed to have sympathy for because… she can’t read?”
“She committed war crimes despite her illiteracy. I am curious how any movie frames the struggle between war crime charges and admitting illiteracy.”
Shakespeare In Love
“It beat out Saving Private Ryan for the award that year. Mind-boggling.”
“It was nominated and actually won best picture. It beat out a few movies that were much better (Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, The Truman Show, Life is Beautiful).”
Godfather Part III
“It has major issues; Sofia’s terrible acting and the lack of Robert Duvall greatly damages the thematic impact the movie would’ve had showing us Michael’s relationship with his only surviving brother.”
“I find it rather shallow and pedantic.”
The English Patient
“I thought that “The English Patient” (1996) wasn’t that good. Especially considering it beat “Fargo.”
“Quit telling your stupid story about the stupid desert and just die already. DIE!”
Doctor Dolittle
“How is the 1967 Doctor Dolittle not more prevalent in this thread?”
“I fully agree; it’s a musical comedy that isn’t funny, and the songs are bad. It only got a nomination because Fox bought votes to get nominated.”
American Hustle
“Textbook example of all style/no substance and Hollywood loving itself.”
“The ONLY thing I remember about that movie is how much I was hyped before seeing it.”
“The hustle was I couldn’t get a refund on the price of admission. I wish I’d fallen asleep.”
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“More like Extremely Long and Incredibly Boring.”
“One of the worst films I’ve ever seen. I get that “9/11 + Tom Hanks” was impossible for the academy to ignore, but my god was that a bad movie. They had a child protagonist with special needs, who lost his father, and they still managed to make him unlikeable.”
Suicide Squad
“Star Trek Beyond had prosthetic makeup for their aliens and everything, but apparently Margot Robbie looking like she got a makeup powder pie to the face is a lot better!”
The Blind Side
“It is just one gigantic Under Armour advertisement.”
“Any time The Blind Side gets mentioned, I will come in and trash it. It’s how they made Oher look. I came out of the theater wondering if he was mentally disabled, and it made me super uncomfortable.
Green Book
“Those two actors could sell anything, but the script was terrible. It could easily have been an HBO movie.”
“No way in hell did it deserve any acclaim. Not just winning for Best Picture but Best Adapted Screenplay too? Come on!”
Black Panther
“While I love the energy it gave to my culture, there’s no way in hell it was good enough to be a best picture nominee. It wasn’t even the best Marvel movie that year.”
“I was borderline offended because I felt like Hollywood was just trying to ride the BLM wave in a very lazy way.”
The Great Ziegfield
“An indulgent slog of a movie that somehow beat Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, and A Tale of Two Cities.”
Cimmeron
“Cimmeron won the 2nd best picture Oscar. Incredibly racist, even for the 1930s. Acting is stilted and a holdover from the silent era. The lead character is a ‘Gary Sue’ and good at literally everything.”
Driving Miss Daisy
“The most egregious – imagine a world where Driving Miss Daisy was the best film of the year.”
“Driving Miss Daisy winning Best Picture while Do the Right Thing wasn’t even nominated was absolutely criminal.”
The Greatest Show On Earth
“The Greatest Show on Earth is legitimately the worst Best Picture winner I’ve seen, and I’ve seen them all.”
How the West Was Won
“I feel like the only reason it won was that EVERYONE was in it.”
“The weakest film to bring home Best Picture. The Academy folks were so impressed that the production went on the road with the circus, they forgot to actually judge the movie on the lame script, wooden acting, and poor direction.”
The Hurt Locker
“That movie was offensively inaccurate. I was in Iraq, and I can tell you, no part of that movie made sense.”
“I first watched that movie while in Iraq. You’d think it was a comedy the way all of us watching were laughing at it.”
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