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.

Audrey Fox

Published: Feb 25, 2013 10:20 pm

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[h2]2. Shakespeare in Love[/h2]

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Look, you will never hear me say that I don’t like Shakespeare in Love. It’s a fun, light-hearted, fluffy film that should never have walked away with a Best Picture win. It’s a well made movie, but it’s certainly not the best film that came out in 1998. Hell, it’s not even the best Elizabethan costume drama to come out in 1998. It was the classic struggle between two things the Academy loves more than anything: period films and Spielberg. Unfortunately, the lesser of the two won out this time. We’ll just have to chalk this one up to Hollywood’s brief but infuriating infatuation with Gwyneth Paltrow.

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