10 Oscar Winning Films That Are Actually Bad

the criteria and are much worse than the 2006 Best Picture winner. Maybe not as much of an upset as the 1998 Oscars but Crash winning Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain is a travesty that still irks the angriest of cinephiles. Paul Haggis’ L.A. centered race-relations drama shows how the lives of different people from different backgrounds come together in an overly-emotional and cringy-worthy way.

Matt Dillon, Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Don Cheadle, Terrence Howard, Thandie Newton, Michael Peña, Ryan Phillippe, and Ludacris star in the film and nearly all besides Newton and Dillon give less than subpar performances. Haggis is much more known as a screenwriter than a director, which Crash gives, as evidence with atrocious filmmaking; the key role of a director is to evoke authentic performances by their performers, something Haggis must have forgotten.

The film seems like it can’t decide on its message and just wants to throw uncomfortable and depressing scenes in front of you. Haggis’ writing nomination the year prior for Million Dollar Baby emphasizes how lazily the script was written, since we knew what he was capable of.