Oscar Movies: Best Picture–Worst Winners and Nominees (A to Z)

Oscar Movies: Best Picture–Worst Winners and Nominees

All About Oscar: History and Politics of the Academy Awards

(New, Revised Edition of My Book, in January 2027)

These are pictures that, in oiur subjective evaluation, are grades as C+ (or

less), and merit no more than ** out of ***** stars.

Winners are in bold

Airport, 1970

America, America, 1963

Anthony Adverse, 1936

Around the World in 80 Days, 1956

Barretts of Wimpole Street, The, 1934

Blossoms in the Dust, 1941

Bound for Glory, 1976

Braveheart, 1995

Broadway Melody, 1928

Captains Courages, 1937

Chocolate, 2000

Cimarron, 1931

CODA, 2021

Country Girl, The, 1954

Crash, 2005

Diary of Anne Frank, The, 1959

Disraeli, 1929

Doctor Doolittle, 1967

Driving Miss Daisy, 1989

Don’t Look Up, 2021

East Lynne, 1931

Fanny, 1961

Goodbye Girl, The, 1977

Good Earth, The, 1937

Great Ziegfeld, The, 1936

Greatest Show on Earth, The, 1956

Green Book, 2018

Hollywood Revue, 1929

House of Rothschild, The, 1934

How the West Was Won, 1963

Johnny Belinda, 1948

Julia, 1977

Kitty Foyle, 1940

Kramer Vs. Kramer, 1979

Les Miserables, 2012

Love Is a Many Splendored Things, 1955

Love Story, 1970

Maestro, 2023

Mission, The, 1986

Mrs. Miniver, 1942

Nicholas and Alexandra, 1971

Nightmare Alley, 2021

Places in the Heart, 1984

Rachel, Rachel, 1968

Rose Tattoo, The, 1955

Sand Pebbles, The, 1966

Separate Tabes, 1958

Ship of Fools, 1965

Sundowners, The, 1960

Terms of Endearment, 1983

Thousand Clowns, 1965

Three Coins in the Fountain, 1954

Towering Inferno, The, 1974

Turning Point, The, 1977

Viva Villa, 1934

War Horse, 2011

Watch on the Rhine, 1943

Wilson, 1944

Worst Winners by Year (13 out of 97)