worst Best Picture-winning film ever (Oscars)
Explain.
People will probably have trouble with my including Kwai.
I wanted My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music in there but I knew I couldn't make it all musicals. I also saw Tearms of Endearment had 90% on RT so I backed off that.
2535, please repost your response. I had trouble with the poll and had to start over.
Forest Gump - Simply because of the competition
As others have said - Forest Gump. Quiz Show was also that year, along with Shawshank and Pulp Fiction. Forest Gump was pure schmaltz in my mind when I first saw it, and it doesn't hold up well for me either. I understand why people like it, and that's cool, but it wasn't Oscar-worthy.
Someone once said -- if you want an Oscar, play someone sick (physically or mentally) or slow, or ugly yourself up. Go back and look at best actor/actress awards and best pictures and it's pretty amazing how many winners fall into one of those categories.
Who's sick, slow, or ugly?
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A-Tex Devil
As others have said - Forest Gump. Quiz Show was also that year, along with Shawshank and Pulp Fiction. Forest Gump was pure schmaltz in my mind when I first saw it, and it doesn't hold up well for me either. I understand why people like it, and that's cool, but it wasn't Oscar-worthy.
Someone once said -- if you want an Oscar, play someone sick (physically or mentally) or slow, or ugly yourself up. Go back and look at best actor/actress awards and best pictures and it's pretty amazing how many winners fall into one of those categories.
Difference of opinion: Take a look at both actors/actresses in the 2000's:
Best Actor in the 2000's
2000 Russell Crowe - Gladiator as Maximus
2001 Denzel Washington - Training Day as Alonzo Harris
2002 Adrien Brody - The Pianist as Wladyslaw Szpilman
2003 Sean Penn - Mystic River as Jimmy Markum
2004 Jamie Foxx - Ray as Ray Charles
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote as Truman Capote
2006 Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview
Best Actress in the 2000's
2000 Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich as Erin Brockovich
2001 Halle Berry - Monster's Ball as Leticia Musgrove
2002 Nicole Kidman - The Hours as Virginia Woolf
*2003 Charlize Theron - Monster as Aileen
*2004 Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby as Maggie Fitzgerald
2005 Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line as June Carter
2006 Helen Mirren - The Queen as The Queen
2007 Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose as Edith Piaf
I'll give you 2003 & 2004. I might give you Nicole Kidman for wearing a prosthetic nose.;) And hey, if having a death scene and a troubled life counts, well, I'd include Cotillard. Otherwise, I'm having trouble coming up with an amazing number of Oscar-winning actresses from 1980 - 1999 that fit the hypothesis, at least for the course of a movie.
Of course, I'll defer to Shammrog about his former avatar's TWO Oscars for best actress.;) Swank's performance in MDB was great.
On the actor side, I agree with your hypothesis during the 1984-1996 stretch (F. Murray Abraham, Cage, Hanks, Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Hopkins, Pacino, Geoffrey Rush).
Other than that, I don't think the hypothesis is as amazing as you stated, especially in the 2000's.
Cheers,
Lavabe