10 Huge Oscar-Winning Movies That Nobody Really Likes

7. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Oscar Wins: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (4)

A Beautiful Mind stars Russell Crowe as John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics who -- despite his genius - struggles with a mental illness. Oscar bait, then.

It is a movie that, upon being asked to judge whether it's worthwhile, a person might shrug and say: "It's alright." But an answer delivered with all the passion of a shrug does not equate to a movie being "liked," and that's the case with A Beautiful Mind: it's a wholly average slice of filmmaking, as sentimental and emotionally overwrought a picture as one might come to expect of a Spielberg wannabe like Ron Howard.

If all that sounds a little harsh, it's because A Beautiful Mind beat The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring for Best Picture in 2002 - the very definition of cinematic blasphemy. Whilst Peter Jackson's movie is arguably the greatest fantasy epic ever made and has assured an expansive cultural legacy years later, A Beautiful Mind has given near-on nothing to popular culture at large. Nobody talks about it. Nobody ever watches it.