With days to go before the 96th Academy Awards, this year’s Best Picture race seems too close to call. Oppenheimer is the odds-on favorite, according to GoldDerby, but The Holdovers and Poor Things aren’t far behind.
Whatever the result is on March 10, critics and moviegoers will certainly say another film deserved the Best Picture Oscar more. And in the spirit of naysaying, we’re voting for the following films as the worst winners of the Best Picture prize.
Before you get too riled up, know that many of these selections were good films, just not the best films of the year. Here are the Best Picture winners we’d put back in the envelope…