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Top 10 Most Unworthy Oscar Winners

Obviously, the Academy Awards are incredibly selective (not to mention subjective) and the movie or actor you thought was the absolute best will more than likely not walk away with the big prize. But sometimes there's such an egregious error in judgment, such a crime against the art of filmmaking that you can't help to raise your arms to the heavens and cry to those cinema snobs up in their ivory towers, "What were you thinking?!" Here are the Oscar winners we deem most unworthy.

[h2]3. Ordinary People[/h2]

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Everyone remembers the enduring classic Ordinary People, right?  The one with Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore, where they’re a couple grieving the loss of their son in a boating accident.  No?  Oh well, some films just sort of fade away over the decades, sad but true.  Maybe it was just a weak year for nominations.  Oh wait. No. This film beat out Raging Bull and The Elephant Man, two of the best films ever made.  My mistake.

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