Are there any Oscar-winning movies that you absolutely hate?

[red dog 1]

(I'm talking about films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture)

[TBA]

1. The English Patient

Also... I hated Star Wars. The acting was beyond horrible.

The English Patient was Loooong and boring IMO.

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. I didn't like TEP either

Call me old fashioned, but I don't find adulterors sympathetic or glamorous, and I love Ralph Fiennes! I felt the more interesting romance was between the nurse and the Sikh sapper.

I didn't like Bridges of Madison County either.

[red dog 1]

28. I liked Star Wars, but The English Patient was boring as hell!

We walked out of the theater after about an hour or so, and got curious looks from the people who were standing in line for the next showing.
(I wanted to tell them all "Don't waste your money! It sucks!&quot

[Laffy Kat]

51. Couldn't stand it.

Never thought it would end. I'm with Elaine on this one.

[Chemisse]

85. It was boring; I couldn't even finish it.

[trc]

2. Gone with the wind...

Have never been able to sit through the entire film.

[CatMor]

13. Same here

too long and Hollywood for the subject.

[hunter]

47. My great aunt made costumes for Gone with the Wind.

And her husband at the time, he lighted some of it.

(My great aunt burned through a few Hollywood husbands, living as she did more than a century, and being a very strong-willed woman... She also worked on Cleopatra. Different husband, not her last.)

[Catmusicfan]

56. Cool. Love that type of history. Sorry she didn't find true love.

[hunter]

60. She did find true love in the end...

... an Italian gaffer.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Forrest Gump!

[Cuthbert Allgood]

16. Oh, yes.

It is one of the great injustices of the Oscars that Gump beat Shawshank Redemption. I think Pulp Fiction was the best film that year, but I knew it would never win Best Picture.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. That is exactly how I felt too.

Shawshank Redemption was cheated!

[whathehell]

67. I did like Shawshank Redemption..

but I liked Gump as well.

[Hokie]

113. Yes and yes

I turn off Forest Gump as soon as it comes on the TV. I have probably watched Shawshank Redemption a dozen times. If that isn't the greatest robbery at the Oscars I am not sure what is.

[Warpy]

38. Hated that one, too

because of the premise of "any old moron can make it in America, what's your problem?"

My mother countered with "at least you didn't have to slog through one of the books for the blind, every other sentence ended with "but that's cause I'm a mo-ron."

[applegrove]

40. Yeah. Too contrived.

[yardwork]

48. I was rushing to post that.

[hunter]

50. My wife HATES that movie.

Worst date we ever had. Well maybe with the exception of Ishtar.

[Codeine]

75. One of the most nauseating pieces of shit

I've ever had to sit through. Actually, almost all Tom Hanks films are total rubbish, come to think of it.

[Hokie]

115. Apollo 13 was decent

So was Saving Private Ryan. But Gump was pure garbage.

[livetohike]

102. Definitely. I remember thinking it was the dumbest movie ever made.

I still don't get the admiration if it.

[neeksgeek]

117. The first film that popped into my head.

Hated it.

[samnsara]

4. silence of the lambs, terms of endearment, lost in translation...

not sure how many won other than SOTL

[red dog 1]

29. lost in Translation is my least favorite Bill Murray movie,

but I'm glad he finally won an Oscar for Best Actor.

[yardwork]

49. I love Lost in Translation.

Why don't you like it?

[dhol82]

55. I thought it was great!

One of the few times Bill Murray didn't mug his way through a decent role.

[CTyankee]

104. I liked Terms of Endearment a lot. It started out funny, then got SO sad I was

crying. I don't think I ever saw Debra Winger again in a movie...

[ghostsinthemachine]

5. The Departed, Ordinary People, the English Patiient

Probably more, but these three come to mind immediately

[whathehell]

72. Another one who hated The Departed

Didn't "love" The English Patient, but I must say that I DID like Ordinary People. Two out of three ain't bad.

[Flaleftist]

100. I wanted to like The Departed.

Good director and some good actors, but major plot issues.

[mr_lebowski]

105. Everyone knows that was a 'Lifetime Achievement' Oscar anyway ...

I thought it was aaa-ight.

[ghostsinthemachine]

116. Yeah me too

How could it miss with that cast? But it did.

[Nailzberg]

6. Birdman. Crash. Chariots of Fire.

But especially Birdman. The other two I think I just didn't like.

[dhol82]

53. Birdman was the stupidest movie I had seen in a really, really long time

Was shocked when it won.

[demosincebirth]

86. It was worse than stupid. Someone asked me what it was about and I couldn't tell 'em.

[Nailzberg]

123. I'd be without explaination, as well. And I dare anyone to explain it to me.

[demosincebirth]

124. You said it!

[CTyankee]

103. Chariots of Fire was an amazingly fine film, IMO. Flawless acting and

cinematography. And that theme music...unforgettable..

[lkinwi]

7. Chariots of Fire

[Siwsan]

8. Well, not hate, exactly, but I certainly didn't understand the acclaim: Slumdog Millionaire

I was so prepared to be blown away, by this film, but I found it to be predictable and beyond boring.

Admittedly, I only sat through it once, and maybe if I watched it again, I'd get the 'charm'.

The first time I saw 'Napoleon Dynamite' I was less than impressed, but when I watched it, again, I totally fell in love with the quirkiness of the film.

[wcmagumba]

54. I like ND...

it quirkiness and the (imo) story line of good over bad (nerds beating the bullies) I like...the pervy uncle still
bugs me a bit though, kind of pushes a line with me...

[lunasun]

71. Vote for Pedro ! Love ND . Nonstop strange

The llama Tina why? So weird it's great esp the ending
“Tina you fat lard come get some dinner. Tina! Eat the FOOD!”

[mr_lebowski]

111. All time comedy classic in my book ... but also highly divisive. Definitely 'love' or 'hate'

it's one of the two for pretty much everyone. Not a lot of middle ground. Either you 'get' what the director was going for, and find it hilarious ... or you just ... completely don't, and you HATE it.

Talking Napoleon Dynamite here ...

[lunasun]

121. Plus I am a big Jamiroquai fan so that made the ending even better ! (Canned Heat)

[GrapesOfWrath]

9. Crash and Terms of Endearment

Yuck to both

[Docreed2003]

10. The English Patient...I've tried multiple times, it's just not my thing

[Generic Brad]

11. The Artist

My kid was taking a film study class at the time and was going through a phase where she suddenly considered herself an expert. She was trying to convince me I was too dense to get it. I got it. I just didn't like it. Her half a semester of film class made her more knowledgable on art and entertainment than my two degrees in Theater.

Maybe it was her pretentious film phase I disliked more than that movie.

[Dave Starsky]

14. It's a pretty silly movie.

But that dog is awesome. I think it got the Oscar because no one wanted the dog to be sad.

[Catmusicfan]

58. I personally liked it but I love silent movies and well Imho it captured

That type of acting and type of story.

[Va Lefty]

15. Dances with Wolves

Mainly because I think Goodfellas should have won Best Picture and Director

[Cuthbert Allgood]

17. Not the biggest theft from Scorcese, but pretty close

No damn way Ordinary People was better than Raging Bull.

[red dog 1]

33. I agree!

I hated Dances with Wolves, and I loved Goodfellas.
(Jimmy Two Times: "I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers&quot

besides Liotta, Joe Pesci & Robert De Niro were great!

[PJMcK]

18. Inception

Gone With The Wind
Chariots of Fire
Dances With Wolves

[Cuthbert Allgood]

19. Titanic

I cry without hesitation at films and novels. Not a tear at this one (which shocked my daughter). What a horrible film. Rose is a horrible person. He's lucky he died.

[ploppy]

20. I agree

I didn't like Titanic and I would have shoved Rose right off that raft.

[MuseRider]

23. I have never seen it,

to this day I still hold fast that I should never see that movie. I had friends who were competing with each other about how many times they had seen it. Some were talking 10 - 15 times! I figured it was never anything that would move me if that was happening. Blech! Silly silly people, oh but Leonardo is so handsome and they were so in love. Really.

[iamateacher]

31. We didn't go to see it either

Still haven't.

[Grammy23]

44. Me neither. No interest. Not even when it is free.

Harrumph....guess I am just an old poopy head. LOL

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. I kept rooting for the ship to sink to end the soap opera.

[red dog 1]

37. I liked Titanic

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and I like Leo too..
He was great in The Aviatar
(except for him not having the Howard Hughes mustache until near the end of the movie)

[lunatica]

39. Do you mean The Aviator?

The Aviator is where he plays Howard Hughes.

[red dog 1]

41. Yes, I meant The Aviator

(Thanks for catching that mistake)

I loved The Aviator and I've seen it at least 15 or 20 times.
I thought the acting was superb, especially John C. Reilly as Noah Dietrich, Alec Baldwin as Juan Trippe, Cate Blanchette as Katherine Hepburn, Jude Law as Errol Flynn,.and Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner.

[ghostsinthemachine]

81. I liked it as well.

Loved it when I watched it, for the millionth time a little while ago.

[red dog 1]

97. I've probably watched it at least 20 times

I loved the scene where Errol Flynn reaches over & grabs one of Howard Hughes' pees, after he steals a chair from someone at the next table.
And a few minutes later, the guy who he stole the chair from throws a snowball at him.
And all the while, the singer is waving his arms while singing "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise"
Great film!

[Catmusicfan]

59. Yes! Aged on my top 5

[NNadir]

80. Horrible mangling of the laws of thermodynamics too. Idiotic plot, lousy dialog etc, but the...

laws of thermodynamics push it over the edge.

[sakabatou]

87. Same but in particular with the electricity shorting out

It hurts my eyes.

[GrapesOfWrath]

22. Just thought of another one

Gladiator...

[wishstar]

30. I hated Gladiator- I rented it for a special birthday viewing, what a letdown after hype

[Roland99]

52. That was a joke win

And Crowe got Best Actor for that as a makeup for him not getting it for The Insider.

[whathehell]

91. He should have gotten it for The Insider.

and I can't help but wonder why he didn't.

I've seen these kinds of "substitution" awards before and always wondered about them.

[Midwestern Democrat]

94. The "American Beauty" juggernaut that year was just too strong for Crowe to have a chance. NT

[whathehell]

95. Okay, yes, I remember.

and I must say that, were I one of those voting, I'd have had a hard time deciding between those two.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Didn't *hate* it but I was grossly disappointed when I saw Birdman.

I think I saw just about every one of the Best Picture nominees that year and I probably would have chosen any of them over Birdman. (Boyhood was my personal favorite that year).

It's cliché to the point of a plot of a Seinfeld episode, but The English Patient wasn't all that impressive.

I'm split on Titanic. Visually, it was spectacular. In terms of dialogue and building characters, it was atrocious. The Billy Zane character had to be the most laughably one-dimensional antagonist in modern movie history. If they cut out the whole Jack-Rose nonsense and about an hour of the running time, I'd say it would have deserved Best Picture. With it, it's a bit of a slog.

[iamateacher]

32. I agree, Birdman

Was unwatchable

[Warpy]

36. "The best part was when she pushed him off the raft"

That was a review from a co worker in their target audience and it remains the best review of "Titanic" I've ever seen or heard. Special effects were good. Wanted to punch all the actors.

[yallerdawg]

101. "I'll never let you go, Jack!"

Except when I wave bye-bye.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

42. I thought Boyhood should have won best director

because that was a hell of a commitment with a fantastic outcome.

But I loved Birdman, too.

[Paladin]

25. "Dances With Wolves," "Terms Of Endearment."

Loved "The English Patient," however......

[CozyMystery]

27. "Terms of Endearment"

[Chasstev365]

34. La La Land...... NO WAIT.... Moonlight!

[Cuthbert Allgood]

43. No sure which one you are nominating, but I loved Moonlight.

What a gorgeous story.

[dhol82]

57. LaLa Land sucked big time

Still can't understand how the female lead (can't remember her name) won for best actress. She couldn't sing, she couldn't dance and her acting sucked.

Whatever.

[red dog 1]

96. Emma Stone won the Oscar for Best Actress

I haven't seen the movie, but it sure was profitable for the studio.
It cost $30 million to make, and so far has grossed over $445 million.

[dhol82]

118. Still thought she was a waste

[Chasstev365]

62. I was just making fun of the 2017 Oscar Ceremony

[Warpy]

35. "The Piano"

Gorgeous scenery, unsympatheic characters, ridiculous plot, and irritating Schumannesque noodling on a piano all through the movie. If they had deleted the characters and shitcanned the script and just showed the scenery, it would have been a lovely travelogue. Instead, the actors and the screenplay all won Oscars.

"Mean Streets," imitation cinema verité purporting to follow random small time mobster wannabes as they randomly fucked up everything they touched. Annoying characters, herky-jerky camera work, no real plot.

"Jerry McGuire," cartoon characters with annoying personalities spouting a series of one liners. I have never made it completely through this turkey, even though I'm a serious Cuba Gooding fan. He couldn't save this one.

[RobinA]

122. Second The Piano

Positively hated it, couldn't wait for it to end. When she goes overboard at the end I'm going, "Finally. Die so this movie can be over."

[Skittles]

45. Forrest Gump was absolute fucking drivel

I cannot believe the quality flicks it beat for the big prize

[whathehell]

61. Um, no..

Maybe not Best Picture quality, but certainly not "drivel"either.

[LisaM]

64. Yeah, I'm with Skittles on this one.

I think it was drivel, too!

[whathehell]

66. I understand.

Not everyone is gifted with good taste.

[LisaM]

68. Bwa ha ha.

I'm never going to like it, so there!!! That'll show you.

[whathehell]

69. Taste is a gift..

Some never receive it... So there.

[LisaM]

73. Did you get it in a box of chocolates?

[whathehell]

89. No..

In those you never know WHAT you're going to find..

[Codeine]

76. Agreed. "Drivel" is entirely too kind.

"Pure unrefined shit" is a more accurate assessment.

[whathehell]

88. Oh, sorry..

No one was expressing their opinion of you, Codeine.

[Codeine]

93. Wow.

Okay.

[LisaM]

63. Oh, God yes. Forrest Gump was so terrible!

A friend and I held an Oscar-watching party of two - just us - so we could ball up napkins and throw them at the TV every time that damn movie won an award! We both hated it and we really wanted to trash on it, so no one else was invited (some beer was probably drunk, too!)

[Skittles]

82. it beat The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction

*CRIMINAL*

[Wolf Frankula]

46. Dances with Wolves.

Should have been called 'Plays with Camera." Lost in Translation. Two bores sitting around boring.

Wolf (who was not in Plays with Camera and didn't want to be.)

[LisaM]

65. Million Dollar Baby.

I absolutely hated every second of it.

[TexasBushwhacker]

74. Wow! I loved it.

[whathehell]

70. The Departed..

Gross, foul and dull...My husband and I actually walked out.

[Codeine]

77. Dances With Wolves was some dire shit as well.

Shakespeare in Love? Crap.

[lunamagica]

78. Fargo. Yuck

[red dog 1]

98. I didn't like Fargo the first time I watched it

but I watched it again and liked it.
Since then, I've seen it at least 20 times.
(Frances McDormand deserved the Oscar she got)

[mr_lebowski]

106. Fargo was fucking awesome. It also did NOT win Best Picture ... but should've ...

It was nominated, the Coen's first IIRC, but it didn't win.

[Awsi Dooger]

79. Pulp Fiction is ultimate trash

Only world class morons could like that movie and believe it held any value.

I realize it didn't receive the big award. No matter. It earns criticism whenever movies are the topic.

Forrest Gump from the same year was an absolute gem, with one astonishing scene after another with so many clever twists of all level, whether subtle or over the top. Simply brilliant. I have to laugh every time it is nominated in threads like this. Let's just say I don't want those people handicapping anything for me. Flunk city.

[Skittles]

83. see, I loved Pulp Fiction - very original movie

I thought Forrest Gump was pure drivel

[red dog 1]

99. I loved Pulp Fiction

and I don't consider myself a "world class moron"
I don't consider Roger Ebert to be a "world class moron' either (he loved it too)
Magazine critics of Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker & Entertainment Weekly's all loved it as well, so I guess they must all be "world class morons" too.
The fact that it received 7 Oscar nominations means that the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences are all "world class morons" too, right?
It won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and also won 2 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), got six Golden Globe nominations, and director Quentin Tarantino received the prestigious "Palme d'Or" award at the Canne Film Festival.
It was independently released by Miramax Films, cost $8.5 million to make, and so far has grossed over $215 million
That must mean that all those millions of movie-goers are world class morons as well!

"It earns criticism whenever movie are the topic"?
I don't think so.

[mr_lebowski]

107. Sorry, but you're just wrong ...

[Texasgal]

84. The last emperor

I just didn't get it.

[retread]

90. Patton. Walked out b4 1/2 over. My time in Army was too close in rear view mirror to watch.

40+ years later still get the creeps.

[yallerdawg]

92. "Out of Africa."

If I ever need painful surgery or dental work, I won't need drugs and pain killers!

Just let me hear, "I had a farm.." and I will go into a three hour stupor.

[CTyankee]

109. NO NO NO! You can't say that about a Meryl Streep movie!

...and that scene where Redford washes her hair...jeez...

[catbyte]

108. "Out of Africa." Boring as hell. Any one of the other nominees: Ran, Brazil, or Silverado,

would've been so much better, but they went with the long, boring, droning "film." I loved Sydney Pollack, but this pretentious drivel wasn't his best work. Even if it did have Meryl Streep & Robert Redford in it.

[mr_lebowski]

110. Surprised that only 2 other people mentioned this ... at least in the subject line ... Crash ...

Seriously one of the most undeserving Best Picture winners in history, though to be fair it wasn't a great year for movies and there was no obviously-should-have-been-the-winner. Feel like it won by default. But it was silly and just heavy-handed as hell. Matt Dillon is so annoying in it.

I also REALLY didn't like Ordinary People. MTM was just ... I mean I love HER, but that role ... and her acting ... it's pretty obnoxious, IMHO.

Birdman was not worthy of BP either.

I'm also surprised nobody has posted Shakespeare In Love which is one of the most regularly-panned Best Picture winners, top 10 worst of all time on every list of that sort I've seen since it won.

I, however, love that movie. Not sure it's BP-worthy, to be fair, but I found it delightful.

[mr_lebowski]

112. I'm pleased to see nobody has listed anything completely indefensible on this list ...

Those would include (but not limited to):
Argo
No Country for Old Men
American Beauty
Braveheart
Schindlers List
Unforgiven
Platoon
Ghandi
Deer Hunter
Cuckoo's Nest
Either Godfather
French Connection

... cause those were all great, deserving BP winners.

Kinda surprised not one person picked any of these:
The Kings Speech
Return of the King (if for no other reason it's interminable 'ending(s)')
A Beautiful Mind
Chicago

I personally liked all those films but I've seen them all complained about in terms of Best Picture winners ... figured SOMEone would choose them.

[Hokie]

114. My wife didn't like a Beautiful Mind

She thought Russell Crowe's accent was terrible. But hey, how can you expect an Australian to sound like someone from southern West Virginia?

I liked the movie but I thought Sylvia Nassar's book was better and gave a more accurate portrayal of Nash. The movie skipped over Nash's gay inclinations for one.

I am biased on the movie and Nash though. I grew up one block from where Nash went to high school. He was much older than me of course.

[stopbush]

119. Ordinary People and Crash.

[LeftInTX]

120. The English Patient

I don't care for Lawrence of Arabia. It has beautiful music and beautiful scenery, but it just drags on. Omar Sharif used to say that only guys liked the movie. (There are no women in the movie except for the extras on the sidelines)

Oliver! - Lame for best picture.

Midnight Cowboy - Too surreal

Amadeus - WTF - Best picture?

Shakespeare in Love - Unwatchable

The Kings Speech - zzzzz

There are many movies on the best picture list that I haven't seen.