We're Back: With Our List of Worst Oscar Winners

Last night, "12 Years a Slave," a remarkable, landmark film directed by Steve McQueen won the Best Picture Oscar (wouldn't it be ironic if he were the one directing the remake of "The Great Escape") and we are in 100-percent agreement with that, but that is NOT always the case; here are our least favorite Oscar-winning films of all time:

1) Titanic (1997; see image one)

2) Gigi (1958)

3) The Sound of Music (1965)

4) Forrest Gump (1994; see image number two)

5) Crash (2004)

6) Rebecca (1940)

7) Around the World in 80 Days (1956; see image number three)

8) How Green Was My Valley (1941)

9) My Fair Lady (1964)

10) The King's Speech (2010)

The 20 Worst Films to Win an Oscar (in our view)

Yesterday, we listed our 20 favorite Oscar-winning films in the Best Picture category. Today, we look at the worst. We want to acknowledge that "Film Comment" featured a 20 Worst Oscar-Winning Films, but these are own ideas. Although, admittedly, several of the listed below (no pun intended) were on that list as well:


1) "Titanic" (1997, first image)

2) "Forrest Gump" (1994)

3) "Going My Way" (1944)

4. "Rebecca" (1940, amazingly enough, one of Alfred Hitchcock's worst films is the only one which won a Best Picture Oscar)

5. "Around the World in 80 Days" (1957, second image)

6. "Crash" (2005)

7. "Shakespeare in Love" (1998)

8. "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989, third image)

9. "A Man for All Seasons" (1966)

10. "The Sound of Music" (1965)

11. "My Fair Lady" (1964)

12. "Terms of Endearment" (1983)

13. "Braveheart" (1995)

14. "The King's Speech" (2010)

15. "Out of Africa" (1985)

16. "In the Heat of the Night" (1967, this film beat out both "The Graduate" and "Bonnie and Clyde")

17. "How Green Was My Valley (1941)

18. "Rocky" (1976)

19. "Oliver!" (1968)

20. "The English Patient" (1996)