This account cooked so many people so badly, he seemed like he could not be defeated, alas, like Icarus flew up toward the sun…
Let's see, who's a better villain: The giant flaming eye that wasn't even in the book, who spends half his time muttering inaudible nihilistic gibberish at Elijah Wood, and the other half bed rotting in his eyeball penthouse, compulsively masturbating himself in a manner you don't even want to know about? (It does involve some kind of insertion into the pupil, though.)
Or Nute Gunray, the scheming Viceroy of the Trade Federation, who was a mere hairsbreadth away from getting Natalie Portman to sign a treaty that would have given him complete sovereignty over her planet, as well as (we can presume) exclusive conjugal rights once she reached the age of majority?
The answer of course is the stupid flaming eyeball, but only because Nute Gunray is a Chad who did nothing wrong, and Sauron is a repulsive failson gooner.