vote for the best Oscar-winning Best Pictures of all time

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

From the same blogger who conducted the worst poll (voting ends at midnight):

http://eddieonfilm.blogspot.com/

Mine, and beyond the top four, I don't even have *enormous* affection for these (my top 3 should've lost to Chinatown, Rear Window and Psycho)...

1. The Godfather Part II
2. On the Waterfront
3. The Apartment
4. Annie Hall
5. All About Eve
6. Casablanca
7. Rebecca
8. Lawrence of Arabia
9. It Happened One Night
10. Ordinary People

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

No Greatest Show on Earth? How unlike you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ded Fraggett has modeled his otm devotion to ILX Power Couple on the turd-sniffing court eunuchs in The Last Emperor...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

OK wow that was an exercise in masochism. Every time I read that winners list I stare at Around the World in 80 Days and am like "OK Earth." I'm not passionate in any way about the bottom several picks and GWTW picked over a few other mmmmmmmmmmmmmaybes due to spectacle/historical value/Clark Gable awesomeness factor. Did Ned already kill the thread, I'm interested in what a couple of other posters would come up with.

1. The Apartment
2. Amadeus
3. The Godfather
4. On the Waterfront
5. Casablanca
6. It Happened One Night
7. The Deer Hunter
8. All About Eve
9. Lawrence of Arabia
10. Gone With the Wind

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Is The Deer Hunter actually all that? I'm honestly curious.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

1. Annie Hall
2. The Apartment
3. Amadeus
4. All About Eve
5. Casablanca
6. Rebecca
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
8. The Godfather
9. Unforgiven
10. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

It's good, IMO. I mean, it wouldn't be in my top ten all time in any other list besides "BEST PICTURE WINNERS, POX" but it's worth seeing if you haven't seen it.

xpost oh, shakeypaws, #10 ;_;

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

(Ned: I will thoroughly admit that early DeNiro + Christopher Walken will automatically give you +10 charisma in my world)

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I know I know... and its the worst of the trilogy too, but I've watched it and (I guess marginally) enjoyed it more than the others that were remaining to choose from.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

OK fair enough! I just have an irrational hatred of that movie, sorry :)

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Shakes, I think Hair is probly a better Milos Forman movie than those two winnahs!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Because better Forman films were options.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ned: I will thoroughly admit that early DeNiro + Christopher Walken will automatically give you +10 charisma in my world

Heh, good point. But wait, gaming references and then you don't like Return of the King. *runs away*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

hurry up with Ignore func, pls

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

i don't particularly LOVE any of these films apart from SotL but here's five:

1 - The Silence of the Lambs
2 - annie hall
3 - The Deer Hunter
4 - Casablanca
5 - Ordinary People

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

I've never gotten around to seeing the Deer Hunter.. like Deliverance its been on my list for years now.

sorry morbs too much sentimental value in those two Forman flicks for me. wee adolescent shakey mo suckered by melodramatic-rebel-artist movies shockah.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, I was only doing it for you :)

SotL is probably the best Best Picture winner in like the past two decades. I actually just deleted 1990+ when I was going over the list, automatically.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, the more recent choices are pretty pathetic.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

1. All About Eve
2. The Apartment
3. The Godfather, Part II
4. Casablanca
5. From Here to Eternity
6. Unforgiven
7. The Deer Hunter
8. The Godfather
9. Rebecca
10. The Best Years of Our Lives (just to be different, and it's a solid movie)

I'd like to see anyone defend Gentleman's Agreement, Kramer vs Kramer, Tom Jones, Going My Way, or The Bridge on the River Quai.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

I might've put Kramer vs Kramer tenth another day. One of Hoffman's more convincing mid-career characters; I think it only goes wrong in the utterly unbelievable last scene w/ Streep.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Also the scenes where Guinness dominates in Kwai are a tour de force; too bad the Holden stuff is dull and the gung-ho ending (altered from novel) is a total cop-out.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, I was only doing it for you :)

Hahahahah. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

You love Rebecca, Morbius? I thought you hated it!

― Redd Temple Player (Two Headed Dogg) (Ken L), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha ... It's a tribute to AJH that it's as good as it is, with such a simp as the heroine.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Re Kramer: Hoffman's pleading for sympathy grates after the hour mark. Young Justin Henry was pretty good.

I really love Rebecca, despite George Sanders' cartoon villain (less Basil Rathbone, more Addison De Witt, please)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, Hair is awful! Give me The Wiz, One from the Heart or Xanadu anyday.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

10. The Best Years of Our Lives (just to be different, and it's a solid movie)

That's not being that different. Best Years is one of the only completely defensible BPs in history, right up there with Sunrise and the three A's (one of which, Apartment, I haven't seen yet).

I'll probably have to blog my answer to this or I'll never update that thing again.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Rebecca is all about the uber-creepy Ms. Danvers!! I can't even remember who the lead is (which is I guess appropriate given the theme of the movie...)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

1. The Godfather Part II
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai
3. Rebecca
4. Annie Hall
5. It Happened One Night
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. Casablanca
8. The Apartment
9. On the Waterfront
10. From Here to Eternity

― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

1. It Happened One Night
2. The Apartment
3. All About Eve
4. On The Waterfront
5. Rebecca
6. Casablanca
7. Godfather II
8. Annie Hall
9. Deer Hunter
10. Lost Weekend

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

1. It Happened One Night
2. The Apartment
3. Rocky
4. The French Connection
5. The Broadway Melody
6. You Can't Take It With You
7. The Bridge on the River Kwai
8. Midnight Cowboy
9. The Deer Hunter
10. Unforgiven

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

1. All About Eve
2. On the Waterfront
3. The Apartment
4. Tom Jones
5. Midnight Cowboy
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. Annie Hall
8. Amadeus
9. Shakespeare in Love
10. The Silence of the Lambs

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

1. All About Eve
2. On the Waterfront
3. The Apartment
4. Tom Jones
5. Midnight Cowboy
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. Annie Hall
8. Amadeus
9. Shakespeare in Love
10. The Silence of the Lambs
(i should have chosen cabaret over tom jones)

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Shakespeare in Love? I'm curious, why?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Actually the one thing that leaps out at me from all this is that I finally need to get around to seeing The Apartment.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Give me The Wiz

We will! Sidney Lumet will! (you are so damn Seventies)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

(also Sunrise still doesn't count, officially)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

i love it--i think its really well written, the performances are clever, its really difficult to do light comedy well, esp about high culture, and some of the performances (Esp imelda staunton, geoffery rush and judi dench) are amazing. i also really like some of the rather obscure english major inside baseball (gags about john webster pulling wings off flies comes to mind)

outside the text, it amuses me that this light thing destroyed the jingoistic, macho bullshit of saving private ryan, a movie i loathed

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

jingoistic, macho bullshit of Deer Hunter to thread...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ah yeah, I forgot that was the same year.

I think my main problem with SIL is basically the leads. I agree with some of what you said but the two leads are just basically unwatchable for me.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

I saw it on a date and even my date (now my wife) hated it.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

attributing Will's canon to the inspirational whinny of Gwynny is beyond grotesque.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

haha whinny of gwynny

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

in order of preference (more or less):

1. the apartment
2. one flew over the cuckoo's nest (all you ppl NOT voting for this are insane!)
3. casablanca
4. from here to eternity
5. the best years of our lives
6. rebecca
7. midnight cowboy
8. on the waterfront
9. annie hall
10. schindler's list (haha am i really the first one to vote for this? i don't even really like spielberg!)

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Sunrise counts unless the Academy is fine with the idea that they only ever gave their top award for "artistic" qualities in its first year.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well, Ed Copeland isn't counting it.

cuckoo's nest was probably the third Best Pic I saw in a theater (after Oliver! and The Sting) but I haven't seen it in years, it's a much more sanitized rebel story than the psych-sprawl of the novel, and Big Nurse is basically a misogynist's straw woman (yeah, coming from a gyrophobe like me).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

well lets not get into the book vs. film tangent... its interesting that everyone is rating the Apartment so highly - is it just cuz it happens to be the best of the prospective candidates, or do people really think its a highpoint for Wilder, Lemmon, et al? I like it a lot, just watched it again a few weeks ago in fact, but I can think of several Wilder films I like more that *didn't* get best picture...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

nurse ratched is MUCH more humanized in the movie than the book (where she's basically a cartoon monster), i guess you could argue that the story itself is misogynist but kesey's a lot more guilty than forman in that case.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

it's conventional wisdom that it's a highpoint for Wilder, Lemmon, et al, and it goes on my short list of favorites from the list, and of best pictures from the list (though i've seen way too few to really say), but even of what i have seen, i'm not sure it deserves top 5

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i think the apartment is wilder's best. it is funny how everyone seems to rate it these days, but there's a real melancholy about it that sticks with me. double indemnity is probably just as good (i've never been all THAT into sunset blvd, to be honest) but it doesn't mean as much to me.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 27 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I don't know if those films can match the suspense/mystery aspects of SOTL.

x-post

― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

i think it seems worse than it actually is because everything about it has been since copied ad nauseum

― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like him. I've gone into it on some other thread but he always seems to be doing the same thing - a kind of hard-boiled, no-nonsense, occasionally shouty but alternately smirk-y guy - and it bores me. He's never had a lead role that really blew me away, but he's also ubiquitous, seems like he's been in more crap than Michael Caine even...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hoosiers, dude. no, really.

― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hackman's like Jeff Bridges: he disappears into characters so effortlessly that, at his worst, he's uninteresting. I'm glad he's working less these days. There was a period in the late '80s when he starred in, like, 56 movies in two years (alimony, he says).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

amateurist totally stole one of my answers

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

"he disappears into characters so effortlessly "

I don't see this at all. To me he's more like post-70s Nicholson - a caricature that's the same every time.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

How can you caricature blandness-as-subterfuge?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I just always rankle at these silly supervillain-esque treatments of serial killers.

Hmmm. There's an argument to be made that, whichever of the killers in SOTL you're talking about, you're misreading them, but I suppose it's neither here nor there if you simply don't like the movie. In any case it was certainly Demme's last good one.

Gene Hackman is one of my all-time favorite actors.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

1. 1929/30 - All Quiet on the Western Front
2. 1977 - Annie Hall
3. 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia
4. 1978 - The Deer Hunter
5. 2004 - Million Dollar Baby
6. 1970 - Patton
7. 1943 - Casablanca
8. 1972 - The Godfather
9. 1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai
10. 1997 - Titanic

don't read too much into this, i made it in 3 minutes

― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

The dialgoue in All Quiet on the Western Front is creaky; had the film been silent it would be a classic (that way we could ignore Lew Ayres' wet solemnity).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

there's a silent version of "all quiet" but i haven't seen it

― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

alfred OTM on All quiet

― erklie (erklie), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

mark sinkers essay on SOTL is where i come from here--and what moves me about it, is that it is trash, hard, unleavened trash, not redeemed at all by middle class pretensions of art. i have no idea why it won the academy award, but it was one of the best movies of the last 15 years, because of the charisma and intellegience of hopkins, because of how those qualities, and his charisma seduced foster (one of the things i think we miss about serial killers is to get that many people unders ones belt one has to be a bit charsamtic, because its the first time ive ever believed her as naive, because of the strangeness and the genuine fright i got from jamie gumb, and because of many of the virtousou(sp) elements of film making...

the apartment i like because of its britlleness, and how much it hates.

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

you're otm (except for Foster - wrong on all counts), and that's exactly why i don't like it. the serial killer seeks celebrity, and the movie delivered a generic form of that celebrity indelibly into pop culture. it won the academy award because, for all its fetishistic blue-collar milieu, it's a big spectacle epitomized by the flayed-dudes-on-cages money shot. as morally indefensible as the terrorist attacks in Independence Day.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

the aliens were freedom fighters

― erklie (erklie), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Around the time she retired Pauline Kael praised The Grifters and dismissed SOTL: "I like my pulp as pulp." I'm not sure what she meant, since SOTL may be slower and attempt ambiguity (the hostility of fellow G-men and local sheriffs directed at Clarice Starling) but it's got the reductive psychology of pure pulp (a helpful explanation by Dr. Lecter: Clarice wants to catch Buffalo Bill because, see, she couldn't save a lamb and she wants to avenge her father's death).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 6 May 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

thats where kael is wrong--i also like my pulp as pulp, and fucking hell it was pulp, in the most meatspace sense of the word (cf news footage of Dahmer or Gacy,etc--which concentrated on issues of flesh and the body)

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

Every scene with Buffalo Bill is classic. Everything else, not so much... excepting "I can smell yr cunt."

My ten (first half for real, second half a little devil's advocate):

01. Sunrise
02. All About Eve
03. How Green Was My Valley
04. Annie Hall
05. The Best Years of Our Lives
06. Titanic
07. The French Connection
08. Ordinary People
09. Million Dollar Baby
10. Driving Miss Daisy

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 May 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

defend DMD

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

well uh pauline kael liked it! *ducks*

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

It's hilarious! Esther Rolle "I wouldn't be in your shoes if the good Lord came down here and ask me hisself." Dan Ackroyd just getting really fat. "Bee-uh... and an Are-uh!" I should start a JFK thread on it.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 May 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

yes, DMD is good if conventional; it doesn't stink just cuz Spike Lee (who certainly was robbed) wanted Hoke to burn the mansion down.

Foster is what give SOTL its reason for being; Hopkins isn't scary or believable, he's just a pro at not blinking.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 May 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, if only Hopkins had played Capote in Capote and Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 6 May 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

results are up
fuckers got rotk in there

― a.b. (alanbanana), Sunday, 7 May 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

ROTK at #20 is a pretty weak showing for an ubergeek touchstone in a Net poll.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

's here.

but was there a newer one?

― pisces, Thursday, 28 February 2008 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

http://www.ofcs.org/the-best-of-the-best-picture-oscar-winners-part-6/

22. Gone With the Wind (1939)
23. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

Ouch.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:36 (twelve years ago)

http://www.ofcs.org/the-best-of-the-best-picture-oscar-winners-part-6/

Eric pointed out this marvelous juxtaposition:

22. Gone With the Wind (1939)
23. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:41 (twelve years ago)

Oops. Goddamn cell phones.

DMD at #80 is ridic though

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:41 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, of all the vilified '80s winners, that ones by far the best movie, even if it got awarded during the very wrong year.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:46 (twelve years ago)

there are a lot of "good" best-picture winners i have little-to-no personal affection for, but here are some i really like:

how green was my valley
the best years of our lives
it happened one night
casablanca
the godfather
going my way
no country for old men
gigi
the silence of the lambs
rocky

(I admit that I don't love "rebecca")

― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:50 (twelve years ago)

we should do a thread where we all pick the best american movies of all the years since 1927/28. i.e. "what should have won the oscar?"

― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:51 (twelve years ago)

or maybe we can even pick the FIVE NOMINEES and one winner, none of which have to actually have been nominated/won.

― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:52 (twelve years ago)

sure as shit Holiday should've been at least nominated in '38.

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:53 (twelve years ago)

we should do a thread where we all pick the best american movies of all the years since 1927/28. i.e. "what should have won the oscar?"

There's an Oscar for best American movie?

― Alba, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:00 (twelve years ago)

I got '95 on lockdown.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:00 (twelve years ago)

most mediocre of my lifetime

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:01 (twelve years ago)

Not too hard to improve the nominations tho.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:04 (twelve years ago)

rebecca easily my fav hitch these days

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:11 (twelve years ago)

Probably time to revise my list from upthread. Now it'd be more like ...

01. Sunrise
02. All About Eve
03. Annie Hall
04. The Best Years of Our Lives
05. No Country for Old Men
06. How Green Was My Valley
07. The Godfather (I give)
08. maybe West Side Story
09. I dunno, maybe The Hurt Locker?
10. Ordinary People

― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:12 (twelve years ago)

revised:

Sunrise
All About Eve
The Apartment
The Godfather, Part II
It Happened One Night
From Here to Eternity
How Green Was My Valley
No Country for Old Men
Rebecca
The Best Years of Our Lives
On the Waterfront
12 Years a Slave

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:15 (twelve years ago)

Chronologically:

On the Waterfront
The Apartment
Midnight Cowboy
The Godfather
The Godfather II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Annie Hall
The Deer Hunter
American Beauty
No Country for Old Men

"American blah blah blah?"--it's okay, I'm aware, I'm aware.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:21 (twelve years ago)

Missed From Here to Eternity--probably that over Annie Hall, but it's close.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:23 (twelve years ago)

1. Forrest Gump
2. Amadeus
3. Rain Man
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. Silence of the Lambs
6. Titanic
7. Platoon
8. The Godfather
9. Driving Miss Daisy
10. The Deer Hunter

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:24 (twelve years ago)

rebecca
sunrise
the apartment
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
the best years of our lives
casablanca
midnight cowboy
how green was my valley
all quiet on the western front
the lost weekend

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:53 (twelve years ago)

the lost weekend is a really good movie, I forgot about that one

― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 00:00 (twelve years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/every-best-picture-oscar-winner-ranked-from-worst-to-best/

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 February 2019 14:53 (seven years ago)

don't know the guys who wrote abt Gigi and My Fair Lady, but they're kind of embarrassing

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 February 2019 14:54 (seven years ago)

at first I thought, "but a lot of these 'What Should Have Won' choices are dubious too" before realizing they're only choosing from the other nominees

― Josefa, Saturday, 16 February 2019 15:50 (seven years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.