It’s a lot more entertaining than some of the stuffy historical films the Oscars go for, and the chemistry between Colin Firth and Geoffery Rush is generally delightful. It’s an unfortunate situation in more than one way, because The King’s Speech is a really charming film. The win has aged poorly as The Social Network continues to be relevant to recent events and topped many lists of the best films of the 2010s. Once again, a feel-good period piece won over an edgy critical favorite destined to be a classic. Not only was the win undeserved, but it was emblematic of just how out of touch the Oscars were. The King’s Speech will forever be remembered as the movie that beat The Social Network. What It Beat: The Social Network, 127 Hours, Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter’s Bone Here are seven cases in which a perfectly good, respectable film was saddled with a soured reputation because of its Best Picture win. It’s hard to shake the reputation of being an undeserving winner, and trying to ignore the fact that a film beat out one or more future classics can be difficult. Many Best Picture winners are only remembered and rewatched because of the win itself, and sometimes that can damage their long-term standing. The Oscars don’t hand the award to a masterpiece like The Godfather: Part II or On the Waterfront every year, but that doesn’t mean everything else is a Crash or a Driving Miss Daisy. Awards watchers love a good horse race, and more often than not, Best Picture winners are judged not only on their merit as individual films, but by what films they beat for the distinction.Ĭertainly, there are a fair amount of bad Best Picture winners, but the majority are simply solid, well-crafted works that were popular at the time of release. Nomadland was the rare case in which one film dominated the entire season and won almost every major award leading up to the Oscars, but the race is rarely that cut and dry.
While the decision to present Nomadland its win prior to the awards for Best Actor and Best Actress prompted severe backlash, Chloe Zhao’s film seems to be one of the more beloved Best Picture winners of the past decade. The 93rd Academy Awards were among the most controversial in the history of the Oscars, and oddly Best Picture was among the least controversial topics of conversation.
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