Oscars: Every Best Picture Winner Ever Ranked From Worst To Best

78. Driving Miss Daisy (1988)

One of just four films to win the Best Picture Oscar without also being at least nominated for Best Director, Bruce Beresford's drama and its exploration of racial dynamics seems head-smackingly heavy-handed by contemporary standards, but the remarkable work by Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman ensures it never slides below watchable.

Driving Miss Daisy is a light, sweetly enjoyable film to a point, but an extremely facile, underwhelming pick for Best Picture in a year that also nominated Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams and My Left Foot, all of them superior films.

Again, the acting carries it through, but it plays things snooze-inducingly safe and typifies the sort of milquetoast, agreeable-ish films that so often get nominated for the big one.

And in a year that also saw the release of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing - which wasn't even nominated - it can't be seen as anything less than a totally undeserving winner.