Top 25 'Best Picture' Winners of All Time | DEADLINE: Jan 15, 2014

[The Stingray]

Awards season is upon us, so I thought it might be fun to declare the best 'best picture' winners of all time.If you could also include a Top 5 worst 'best picture' winners, it would be even funner. :)Please PM me your lists.It's pretty straightforward but if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.Oh, and don't forget, good movies were being made pre-2000 as well.

Edited January 3, 2014 by Telemachos

[Jessie]

Crash

[Jack Nevada]

Driving Miss Daisy.

[CoolioD1]

sent a list.

[The Stingray]

Subverting expectations? That's great comedy, guys.

[riczhang]

 

Oh, and don't forget, good movies were being made pre-2000 as well.

 

Word. 

[CoolioD1]

Maybe there should be a rule where someone has to have seen at least 20 winners or something to vote. I don't wanna end up with some shitty list with ARGO in the top 5.

Edited January 2, 2014 by CoolioD1

[iceroll]

Shakespeare in Love, Crash, and The Hurt Locker, duh!

[CoolioD1]

The Hurt Locker was definitely on my best list and Shakespeare In Love was close to being on there. Great films.

[The Stingray]

Maybe there should be a rule where someone has to have seen at least 20 winners or something to vote. I don't wanna end up with some shitty list with ARGO in the top 5.

Well obviously you need to have seen the movies you vote for, and I wont be accepting Top 10's or anything like that.

 

If Argo's in the Top 5, I'll pull a Florida. How about that?

[riczhang]

Maybe there should be a rule where someone has to have seen at least 20 winners or something to vote. I don't wanna end up with some shitty list with ARGO in the top 5.

 

I think there needs to be 25 on list, no more no less. 

 

(And guys please. Films exist beyond Shakespeare in love, argo and hurt locker.)

[MovieMan89]

Great idea! Here's the BP winners list for everyone:

 

2012 - "Argo"

2011 - "The Artist"

2010 - "The King's Speech"

2009 - "The Hurt Locker"

2008 - "Slumdog Millionaire"

2007 - "No Country for Old Men"

2006 - "The Departed"

2005 - "Crash"

2004 - "Million Dollar Baby"

2003 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"

2002 - "Chicago"

2001 - "A Beautiful Mind"

2000 - "Gladiator"

1999 - "American Beauty"

1998 - "Shakespeare in Love"

1997 - "Titanic"

1996 - "The English Patient"

1995 - "Braveheart"

1994 - "Forrest Gump"

1993 - "Schindler’s List"

1992 - "Unforgiven"

1991 - "The Silence of the Lambs"

1990 - "Dances With Wolves"

1989 - "Driving Miss Daisy"

1988 - "Rain Man"

1987 - "The Last Emperor"

1986 - "Platoon"

1985 - "Out of Africa"

1984 - "Amadeus"

1983 - "Terms of Endearment"

1982 - "Gandhi"

1981 - "Chariots of Fire"

1980 - "Ordinary People"

1979 - "Kramer vs. Kramer"

1978 - "The Deer Hunter"

1977 - "Annie Hall"

1976 - "Rocky"

1975 - "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"

1974 - "The Godfather Part II"

1973 - "The Sting"

1972 - "The Godfather"

1971 - "The French Connection"

1970 - "Patton"

1969 - "Midnight Cowboy"

1968 - "Oliver!"

1967 - "In the Heat of the Night"

1966 - "A Man for All Seasons"

1965 - "The Sound of Music"

1964 - "My Fair Lady"

1963 - "Tom Jones"

1962 - "Lawrence of Arabia"

1961 - "West Side Story"

1960 - "The Apartment"

1959 - "Ben-Hur"

1958 - "Gigi"

1957 - "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

1956 - "Around the World in 80 Days"

1955 - "Marty"

1954 - "On the Waterfront"

1953 - "From Here to Eternity"

1952 - "The Greatest Show on Earth"

1951 - "An American in Paris"

1950 - "All About Eve"

1949 - "All the Kings Men"

1948 - "Hamlet"

1947 - "Gentleman's Agreement"

1946 - "The Best Years of Our Lives"

1945 - "The Lost Weekend"

1944 - "Going My Way"

1943 - "Casablanca"

1942 - "Mrs. Miniver"

1941 - "How Green Was My Valley"

1940 - "Rebecca"

1939 - "Gone with the Wind"

1938 - "You Can't Take It with You"

1937 - "The Life of Emile Zola"

1936 - "The Great Ziegfeld"

1935 - "Mutiny on the Bounty"

1934 - "It Happened One Night"

1932/1933 - "Cavalcade"

1931/1932 - "Grand Hotel"

1930/1931 - "Cimarron"

1929/1930 - "All Quiet on the Western Front"

1928/1929 - "The Broadway Melody"

1927/1928 - "Wings"

 

 

[Films]

I've only seen 9 (only 3 post 2000), can I still submit a list

Edited January 2, 2014 by Frozen2014

[Impact]

I'm moving this to the Oscar form.

[peludo]

Very good idea

[riczhang]

I've only seen 9 (only 3 post 2000), can I still submit a list

 

there's still time to start watching

[DAR]

I've got some thinking to do

[Empire]

Great idea! I will make sure to get a list in!

 

I just have to think about it for a bit.

[luna]

i haven't seen enough, but here's my rankings anyway.

 

[baumer]

I will not be including any films on my list before 1960 (except for two as they have transcended film and been indoctrinated into our collective psyche's as two of the best films made pre 1970, imo) as I have not seen enough films before that time to make a proper judgment.  

 

My top 20 best picture winners will be judged by the films that it beat and imo if they should have or not.  I don't have 25 films that I agree with so 20 it will be.

 

 

Here are the films I will work with.  I do not have an order yet.

 

1) Gone With the Wind (1939)

2) The Godfather (1972)

3) The Godfather 2 (1974)

4) Patton (1970)

5) Rocky (1976)

6) Platoon (1986)

7) Dances With Wolves (1990)

8) Schindler's List (1993)

9) Forrest Gump (1994)

10) Braveheart (1996)

11) Titanic (1997)

12) American Beauty (1999)

13) Gladiator (2000)

14) The Departed (2006)

15) No Country for Old Men (2007)

16) Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

17) Argo (2012)

18) Crash (2005)

19) The King's Speech (2010)

20) Casablanca (1943)

 

My 5 worst best picture winners are:

 

1) The Artist (the most ridiculous best picture winner in the history of film)

2) Annie Hall (an okay film but a horrible best picture winner)

3) Ordinary People (not only was there better films nominated for best picture but Empire Strikes Back wasn't and that is 1000X the movie that OP is).

4) Chicago ( an absolute travesty that this was nominated let alone won, The Pianist is heads and shoulders better)

5) Shakespeare In Love (this is too easy, not going to even make a comment on why SPR should have won)

Edited January 3, 2014 by Christmas baumer