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

[Jack Nevada]

Havent seen that one either.

[The Stingray]

#22:

 

On the Waterfront (1954) - 29 points (won tiebreaker against All About Eve)

 

On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film about union violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia Kazan, written by Budd Schulberg, and stars Marlon Brando. It is based on "Crime on the Waterfront", a series of articles in the New York Sun by Malcolm Johnson, which detailed widespread corruption, extortion and racketeering on the waterfronts of Manhattan and Brooklyn.

 

 

Oscar Nominations/Wins: 12/8

 

Best Picture - Sam Spiegel 

Best Actor in a Leading Role - Marlon Brando 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Eva Marie Saint 

Best Director - Elia Kazan 

Best Story and Screenplay - Budd Schulberg 

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - Boris Kaufman 

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White - Richard Day 

Best Film Editing - Gene Milford 

 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger 

Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture - Leonard Bernstein 

 

[DAR]

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

Or Born on the Fourth of July

[The Stingray]

#21:

 

The Sting (1973) - 33 points

 

The Sting is a 1973 American caper film, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who had directed Newman and Redford in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

 

 

Oscar Nominations/Wins: 10/7

 

Best Picture - Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips (Julia Phillips became the first female producer to win the Best Picture category.)

Best Director - George Roy Hill 

Best Original Screenplay - David S. Ward 

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Henry Bumstead, James W. Payne 

Best Costume Design - Edith Head 

Best Film Editing - William Reynolds 

Best Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation - Marvin Hamlisch 

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role - Robert Redford 

Best Cinematography - Robert Surtees 

Best Sound - Ronald Pierce, Robert R. Bertrand 

 

[The Stingray]

#20:

American Beauty (1999) - 35 points

 

American Beauty is a 1999 American comedy-drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as office worker Lester Burnham, who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela (Mena Suvari). Annette Bening co-stars as Lester's materialistic wife, Carolyn, and Thora Birch plays their insecure daughter, Jane; Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper, and Allison Janney also feature. The film has been described by academics as a satire of American middle class notions of beauty and personal satisfaction; analysis has focused on the film's explorations of romantic and paternal love, sexuality, beauty, materialism, self-liberation, and redemption.

 

 

Oscar Nominations/Wins: 8/5

 

Best Picture - Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks 

Best Actor in a Leading Role - Kevin Spacey 

Best Director - Sam Mendes 

Best Original Screenplay - Alan Ball 

Best Cinematography - Conrad L. Hall 

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role - Annette Bening 

Best Film Editing - Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury 

Best Original Score - Thomas Newman 

 

[Jack Nevada]

Love American Beauty tho not my favorite film from 1999.

[CoolioD1]

The Sting - lotta fun

American Beauty - lmao.

[The Stingray]

#19:

 

Braveheart (1995) - 37 points

 

Braveheart is a 1995 historical drama war film directed by and starring Mel Gibson. Gibson portrays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England. The story is based on Blind Harry's epic poem The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace and was adapted for the screen by Randall Wallace.

 

 

Oscar Nominations/Wins: 10/5

 

Best Picture - Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd Jr., Bruce Davey 

Best Director - Mel Gibson 

Best Cinematography - John Toll 

Best Sound Effects Editing - Lon Bender, Per Hallberg 

Best Makeup - Peter Frampton, Paul Pattison, Lois Burwell 

 

Best Original Screenplay - Randall Wallace 

Best Costume Design - Charles Knode 

Best Sound - Andy Nelson, Scott Millan, Anna Behlmer, Brian Simmons 

Best Film Editing - Steven Rosenblum 

Best Original Score - James Horner 

 

[The Stingray]

Love American Beauty.

[Michael Gary Scott]

American Beauty is great

[Films]

YES. I LOVE THE SOUND OF MUSIC

[The Stingray]

#18:

 

Amadeus (1984) - 39 points

 

Amadeus is a 1984 period drama film directed by Miloš Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Adapted from Shaffer's stage play Amadeus (1979), the film is about the composer Antonio Salieri who recognizes the genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart but thwarts him out of pride and envy. The story is set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century.

 

 

Oscar Nominations/Wins: 11/8

 

Best Picture - Saul Zaentz 

Best Actor in a Leading Role - F. Murray Abraham 

Best Director - Milos Forman 

Best Adapted Screenplay - Peter Shaffer 

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Patrizia von Brandenstein, Karel Cerný 

Best Costume Design - Theodor Pistek 

Best Sound - Mark Berger, Thomas Scott, Todd Boekelheide, Christopher Newman 

Best Makeup - Paul LeBlanc, Dick Smith 

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role - Tom Hulce 

Best Cinematography - Miroslav Ondrícek 

Best Film Editing - Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler 

 

[CoolioD1]

now there's a great one.

[Michael Gary Scott]

Never seen it

[The Stingray]

#17:

 

Rocky (1976) - 43 points (Yo baumer, we did it!)

 

Rocky is a 1976 American sports film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rocky starts out as a club fighter who later gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship. It also stars Talia Shire as Adrian, Burt Young as Adrian's brother Paulie, Burgess Meredith as Rocky's trainer Mickey Goldmill, and Carl Weathers as the champion, Apollo Creed.

 

 

Oscar Nominations/Wins: 10/3

 

Best Picture - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff 

Best Director - John G. Avildsen 

Best Film Editing - Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad 

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role - Sylvester Stallone (Sylvester Stallone becomes the third person to be nominated for both acting and writing in the same year, following Charles Chaplin for The Great Dictator (1940) and Orson Welles for Citizen Kane (1941).)

Best Actress in a Leading Role - Talia Shire 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Burgess Meredith, Burt Young 

Best Original Screenplay - Sylvester Stallone 

Best Sound - Harry W. Tetrick, William L. McCaughey, Lyle J. Burbridge, Bud Alper 

Best Original Song - Bill Conti (music), Carol Connors (lyrics), Ayn Robbins (lyrics) (For the song "Gonna Fly Now".)

 

[DAR]

Amadeus is really great

[Films]

Love Rocky

[The Stingray]

#16:

 

Gone with the Wind (1939) - 44 points

 

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the 19th century American South, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, and her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), and her marriage to Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, the story is told from the perspective of white Southerners.

 

 

Oscar Nominations/Wins: 13/8 + 2 Honorary Awards (William Cameron Menzies - For outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood in the production of Gone with the Wind (plaque), R.D. Musgrave - For pioneering in the use of coordinated equipment in the production Gone with the Wind.)

 

Best Picture

Best Actress in a Leading Role - Vivien Leigh 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Hattie McDaniel (Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to be nominated for and win an Oscar.)

Best Director - Victor Fleming 

Best Screenplay - Sidney Howard (Posthumously. Sidney Howard became the first posthumous Oscar nominee and winner.)

Best Cinematography, Color - Ernest Haller, Ray Rennahan 

Best Art Direction - Lyle R. Wheeler 

Best Film Editing - Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom 

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role - Clark Gable 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Olivia de Havilland 

Best Sound, Recording - Thomas T. Moulton 

Best Special Effects - Jack Cosgrove (photographic), Fred Albin (sound), Arthur Johns (sound) 

Best Original Score - Max Steiner 

 

Best Supporting Actress Hattie McDaniel (“Gone with the Wind”) and presenter Fay Bainter pose with an Oscar statuette.

[The Stingray]

Alright guys, I have to take a break. I'll do the Top 15 in 1.5 hrs.

[NYer4Life]

I can't wait for Titanic!!!