9 Films Designed To Win Oscars That Failed Miserably

Bless the Sheen/Estevez family - except for Charlie. They're a multi-talented, liberal-minded, Might Duck-rallying couple of guys. Martin's work on The West Wing is not only deeply earnest, it's almost unparalleled in recent television. And Emilio, the only member who retained the original family name, always just seemed like a nice guy.

But "nice guy" doesn't translate into "good filmmaker". He appears to have his father's political and philosophical opinions and wears them on his sleeve. Perhaps too much of his sleeve, however.

The Golden Globes is an annual ceremony where the nominees already know who won and celebrities primarily go to get drunk. They're nominated so the press can hang out with George Clooney.

Take 2006's Bobby, a film that would never have been taken seriously without its ensemble cast of writer/director Emilio Estevez' friends. Getting plastered with Demi Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Chistian Slater, Helen Hunt, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood, Sharon Stone and William H. Macy sounds like a pretty good reason to throw an awards gala.

Bobby takes place in the 24 hours before Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968 (read: the last time the Sheens still believed in hope instead of heroin). Though Kennedy is never seen (footage of the assassination does not exist), his presence is evident throughout the staffers and visitors of the hotel.

The ensemble cast ranges from God awful to admirable, but the aimless subplots and desperate attempts to tie events to modern times are awkwardly shoehorned into a messy, but not unpleasant, film.