Just because elector of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed aBest Picture Oscaron a certainmoviedoesn’t necessarily intend you ’ll love it , too . In fact , there are quite a fewBest Picture winnerson which the oecumenical populace has been a little halfhearted .
A cursory skim through RT ’s audience follow-up reveals the specifics of that trend . One reviewer calledCavalcade , which charts the life sentence of an upper - crust London family through the former twentieth century , “ another filmic Hallmark card , ” while another add up it up as “ a uncanny collage of drippiness and sombreness . ”Cimarron , an epic Western about the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 and its aftermath , was describe as “ riddled with offensive stereotype ” and “ as ridiculously politically wrong as you could get . ”
Those four celluloid are the only Best Picture achiever with interview scores of 50 percentage or less ; the rest of the top 10 list elicited much more leveled responses . But still , you might be surprised to learn that a twain beloved classic — include one of thehighest - grossing moviesof all sentence — didn’tonlygarner confident paygrade . We ’re babble out aboutTitanic(1997 ) andRocky(1976 ) , which are tie with 69 per centum . In both cases , critics were more complimentary : Titanic ’s critic score is88 per centum , andRocky ’s is91 .
Scroll through the rest of the list below ; again , the Rotten Tomatoes percentages are all consultation scotch . ( you’re able to see all 95 Best PictureOscarwinners ranked by their critic scoreshere . )
