10 Best Picture Winners Everyone Is Far Too Harsh On
2. The King's Speech
The Best Picture winner of the 83rd Academy Awards, The King's Speech has faced a major subsequent backlash for beating out The Social Network and many other excellent films nominated for Oscars that year.
It's a delightful film. It's funny, enormously moving, endlessly likable and filled with masterful performances from Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. It is slight, but so are lots of good films. For the record, it did not deserve to win Best Picture, but it's just an example of the wrong choices being made. To be honest, it might have been more because of Harvey Weinstein's aggressive Oscar campaigning, which (obviously, prior to recent events) he was well-known for.
In regards to it winning Best Picture, there's no denying that in one of the strongest line-ups of the 21st century, there were several better films. The rightful winner was probably Inception. As for The Social Network, it not winning the big prizes is yet another Oscar injustice that wasn't as unjust as you think. The Social Network is technically flawless but as a story it seriously lacks.
If The King's Speech hadn't won Best Picture, there would've been no backlash at all. It would be rightly seen as the very good film it is.