What's the worst film to ever win a Best Picture Oscar?

[CubsFan1982]

Hands down, it has to be Titanic. I made the unfortunate choice of taking a date to the movie, we both fell asleep halfway through and had to be woken up by people leaving after it was over. SO boring!

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. Chicago?

its a musical, thus, would put me to sleep automatically.

[barb162]

6. Chicago was good but it wasn't Oscar quality IMO

[Hissyspit]

16. Chicago was Kander and Ebb, for god's sake

They did Cabaret. They dealt with socio-political issues. They pushed the envelope. They collaborated with Bob Fosse. Surely you find something in the 78-year history of Best Pictures worse than that! Not the greatest movie, but, jeez...

[SCDem]

2. I'll second Titanic

Hurt me to watch.... pretty darn campy for a supposed Oscar.

[xmas74]

7. The only good parts

were when the ship sank.
And Leo's death was good for a laugh.

[MrModerate]

15. Don't agree on that one

The grandest disaster flick ever, and while we may not have cared a rap about the main characters (pretty shallow, admittedly -- that's a shipwreck joke, by the way), we did care about all the other poor souls.

Or at least I did.

[xmas74]

22. I care about the actual event

and the real people who perished on the boat, but most of the movie itself gave me giggles.
Or maybe the giggles were coming from the 12 year old girls on the front row who didn't know what the Titanic was.

[Hissyspit]

27. The script - awful and sentimental; helped open the floodgates

to the oceans of sentimentalism (pun intended) that have washed over our public culture and conciousness over the past decade, and kept people from art in the service of critical thinking, analysis and true emotion.

The ship sinking in the movie was very impressive, the same way the D-Day sequences in "Saving Private Ryan" were impressive and the rest of the movie cliched shit.

[MrModerate]

53. Actually, the "oceans of sentimentalism" have been here . . .

. . . as long as the tides.

I see no notable upsurge in sentimentality over the last decade. The level seems to have remained about the same throughout this period.

And if you look at the tidal wave of new art that's washed over the planet with expanding media outlets, I'd say we're inundated in choices -- including those in the service of just about everything.

Although, I'll admit, I find art in the service of critical thinking and analysis as rare as a red tide, and a bit dry for my tastes.

And now I've run out of cheesy water/ocean references so I'd better let this discussion ebb, and flow onto something else.

[4_Legs_Good]

30. Worst movie EVER!

Hated it!

Worst movie to ever both win the Best Picture Oscar and be the #1 grossing film of all time - Facts more tragic than the actual sinking.

James Cameron can bite my shiny metal ass

david

[Ravenseye]

36. Hands Down Titanic

Firstly it shouldn't even have been nominated in my opinion. It was just that bad. The only reason that it even did so well at the box office, in my opinion, was that it came out at precisely the same time that Leonardo DiCaprio was peaking with the teenie boppers.

Can anyone honestly say it was the best movie of 1997? It was the worst movie of all the nominees.

As Good as It Gets
The Full Monty
Good Will Hunting
LA Confidential

Other movies that year which were better than Titanic, and also recieved Oscar nods for roles etc....

The Apostle
Wag the Dog
Boogie Nights
Donnie Brasco

Hell even Air Force One, Con Air, and Contact were better than Titanic that year.

1997 was the year I realized that the Oscars were crap.

[blm]

3. Gladiator

.

[SaveElmer]

5. Wrong there my friend

Gladiator was a GREAT movie!!!

[Ravenseye]

38. I liked it

I definately wouldn't say it was the worst winner ever, but I think Traffic should have won that year. I bet that if votes hadn't been split for Erin Brockovich and Traffic one or the other would have won.

[blm]

40. heh...and THAT is why they make so many movies.

Don't mind me, my favorite movies are horror movies. JeepersCreepers shoulda won.......heheh.

[maveric]

10. I'll second that.

And Russell Crowe winning best actor was another abomination. Especially where he should have won it the next year for "A Beautiful Mind" and didn't.

[Ravenseye]

37. He Won It For The Insider

the award just has 'Gladiator' written on it. Then he didn't win it for A Beautiful Mind because he had won it for Gladiator.

The Oscars are crap.

[Toby109]

35. Couldn't watch it.

And I REALLY tried on several occasions.

[sundog]

55. I'll fourth it

god it suuuuucked

so did Titanic

[terrya]

4. "Rocky"

How that movie won Best Picture over the fucking brilliant "Network" is something I never understood.

[Hissyspit]

19. They didn't realize how important and prescient "Network" would become n/t

[Toby109]

33. "Rocky" also beat out

"All the President's Men". But that was 1976 and America needed an upbeat movie to win. Gag...

[SaveElmer]

8. Gone With the Wind

Ugh!! My most hated movie.

[4_Legs_Good]

34. Woo hooo!! I'm glad I'm not the only one

who thinks this film was totally overhyped and absurdly melodramatic, not to mention quite boring.

david

[SaveElmer]

41. Yeah it's pretty hard to sympathize

With a whiny rich slaveholder...boo hoo

The only scene in that movie worth watching was the burning of Atlanta!!!

Sorry Atlantans...I love you now!!!

[kwassa]

47. Scarlett O'Hara is the least likable "heroine" in cinema

the most self-centered and oblivious woman ever created...

I stopped giving a damn long before Clark Gable did

[Mad_Dem_X]

49. Agreed, but I still like the movie

if only because she winds up alone at the end. :evilgrin:

[MrModerate]

9. That would have to be "Silence of the Lambs"

Unscary, unbelievable, with the awful Hopkinsesque scenery chewing (not to mention the other things his character supposedly chewed). Lest we forget, it featured a character making a skin suit out of murdered teenagers.

A clear 10 on the ick-meter.

[NYCGirl]

11. CB DeMille's "The Greatest Show on Earth"

Technicolor trash.

http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll

But I have to admit I've not seen Titanic or Gladiator.

[LiberalinNC]

12. Shakespeare in Love

Absolutely the worst movie I think I've ever seen!

[underpants]

18. "Saving Private Ryan" wasn't great either

BUT that was a slap in the face from the Brits in Hollywood plain and simple.

[Hissyspit]

20. It didn't win Best Picture n/t

[underpants]

21. I know, it lost out to "Shakespeare in Love"

That was what I was saying.

[Hissyspit]

29. I got you. Didn't read the first post you were responding to... n/t

[xmas74]

23. It didn't win Best Pic

but my grandfather, who was a Ranger during the war, said it hit pretty close to home. He couldn't keep the tears away during the movie (which made me cry with him).
After my grandfather passed away, I couldn't watch the movie anymore.

[bluestateguy]

13. English Patient

Stupid, soupy, meaningles drivel!

[SCDem]

31. I thought the book was great but never watched the movie

because the way people described it was totally opposite of what I interpreted the book to be.

[Jessica]

14. Dances With Wolves ...

I don't know - maybe I'm just sick of it.

[underpants]

17. That or Braveheart

and no not because I hate Mel Gibson (I don't )neither one should have been considered for the top honor.

[4_Legs_Good]

32. Oh gawd! I forgot about both those turkeys

I liked Braveheart when I was in the theater, but quickly grew to hate it afterwards.

Freeeeeedoooooooom!!!

david

[Kathy in Cambridge]

46. "Dances With Wolves" beat "Goodfellas" that year

all I can say is :wtf:

One is forgettable, and one is one of the greatest movies of all time.

[Ready4Change]

24. Citizen Kane.

I mean, "Rosebud?" :wtf: And not nearly enough explosions or exposed breasts or musical numbers.

That's just no way to make a movie, imho.



(BTW, yes, I AM kidding. And no, I've no idea if it won Oscars, or if there even WERE Oscars back then.)

[Hissyspit]

28. Oscars started 1927. Kane won one, not Best Picture. n/t

It was nominated for 9 Oscars, including Best Picture, but it only won for Best Writing, I believe.

[Joe Power]

25. Rocky, with Titanic a close second

Both movies sucked HARD.

[DelawareValleyDem]

26. Silence of the Lambs

I reacted to this film the way Elaine on Seinfeld did to The English Patient.

[HughBeaumont]

39. That would be Shiteanic, thank you very much

What a weepy, bloated piece of Jimmy Cameron stupidity. GOD that sucked. I wanted to leave like 1/8th into the movie. Surroundend by a bunch of crying women . . . ugh. You KNOW how it ends, stupid!

[Tempest]

42. Hands down? Forrest Gump

Even the other movies mentioned were more deserving than that piece of crap.

[HeeBGBz]

43. You got that right.

That was the most over-rated hype I've ever seen.

[Skittles]

44. OMG! YOU ARE TOO CORRECT!

I finally got around to watching it - TRYING to watch it - last year. ABSOLUTE CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND IT BEAT PULP FICTION? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[underpants]

45. Pfft!

please

[Tempest]

48. I don't see your choice here

Name one winner worse than Gump that more than one person would agree with.

[Hissyspit]

50. Ignore them. Forrest Gump DEFINATELY needed to be posted.

I would have done it, but I was busy looking up how many Oscars "Citizen Kane" won.

[ceile]

52. The soundtrack was the only redeeming feature of that POS n/t

[Balbus]

51. Chariots of Fire

I'd rather go to the dentist than have to sit through that again.

[borlis]

54. American Beauty

I thought it was really weird and we left the theatre wondering what we missed. I guess I just didn't get it. :shrug: