Terrible Oscar Winners Who Should Return Their Trophies Right Now

Will Smith

Smith remains one of the most vanilla Best Actor winners ever. He played the titular patriarch in King Richard, a movie about Serena and Venus Williams. It was standard Oscar fare and disappointed many film fans because they thought that the Academy moved past this cliche.

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They favored Benedict Cumberbatch’s chilling performance in The Power of the Dog. Denzel Washington and Andrew Garfield also delivered nuanced turns in their respective films. In the end, Smith threw it back in the Academy’s face when he slapped Chris Rock at the ceremony (via USA Today).