30 Most Memorable Oscar Moments From The Last 30 Years

28. Dances With Wolves Beats Goodfellas For Best Picture & Best Director (1991)

Now, nobody's saying that Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves is a bad movie, but it winning seven Oscars - including Best Picture and Best Director - while Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas went home with just a single Best Supporting Actor win for Joe Pesci is just absurd.

Almost three decades on, Scorsese's film is held up as one of the greatest films of the 1990s if not of all time, while Dances with Wolves is a broadly praised drama often chastised for touting a "white saviour" narrative.

Watching the two films today, Costner's direction doesn't even begin to measure up to Scorsese's impeccable work.

This was a textbook example of the Academy awarding an Oscar-baiting film - well-executed though it also was - over a movie that had a far more pervasive and resonant cultural impact.