Top 10 WORST Acting Oscar Wins of ALL TIME

To me it will always be Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love. She honestly has never impressed me with any of her acting. She bores me in everything she does and the Oscar should have gone to Cate for Elizabeth

Ralph Fiennes losing to Tommy Lee Jones is the one that bothers me the most. Ralph Fiennes was absolutely terrifying in Schindlers List and Tommy Lee Jones was playing… a grizzled cop who was essentially… Tommy Lee Jones. It was weird.

Gwenath Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love really pissed me off.

Ted Levine not being even nominated for “Silence of the Lambs” as criminal. He was terrifying and creepy… but Jody and Anthony got nominated and I think won? Director Jonathan Demmy recognized Levine in his best director win Oscar speech.

I’m still surprised that Glenn Close has not won an Oscar. She’s been nominated, but never won.

I expected Gwyneth Paltrow on Place 1. Her winning over Cate Blanchett and Fernanda Montenegro is still mindblowing.

I always think Kim Basinger didn’t deserve the Oscar for L.A. Confidential. The film is good, but her performance to me is merely so so.

I stopped caring about who won the Oscars a long time ago.

Too often Oscar goes to someone for career achievements, not a specific role.

For me it is Edward Norton Jr. not winning the supporting actor award for Primal Fear. He lost to Cuba Gooding Jr. for Jerry McGuire. I do not understand that at all.

For Asian-American actress Anna Mae Wong, mainly typecast as the villain at the time, her absolute worst Hollywood experience was losing the part of O-Lan in "The Good Earth" (1935) to Luise Rainer. Her filmed audition reportedly brought casting agents to tears, but in 1935 Hollywood, casting an Asian Actress in the lead opposite white leading Man Paul Muni, simply wasn't going to happen; they offered her the part of Lotus instead, which she made clear she would audition for but would not play, it being another stereotypical Asian role. This was when Anna pretty much gave up on Hollywood & herself, becoming a broken Alcoholic, just working to pay the bills, until her death in 1961 from a heart attack. This is what makes Luise Rainer's Oscar win for this role truly galling, as well as tragic.

John Cazale: Starred in a total of five films, every one of them a hard-hitting drama nominated for best picture. Never nominated for an acting award. Gwyneth Paltrow: "lifestyle entrepreneur" who starred in a dull comedy fluff about Shakespeare. Won an Oscar the very first time she was nominated for one.

A week before my grandma went on hospice and died and took her to go see Precious. I wanted to see it and thought she would fall asleep. She cried her throughout the film and when Monique was violent, grandma signaled to me Gabrielle was her. After the movie grandma told me the movie was her story. My grandma was a tiny little white lady, but Monique and Gabrielle's performance was transcending. That last week of grandma's life I thanked her for not continuing the cycle of abuse and being a wonderful mom to my mom who was wonderful to me. She also told us what we all suspected that her father raped her, but she insisted she did nothing wrong and was a good child. We told her she did nothing wrong. Then she died. I really think she was holding onto some sort of closure and Precious gave it to her. She spent her whole life feeling worthless because she didn't have a career and money, but really she was so strong for leaving her toxic family. Anyways, I totally forget Sandra's character leaving thr cinema.

The no. 1 worst Oscar win of all time is Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love. Her flat performance aside, that her character was disguising as a male and she supposedly had everyone fooled was laughable. But the real Shakespearean tragedy is how she defeated Cate Blanchett.

Aside from Gwyneth Paltrow's win in Shakespeare in Love I thought Reese Witherspoon 's win in I Walk the Line was weak. It didn't do anything for me.

So funny of you to think the Oscars are about acting.

It's also surprising how Ralph Fiennes in Schlinder's List managed to lose the Best Supporting Actor Oscar to Tommy Lee Jones in Fugitive.

Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For A Dream lost to Julia Roberts Ellen’s performance was brutally incredible, transformative. It was a difficult movie to watch as all the main characters suffered from addiction. But it was the best performance of the year!
This was one was one the worst snubs!!

Edward Norton should have won for Primal Fear.

Has anyone done a "vindicated by time" list? As in, people thought they shouldn't win, but on revisiting, their performance is better. I'm thinking of Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny. She was great but everyone thought it was a mistake!