# Worst film to get an Oscar nomination

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**Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-film-to-get-an-oscar-nomination/744184/22 "2016-01-26T18:08:45Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> **The Deer Hunter** certainly isn’t very good. The Academy wanted to give an award to a film that tackled Vietnam, and couldn’t wait for Coppola.

All this time I thought I was the only one who thought that. The love this snore-fest garners never ceases to amaze me. That awful wedding scene drags on longer than some actual marriages!

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