The Most Overrated Oscar Best-Picture Winners

What will deliver the goods this year’sBest Picture Oscar ? We’vemade our cases , declaredour predictions , andcrossed our fingersfor a few of the top frankfurter . But whether it ’s Moonlight , La La Land , or a surprisal win for Hidden Figures , the achiever is secure to be a unfeignedly expectant movie . Hopefully ? Here ’s where the Academy Award swing - and - young woman list currently stands .

Never forget : Under the loudness , glamor , and picture heralding , the Academy Awards are an unexpected byproduct of asneaky system concoctedby money - bum studio swine . Yes , expectant moving-picture show often win Oscars . But there are government need . The moment can be more significant than the legacy . Sometimes these jokers in the Academy do n’t know what the Scheol they ’re doing . Here are the 11 times they ’ve whiffed it the worst .

11.Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)(2014)

The Sojourner Truth : Hollywood ’s grand obsession with itself is always going to give " movies about movie " the edge . A vivid artiste immobilize making soulless drool for the deal ? That ’s decidedly going to appeal to hoi polloi who think themselves brilliant artistes making soulless drivel for the masses . Plus all those long takes arereally intemperately . But no picture show where " you mock Twitter " is enounce as a serious condemnation should be taken badly .

What should have won : Boyhood , for its empathy , passion , and innovative , plucky product proficiency

10.Gentleman’s Agreement(1947)

The accuracy : confront racial preconception is important then , now , and always . The key is to to make a movie that does this without each scene feeling like you ’re being force-out - fed cold cauliflower . Dry , hearty , and unsubtle , Gregory Peck goes " hole-and-corner " as a Jew in 1947 and somehow Nazism and the Holocaust never get mentioned . For its day , though , this was a reform-minded film of sorts , hence the nod .

What should have win : majuscule Expectations , for its iconic imagination and carrying into action

9.Forrest Gump(1994)

The accuracy : Nothing like fetishize genial illness , eh ? recollect when Forrest drank so many Dr Peppers he nearly wet his pants next to the president ? Golly , it was astonishing that they made it search like he was standing right next to him , the same way it was awe-inspiring how this sappy exposure get to clothe itself in the dusty , ragged shawl of half - remembered Vietnam - era nostalgia . To the elector , catnip . To you , we say : Run , moviegoer ! Run !

What should have won : Pulp Fiction , for its , uh , iconic imaging and functioning , too ! ( And you ca n’t fault it for suffer a bunch of stinky imitator . )

8.The Great Ziegfeld(1936)

The the true : William Powell and Myrna Loy had already teamed up in the bubblyThin Man , so you ’d cerebrate this salutation to theatre impresario Florenz Ziegfeld would be a romp . Not so . The musical numbers are lively , but every moment in between is a dirge . At three hours , The heavy Ziegfeldgoes beyond nostalgia trip into excruciating endurance test . But it made a boatload of dough and celebrate show business , so it accept home the top prize .

What should have won : Libeled LadyorMr . Deeds Goes to Town , because ' 30s screwball drollery reign

7.A Beautiful Mind(2001)

The true statement : This is the movie that used forward-looking camera techniques to show the danger of cockblocking . But Ron Howard was due a winnings and somehow this get the most votes . If only there was some higher par that could forecast this move .

What should have won : Gosford Park . OK , this was a act of a unaccented class , and it is n’t like the great unwashed are still run around quotingGosford Park , but the Robert Altman play is a really penetrative movie with one rattling scene after another .

6.Driving Miss Daisy(1989)

The verity : aright now , the Academy is rile in controversy about its want of diversity in nominated films . It could be bad . It could be giving award to movies that include African - American stories like the one told inDriving Miss Daisy . Some could ( and did ) debate that this was a mature and inspiring story about building bridge . But Public Enemy , Ice Cube , and grownup Daddy Kanedidn’t see it that manner .

What should have come through : Dead Poets Society , because it ’s important to stand on a desk once in a while

5.Cimarron(1931)

The truth : A huge hit in ' 31 , this dull Western is far too dated to be enjoyable , even as an anthropological experimentation . The performances are hammy and the scenes are slow , and while the topic of westward expansionism is ripe , this tale of dominion claims is about as exciting as listening to real - estate of the realm lawyers read depositions . But an detailed first sequence of land grabbing wowed ‘em enough for it to win .

What should have make headway : The Front Page , because we ’ve got ink in our veins

4.Cavalcade(1933)

The truth : Listen , movies were still figuring out what they were all about in 1933 . This afloat two - and - a - half - 60 minutes max opera about a British family over the grade of many tenner was still rely on dazzling audience by saying " count , you are able to witness all of THIS . " Headlines from the Boer War and the Titanic are relive through the eyes of this family , which is interesting at first , and then very much not interesting . It was nevertheless a major success .

What should have won:42nd Street , because it ’s the quintessential backstage depiction

3.The Broadway Melody(1929)

The truth : The first " talking picture , " and the first musical , to win Best Picture ought to be something more memorable . But , man , this is a lemon . There ’s actually very little tattle and terpsichore , despite the title , and when there is music it ’s the same damn birdsong . There are plenteousness of moving-picture show from this geological era that are lively and homophile , but this ai n’t one of them : It ’s a job .

What should have win : Our vote is forThe Patriot , because it was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starred the nifty Emil Jannings as Czar Paul I. It has , however , been lost ( the only such Oscar nominee in chronicle ) , only lift it in our admiration .

2.The Greatest Show on Earth(1952)

What should have won : High Noon , because if stand in the middle of town face your own dying while everyone else has punked out on you is n’t worth a tap on the back then nothing is

1.Crash(2004)

The verity : If it takes an artless string of coincidences to prompt us that we ’re all connected , man , I ’d prefer for my mortal to be trapped in isolation . This didactic fabrication about bias is as subtle as the average elementary - schooltime assembly . Crashwon Best Picture because diligence ex-serviceman Paul Haggis probably has secrets on everyone . It ’s the only matter I can think of .

What should have won : Brokeback Mountain , orCapote , orGood Night , and Good Luck , orMunich . They are all terrific pictures . Anything other thanCrash .

Forrest Gump 1994 movie starring Tom Hanks