10 Oscar Winning Performances That Are Actually Terrible

4. Al Pacino - Scent Of A Woman

Another classic consolation Oscar, Al Pacino's Best Actor nomination for Scent of a Woman was his eighth nod in 20 years, and so the Academy basically felt obliged to finally give him the damn statue.

Pacino should've won an Oscar years prior, sure, but in a year where he was up against Denzel Washington (Malcolm X) and Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven), his screaming-for-the-rafters performance just didn't cut it.

A shameless self-parody of Pacino's special brand of Big Acting, his turn as a blind, embittered army vet is high on campy theatrics and low on actual emotional authenticity.

Depressingly, the Academy hasn't nominated Pacino again in the 25 years since, though that's perhaps symptomatic of his late-period tendency to rest on his laurels.