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Empire Magazine's List

1. Braveheart (1995)
2. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
3. The Greatest Show On Earth (1952)
4. Ordinary People (1980)
5. Forrest Gump (1994)
6. Terms Of Endearment (1983)
7. Around the World In 80 Days (1956)
8. Cavalcade (1933)
9. Rocky (1976)
10. How Green Was My Valley (1941)



Some others I felt were weak:
Gladiator
Cimmarron
American Beauty

Which do you think is the worst Oscar winner ever?

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I didnt have to go much past number one to see that list is lame. Braveheart is an EXCELLENT movie. Forrest gump is very good, as was a beautiful mind. You have to also look at what other movies came out that year.

American Beuaty is an amazing film. The only other movie worth a [censored] that year was 6th sense, and Im sorry, AB is a way better movie.

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Forrest gump is very good, ... You have to also look at what other movies came out that year.


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Im sticking with Titanic, even years later. I just dont get it, how was that the best picture in a year. Its not because I dont like 'chick flicks' or anything like that, I just thought this movie was stupid.

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Im sticking with Titanic, even years later. I just dont get it, how was that the best picture in a year. Its not because I dont like 'chick flicks' or anything like that, I just thought this movie was stupid.

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One of the things im most proud of in life (how sad is this), is that I have never seen Titanic

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That list is terrible.

Worst ever Oscar Winner?

Every award titanic won.

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One of the things im most proud of in life (how sad is this), is that I have never seen Titanic

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Me too. I refuse to watch it.

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Titanic should be #2.

But Braveheart stays at #1. What a load of garbage that movie was.

Oh and A Beautiful Mind was probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The plot holes are so big you could drive a truck through them. My gf and I were actually laughing at the movie in the theatre it was so bad.

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One of the things im most proud of in life (how sad is this), is that I have never seen Titanic

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Me too. I refuse to watch it.

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I was stuck in a hotel room back when I traveled all the time, and had seen all the other movies on at the time. I watched it.

Even though I knew the ending, the movie itself was actually really well done.

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Titanic should be #2.

But Braveheart stays at #1. What a load of garbage that movie was.

Oh and A Beautiful Mind was probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The plot holes are so big you could drive a truck through them. My gf and I were actually laughing at the movie in the theatre it was so bad.

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Plot holes... plot holes.... you do realize most of the movie was a fabrication IN HIS MIND. Did you not realize that?

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Braveheart is phenomenal. You are smoking some heavy duty stuff.

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Titanic should be #2.

But Braveheart stays at #1. What a load of garbage that movie was.

Oh and A Beautiful Mind was probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The plot holes are so big you could drive a truck through them. My gf and I were actually laughing at the movie in the theatre it was so bad.

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Plot holes... plot holes.... you do realize most of the movie was a fabrication IN HIS MIND. Did you not realize that?

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Yes, I did, and they handled it about as hamfistedly as they could have. There were real elements and fantasy elements mixed together, but nobody seems to have bothered to attempt to mesh them in any logically coherent (or even possible) way.

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Yeah I dont think Titanic was 'one of the worst movies ever' or anything like that, I just thought it was below-average to average. Thinking it was stupid comes with the really lame and over-the-top gushy love scenes. Ugh.

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I don't think this poll holds much weight coming from a British website. Not surprised Braveheart is #1 considering it has an interesting spin on English history. This movie is fantastic, this article is retarded.

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Yeah I dont think Titanic was 'one of the worst movies ever' or anything like that, I just thought it was below-average to average. Thinking it was stupid comes with the really lame and over-the-top gushy love scenes. Ugh.

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Right, but considering it was a love story or sorts, it was ok.

Jesus, I'm defending Titanic. Somebody shitpile me, stat!

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Braveheart is phenomenal. You are smoking some heavy duty stuff.

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Braveheart is phenomenal. You are smoking some heavy duty stuff.

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I'll have to watch it again. I didn't mind it but some of the dialogue seemed cheesy to me at the time. There are certainly worse movies on the list.

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I don't think this poll holds much weight coming from a British website. Not surprised Braveheart is #1 considering it has an interesting spin on English history. This movie is fantastic, this article is retarded.

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You have to give them credit, if some epic came out about Americans doing wrong stuff that was incredibly inaccurate, we would probably hate it to.

Correct me if I am wrong (and really do because I am not sure about this), but Braveheart is filled with tons of inaccuracies and made up events.

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Forrest Gump is over-sentimentalized drivel IMO.

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Forrest Gump is over-sentimentalized drivel IMO.

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So was Shawshank, but just about everyone loved both of them. Mass public thinks over-sentimalized movies are goood.

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Yes some inaccuracies, but not entirely inaccurate. I don't think William Wallace banged the princess of whales, but he was a large part of the Scottish bid for freedom. Meh, bollocks to the English anyway.

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me neither and I never will

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I don't think William Wallace banged the princess of whales

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Haha that made me laugh. I forgot that he had sex with some princess in the movie, that was pretty ridiculous.

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One of the things im most proud of in life (how sad is this), is that I have never seen Titanic

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Me too. I refuse to watch it.

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So you've never seen the movie, yet you say that the worst oscar winner is every award that they won.

And the winner for stupidest 2+2 post of the year goes to?

MEbenhoe!

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I didn't think Shawshank was over-sentementalized... but I could be wrong.

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American Beuaty is an amazing film. The only other movie worth a [censored] that year was 6th sense, and Im sorry, AB is a way better movie.

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while i agree that american beauty is amazing, i think american history x came out that year too, and imo was an excellent movie worthy of being a contender.

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Titanic, by far, is the worst movie ever to win Best Picture

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American Beuaty is an amazing film. The only other movie worth a [censored] that year was 6th sense, and Im sorry, AB is a way better movie.

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while i agree that american beauty is amazing, i think american history x came out that year too, and imo was an excellent movie worthy of being a contender.

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really? I dont rmember it being up for an oscar, was it?? AHX is definately an amazing movie, but I still would go with AB as I liked it a little bit better.

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So you've never seen the movie, yet you say that the worst oscar winner is every award that they won.

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and yet, he's right (except for perhaps the Sound Effects Editing and Best Sound awards.)

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I don't think this poll holds much weight coming from a British website. Not surprised Braveheart is #1 considering it has an interesting spin on English history. This movie is fantastic, this article is retarded.

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You have to give them credit, if some epic came out about Americans doing wrong stuff that was incredibly inaccurate, we would probably hate it to.

Correct me if I am wrong (and really do because I am not sure about this), but Braveheart is filled with tons of inaccuracies and made up events.

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That doesn't make it a bad movie though. I don't know anyone who went into or came out of that movie thinking it was a documentary.

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Shakespeare In Love

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That doesn't make it a bad movie though. I don't know anyone who went into or came out of that movie thinking it was a documentary.

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I agree, but we live in the US where we dont care much about the political history of the movie, so no one went in really caring about accuracy.

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That doesn't make it a bad movie though. I don't know anyone who went into or came out of that movie thinking it was a documentary.

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I agree, but we live in the US where we dont care much about the political history of the movie, so no one went in really caring about accuracy.

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American Beuaty is an amazing film. The only other movie worth a [censored] that year was 6th sense, and Im sorry, AB is a way better movie.

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while i agree that american beauty is amazing, i think american history x came out that year too, and imo was an excellent movie worthy of being a contender.

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really? I dont rmember it being up for an oscar, was it?? AHX is definately an amazing movie, but I still would go with AB as I liked it a little bit better.

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i don't think american history x was nominated for best picture...my point was that it should have been at least nominated.

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i don't think american history x was nominated for best picture...my point was that it should have been at least nominated.

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agreed

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Shakespeare In Love

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Word. Although if this is a british article, there may be some kind of nationalism keeping it off the list. But that movie was terrible. I don't remember exactly what the competition was that year, but I remember there being some great alternatives.

- Jason (http://jason.strangerstudios.com)

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One of the things im most proud of in life (how sad is this), is that I have never seen Titanic

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even if you're modestly proud of that "achievement" you're lame. you are not cooler than anybody who has seen titanic, and your heralding of it or refusal to see it on some social basis or whatever makes you worse.

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It's close, but once you've experienced the tedium of The Greatest Show on Earth, you'll know it's a toss-up.

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american history x really wasn't any kind of remarkable or unique story

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One of the things im most proud of in life (how sad is this), is that I have never seen Titanic

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even if you're modestly proud of that "achievement" you're lame. you are not cooler than anybody who has seen titanic, and your heralding of it or refusal to see it on some social basis or whatever makes you worse.

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Woooooooord. I thought this movie was pretty good. Not something I could watch once a month, but still good. It had good visuals and a great ensemble cast.