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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.

[h2]9. Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side[/h2]

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Look, no offense to Sandra Bullock.  She seems like a funny, classy lady and I have nothing but respect for her.  Big fan of Miss Congeniality.  But who sold their soul to the devil to convince the Academy that this performance was in any way Oscar-worthy?

To me it reads like a better-than-average TV movie that got some serious funding and attracted a few big name stars. That’s it. In a parallel universe, this film would have gone by without so much as a whisper. But somehow in this one, the Academy decided that “Southern Mama Bear” was good enough for Oscar gold.

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