25 Astonishingly Dumb 21st Century Film Oscar Wins

Beat: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck and Munich.

Beat (Screenplay): Good Night and Good Luck, Match Point, The Squid and the Whale and Syrianna.

Should've Won: Literally anything else!

And finally, here is possibly the most infamous Oscar win of all time - Crash beating Brokeback Mountain and three other far superior films to Best Picture, and also picking up an undeserved screenplay Oscar.

Is this win as bad as people say? No. It's far, far worse.

Crash is a genuinely terrible film that wouldn't seem out of a place in a Razzie line-up. It's a shallow, simplistic, preachy, patronizing and abysmally written piece of social commentary with no authenticity, no meaningful character development, no cinematic verve and all the intelligence and sophistication of a Roland Emmerich apocalypse pic.

This is also among the worst screenplays to ever win an Oscar. Seriously, the only character in this movie that has a meaningful, well-executed character arc is a car-jacker played by Ludacris, which says it all really.

Either the wonderful Brokeback Mountain or the superb Munich would've been better winners, and literally anything else should've won Best Original Screenplay.

The film also won Best Editing and that was fine; the film does do quite an impressive job of editing all the different story-lines together. But the fact that this movie won those other two awards and even got anywhere near the Oscars at all remains perhaps the most credibility-destroying episode in Oscar history.