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The Academy Award for Best Picture is the most prestigious film award in Hollywood, yet some years the awards seemed like a hoax. These movies did not deserve to win the Oscar for Best Picture but were really just average movies compared to the other films they were going against in the category. It's a shame that these films got tremendous recognition when other, more well-deserved movies did not get their praise. This list of Best Picture films comprise of works that deserve to be applauded but definitely do not deserve the Golden Man.

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Rank   Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1
    1952
    Cecil B. DeMille
    Drama, Family, Romance Film
    Dorothy Lamour, Betty Hutton, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Cornel Wilde, Lawrence Tierney, Edmond O'Brien, Lyle Bettger, Henry Wilcoxon, Gloria Grahame More
  2. 2
    2004
    Frank Coraci
    Drama, Comedy, Family, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Romance Film, Children's, Film adaptation, Western, Steampunk More
    Cécile de France, Mark Addy, Richard Branson, Ewen Bremner, Karen Mok, Daniel Wu, Steve Coogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sammo Hung, Robert Fyfe, Luke Wilson, Maggie Q, Adam Godley, Kathy Bates, Ian McNeice, Marsha Yuen, Rob Schneider, Roger Hammond, Jackie Chan, Jim Broadbent, David Ryall, John Cleese, Owen Wilson More
  3. 3
    1968
    Carol Reed
    Drama, Family, Crime, Musical
    Hylda Baker, Mark Lester, Leonard Rossiter, Megs Jenkins, Shani Wallis, Peggy Mount, Harry Secombe, Jack Wild, Wensley Pithey, James Hayter, Kenneth Cranham, Sheila White, Oliver Reed, Ron Moody, Hugh Griffith, Joseph O'Conor More
  4. 4
    1980
    Robert Redford
    Drama, Film adaptation, Family Drama, Coming of age, Existentialism
    Mariclare Costello, Fredric Lehne, Quinn K. Redeker, Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, M. Emmet Walsh, Elizabeth McGovern, Dinah Manoff, James Sikking, Basil Hoffman, Meg Mundy, Scott Doebler, Adam Baldwin, Elizabeth Hubbard More
  5. 5
    Hugh Hudson
    Drama, History, Sports
    Ian Holm, Nigel Davenport, Peter Cellier, Ben Cross, Stephen Fry, Cheryl Campbell, Alice Krige, Peter Egan, Nigel Havers, Kenneth Branagh, Patrick Magee, Dennis Christopher, Ian Charleson, Richard Griffiths, Nicholas Farrell, Daniel Gerroll, John Gielgud, Brad Davis, Lindsay Anderson More
  6. 6
    1990
    Kevin Costner
    Drama, Costume drama, Period piece, Adventure, Action/Adventure, War, Epic, Film adaptation, Western, Revisionist Western More
    Graham Greene, Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Tantoo Cardinal, Robert Pastorelli, Charles Rocket, Maury Chaykin, Wes Studi, Tom Everett, Michael Spears, Jimmy Herman More
  7. 7
    1994
    Robert Zemeckis
    Drama, Comedy, Period piece, Romance Film, War, Romantic drama, Film adaptation, Comedy-drama, Coming of age More
    Sam Anderson, Gary Sinise, Michael Conner Humphreys, Tyler Long, Haley Joel Osment, Tom Hanks, Christine Seabrook, Margo Moorer, Peter Dobson, Kurt Russell, Sonny Shroyer, Hanna R. Hall, Sally Field, Robin Wright, Harold Herthum, Bob Penny, Rebecca Williams, Geoffrey Blake, Ione M. Telech, George Kelly, Mykelti Williamson, Siobhan Fallon, John Randall, John Worsham More
  8. 8
    1996
    Anthony Minghella
    Drama, Period piece, Romance Film, War, Romantic drama, Film adaptation More
    Torri Higginson, Peter Rühring, Hichem Rostom, Julian Wadham, Geordie Johnson, Colin Firth, Nino Castelnuovo, Juliette Binoche, Jürgen Prochnow, Willem Dafoe, Kevin Whately, Naveen Andrews, Clive Merrison, Kristin Scott Thomas, Liisa Repo-Martell, Ralph Fiennes More
  9. 9
    1999
    Sam Mendes
    Drama, Comedy, LGBT, Romance Film, Black comedy, Romantic drama, Satire, Existentialism More
    Chris Cooper, Peter Gallagher, Matthew Kimbrough, Wes Bentley, Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, John Cho, Mena Suvari, Sam Robards, Allison Janney, Thora Birch, Barry Del Sherman, Amber Smith, Scott Bakula, Sue Casey, Ara Celi More
  10. 10
    2004
    Paul Haggis
    Drama, Crime Fiction, Indie
    Tony Danza, Art Chudabala, Thandie Newton, Dato Bakhtadze, Billy Gallo, William Fichtner, Loretta Devine, Karina Arroyave, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser, Jennifer Esposito, Larenz Tate, Marina Sirtis, Don Cheadle, Terrence Howard, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Dae Kim, Keith David, Ime N. Etuk, Eddie J. Fernandez More

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  1. analise.dubner
    EW's Most Overrated Oscar Winning Films at 4/05/2011 4:20 PM
    Whither Braveheart, EW? Braveheart beat Babe for Godssakes. Babe is one of those movies that is practically perfect. Braveheart was overwrought, manip**ative and hysterical. Babe is a movie you will never get tired of watching.
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