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Is this the lowest rated film on IMDb that has Oscar noms?


Is it?

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I don't know, but that is one of the best questions I've seen on this site.

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There are quite a few oscar-nominated movies with worse ratings: "Yes, Giorgio" starring Luciano Pavarotti has a 4.1, for instance. And how could I possibly forget Norbit!? But "Private Benjamin" just might be the worst rated movie to receive multiple acting nominations.

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Films that star women, esp. if produced or written by women, are often rated poorly by men, even though they're magnificant, Oscar-winning and/or nominated films.

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Films that star women, esp. if produced or written by women, are often rated poorly by men, even though they're magnificant, Oscar-winning and/or nominated films.


Excatly.

As of right now, the splits for Private Benjamin (as they appear to me) are:

Males - 9,858 - 5.9
Females - 3,471 - 6.6

I guess the other 4,000 or so decided to abstain from declaring a gender.

Although it must be said, the ratings for Private Benjamin don't get above 7 for any age or gender. It peaks at 6.9 for females under 18. All 11 of them who voted.




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Dunno. But at the end of the day it's justb an 80s comedy and perhaps a little dated. Though having said that it's still better than a lot of stuff that passes for comedy these days.

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