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]6. Roberto Benigni – Life is Beautiful[/h2]

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Beat out Edward Norton in American History X. Do I need to say anything else? This was right around the time that Holocaust films cemented their reputation as being an automatic Oscar, and never is that more evident than with this movie. When given the choice between an edgy, powerful, socially relevant performance and a Holocaust film, the Academy goes with Holocaust nine times out of time. It’s not that Roberto Benigni and Life is Beautiful weren’t good, it’s just disappointing that the Academy wouldn’t take the opportunity to reward a risky, unique performance (as evidenced in the video below) when it had the chance.

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