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

[Harpospoke]

Looks like I saw this just in time!  I love the comments about various movies that "should have won" and how "the Academy got it wrong".   We place great importance on awards...until we don't agree with them.   ...Then suddenly the awards are worthless.   Amazing how we all have a different list....even though most still cling to the idea that we can rank movies according to quality.

 

But....making a list is fun!   Here's mine.   The ones I enjoyed the most.  I don't believe in ranking a movie highly if I don't enjoy it so there won't be any of that "I know this is a great movie even though I hated it" stuff on my list.

 

1-Casablanca

2-Gone with the Wind

3-The Sting

4-Amadeus

5-Unforgiven

6-Mutiny on the Bounty

7-All About Eve

8-The Best Years of Our Lives

9-One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

10-Schindler’s List

11-Forest Gump 

12-Titanic 

13-It Happened One Night

14-All Quiet on the Western Front

15-Million Dollar Baby

16-Rain Man

17-LOTR: Return of the King

18-Terms of Endearment

19-Rocky

20-The Sound of Music

21-Marty

22-A Beautiful Mind

23-Slumdog Millionaire

24-My Fair Lady

25-The Apartment

 

 

My 5 worst:

1-The English Patient

2-Chariots of Fire

3-Lawrence of Arabia

4-Ordinary People

5-Gladiator

 

Exactly.

 

The Dark Knight has the legacy of being the film that expanded the nominee list.  And TDK should have won best picture easily imo.

Never quite bought into that claim.   They thought so much of a movie they didn't nominate that they decided to expand the list....so they can include more movies they really don't think are worthy?   If they thought TDK was that great...wouldn't 5 spots be more than enough to get it a nomination?

 

It's a dubious legacy to have even if it were true.   "Responsible for lowering the bar to include popular movies that had no chance at a nomination before but might help TV ratings if we pretend they have a shot in hell at being the BP winner"

[Punishment]

My list has been submitted, I'll post it after Stingray does his presentation.

 

Looking forward to this Stingray!

[Kvikk Lunsj]

I will try to post my list tonight.

[Jake Gittes]

How many hours left?

[The Stingray]

How many hours left?

Til I wake up in the morning. So, like 8-10 hrs.

[Jake Gittes]

1. Lawrence of Arabia

2. The Godfather: Part II

3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

4. Casablanca

5. The Apartment

6. Schindler's List

7. The French Connection

8. No Country for Old Men

9. The Godfather

10. All About Eve

11. The Sting

12. The Silence of the Lambs

13. Unforgiven

14. The Hurt Locker

15. The Departed

16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

17. Annie Hall

18. The Artist

19. In the Heat of the Night

20. A Man for All Seasons

[The Stingray]

If you can or want to, do the top 5 worst ones as well.

[Jake Gittes]

Nah, I don't think I've seen even three BP winners I'd consider to be bad films. Million Dollar Baby, for sure, and maybe A Beautiful Mind, but other than that I've managed to avoid all of the crap so far.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Word. 

Yet you still used Return of the King?

[Kvikk Lunsj]

1. Schindler’s List  

2. The Godfather

3. Lawrence of Arabia

4.  The Godfather part II

5. Braveheart

6. Casablanca

7. Gone with the Wind

8. All quiet on the Western Front

9. Titanic

10. Ben Hurr

11. Dances with Wolves

12. Silence of the Lambs

13. Rain Man

14. Sound of Music

15. Amadeus

16. Ghandi

17. The Bridge on the River Kwai 

18. Lord of the Rings Return of the King

19. Gladiator

20. Rocky

21. Forrest Gump

22.  Platoon

23. The French Connection

24. No Country For Old Men

25. The Departed

[NYer4Life]

1. TitanicEverything else

[Krissykins]

I think the Academy should still be embarrassed that Crash beat Brokeback Mountain. Crash was great, but come on. These are the only ones I like:2005 - "Crash"2004 - "Million Dollar Baby"2002 - "Chicago"1997 - "Titanic"1994 - "Forrest Gump"1991 - "The Silence of the Lambs"

[Goffe]

where are the results?

Edited March 7, 2014 by Goffe Rises