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crappy "Best Picture" winners that no one Cares about anymore

The Artist
Snowy really tough guy
  07/26/26
Crash
light tattoo
  07/26/26
...
Snowy really tough guy
  07/26/26
lol
Bipolar Dragon
  07/26/26
...
green bateful feces
  07/26/26
was that the gay anti-racism movie
Titillating chest-beating legend sanctuary
  07/26/26
ran here. Also wtf happened to Ludacris in general?
anal garnet pistol garrison
  07/26/26
...
Harsh Maize Sandwich
  07/26/26
the gay black movie that won a few years ago
turquoise judgmental casino
  07/26/26
ran here. don't even remember the name either.
animeboi
  07/26/26
Need to be more specific
anal garnet pistol garrison
  07/26/26
Gonna have to narrow it down hoss
Honey-headed Self-absorbed Spot
  07/27/26
the vast majority of winners in the 21st century. even solid...
canary people who are hurt
  07/26/26
...
Snowy really tough guy
  07/26/26
argo was stupid
Titillating chest-beating legend sanctuary
  07/26/26
it was very hollywood and cheesy, but any historical, non-sh...
canary people who are hurt
  07/26/26
its aged about as badly as shitlibism
Titillating chest-beating legend sanctuary
  07/26/26
Tbh 12 Years a Slave deserved the award just for the Paul Da...
Lilac Lodge
  07/26/26
Hurt Locker sucked at the time
Chestnut hell
  07/26/26
Cavalcade CODA Going My Way The Life of Emile Zola ...
Cerise insane mediation rigpig
  07/26/26
An American in Paris was huge and still holds up. You litera...
turquoise judgmental casino
  07/26/26
Fwiw it paved the way for the superior An American Werewolf ...
Cerise insane mediation rigpig
  07/26/26
...
Snowy really tough guy
  07/26/26
80's james l. brooks movies like terms of endearment and bro...
aphrodisiac deep yarmulke
  07/26/26
...
Snowy really tough guy
  07/26/26
the big chill was apex boomerism imo
Titillating chest-beating legend sanctuary
  07/26/26
Good list but kings speech was good and should come off. Als...
dun death wish state
  07/26/26
Apart from The Sting I can't really disagree with any of the...
Chestnut hell
  07/26/26
The Last Emperor, The Sting, Driving Miss Daisy, and a few o...
Useless Clear Dilemma Multi-billionaire
  07/27/26
literally all of them in the past 20 years
controlling a virtual character on a computer
  07/26/26
lmao titcr. and like half of them from before that. only one...
Titillating chest-beating legend sanctuary
  07/26/26
One of the reasons movies are dying is because the Oscars we...
Awkward insanely creepy old irish cottage
  07/26/26
it's gonna get worse from here on out because they changed t...
controlling a virtual character on a computer
  07/26/26
tbf, forrest gump was sps boomer flame and cringe
canary people who are hurt
  07/26/26
Forrest Gump was entertaining, fun, and encouraged people to...
light tattoo
  07/26/26
pulp and shawshank were the same year - both better films
canary people who are hurt
  07/26/26
This is exactly the attitude i'm talking about. Pulp Fic...
Awkward insanely creepy old irish cottage
  07/26/26
i didn't know that. Shawshank should have won.
anal garnet pistol garrison
  07/27/26
^^^Wow hating on Forrest Gump. Have you heard of this site c...
Awkward insanely creepy old irish cottage
  07/26/26
ok boomer.
animeboi
  07/26/26
never poasted there and i hated at the time -- 20 yrs before...
canary people who are hurt
  07/26/26
Forest Gump was a marvel. Sure, it was filled with trash, bu...
Fucking Fuckface
  07/27/26
there are no real "arthouse" movies except ones yo...
Beady-eyed Red School
  07/26/26
It's all an arthouse mentality now. Good Will Hunting ha...
Awkward insanely creepy old irish cottage
  07/26/26
(edgy cool guy)
anal garnet pistol garrison
  07/27/26
people say this shit but have you ever seen All About Eve (1...
confused fantasy-prone dysfunction
  07/27/26
The King's Diapers (2008)
vengeful stage foreskin
  07/26/26


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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:33 PM
Author: Snowy really tough guy

The Artist

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025387)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:35 PM
Author: light tattoo

Crash

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025394)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:37 PM
Author: Snowy really tough guy



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025398)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:47 PM
Author: Bipolar Dragon

lol

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025417)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:18 PM
Author: green bateful feces



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025464)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:20 PM
Author: Titillating chest-beating legend sanctuary

was that the gay anti-racism movie

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025467)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:23 PM
Author: anal garnet pistol garrison

ran here. Also wtf happened to Ludacris in general?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025804)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:31 PM
Author: Harsh Maize Sandwich



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025830)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:37 PM
Author: turquoise judgmental casino

the gay black movie that won a few years ago

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025397)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 5:49 PM
Author: animeboi (.)

ran here. don't even remember the name either.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025560)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:23 PM
Author: anal garnet pistol garrison

Need to be more specific

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025806)



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Date: July 27th, 2026 7:29 AM
Author: Honey-headed Self-absorbed Spot

Gonna have to narrow it down hoss

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50026428)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:45 PM
Author: canary people who are hurt

the vast majority of winners in the 21st century. even solid films like hurt locker and argo. are they really that memorable and withstand the test of time?

i'm not even talking about shit like crash and 12 yrs a slave. the good winners arent even that great.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025412)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:45 PM
Author: Snowy really tough guy



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025413)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:17 PM
Author: Titillating chest-beating legend sanctuary

argo was stupid

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025462)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:19 PM
Author: canary people who are hurt

it was very hollywood and cheesy, but any historical, non-shitlib movie deserves praise

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025466)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 5:47 PM
Author: Titillating chest-beating legend sanctuary

its aged about as badly as shitlibism

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025557)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:54 PM
Author: Lilac Lodge

Tbh 12 Years a Slave deserved the award just for the Paul Dano scene which is indelible in my hippocampus

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025517)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:21 PM
Author: Chestnut hell

Hurt Locker sucked at the time

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025796)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:48 PM
Author: Cerise insane mediation rigpig

Cavalcade

CODA

Going My Way

The Life of Emile Zola

Green Book

The Broadway Melody

Around the World in 80 Days

The Greatest Show on Earth

Cimarron

Crash

The Great Ziegfeld

Gentleman’s Agreement

Gigi

Driving Miss Daisy

Out of Africa

The English Patient

Chicago

Argo

Chariots of Fire

Tom Jones

Oliver!

Mrs. Miniver

Shakespeare in Love

Nomadland

The King’s Speech

Million Dollar Baby

Terms of Endearment

The Sting

Ordinary People

The Last Emperor

Spotlight

Birdman

Slumdog Millionaire

The Shape of Water

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Hamlet

Marty

An American in Paris

How Green Was My Valley

Grand Hotel

The Lost Weekend

Moonlight



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025418)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:53 PM
Author: turquoise judgmental casino

An American in Paris was huge and still holds up. You literally couldn’t make a film like that today cause no straight man can dance like Gene Kelly. Nor can Hollywood build physical sets like that anymore. There’s an 18 minute stretch at the end with no dialogue, just dancing and whatnot. A Triumph.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025425)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:16 PM
Author: Cerise insane mediation rigpig

Fwiw it paved the way for the superior An American Werewolf in London and an American Werewolf in Paris imo. But it was never Best Picture Caliber imho

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025460)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:01 PM
Author: Snowy really tough guy



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025440)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 5:57 PM
Author: aphrodisiac deep yarmulke

80's james l. brooks movies like terms of endearment and broadcast news are incredible documents of boomerism. the way the characters behave is a bewildering peep at the boomer entitlement of the era. they are up there with The Big Chill as totemic relics of the yuppie age.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025569)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:24 PM
Author: Snowy really tough guy



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025666)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:25 PM
Author: Titillating chest-beating legend sanctuary

the big chill was apex boomerism imo

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025667)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:18 PM
Author: dun death wish state

Good list but kings speech was good and should come off. Also birdman even if there were better movies that year.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025787)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:23 PM
Author: Chestnut hell

Apart from The Sting I can't really disagree with any of these

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025803)



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Date: July 27th, 2026 8:10 AM
Author: Useless Clear Dilemma Multi-billionaire

The Last Emperor, The Sting, Driving Miss Daisy, and a few others still hold up. They may not be timeless classics but they are still very watchable.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50026470)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:48 PM
Author: controlling a virtual character on a computer

literally all of them in the past 20 years

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025419)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:17 PM
Author: Titillating chest-beating legend sanctuary

lmao titcr. and like half of them from before that. only ones i can think of that count are braveheart, gladiator, titanic, the godfather.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025461)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:18 PM
Author: Awkward insanely creepy old irish cottage

One of the reasons movies are dying is because the Oscars went from rewarding the best movies to awarding arthouse movies.

If you tell America, "you have to go see Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Titanic, Gladiator" - they're going to go and have a good time at the movies.

If you tell them, "you have to go see The Artist, The Shape of Water, Moonlight, 12 Years A Slave", they're going to realize movies are not for them.



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025658)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:19 PM
Author: controlling a virtual character on a computer

it's gonna get worse from here on out because they changed the rules for oscars so that you *have* to have non-whites, women, and shitlib themes in your movies to be eligible for awards

not flame

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025662)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:50 PM
Author: canary people who are hurt

tbf, forrest gump was sps boomer flame and cringe

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025723)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:51 PM
Author: light tattoo

Forrest Gump was entertaining, fun, and encouraged people to overcome obstacles. Compare that to the garbage studios are putting out now.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025727)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:53 PM
Author: canary people who are hurt

pulp and shawshank were the same year - both better films

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025736)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:33 PM
Author: Awkward insanely creepy old irish cottage

This is exactly the attitude i'm talking about.

Pulp Fiction is a better film, and in some sense its a better movie because its not as much arthouse bullshit as a lot of the 2000 winners.

Pulp Fiction is a lot of fun so it would've been an okay winner, but Forrest Gump was an entertaining movie that was able to transport large swaths of audiences to another place (whereas 80% of movie goers would be confused or disugsted by Pulp Fiction)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025833)



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Date: July 27th, 2026 7:29 AM
Author: anal garnet pistol garrison

i didn't know that. Shawshank should have won.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50026427)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:34 PM
Author: Awkward insanely creepy old irish cottage

^^^Wow hating on Forrest Gump. Have you heard of this site called Reddit? You might like it there.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025834)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:40 PM
Author: animeboi (.)

ok boomer.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025847)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:42 PM
Author: canary people who are hurt

never poasted there and i hated at the time -- 20 yrs before reddittt came out

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025851)



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Date: July 27th, 2026 7:58 AM
Author: Fucking Fuckface

Forest Gump was a marvel. Sure, it was filled with trash, but doctoring real footage and tying a weird retard to so many events felt truly novel and entertaining. In a way, it was an exercise of national masturbation

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50026456)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:32 PM
Author: Beady-eyed Red School

there are no real "arthouse" movies except ones you haven't heard about. what you're referring to is just the deterioration of mainstream adult drama, which has become so impoverished and irrelevant that it's mistaken for arthouse because mainstream drama can't possibly be so impoverished and irrelevant.

there are still blockbuster movies but they are either juvenile marvel movies designed to satisfy the increasingly juvenile populous, or a sequel, or done in an unserious way like the odyssey. "good will hunting" is "arthouse" in the same way you describe modern drama, the issue with modern drama is that you couldn't make good will hunting today without it being about a race or gender issue or about psychological disorders and past traumas instead of it just being a frank and honest depiction of life. so everything that would ever possibly be considered for an oscar is unmemorable shit.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025832)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:43 PM
Author: Awkward insanely creepy old irish cottage

It's all an arthouse mentality now.

Good Will Hunting had a bigger budget then most movies "adult" movies do now.

More importantly, Good Will Hunting was a traditional story, with a 3-act structure and character development, conflicts, and resolution meant to appeal to adults.

Now every movie is transgressive, with non-traditional narratives, and open ended plots. Anora is a great example of this. Anora in many ways to me, is the most narratively traditional Oscar winner in recent years - yet the Cinderella story meanders for most of it and then ends with her crying while having sex with a hitman.

We used to live in a world where we'd get 5 movies a week like Anora in the theater, and the plot would be more cohesive, and it would end in a cinematiclaly satisfying way that your grandma would enjoy (rather than her crying having sex in a car recoutning her trauma).

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025852)



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Date: July 27th, 2026 7:30 AM
Author: anal garnet pistol garrison

(edgy cool guy)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50026429)



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Date: July 27th, 2026 9:52 AM
Author: confused fantasy-prone dysfunction

people say this shit but have you ever seen All About Eve (1950) or The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Best Picture winners have always been 50/50 as to whether they have any staying power. hell you can look back at best selling books from 1880 and you've never heard of most of them. nothing new under the sun

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50026578)



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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:35 PM
Author: vengeful stage foreskin

The King's Diapers (2008)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2#50025838)