vote for the best Oscar-winning Best Pictures of all time

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we should do a thread where we all pick the best american movies of all the years since 1927/28. i.e. "what should have won the oscar?"

There's an Oscar for best American movie?

Alba, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link

I got '95 on lockdown.

Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link

most mediocre of my lifetime

Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link

Not too hard to improve the nominations tho.

Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link

rebecca easily my fav hitch these days

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link

Probably time to revise my list from upthread. Now it'd be more like ...

01. Sunrise
02. All About Eve
03. Annie Hall
04. The Best Years of Our Lives
05. No Country for Old Men
06. How Green Was My Valley
07. The Godfather (I give)
08. maybe West Side Story
09. I dunno, maybe The Hurt Locker?
10. Ordinary People

Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link

revised:

Sunrise
All About Eve
The Apartment
The Godfather, Part II
It Happened One Night
From Here to Eternity
How Green Was My Valley
No Country for Old Men
Rebecca
The Best Years of Our Lives
On the Waterfront
12 Years a Slave

Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link

Chronologically:

On the Waterfront
The Apartment
Midnight Cowboy
The Godfather
The Godfather II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Annie Hall
The Deer Hunter
American Beauty
No Country for Old Men

"American blah blah blah?"--it's okay, I'm aware, I'm aware.

clemenza, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:21 (ten years ago) link

Missed From Here to Eternity--probably that over Annie Hall, but it's close.

clemenza, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link

1. Forrest Gump
2. Amadeus
3. Rain Man
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. Silence of the Lambs
6. Titanic
7. Platoon
8. The Godfather
9. Driving Miss Daisy
10. The Deer Hunter

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link

rebecca
sunrise
the apartment
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
the best years of our lives
casablanca
midnight cowboy
how green was my valley
all quiet on the western front
the lost weekend

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link

the lost weekend is a really good movie, I forgot about that one

espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 00:00 (ten years ago) link

four years pass...

don't know the guys who wrote abt Gigi and My Fair Lady, but they're kind of embarrassing

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 February 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link

at first I thought, "but a lot of these 'What Should Have Won' choices are dubious too" before realizing they're only choosing from the other nominees

Josefa, Saturday, 16 February 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link


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