15 Times The BAFTAs Corrected Huge Oscar Mistakes

Here we go again.

Many undeserving Best Picture winners, such as A Beautiful Mind and Green Book, are still perfectly OK, but 2003's winner Chicago belongs in a smaller category of Best Picture winners that, all things considered, just aren't good movies.

Chicago boasts great production values and some fine performances, yet those things cannot save this obnoxious film musical from its unlikeable characters, nauseatingly shallow screenplay and terrible direction. As such, Chicago arguably ranks among the least-deserving Best Picture winners of all time.

To be fair to the Academy, it probably won because of producer Harvey Weinstein's infamously aggressive Oscar campaigning, but still, it's hard not to feel bitter here. Thankfully, BAFTA voters awarded The Pianist, a truly great film, the win instead.

Yes, The Pianist is directed by a completely repugnant excuse for a human being, but setting that aside, this is still one of the finest Holocaust movies ever made.

A rich, devastating and brilliantly put-together historical drama anchored by Adrien Brody's shattering lead performance, The Pianist is a exceptionally potent depiction of one of the darkest times in human history. It's a tough watch (as it should be), but such is the power of the experience that you might find yourself coming back for more.

This is what should've won Best Picture. After all, The Pianist has endured as a modern classic while Chicago is usually only brought up in discussions of undeserving Best Picture winners. Still, at least the BAFTAs got it right.