15 Worst Movies That Somehow Won Oscars

3. Pearl Harbour (2001)

Won For: Best Sound Editing

Who the hell thought a historical event as poignant and whose cinematic retelling would require as much delicacy as Pearl Harbour would be perfectly suited to the particular "skills" of Michael Bay?

What should have been a thoughtful meditation on the nature of violence and on a nation forced into action despite turning a blind eye for years ended up being a bombastic, pompous exercise in pyrotechnic porn with a melodramatic, cloying romantic sub-plot that felt like it had taken literally minutes to cobble together.

The dialogue sounds like T-shirt slogans, the characters are one dimensional and delivered by wooden performances and though the sound was pretty good (as you'd expect from someone so obsessed with fetishised violence), it absolutely wasn't enough to add "Oscar Wining Film..." to the front of Pearl Harbour as some measure of overall quality.