10 Oscar Winning Films That Are Actually Bad

10. The Descendants

Director Alexander Payne is surely an Oscar darling having seen five of his seven feature films nominated and The Descendants nabbing five for itself. While his other Oscar nominated films (Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, and Nebraska) ranged from fine to pretty damn great, The Descendants is just not at that level.

Clooney earned a deserved Best Actor nomination, but the film’s Best Picture nom and Best Adapted Screenplay win are beyond baffling. The film’s plot is white men complaining about their guilt of owning Hawaiian land while Clooney brings himself and his two daughters to say goodbye to their soon to be deceased mother. Payne was going for dramatic comedy but just so happened to miss both.

Shailene Woodley co-stars in her first major film role, so we can thank the film for giving us a refreshing and appreciated actress to indie-cinema, but not even that can excuse just how utterly boring and inconsequential the film feels.