Despised Best Picture Winners you like?

I'll co-sign A Beautiful Mind.

And even though it is one of the weakest in it category, I still really like Green Book.

In thinking about this question I've actually found that it's pretty hard to determine which BP winners are despised and which are not. Like, "A Beautiful Mind" may be despised by stuff like Film Twitter and movie forum visitors but the general public seems to love it. It's in the Top 250 of both IMDb (with 870,000+ ratings) and Kinopoisk (which is the Russian version of IMDb where it has 420,000+ ratings). Plus the reviews were good. It's sort of hard for me to think of it as despised but then again, there is a lot of online sneer about it, so I guess it is despised in some circles. Alas, I do like it quite bit myself!

I actually like a lot of BP winners which are usually considered weak. The key word here is like - it's not that I adore them and consider them to be among the best of the year. But like? Sure, why not. I like "Green Book", I like "Crash", I like "The Greatest Show on Earth", I like "Cimarron". There's hardly a BP winner I don't like. I just like movies

But the one I'd like to single out here which I do often see treated with contempt and viciousness (particularly on our forum) is "Gigi". Even though I don't fully understand the enormous hard-on the Academy had for it (it's not like it's "Ben-Hur" or something...I guess they really wanted to reward Vincente Minnelli, huh), I think it's a pretty delightful musical with gorgeous visuals and that classic Hollywood musical charm presented to the viewer in abundance. It's like a candy box of a movie. I've always been amazed that something this innocuous could inspire such hatred.

Crash

As the President of the Gigi Sucks club, I always am pleasantly surprised to see how it crops up as so reviled in little random pockets of the film community. I hate it, it's my least favorite film, but I can see why it was a big deal in 1958 and why it swept.

Braveheart (if it’s despised, not sure)
Green Book
The Shape of Water
Dances With Wolves

Pretty much all of the despised 2000s winners. Crash, Chicago, A Beautiful Mind. Big fan of all of them.

Gigi should have been melted for silver.

Green Book (Used to dislike it myself but rewatches have made me reconsider my opinion)
Chicago
American Beauty
Shakespeare in Love
The English Patient
Out of Africa
Tom Jones
Gigi (The absurd hate for this film is completely baffling to me)

Echoing Jango's thoughts, I can never quite figure out where Forrest Gump falls on the despise/love spectrum, it arguably defies it altogether, but that's probably my biggest discrepancy between the kind of hate it tends to engender and how much I enjoy it.

I like a lot of the ones that used to get more hate simply because of the movies they beat, I sense there's been more appreciation for How Green Was My Valley, Ordinary People, and Shakespeare in Love over the years.

I'd like to revisit American Beauty, A Beautiful Mind, Million Dollar Baby, and Crash, haven't seen them since they came out and that was just the period where I was pretty much watching everything through the prism of the Oscars.

Basically whatever the "internet" despises. And even then the strict and technical loud minority in the scheme of things. This as, other than a handful of early winners mostly (Cimarron, Cavalcade) almost all best picture winners are at least positively viewed by most viewers and critics.

Chicago is despised...I must have missed the memo. Anyway if that is the case, I fecking love it.

I also like Crash plenty, never could get on board that hate train either.

The King's Speech is a lovely film too, I'd sit down and watch that any day of the week, The Social Network not so much.

I think in general, for the masses; most best pictures aren't despised. They tend to be quite easy to stomach and inoffensive and then quickly forgotten.