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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2018 15:17:42 GMT
For me personally it's
'Chicago' (2002)
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jun 11, 2018 15:34:03 GMT
Out Of Africa (1985). That movie is a good cure for insomnia.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2018 15:36:30 GMT
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 11, 2018 15:36:32 GMT
Chariots of Fire (1981)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2018 15:46:11 GMT
Spotlight
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Jun 11, 2018 15:47:08 GMT
Agreed. How this Ambien pill of a movie ever won, much less beat out both Raiders of the Lost Ark and Reds, is beyond me.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2018 15:50:24 GMT
Shakespeare in Love (1998) There should be a picture of this movie poster next to 'Oscar Bait' in the dictionary.
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Post by johnspartan on Jun 11, 2018 15:59:14 GMT
"Good Will Hunting."
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Post by wonderburstanger on Jun 11, 2018 16:00:32 GMT
Citizen Kane
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Post by politicidal on Jun 11, 2018 16:04:13 GMT
How Green Was My Valley. I don't like Citizen Kane but it's far more deserving than this.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 11, 2018 16:11:01 GMT
Agreed. How this Ambien pill of a movie ever won, much less beat out both Raiders of the Lost Ark and Reds, is beyond me. Chariots of Fire was one of the first movies I rented - for my Betamax! After 30 minutes, I started to leaf through a magazine. After 45 minutes, I shut it off. I guess the rental fee was the equivalent of ten bucks today.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2018 16:15:09 GMT
Crash
How that piece of shit film won over Brokeback Mountain is beyond me. smh
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Post by vegalyra on Jun 11, 2018 16:22:38 GMT
For quite a few of the past years I haven't even seen the winner as they seem to be mostly political choices.
However, my vote is Chariots of Fire or American Beauty. 1999 was kind of weak year though so I'm not sure what should have won in its place (maybe the Insider).
Reds or Raiders definitely should have won over Chariots of Fire though. Geez.
I haven't seen Shakespeare in Love but I can't imagine how anything beat out Saving Private Ryan or the Thin Red lINE.
Just for grins, I'll also throw out Kramer Vs. Kramer as I still believe that Apocalypse Now was a much superior and more remembered film.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Jun 11, 2018 16:26:50 GMT
vegalyraAgreed. I think it's possible they didn't want to give the BP Award to another Vietnam movie so close on the heels of The Deer Hunter winning it.
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Post by ck100 on Jun 11, 2018 18:00:58 GMT
A Beautiful Mind.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2018 18:01:08 GMT
Citizen Kane did not win best picture it was only nominated.
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Post by wonderburstanger on Jun 11, 2018 18:25:12 GMT
Citizen Kane did not win best picture it was only nominated. But isn't it considered the greatest movie made of all time?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2018 18:29:16 GMT
Citizen Kane did not win best picture it was only nominated. But isn't it considered the greatest movie made of all time? Many movies have been considered that. But the fact is that in it did not win best picture. How Green Was My Valley won best picture in 1942
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 11, 2018 18:32:09 GMT
Well, it is nice that some of you have seen an Oscar winner earlier than the 1990s.
“Shakespeare In Love” won because it was a colorful historical romantic comedy/drama effectively directed and which boasted one of the best scripts of the decade by four-time Tony Award winning playwright Tom Stoppard. Acting was quite wonderful all around. BUT “Shakespeare In Love” did not win Best Director.
That award went to “Saving Pvt. Ryan” and it should have. “Ryan” is a director’s picture. Other aspects, well, acting with just a couple of exceptions (i.e. the two Toms, Hanks and Sizemore) didn’t rise above yeoman level and the script was War Movie Cliché City. It was the two battles that bookended the long talkie middle that won for Spielberg. The move deserved Best Director but not Production.
One final word about “Shakespeare” vs. “Ryan”: just because you loved “Ryan” doesn’t mean that the movie that did win was bad.
As for worst Best Picture, there are two that I dislike. For the second Oscar year of 1928-1929 (the Oscar calendar ran from September 1 of one year to August 30 of the next for the first six years), the arrival of sound was celebrated by “The Broadway Melody” whose tag line was “All Talking. All Singing. All Dancing.” That the talk was banal, the singing just OK, and the dancing kind of clunky, just didn’t matter. The Talkies had arrived.
Next we jump from the 2nd Annual Oscars to the 74th and Ron Howard’s would-be tear jerker “A Beautiful Mind” which prominently featured a perfectly awful performance from Russell Crowe, so bad it turned me against him forever.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jun 11, 2018 18:45:07 GMT
Hurt Locker - I do not understand the love for this film that no one actually loved.
Crash - Not as bad as some people think but not better than other stuff that year by a mile.
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