The Oscars' 10 worst best picture winners ever, ranked (talking about you, 'Crash')

The Oscars aspire to honor Hollywood's best, but it doesn't always work out that way. The 10 worst movies to win best picture at the Academy Awards.

Every year around this time, we debate Oscar best pictures, from what's going to win to rethinking which films should have won to the greatest movies in Academy Awards history.

This isn't about the best, though. This is about the worst.

Granted, bad movies usually don't get a shot at taking the biggest prize on Oscar night, but mediocre projects, occasional head-scratchers and the odd controversial pot-stirrer do make their way into best picture from time to time – and some even win. Thankfully this year's slate at the 98th Academy Awards on March 15 (ABC and Hulu, 7 p.m. ET/4 PT) is packed with pretty good stuff and doesn't have any stinkers like, say, "Bohemian Rhapsody."

Knowing that the actual best picture unfortunately doesn't always win, here are the 10 worst winners that the Oscars have awarded, ranked according to comparative terribleness. 

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