15 Worst Movies That Somehow Won Oscars

5. Alice In Wonderland (2010)

Won For: Best Art Direction

Though Alice In Wonderland is now cited as one of the chief examples of Tim Burton's worrying derailment from the talent who made the likes of Batman and Beetlejuice, there are some things to cherish about the garish, CGI-heavy take on Lewis Carroll's seminal story.

The visuals are glorious at times - but that should have gone without saying, given the genius of Burton's imagination - and Helena Bonham Carter's toddler-like Queen Of Hearts has her moments, but it's all such a vulgar fever dream that even the good vanishes without a smile when you scrutinise too heavily.

The CGI lends the film way too much of a false filter that robs sequences designed to drive empathy or sympathy of their emotional authenticity, and Burton seems to have spent so much time on the background (which was ironically obliterated by the forced perspective of 3D anyway), that he seems to have forgotten how to direct his principle players.