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Aside from Crash, which Best Picture winners have suffered the most backlash?


According to critics, The Broadway Melody and The Greatest Show on Earth are the two-lowest rated Best Picture winners, but they're somewhat too obscure to be regarded as infamous. Braveheart, The English Patient, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Chicago, The Hurt Locker, and Argo are still renowned despite typical post-Oscars blowback. (Braveheart has become a controversial case study for historical inaccuracies.) Other winners like The Artist have become more overlooked than hated, if not forgotten.

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The English Patient sucks badly, should've never won, should not have even been nominated, and today ought to be reviled.

There are few movies that are so tedious and boring. I decided to revisit it a few years ago thinking that maybe I was too young to appreciate it the first time, but nope, it really does just suck. Awful film.

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I think Driving Miss Dairy and Green Book received a backlash *even before* they won, for basically 'whitewashing' racism.

American Beauty was well-regarded for a long-time, but the Kevin Spacey controversy makes that a harder film to stomach these days (seeing as his character basically preys on a teenager).

Out of Africa (which I never thought much of) seems to have disappeared from the public consciousness for the most part.

Of the ones you've lister, I never cared for A Beautiful Mind, and I thought Chicago was overrated. I thought Braveheart was stupid, until I saw Gladiator, which put Braveheart into a better perspective for me (say what you will about the historical inaccuracies and heavy-handed approach, but I think Braveheart is a better-made film than the very similar Gladiator, the latter of which features some very bad CGI, a weak villain, and a script that was clearly made up on the fly).

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