5 Performances That Sucked:
5. Hoke Colburn - Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy may have earned Freeman an Academy Award nomination, but it's home to one of his most awful and tiresome performances. As time has passed, Driving Miss Daisy's once considerable acclaim has thankfully shrunk as more people see it for the empty, cliched bit of twee it really is. The movie and Freeman try way to hard to be warm and likeable and in turn, the movie becomes repugnant and draining. The same year Driving Miss Daisy was released, another Morgan Freeman movie also came out. That movie is Glory and Freeman's performance in Glory essentially sums up everything wrong with his performance in Driving Miss Daisy. In Glory, he has real heart and warmth, but in Driving Miss Daisy everything feels force and vapid and misses all the right notes. Over two decades later, the film remains one of Oscar's biggest embarrassments and Morgan Freeman's most overrated performance.