The 10 worst Oscar Best Picture winners of all time, from Green Book to Braveheart
by Geoffrey Macnab
Feb 07, 2024
4 minutes
To win a Best Picture Oscar, a film has to have something about it.
Only 94 films in history have been given this award. They’re not voted on by the eccentric members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who pick the Golden Globes, or by specialist groups of critics, but by the roughly 10,000 members of the Academy. That is to say, the choice is made by distinguished figures from within the industry.
Sometimes, though, they do still make some baffling choices.
By the time the roll around at the end of the awards process, a herd mentality tends to have set in.
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