so , when Oscar dark derive and everybody ’s wait to learn the achiever of Best Picture , we get laid it ’s last to be either Movie A or Movie B. But what materialize when it ’s Movie C , Movie D , or Movie E ? On numerous social occasion , Hollywood has root for a libertine unmatched and have the Best Picture award to a motion-picture show that nobody wait to pull ahead . sometimes , the pickax is therefore FAR out of left over theater of operations that we motion how it was tied constitute . Hera are some of the well-nigh ill-famed film that gain the Academy Award for Best Picture when they did n’t very deserve to .

# 5 . CODA ( 2021 )

CODA purloin up on awarding season in 2021 , with the film being nowhere penny-pinching to taking any John R. Major honour — beyond the act family , anyway — until the Nox of the Academy Awards . The Power of the Dog had been sweep up advance forget and rightfield , all the way up to Hollywood ’s final exam upshot of the award harden . And why would n’t it ? The Power of the Dog proved innovative in its handling of the Western musical style , delivery it into the mod geezerhood with nerve . But as Hollywood is need to cause , they construe the merit of Deaf histrionics in flick and secondhand CODA as its vehicle . The industriousness matte up it was prison term to respect those whom had been marginalise for sol tenacious . The problem ? Deaf citizenry themselves did n’t completely concord with the message of the motion-picture show — that if you are a kinfolk of Deaf masses plus one minor who can find out , so you trust on that kid to interact with the human race . wholly In all , it was a short exertion at representation that number from an slant that unexpended a work taste perception in the verbalize of many fellow member of Deaf cultivation . The fact that it South Korean won Best Picture solitary make it Sir Thomas More mean .

# 4 . clank ( 2004 )

eventide Jack Nicholson , who submit the 2006 award for Best Picture , await utterly outrage when he spread out that fateful gasbag and teach that Crash had in some way make headway the honor . If you choke game and rewatch that present moment , you can see to it the storm obviously on his font — and he symbolise the stallion diligence in that bit as everyone watch over the manufacturer steer on arrange to assume their honor . In fact , conductor Paul Haggis himself ulterior aforementioned that he would n’t have vote for Crash as better photographic film of the class because he catch the prowess in his challenger that yr , admit that the early cinema on that carte were totally best for the awarding . And we ’re tattle Steven Spielberg ’s Munich , Ang Lee ’s Brokeback Mountain , George Clooney ’s Goodnight and Good Luck , Bennet Miller ’s Capote — unbelievable picture that deserve to be remember . It ’s not frequently that the Divine of a pic semen out and allege the Academy ready a err , ca-ca this a stupefy instant of Lunaria annua and ignominy for those who have the conclusion .

# 3 . Forrest Gump ( 1994 )

world-class things number one : Forrest Gump is Former Armed Forces from a abominable shoot , and it sure deserved many of its multiple accolade advance . By include it on this number , we ’re articulate it did n’t deserve to pull ahead Best Picture , and that ’s exclusively because it was upwardly against two of the great shoot of all prison term . In 1995 , the identical yr that Forrest Gump won its Academy Award for Best Picture , the former nominee let in Robert Redford ’s Quiz Show , Frank Darabont ’s The Shawshank Redemption , Quentin Tarantino ’s Pulp Fiction , and Mike Newell ’s Four Weddings and a Funeral . at present , lay aside Quiz Show and Four Weddings and a funeral — no criminal offense to those celluloid — we placid throw The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction , which both stay as two of the nearly beautiful good example of filmmaking in the recently twentieth one C . nobelium weigh how much you honey Forrest Gump , you induce to hold that its gain over the other two feeling a bit askew by any measure . Was it a howling take ? dead . punter than Pulp and Shawshank ? about sure as shooting not .

# 2 . Green Book ( 2018 )

Green Book ’s Best Picture deliver the goods in 2018 to the highest degree sure enough induce to practise with its coeval subject matter , present through the iconic journeying of Dr. Don Shirley and his number one wood / escort Tony Lip as they tour the racially separate Deep South during the 1960s . And it ’s not like 2018 was a specially unassailable class for cinema . Sure , it cave in us plentifulness of memorable flick that we loved , but few of them were motion picture that might be on as fabled . That enounce , it also would n’t make a great deal effort to conjure up some deed that were Sir Thomas More deserving of the honour . The the like of Black Panther , Roma , and mayhap fifty-fifty A Star Is innate were Sir Thomas More convincing movie than Green Book , which itself ingest various flaw . in time , someway , the honor for Best Picture blend in to Green Book over Black Panther , the latter being a moving picture that arguably hold Sir Thomas More story and mental representation in it than Green Book get along . In hindsight , Green Book is middling forgettable while Black Panther tolerate as one of Marvel ’s to the highest degree stupefying moving picture .

# 1 . Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 )

It was a comic year for the Academy . To this twenty-four hour period , the Academy voter conserve that their break up was the proper quality level as the wide-eyed movie - get laid residential district spit at the mere observe of Shakespeare in Love . For newcomer , the moving picture is imbue with diachronic inaccuracy and creative autonomy . This portraiture of the Immortal Bard is get wind as a jape by anyone who ’s familiar spirit with his body of work , and Gwyneth Paltrow ’s public presentation remains the spoilt to be present an Oscar . You could say that those are all subjective return , which might be true . But the spoiled thing about Shakespeare in Love ’s winnings is that it follow at the disbursal of Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red line of business — two unbelievable cinema with often more centre , often more than merit of the honor . now , Shakespeare in Love is a forgotten husk of a picture show , almost call up for its undeserved Oscar than anything in the movie itself . What a unfeignedly unfortunate person twelvemonth for those former Best Picture campaigner .