These are the worst films that won an Oscar - Part 2

According to Geoffrey, the selection is made by important members of the film industry, but their selections might be perplexing at times. It's rare for a Best Picture winner to come as a complete surprise, but numerous films have won the award when they shouldn't have, according to Geoffrey.

These are, in his opinion, the worst Oscar-winning films.

A Beautiful Mind

"It's not bad. It's a love story that touches on mental illness and math (neither of which are usually topics Hollywood embraces). Russell Crowe does a great job playing John Nash, a Nobel laureate with a beautiful but unstable mind. Even so, Ron Howard's biopic it's no classic. It won the Oscar for best picture in an unusually weak year," explains Geoffrey.

Marty

This film won the Oscar in 1955. "This story, written by the great Paddy Chayefsky, about an emotionally repressed Italian-American butcher from the Bronx looking for love, had already been made into a TV drama a year before. In the small screen version, Rod Steiger gave a superb performance in the title role.

Ernest Borgnine in the film version can't help but seem second best to anyone who has seen Steiger in the same role. While the God-fearing Borgnine made Marty a figure of pity, Steiger turned him into a full tragic hero," the Independent journalist believes.

Out of Africa

"You'll remember the pink flamingos and all those scenes of beautiful Kenyan landscapes that looked like they were written out of a David Attenborough nature documentary. You'll never forget Meryl Streep's eccentric accent as the Danish baroness and writer Karen Blixen ("I had a farm in Africa at the foot of a hill Ngong"). This, however, is mushy stuff and hardly deserves its Oscar," Geoffrey writes.

Braveheart

Braveheart, according to the reporter, is famous for scenes of William Wallace's soldiers raising their kilts and revealing their behinds.

"Regardless of how historically accurate it was, it influenced ongoing debates about devolution and Scottish independence. The film also did its bit for Scotland's tourism business. Mel Gibson knows how to pull off a battle scene. Whether that qualifies his film for the Oscar for Best Picture," writes Geoffrey.

The Greatest Show on Earth

"From the perspective of 67 years later, the decision to award the Oscar for Best Picture to Cecil B DeMille's 1952 circus epic is truly puzzling," writes a journalist for this film."It has a decent cast and some reasonable gimmicks, but the Academy voters must have been kidding themselves when they picked it over other nominees of the same year like High Noon and The Quiet Man."

Post by Bryan C.