Every Best Picture Oscar Winner Ranked Worst To Best

You can find some bright spots in Paul Haggis’s controversial drama Crash, including its sublime score and occasionally rousing cinematography. But any such virtues are quickly buried by its sloppy script and embarrassingly simple take on racial tension, class, and gender inequality.

It may have been a passion project for Haggis going in, but Crash still feels emotionally cold. If it hadn’t won Best Picture (beating the far superior Brokeback Mountain in the process), it would’ve been forgotten by now.