2011 Oscar countdown: worst Best Actress winners in Oscar history

Following our entry about the best Best Actress winners in Oscar history, we offer now our juicier pick of the worst Oscar-winning performances in the category. In this case we also offer an alternate choice that, in our opinion, would have made a more deserved winner for any given year.

Same rules apply as in the best of entry: out of the 83 Oscar winners, only three are not taken into consideration (Mary Pickford's in Coquette (1928/9), Marie Dressler in Min and Bill (1930/1) and Glenda Jackson's in A Touch of Class (1973)) for the simple reason that we haven't seen the films. 

Make your comments and offer your own choices.

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2011 Oscar nominations: the aftermath

That to follow and scrutinize the film award season is a pointless exercise has always been clear to me.  It is also an unrewarding one. The proliferation of Oscar precursors and the Academy's faint-hearted choices have rendered the Oscar prognostication game easy and predictable.

Looking at this year's Oscar nominations, which have been announced earlier today, one might argue that absolutely nothing out of the ordinary has really happened, at least in the main categories.

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