The Top 25 'Best Picture' Winners of All Time (COUNTDOWN THREAD).

[The Stingray]

[Films]

TITANIC FOR #1

[DAR]

Looking forward to this

[Jack Nevada]

Glad you're doin this Stibgray. Should be interesting.

[The Stingray]

Alright, let's get this popping.

 

I'ma start with a quick rundown of the shitty ones.

[The Stingray]

#5:

 

Out of Africa (1985) - 19 points

 

[The Stingray]

#4:

 

The Artist (2011) - 20 points

 

[The Stingray]

#3:

 

The English Patient (1996) - 23 points

 

[The Stingray]

#2:

 

Crash (2005) - 25 points

 

[4815162342]

Out of Africa 5th worst? Really? With all the other possibilities to choose from? 

[The Stingray]

And the worst Best Picture winner of all time is...

 

#1:

 

Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - 26 points

 

[CoolioD1]

Can't argue with that.

[Hatebox]

I rather liked The English Patient. Yes, it was shameless callback to Hollywood epics, but it did it well enough.

[Jack Nevada]

Driving Miss Daisy is a genuinely good movie but better than Do The Right Thing? No.

[CoolioD1]

Driving Miss Daisy is a genuinely good movie but better than Do The Right Thing? No.

Of course you'd like it.

[The Stingray]

On to the good ones.

 

#25:

 

Annie Hall (1977) - 27 points

 

Annie Hall is a 1977 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. The director co-stars as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the film's eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton. Allen has described the film as "a major turning point", which, unlike the farces and comedies that were his work to that point, introduced a level of seriousness where, he says, he "had the courage to abandon ... just clowning around and the safety of complete broad comedy.

 

 

Oscar Nominations/Wins: 5/4

 

Best Picture - Charles H. Joffe 

Best Actress in a Leading Role - Diane Keaton 

Best Director - Woody Allen 

Best Original Screenplay - Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman 

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role - Woody Allen 

[The Stingray]

#24:

 

The Sound of Music (1965) - 28 points

 

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed and produced by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is derived from the Broadway musical The Sound of Music and based on the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. It is about a young woman who leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the seven children of a naval officer widower.

 

The film displaced Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film of all time.

 

 

Oscar Nominations/Wins: 10/5

 

Best Picture - Robert Wise 

Best Director - Robert Wise 

Best Sound - James Corcoran, Fred Hynes  

Best Film Editing - William Reynolds 

Best Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment - Irwin Kostal 

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role - Julie Andrews 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Peggy Wood 

Best Cinematography, Color - Ted D. McCord 

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color - Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott, Ruby R. Levitt 

Best Costume Design, Color - Dorothy Jeakins 

 

[Jack Nevada]

I still havent seen Sound of Music.

[CoolioD1]

I still havent seen Sound of Music.

Same.

[The Stingray]

#23:

 

All About Eve (1950) - 29 points

 

All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, and based on the 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr, although screen credit was not given for it. The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star. Anne Baxter plays Eve Harrington, a willingly helpful young fan who insinuates herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career and her personal relationships.

 

All About Eve was nominated for 14 Academy Awards, a feat unmatched until the 1997 film Titanic.

 

 

Oscar Nominations/Wins: 14/6

 

Best Picture

Best Actor in a Supporting Role - George Sanders 

Best Director - Joseph L. Mankiewicz 

Best Screenplay - Joseph L. Mankiewicz 

Best Costume Design, Black-and-White - Edith Head, Charles Le Maire 

Best Sound, Recording - Thomas T. Moulton 

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role - Anne Baxter, Bette Davis 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter 

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - Milton R. Krasner 

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White - Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott 

Best Film Editing - Barbara McLean 

Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture - Alfred Newman