Top 10 Most Unworthy Oscar Winners

Obviously, the Academy Awards are incredibly selective (not to mention subjective) and the movie or actor you thought was the absolute best will more than likely not walk away with the big prize. But sometimes there's such an egregious error in judgment, such a crime against the art of filmmaking that you can't help to raise your arms to the heavens and cry to those cinema snobs up in their ivory towers, "What were you thinking?!" Here are the Oscar winners we deem most unworthy.

Audrey Fox Feb 25, 2013 10:20 pm2014-05-11T22:35:37-05:00

[h2]10. The Hurt Locker[/h2]

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I’m not saying The Hurt Locker is a bad movie. But when you look at the films it was up against, it’s a little hard to reconcile the fact that this above average combat film took away the gold. To refresh your memory, it was competing against Avatar, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, and Up, all of which are unquestionably ground breaking films in their genres. Whereas The Hurt Locker was a solid, topical film that no one will remember in ten years, but was in the right place at the right time.

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