10 Worst Oscar Winning Actors Ever

10. Gwyneth Paltrow

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow attends the premiere of the feature film
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1999's Academy Awards was full of shock victories, and if Shakespeare in Love beating Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture wasn't bad enough, the film's star Gwyneth Paltrow also scooped a Best Actress Oscar over her far more deserving rival, Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth.

Whether you feel Paltrow was deserving or not, the point here is that she's done virtually nothing of merit either side of her Oscar win, and is basically just remembered for being Chris Martin's ex in real life, Tony Stark's "fiancee" on the big screen, naming her daughter Apple and being a mildly controversial celebrity blogger.

It's widely accepted that Paltrow only won the Oscar thanks to Harvey Weinstein's extremely aggressive awards campaign for the movie, and nothing else in her filmography has suggested her acting talents were remotely worthy of a gold statue. Honestly, when was the last time you got excited about a Gwyneth Paltrow movie?

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