Which Best Actor/Best Actress Oscar (TM) of the past fifty years was the least deserving?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

69. He's a fantastic "everyman"

He's not a man's man in the sense of Gable, Flynn, Wayne, etc. But he's a guy's guy. I remember him in early roles like Bachelor Party, on through Volunteers (my 2nd favorite Hanks film), Joe vs. The Volcano (my favorite), and onward to the films like Philadelphia & Forrest Gump.

He has played a wide range of modern (WW II - present) American male roles well and convincingly. I'm not sure I could see him doing a pre-WW I period piece work. One of the reasons Cast Away works so well is that many of us can see ourselves in the role of office-dweller suddenly thrust into an endless battle for survival.

The funny thing about You've Got Mail is that it was not as well-received as Sleepless In Seattle at the time of its release, and many saw it as an extended ad for AOL. As time as passed, Joe Fox may have grown to be his best known and most beloved role.

I know many people aren't particularly fans of Julia Roberts, but a Hanks movie I enjoy that was overlooked was Larry Crowne. The tale of the displaced big box store worker who goes to community college to start over.