5. Crash
The 2004 film Crash beat out films like Brokeback Mountain at the Oscars, despite it only making $54,557,348 at the box office. The ensemble drama was about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles and interwove multiple storylines. The film received six Academy Award nominations and won three for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. It was also nominated for nine BAFTA awards and won two, and also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. After its award season success, more people went to see it, but it was never what anyone would consider a blockbuster hit.
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