15 Worst Movies That Somehow Won Oscars

11. Around The World In 80 Days (1956)

Won For: Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Best Adapted Screenplay

There's a fairly well established critical community that seem to agree that Around The World In 80 Days is the undisputed worst Best Film of all time. It isn't, but it's a very close run race and there's no way it deserved Hollywood's most prestigious award on merit.

The film, which is only one of several unsatisfying attempts to make the classic story for the screen is an over-long, over-stuffed ordeal and an excuse for lots of self-congratulatory back-slapping and vulgar levels of excess. If it was nominated in modern times, there would be riots in the streets of tumblr as hashtags zeroed in on privilege cut across the air.

It's full of cameos, but in the same sort of way that Movie 43 and Zoolander 2 were: they're trotted out merely to show that the film has famous fans, serving no narrative purpose and over-extending what is already a sickly candyland nightmare.