10 Worst Oscar Winning Actors Ever

3. Jean Dujardin

Much like Roberto Benigni, Jean Dujardin's awards success was a pure flash-in-the-pan moment, a fleeting beat of blinding glory in an otherwise totally mediocre career.

Dujardin won a Best Actor Oscar for 2011's The Artist, perhaps the go-to instance of the Academy tripping over themselves to laud a film only for it to drop out of the cultural conversation almost immediately. Dujardin's performance was light and enjoyable, but he was ultimately upstaged by a dog, and when you take the silent movie homage away, is there really much nuance to his work?

Looking back, Dujardin beating out Brad Pitt (Moneyball), George Clooney (The Descendants) and especially Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) seems absolutely ridiculous.

As for the rest of Dujardin's career? He's best known for the moderately entertaining OSS 117 spy comedy movies, but his post-Oscar work has largely been forgettable appearances in Hollywood fare (The Wolf of Wall Street, The Monuments Men) and foreign films alike.

Looking back, it's pretty crazy that anyone, least of all an entire voting body, felt he was worthy of a nomination, let alone a win.