15 Lowest Rated Oscar Winning Movies
10. The Broadway Melody (1929)
Oscar Win: Best Picture
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 35%
One of only two Best Picture winners to win a single Oscar, Harry Beaumont's movie is often cited as the first fully-fledged Hollywood musical, and as such it only really endures as an interesting historical artefact.
Almost 90 years on, the film's forgettable, dry songs pack nothing approaching a peppy punch, the acting is stilted, and there's a reason why even card-carrying film buffs have probably never heard of it.
Though praised upon release, contemporary critics have rightly slammed the film as an ill-aged calamity.
Granted, none of the five Best Picture nominees that year have Fresh Tomatometer ratings, but even so, this is undoubtedly one of the worst-ever winners of the Big One.
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