Forrest Gump. GAH. One of my least favorite movies of recent memory.
However, the worst movie to win best picture in the last 25 years has to be Kramer vs. Kramer.
Crapola.
Two kinds of threads I will never understand: Academy Awards threads and Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame threads. As if the opinion of either one of these overrated institutions has any meaning whatsoever. These are parties where people who make a lot of money congratulate each other for making more money.
I think that Oscar was an apology by the academy for passing Whoopi over for the Color Purple.
Wow, I thought Marisa Tomei’s “My Counsin Vinny” Oscar would win this hands down. That movie was crap, and her performance was a one-note stereotype the whole way through.
Ok I am new but I have to say that Helen Hayes was great in Airport… That film is a classic. Sorry I just love watching the good old days when your pilot had three martinis before boarding and you could smoke anywhere even on take off…lol
Angelina in “Girl Interrupted” was not acting…. That girl is like that every day of the week. It was kind of like watching Courtney Love in “The People Vs. Larry Flint” (who was nominated by the way).
Then there was Madonna (could not act her way out of a wet paper bag) in “Desperately Seeking Susan”. Of course you would have thought that Madonna could have put in an Oscar winning performance in “Swept Away” seeing that she was also playing herself in that one, “a spoilt bitch from hell who is under some delusion that she is queen of England with no risk of the guillotine” ……lmao
jk-- I immediately thought of Marisa Tomei and My Cousin Vinny as well.
Awful movies are really personal opinion (go find that thread that turned into a Shakespeare in Love vs. Saving Private Ryan brawl) though… but then thats what makes a thread like this interesting. One mans crap is anothers Oscar.
As for Tom Hanks in FG— Oscar loves the mentally disabled and prostitutes.
And drunks. Those go over well, too.
I second the Tom Hanks Forrest Gump Oscar. That movie beat out both Pulp Fiction AND The Shawshank Redemption because…uh…it was…uh…cute. Or something.
Another awful one is Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love. Not only is the movie sub par, but she’s in it for about five minutes total. Wonderful.
–greenphan
The Academy got back at her by not giving her an Oscar for “In the Bedroom” and opting for Jennifer Connelly instead.
Not that Connelly was bad, but calling her role “supporting” was laughable. She’s the leading lady in the film!
And she looks almost, but not quite, entirely like a Salvadoran woman.
The theory I like as to how Marisa Tomei won an Oscar is that it was by default. As I recall, all the other nominees were “prestige” actresses in “prestige” films. They split that vote 4 ways, and Tomei ended up winning.
Don’t neglect the “vote American” factor since Tomei was the lone Yank nominated in the category, while the others were British or Australian.
Also, although this is probably an urban legend so you can take it with a minute grain of salt, there’s supposedly a contingent of Academy voters who, in the category of Best Supporting Actress, make their pick according to who they think is the hottest babe. In 1992, according to this rumor, most of those voters chose Tomei (although, if I’d been making the choice on that basis, I would’ve gone with Miranda Richardson).
Madonna’s never been nominated for an Oscar, for anything. Not even Best Song.
Well, that explains those Oscars for Dianne Wiest, Whoopi Goldberg, and Judi Dench. 
Just kidding. Actually, you may be on to something: Mira Sorvino, Angelina Jolie, Kim Basinger, and Juliette Binoche were winners, and each was the best looking of the nominees.
In the Bedroom trivia: The slimeball husband is played by William Mapother, Kentucky boy and cousin of Tommy (Cruise) Mapother.
I have to agree about Forrest Gump. I was delighted by this movie the first time I saw it. I thought it was a lot of fun and loved the gimmick of Forrest popping up in history (remember these special effects were new back then). When I came out on video I was eager to see it again. What a letdown!
I don’t think My Cousin Vinny is unwatchable, but Oscar-worthy it is not! I consider it an Adam Sandler-equse film that I can watch. (Like Ebert, I don’t think I’ll ever get Adam Sandler.)