15 Worst Movies That Somehow Won Oscars

8. The Wolfman (2010)

Won For: Best Make-Up

Though there is now a concentrated effort to turn the Universal Monsters world into a shared universe to rival... well every other bloody shared universe Hollywood is trying to insist doesn't exist just for money, more recent efforts to trade on the brand have been poor at best.

The Wolfman initially looked promising though: it had a great cast, the effects work looked good and there were hints that it would be legitimately scary... but that all evaporated in a fog of fur-balls as Joe Johnston squandered his opportunity to recapture his glory days. His film feels too familiar, too derivative and too much like it could have been a made-for-TV Sherlock Holmes episode to ever announce itself as anything above mediocre.

And though the wolf make-up looked good in sporadic appearances (much like how the film's brilliance only showed itself in painfully limited flashes), when it was shown on screen too long, it all looked faintly ridiculous. And absolutely no film could ever recover from the revelation that the villain was in fact the genetic results of an unholy tryst between Sir Anthony Hopkins and some sort of hamster...