4 Movies Oscar 2020 Winners Want You To Forget

4. Brad Pitt - Cool World

Best Supporting Actor Brad Pitt's role in Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood is that of Cliff Booth (largely based on stuntman Hal Needham) who eventually changes the course of destiny by stopping the Manson murders. A lot of the movie circles around Booth's story, while being careful not to answer the question of whether or not he killed his wife, so standard Tarantino fare really.

An actor with a 33-year career, there are some great heights and terrifying lows in Pitt's back catalogue. Especially early on when he was trying to make a name for himself and took any role he could get, such as Randy in the original run of Dallas and interchangeable teen victim in Freddy's Nightmares. And then there are the movies.

Pitt won only one award for World War Z; the MTV Movie Award For "Best Scared As S**t Performance". It's almost as if he read the book after signing on to the script and was terrified what the fans of this masterpiece would think of him as a generic white saviour in an equally generic action movie. Then there's the awful, awful, awful Cutting Class, a 1980s comic slasher that I may have mentioned is a little bit awful. Pitt was such an inexperienced actor when cast in this terrible movie, that he somehow made it even worse.

But the thing that haunts him at night has to be his role in 1992's Cool World. Hoping to capitalize on the combination of live-action and cartoon that had been so charmingly managed in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Cool World arrived four years too late and still managed to do a worse job at realizing a cartoon world. Also, the plot was largely about cartoon Kim Basinger seeking to have sex with her artist so she'd become a real girl.