21 of the Worst Movies That Got Nominated for Best Picture
The Oscars is that one magical night a year when Hollywood gets together to celebrate achievement in filmmaking, aside from all the other nights they do that. It’s also a celebration of backroom deals, historical whitewashing and old fogeys who can’t even be bothered to watch most of the movies they vote on. That means a lot of films get nominated for and even win awards that are only remembered in the future in the same thought as, “What were they thinking?”
For example, “Bohemian Rhapsody was dull, historically inaccurate to the actual events, and had bad editing, but somehow it wins the Golden Globe and gets multiple Oscar nominations, including Best Picture,” one Redditor told r/Movies. They then asked, “What’s another example of a movie you think is terrible that for some reason (got) nominated for tons of Oscars, including Best Picture?”
It took no time at all for their fellow Redditors to respond with all kinds of award-winning awfulness.
Gigi
The Greatest Show on Earth
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Boyhood
Driving Miss Daisy
As Good As It Gets
Hacksaw Ridge
The Irishman
Shakespeare in Love
Cimarron
The Hurt Locker
Crash
The English Patient
Green Book
American Hustle
Silver Linings Playbook
The Godfather Part III
The Great Ziegfeld
Birdman
Doctor Dolittle
The Shape of Water
