6. Crash's Best Picture Win Over Brokeback Mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptOkdPNpBHI Best epitomised by presenter Jack Nicholson's what-the-f***-happened face (he can be seen mouthing it in other clips), Crash's win over Brokeback Mountain (and Munich, let's not forget) is far and away the most prevalent Best Picture upset in Oscar history, and it makes this list as a consequence, as an example of the time where the Academy Awards really, truly, irredeemably got it wrong. Though other Best Picture upsets like Dance With Wolves over Goodfellas - or Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction - are often cited, it's Paul Haggis' mawkish, racism-is-bad Crash - over Ang Lee's stunning, gorgeous masterpiece Brokeback Mountain - that most people remember. Brokeback had already swept the Best Picture award at the BAFTAs and the Goldem Globes, and what's more Ang Lee had triumphed over Paul Haggis in the Best Director category earlier on in the night, all pointing towards the obvious, inevitable, absolutely worthy win for Lee's far superior film. Instead, Crash's name was read out, to the chagrin and bafflement of Nicholson, the audience, and anybody with even a passing interest in cinema. If there was always going to be an on-the-night snub on this list, it was always going to be this one.