The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences often gets it wrong. It’s bound to happen in the 86 years since the first Oscars ceremony.

However, there has never been an outright awful Best Picture winner, and I say that as someone who has watched all 86 of them. Each have their own merits, their reasons for being honored that particular year and few of them are absolute torture to sit through. Yes, some of the winners from the ‘30s may be hard to take these days, but even they offer the best of what Hollywood could make at the time.

Still, some are worse than others. It wasn’t until 1935’s It Happened One Night that the Oscars finally honored an absolute “great” movie with the Best Picture Oscar. The ‘50s are littered with terrible choices. There are some head-scratchers in the ‘80s and ‘90s. And of course, there’s the big elephant in the room that still hurts called Crash.

With all that behind us, let’s look at the worst films to be named Best Picture. After this, if you aren’t convinced that awards really don’t matter, there’s no hope.

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