10 Best Picture Winners Everyone Is Far Too Harsh On

10. Birdman

Birdman won Best Picture at the 87th Academy Awards and in the process it beat Boyhood, the other clear favorite. Given that those films are arguably the two greatest films of the decade so far, this will have been a very hard decision. Ultimately though, they made the right choice.

Birdman hasn't quite been met with the same backlash as some other winners have, but there still seems to be a lot of negativity surrounding what is an exceptional cinematic masterwork.

Its amazing single-shot cinematography, flawless performances, magnificent direction and wonderfully dark and insightful script make Birdman an emotional experience as well as a technical marvel, and it was easily the best film of an extraordinary year for films. As great as Boyhood is, its length is somewhat exhausting and therefore Birdman just about edges it.

If people don't get Birdman that's completely understandable, but even if one doesn't relate to it, and therefore it definitely deserved Oscar love. And on top of that, the win showed the Academy rewarding something that was not Oscar-bait at all and that was what everyone had been wanting to see for years.