15 Worst Movies That Somehow Won Oscars

12. Harry And The Hendersons (1987)

Won For: Best Make-Up

Harry And The Hendersons exists in that same protected nostalgic bubble as the likes of Alf, Flight Of The Navigator and E.T. for a certain generation of film fans, missing entirely the fact that it's nowhere near as good as any of them. And when the credits roll, though you've probably just spent a couple of hours enjoying the make-up on Big Foot, there's no getting around the fact that you've also just been preached at quite vulgarly about the sin of eating meat. Not just hunting, literally eating hamburgers, which sort of makes this the anti-Mac And Me.

Putting aside the off-putting politics (it's not so much the message but the delivery that isn't welcome), the film is no more than a silly, light-weight family drama about idiots who try to domesticate a giant, bewildered wild animal. If you've seen Beethoven, E.T., Encino Man or Crocodile Dundee, you've pretty got a handle on the kind of hi-jinx that ensue.