'The English Patient' is my nominee for worst-ever Best Picture winner.

Don't forget Slumdog Millionare.

i nominate Crash



so many movies, so little time

Oh it wins, hands down. This was the year I finally accepted that the Academy were a bunch of elitist toffs who wouldn't know a good film if it swum up and bit them on the (word that IMDB won't allow).

"I don't reckon I got no reason to kill nobody."

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Well you are entitled to your opinion, but I loved The English Patient and thought it well deserved the Best Picture oscar in 1996. Besides, Fargo did get accolades and won Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay.

And come now, how can you rate this worse than these atrocious "winners" below?

1941 - How Green was my Valley, instead of Citizen Kane
1952 - The Greatest Show on Earth, instead of Julius Caesar
1965 - The Sound of Music, instead of Dr Zhivago
1968 - Oliver! instead of any other nominee
1976 - Rocky, instead of Taxi Driver
1979 - Kramer vs Kramer, instead of Apocalypse Now
1989 - Driving Miss Daisy, instead of any of the other nominees (except Field of Dreams)
1994 - Forrest Gump, instead of The Shawshank Redemption
1997 - Titanic, instead of As Good as it Gets (or even L.A. Confidential)
1998 - Shakespeare in Love, instead of Elizabeth or The Thin Red Line
2000 - Gladiator, instead of Traffic
2002 - Chicago, instead of The Hours (or even The Pianist)
2005 - Crash instead of any other nominee

These above to me are the worst-ever Best Picture winners.

But surely you know that its hardly ever the "best" movie that wins and that the Oscars are full of politics and favouritism?

For me, Cimarron is the worst. Gave that a 2/10. Gave The English Patient a 4/10.

I have seen all 89 Best Picture winners. A few others that were pretty bad:
Titanic (gave that a 3/10)
Gigi (3)
Braveheart (4)
Dances With Wolves (4)
Rocky (4)
West Side Story (4)
Grand Hotel (4)


Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free

Different strokes for different folks. I loved it!

I just got around to seeing this movie, "The English Patient". (I thought I had seen it, but I now believe it must have only been clips.) It does have a number of problems, chief being that it is too long. There were so many good possible cuts, as well. It wasn't like it was long but it was all necessary.

I wouldn't call it the worst Best Picture winner, but it is certainly near the top of that class.

Fargo was certainly more deserving.