Good Oscar Films of the Last Two Decades

What are they?

does it matter?

great thread

do nominations count? The Thin Red Line was nominated for best picture, and is prob one of my top 3 favorite movies!

Do foreign film nominations count?

If it's noms then I enjoyed Good Night and Good Luck amongst several, if it's winners I'm down to Unforgiven.

Winners:

No Country For Old Men
Unforgiven

Noms:

Goodfellas
The Crying Game
Pulp Fiction
Babe
Fargo
Secrets & Lies
The Thin Red Line
The Insider
There Will Be Blood

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/9907?page=8

Goodfellas
Unforgiven (winner)
The Crying Game
Pulp Fiction
The Insider
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Pianist
Million Dollar Baby (winner)
The Departed (winner)

Anyone who doesn't think Babe is good was born without a heart.

Um, Silence of the Lambs

. . . is not good.

Also Unforgiven. Haven't seen Chicago and American Beauty in years, but they'd probably also make the list. Still haven't seen The Departed.

wtf you're just jaded

No, it's really not good. It's based on a crap novel and I can't stand stupid serial killer superman movies and Hopkins' performance is scenery chewing. Foster is pretty good, but that doesn't save the movie.

I am actually a big fan of Shakespear in Love, though I haven't seen it a few years.

The first Elizabeth is pretty good too IIRC.

FWIW, I don't think either of the criminals in Silence of the Lambs is a serial killer superman, at least not like the freaks in the Saw movies or something. Lecter is, after all, in prison for most of the movie, and only escapes because of a confluence of events he couldn't have predicted and Foster overstepping her bounds. And Buffalo Bill, well, gets caught and killed!

love Gosford Park.

I was talking about Lecter and I don't agree that's how the movie portrays him (or his escape) at all.

Gosford Park s'okay until Stephen Fry happens.

Vote for the best Oscar-winning pictures of all time.

Do you mean winners or nominees? My pics of the last two decades:

Atlantic City
Babe
Saving Private Ryan
L.A. Confidential
The Insider
Unforgiven

Atlantic City didn't come out in the past two decades?!?!

I went back to '81 for you.

Alex, I'm not going to derail things, but in terms of plotting, if Catherine Martin hadn't been kidnapped, if Foster hadn't made promises in Sen. Martin's name and if Dr. Whatsisface hadn't forgotten his pen, Lecter would have never escaped. That he capitalized on those three things doesn't, I think, make him Superman.

Now, if he had recommended Catherine as a victim to Buffalo Bill from prison like he did with Will Graham's family in "Manhunter," that might be different.

I'll go back to '80 and say The Elephant Man then!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/Oscar1991poster.jpg

/hilarity

"That he capitalized on those three things doesn't, I think, make him Superman."

Yeah except how he actually escaped is totally ridiculous.

Babe got a nom? That is rad!