Top 10 Most Undeserving Oscar Winners

Sorry, but I am just disgusted and ashamed at how corrupted and messed up Hollywood is nowadays. Though Jennifer Lawrence can act, I just don't think she deserved such a prestigious award. The Oscar is the top of the top for great actors.

Please, just think for a moment. Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Julie Andrews - all those amazing actresses - then compare them with Jennifer Lawrence. I just want Hollywood to stop making crappy films and stop making celebrities famous just for their looks! If anything, I thought Jessica Chastain should've gotten the award for her performance in Zero Dark Thirty.

I have too many reasons to say that this Oscar was not deserved. I love Gwyneth, but this is very unfair. First of all, I don't know if it's true, but it was rumored that she stole her role from her friend Winona Ryder. Her performance was no more than any mediocre movie performance (I'm not saying that in a bad way).

Second, I have not seen Fernanda Montenegro's performance, but I have read a lot about her, and I could say that it was better than Gwyneth's. And Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth? I can't even begin to talk about how well she did in that movie. Honestly, in my opinion, Cate was the best Elizabeth I that there has been in the movies so far.

I think Cate and Fernanda were robbed (especially Cate, in my opinion), and they deserved it much more than Gwyneth. In addition, the connections with Harvey Weinstein are repugnant to even name.

If anybody should have won an Oscar for that movie, it's Joaquin Phoenix. Just look at the real footage of Johnny Cash and June Carter on YouTube, and you will understand why Reese Witherspoon didn't deserve to win. Although she's a very good actress, she's just not convincing in that role.

Reese Witherspoon is definitely a worthy Oscar-winning actress, but in this movie, she was not that exceptional.

I think it would have been better if they had cast another actress because she doesn't really fit the role.

I very much enjoyed Training Day and Denzel's performance in it. Many have said that he only won because Crowe was notoriously obnoxious, confrontational, and self-aggrandizing during the campaigning, and thus didn't deserve the award. Others have said that Denzel's win was politically motivated, as that year's historic ceremony also gave Oscars to Halle Berry and Sidney Poitier and was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg.

To be honest, I don't think that either Training Day or A Beautiful Mind were profoundly excellent cinema, nor were their performances among the best of all time. But if I had to pick between them, I'd probably lean a bit towards Denzel. I just thought that he left more of an impression.

She comes in for a few minutes, sings terribly, and wins. Jennifer Lawrence gave one hell of a performance.

This movie is about 167 minutes, and Hathaway's screen time is most likely about 15-20 minutes, and she didn't do anything special. That's all about makeup, costume, and lighting. She didn't add anything groundbreaking.

She should have won a Razzie for sounding like a cat getting skinned alive. Les Mis sucks, full stop.

I only saw As Good As It Gets once and don't really remember much about it. I thought that everyone in it was good, if not especially Oscar-worthy. In general, though, I don't think that Helen Hunt is a particularly great actress. Kind of cute and funny sometimes, but that's about it.

Her weird expressions and body language (she seems to always be sticking her face forward with confused eyes and her mouth half-open like some kind of lizard) just kind of annoy me.

I can't believe that a mediocre actress like Helen Hunt got away with an Oscar. The movie itself was not that great, and Helen Hunt's performance (like all her performances) was certainly not good or even fair. She's just not an Oscar-worthy actress (and not only for that movie).

Amateur hour in any scene that involved actual acting. Best singer in the film by far, but painfully bad acting. She was pushed so hard by the American Idol controversy that she won a sympathy Oscar.

She got this for one scene, and that's when she is just singing. One of the women from Babel deserved this award.

No shade at JH, but she got the award for her singing performance. Last time I checked, she was a professional singer, and there was no acting involved. I guess MJ should've gotten an Oscar for Space Jam.

John Wayne is not playing Rooster Cogburn. He's playing the only character he actually knows how to play: JOHN Wayne! Compare him to all the other nominees of that year, and he just doesn't match them. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy, Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and the legendary Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr. Chips all prove more interesting, potent, and true to their characters than Wayne ever is.

John Wayne is overrated in general. Because the guy only knew how to play a swaggering, drawling blowhard, I guess everyone was supposed to think that he was something special.

In my humble opinion, she did a lousy job of acting. It was obvious she was trying too hard. Her character did not seem natural or believable.

Widely recognized as THE example of the Academy's habit of occasionally handing out an "overdue" Oscar to an inferior accomplishment to make up for previous snubs of more deserving efforts.

Nothing more to see here.

He should have won for Serpico, The Godfather: Part II, or Dog Day Afternoon instead of this. Hoo-Ah.

This seemed like compensation for snubbing him for the Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather: Part II.

Worst Oscar clip ever! I think the line was, "I don't care." Why do I know this? It's been over 20 years and I can't forget a clip so stupid.

As far as the Oscar that year, well, it's a toss-up between all nominees. Tommy Lee Jones paid his dues, and I can't argue with that.

Jones plays your everyday cop, as thousands of other actors have done on average TV crime dramas. If you want to see truly astonishing performances as cops, watch Frances McDormand in Fargo or Willem Dafoe in The Boondock Saints. The latter wasn't even nominated for an Oscar.

I remember laughing with shock when Sandra Bullock won an Oscar. I could barely reconcile those words: "Sandra Bullock has won an Oscar." And what did she win an Oscar for? An equally (and by equally, I mean obscenely) overrated piece of inoffensive comedy sap in which she plays a sassy mama to some lumbering adopted goon of a football player.

The popularity of this movie was a joke, and she got by on sheer goodwill, not actual acting. The fact that she's all but disappeared from major motion pictures since that point makes me wonder if she decided to quit while she was ahead.

Musicals are highly underrated in academia. I think that Isabelle Huppert for Elle or Natalie Portman for Jackie deserved this award more. But I'm glad she won because actresses in musicals don't usually win.

Not sure if the problem is her acting or the characterization. Her acting was just monotonous throughout the film except for the 3-minute scene "The Fools Who Dream." Maybe it is also the visuals and music that stood out in La La Land and not the acting.

It's clear that the Best Actress race was between Natalie Portman and Isabelle Huppert, and then her underwhelming performance won. Even Amy Adams, who was snubbed, did a better performance than her.

An unpleasant character in a depressing movie filled with even more unpleasant characters. Penn was fine but didn't do much to earn the award other than yell passionately in one big scene. He's been better in other films. He just won for this because it was perceived to be "his time."

Johnny Depp and Ben Kingsley were better in 2003.

I think that Kevin Spacey was really good in that movie, and he is surely an Oscar-worthy actor. The problem is that this movie was not Oscar-worthy in the first place. So, it's almost a shame that he won an Oscar for a stupid movie. They should have let him win an Oscar for one of his better films instead of this one.

This was a very strong category in 1997, and pretty much any of the nominated performances would have been a justified win. Long-term goodwill (no pun intended) probably made Williams the sentimental favorite, but the fact remains that this was one of his best performances.

As a character who had multiple facets of patience, understanding, frustration, joy, and quiet heartbreak, Williams nailed a complex role with subtlety and credibility. A well-deserved win, in my opinion.

He got that award for speaking slowly with a serious face. Greg Kinnear should have won.

How this clown won an Oscar for this over-the-top, cringe-inducing performance is beyond human comprehension. Especially when you consider that Edward Norton gave one of the greatest performances ever in Primal Fear. Then, not to be outdone, his acceptance speech is equally awful. Pathetic.

If anyone from this movie was going to win an Oscar, it should've been Tom. Then again, I don't see why it got a single nomination.

If I were in the audience during his acceptance speech, I would take his Oscar and give it to anyone on the streets.

Michael Caine was the definition of class and humility when he accepted the award, which immediately nullified the irritation I felt upon hearing his name called. That said, I feel that each of the other nominees put in objectively superior performances that year (with the exception of Jude Law, whose film I didn't see).

Extremely undeserving. This was Tom Cruise's Oscar. Michael Caine is a great actor, but this wasn't one of his best works. He was the weakest of the nominees by a large margin, and he shouldn't have even been nominated as Chris Cooper in American Beauty was far better.

Awful English pronunciation? She is a Spanish woman in Spain in this movie. Would you expect a woman from Spain to have a perfect English accent? You don't know what you are talking about!

And as for her talent, look at the movies she did in Spain. Maybe you will understand that she is very talented, or maybe not, but based on what you are writing here, I can say that you're wrong all the way.

I didn't see this one because I've never been impressed by Cruz's alternately cutesy/sassy, feisty little Latina shtick. If she brought more than that to this performance, then well, more power to her, I suppose.

It was a cartoon caricature of transparently disingenuous face pulling. It was entertaining and in the spirit of the film, but is that really good acting?

Charlton Heston was good at playing who he actually is: himself!

She was OK, but Sigourney Weaver (Aliens), Jane Fonda (The Morning After), and Kathleen Turner (Peggy Sue Got Married) were much more impressive!