Is this the worst Academy Award-winning Best Picture ever?
It seems to be very lowly rated as a film, yet it won for best picture. I know "The Greatest Show On Earth" was pretty bad too, but I wonder if Gigi is the worst best picture ever?
shareOn the contrary. Most people find it completely charming. The film was not just a critical success at the time of its release but a major commercial one as well. It won 9 academy awards and has continued to be performed, revived, aired frequently on TCM, and reissued on home video every few years to apparently quite good sales. I would say it has decent size fanbase among classic film and musical lovers to this day. Why else would Warner Bros spend so much time and money giving it a lavish high definition restoration a few years ago for a special edition release?
I think much of the film is probably lost on current generations. Particularly millennials who find certain elements of Gigi creepy but gush over movies that deal more directly with sexual aspects like Moulin Rouge. Still, I would rather watch Gigi over and over again than be forced to sit through "Rent" or "Spider-Man Turn Of The Dark" again.