Pick the five best and fives worst movies that have won the Oscar for Best Picture. A list of winners can be found at http://chevy.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/ Five Best: Rebecca (1940) Best Years of Our Lives (1946) All About Eve (1950) The Godfather II (1974) Unforgiven (1992) Five Worst: Cimarron (1931) Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Oliver! (1968) Driving Miss Daisy (1989) American Beauty (1999)
I'm game, here's my list Five Best: Casablanca Godfather Part II Patton Bridge on the River Kwai Dances with Wolves/One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Five Worst: Oliver The Deer Hunter Gladiator Wings Broaday Melody (1929)
Five worst, all in no particular order: Forrest Gump Gladiator Titanic Dances With Wolves Driving Miss Daisy I've never seen Oliver!, though I know that many critics consider it a terrible choice. Five best: Casablanca Ben-Hur On The Waterfront The Best Years Of Our Lives Amadeus (personal fave)
Best: Midnight Cowboy Casablanca Bridge on the River Kwai Ben-Hur The French Connection I've not seen The Godfather series. Worst: Titanic Forest Gump Oliver! The Greatest Show on Earth Gone With The Wind I've not seen Driving Miss Daisy, Dances With Wolves, Cimmarron or Broadway Melody.
Best: Chariots of Fire Casablanca Patton West Side Story Bridge on The River Kwai Worst: Titanic Forest Gump Driving Miss Daisy Kramer vs Kramer Greatest Show on Earth
Best: Godfather Part II (1974) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Unforgiven (1992) Schindler's List (despite its problems) (1994) The Godfather (1972) WorstKeep in mind that I don't go around renting the truly heinous older films.So ths is obviously skewed. ) Greatest Show on Earth (1952) Gladiator (2000) American Beauty (1999) Rain Man (1988) Gone Wth the Wind (1939) IT's interesting to see the other lists and note some of the popular choices. Forrest Gump is far from a great film, but I would say it's a decent, entertaining film. I hate the popular belief that it's a great film more than the film itself. I don't think that Driving Miss Daisy is a bad film either --- just not a really good, with the addtional offense of winning over other more worthy choices -- DO the Right Thing and Drugstore Cowboy come to mind. In looking at the list, there's a lot more disappointment than I expected.
I'm not sure I've ever watched a "Best Picture" winner and thought, "Man, that sucked!" They DO tend to be popular, pleasurable movies. Granted, rarely, if ever, has a winner been a truly daring or creative work of art. But Hollywood really isn't about that, and the Oscar's are about Hollywood celebrating Hollywood. That's why it's always seemed a bit silly to me to get very bent when a given film is "robbed" by the Academy. Anyway, awards are a notoriously poor measure of any artwork's lasting impact. Few Nobel prize winning authors are mainstays in the canon, and the it's even more extreme in other media. Nontheless, my favs and least favs from the list: Favs: Annie Hall Casablanca Bridge on River Kwai Last Emperor Chariots of Fire Least Favs: A Beautiful Mind The Greatest Show on Earth Out of Africa Rocky Silence of the Lambs
Top Five: 1) Lawrence of Arabia 2) The Godfather 3) Gone With the Wind 4) Annie Hall 5) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Bottom Five: 69) Out of Africa 70) Terms of Endearment 71) Titanic 72) Chariots of Fire 73) Dances With Wolves
Well, i cant really say, but i know that forrest gump and rain man would DEFINITLEY not be on my "worst" list. I LOVE both those movies.
worst gone with the wind ben hur casablanca titanic gladiator best forrest gump Platoon schidlers list thats about it i dont really like oscar winning movies
best: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Annie Hall (1977) Amadeus (1984) worst: Gladiator (2000) Shakespeare in Love (1998) Titanic (1997) English Patient, The (1996) Braveheart (1995) Schindler's List (1993) Last Emperor, The (1987) --- OK, it's more than five in my worst list but I think they somehow are equally bad, I cannot just pick five. And I haven't seen some of the worst many others mentioned, so I can't decide. One thing, does that show Oscar are getting worse in the '90s?
I find it really hard to come up with a 5 best or 5 worst Oscars list, for one reason: who was the competition? I mean, if it was a year that the movies really sucked, then maybe the winner WAS the best that year. On the other hand, I once saw a list of the movies that came out in 1939, and I'm amazed that they just awarded one Oscar!
Best Godfather Pt2 In The Heat of The Night The Apartment The French Connection Annie Hall Worst Titanic Gladiator Braveheart West Side Story Oliver
The following films have made both a best list and a worst list: Silence of the Lambs Gone With the Wind Forrest Gump Dances with Wolves West Side Story Casablanca (what is there to hate in this movie?) Schindler's List (ditto?) The Last Emperor Personally, I think the first half of GWTW is a great movie, the second half a lousy one.
Best: Patton Silence of the Lambs Amadeus Lawrence of Arabia Gandhi Worst: Dances with Wolves American Beauty Rain Man Terms of Endearment Titanic can't judge any of the films pre-1970. Best Films Not To Win An Oscar For Best Picture: The Sixth Sense Pulp Fiction Goodfellas Lord of the Rings: Fellowship Dead Poets Society
Top 5 Unforgiven The Silence of the Lambs The Godfather The French Connection Midnight Cowboy Bottom 5 Gladiator The English Patient Forrest Gump Dances With Wolves Terms of Endearment
A-************ING-MEN! I wish theres was some sort of way they coulve splitted the oscar in 2 and given half to forrest gump, and half to pulp fiction.
Here's a list of alternate possiblities for the Academy Awards.The idea is to pick films that don't stray too far afield, and, except in the most extreme circumstances, Engliish-language. Generally, I will stick with films that received major nominations, as to keep it in the practical realm. This is not a "best film" of the year list, and keep in mind, it's off the top of my head.Didn't change all of them, when I thought they were worthy. 2001: Mulholland Drive 2000: Requiem for a Dream 1999: Eyes Wide Shut 1998: The Thin Red Line. 97:The Sweet Hereafter 96: Fargo 95:Safe 94:Hoop Dreams 93: Short Cuts 92: Unforgiven v. Howard's End tough choice 91:Barton Fink 90: Goodfellas 89: Drugstore Cowboy/Sex, Lies, and Videotape/Do the Right Thing (good film year) 88:The Thin Blue Line 87:The Last Emperor 86: A Room with a View 85::Blood Simple 84: The Killingf Fields 83:The Year of Living Dangerously 82: Blade Runner 81: Gallipoli 80: Raging Bull 79: Apocalypse Now 78: Days of Heaven 77:Annie Hall 76:Taxi Driver 75: Nashville 74: Godfather Part !! (But really take your pick Chinatown, the Conversation, the Parallax View, etc. ) 73: Badlands 72:The Godfather 71:A Clockwork Orange 70: MASH 69: Easy Rider 68: 2001 67: The Graduate 66:Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 65octor Zhivago 64: Fail Safe 63 Dr. Strangelove 62: Lawrence of Arabia 61: The Hustler 60sycho 59: North by Northwest 58: Vertigo 57aths of Glory 56:The Searchers 55:Night of the Hunter 54:On the Waterfront 53: From Here to Eternity 52: HIgh Noon 51 An Streetcar Named Desire 50: Sunset Boulevard 49:The Third Man 48: Treasure of the Sierra Madre 47:?? 46: The Best Years of Our Lives 45: Henry V 44ouble Indemnity 43:Casablanca 42:The Magnificent Ambersons 41: Citizen Kane 40: Rebecca 39:The Wizard of Oz 38:The Lady Vanishes 37:The Petrified Forest 36 Modern Times 35: The Informer 34 It Happened One Night 33: King Kong 32:Trouble in Paradise 31:M 30 All Quiet on the Western Front 29:?? 28: The Passion of Joan of Arc 27: The General
Ted, You probably won't like this answer, but here goes. Really, I don't have to do anything but quote the great critic Paulene Kael, who said of the film, "I didn't hate American Beauty. I detested it. Why can't liberals see when they're being blatantly pandered to." That basically was my sentiment. The overriding problem I have with the film is that it has an utterly teenage mentality. Adulthood is all about sex. Drugs are entirely benign, in fact good for you. Escaping this world by running away is presented as a brave, admirable happy ending..It's a film that wants to make you think it has adult concerns, when ifn fact it has a devoutly teenage outlook. It might as well be 10 Things I Hate About You. I wondered if a 16-year--old had written the script. Has there ever been a less deeply written character in a film than the wife? I thought Annette Benning dida great job just to make her presentable. She's a complete dartboard, and that's emblematic of the way it treats suburbia. the last hour of the film is basically a sitcom. It goes for the yuck-a-minute approach without showing any depth. There are so many more better takes on suburban ennui. I mean, has anyone seen Safe? The Virgin Suicides, I think, showed more complexity and detail in dealing with this topic.The adults in that film are real, even if they're wrong. Kathleen Turner turns out to be an overbearing wench, but i understand the concerns that make her one. I can't really say the same thing about Annette Benning. Anyway, I really don't like the film, although it does have some nice moments.
"Mendes's harsh and hyperbolic, if not particularly funny, satire of suburban angst makes The Ice Storm seem a nuanced masterpiece of engaged cine-humanism and wiseguy Todd Solondz look like a Swiftian genius. Bleak as it is, American Beauty has a certain car-wreck fascination but, with all the rubbernecking, there's no narrative flow. As studied as its title would suggest, this is one cold movie. " - J. Hoberman