The Oscars/Acadamy awards big poll of films

[iff]

so inspired/blaming Trevor noah who on maybe wednesday's episode suggested instead making the 2021 oscars a best of the oscar winners rather than opening it up to streaming as rule was that films had to open first in the cinema, hence the 3 weeks between the irishman going from cinema to netflix (coincidentally the day before this was announced, i had posted 2 days before this "some Oscar buzz around it, because no one knows if there'll be cinema open again this year ", am i suggesting the academy are reading my posts and thwarting them? no comment), it has given me the idea for this big big poll

 

the qualification to be entered

- won best film

- film's director won best director

 

alot of the time this is the swame movie but there are exceptions. some times, the two awards get split as a way to acknowledge that they were two great pictures. for example 1940 saw the brilliant The Grapes of Wrath win Best director and the equally brilliant Rebecca win Best film so that is opening it up

 

divided by each decade

 

this is going to be big

 

maybe when i remember ab out this poll some time in the future, the ones leading at that point go into a final to decide the winner?

[iff]

I am not voting yet in this

 

feel free to just vote if you want to, though i also encourage those who would like to to discuss this. my film viewing has increased in the last few years. in school, the running joke was about how i never watch films. the joke still continues to this day when me and my secondary school friends meet up, even though now it isn't accurate, but funny.

 

i'd love to hear the thoughts of those more familiar with the classic films.

 

1920's - have not seen any of these

1930's - unfortunately skippy is not about the bush kangaroo i must admit also low knowledge of this. there are ones i am familiar with the name but never got a chance to see

1940's - good decade with grapes of wrath, rebecca, and casablanca. my favourite is the grapes of wrath. saw casablanca for the first time 3 weeks ago.

1950's - i did see bridge over the river kwai last year, child hood i had seen around the world in 80's days several times.

1960's - tough choices in this.

1970's - more tough choices/. in kramer v kramer, i was really rooting for kramer to win but so dissappointed when kramer won actually i have this either recorded or downloaded and been meaning to watch it. I did watch The Deer Hunter last weekend and it was very very good. Again this shows my lack of knowledge, i have never seen the godfather movies (my big thought is the bit from rules of engagement  where the guys says he watched the first two, much to the satisfaction of the other guy in it, then went to watch the third one declaring it "the best of them"

1980's - also one. i know of some of these but can't say i have got a chance to see them

1990's - forrest gump but again i have very terrible knowledge on these

2000's - No Country for Old Men - such a great movie. I have seen it at least 4 times, friendos.

Slumdog Millionaire is really good

2010's - Birdman is very good but don't think it is great. Spotlight and Moonlight

The Revenant - mmmm.

La la Land is really such an enjoyable film. Really good. I think that is my pick here

 

 

[Karret]

1920s idk those

1930s idk those

1940s Casablanca - mostly chosen because I've seen it once, but I don't remember much about the plot.

1950s All About Eve - my sister loves this movie, but again, I don't remember much about the plot.

1960s My Fair Lady - hits me right in the nostalgia. ❤️ West Side Story and Sound of Music are strong runners-up, though.

1970s French Connection - I recognize the name, but I don't remember if I've seen it or not.

1980s idk those

1990s Forrest Gump, also hits right in the nostalgia. Silence of the Lambs is also really good.

2000s Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

2010s idk those
A lot of the movies I watch apparently aren't on those lists. :Þ

Surprising that something like Fight Club or some Quentin Tarantino movie isn't on the lists

[daveb]

I don't know anything about those movies from the 1920s or from the 2010s.

I could have voted for more than one movie in some of the other years (Casablanca and Treasure of the Sierra Madre are both excellent, for example).

[GlamRocker]

The thing about this is, that only in the 1990s,1960s, and 2000s do the Oscars “BEST PICTURE” the movie I respect the most from the decade.

 

 

1990s: Schindler's List. I consider Schindler's List THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE.

1960s: Lawrence of Arabia.

2000s: Had a hard time picking between Gladiator and The Departed. I think I chose The Departed, but I should have chose Gladiator, maybe...

 

 

From the 1920's the movie I respect the most is Nosferatu. Though Chaplin's The Gold Rush is hard to beat.

 

 

From the 1930's that movie is Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but it's HARD to beat The Wizard of Oz (sorry Gone with the Wind)... and just mentioning, Bringing Up Baby never got any recognition. And where's SNOW WHITE?

 

 

From the 1940's... it's crazy but I'm NOT familiar enough with Casablanca to fairly decide on this decade. I've also never seen Rebecca!

 

From the 1950's that movie is Vertigo, which also won NOTHING and is now often considered the greatest movie ever made. Though I do highly respect Ben Hur. But, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sunset Boulevard... WHERE ARE YOU? By the way, GIANT is a garbage movie, I have no idea how it won anything other than on star power, partially because James Dean had just died. Also, I find James Dean to be a horrid actor. But he's cool.

 

 

1960s: I have ZERO dispute with Lawrence of Arabia being the best movie of the decade. That is all.

 

 

1970s: Apocalypse Now. And it SHOULD have won best picture in 1980, NOT Kramer vs. Kramer. Though the Godfather IS the shit, as well as Rocky, and Taxi Driver… something that always deserves mention but never seems to get it: The Exorcist. The Exorcist actually SHOULD have won best picture in 1974. And A Clockwork Orange won nothing. Also, most of the time people seem to think that Godfather II is better than the first one... rubbish I say!

 

1980s: Amadeus, or... ALIENS. The classic action/cyberpunk movies that came out in this decade all got snubbed for more "high brow" winners... Terminator, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, The Road Warrior, Aliens, Robocop, Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark, YES: The Empire Strikes Back!... these were the gems of the 80s. As well as Full Metal Jacket (which won NOTHING) and is, imo, better than Platoon. Movies like "Ordinary People," (which actually BEAT Raging Bull WTF) and "Driving Miss Daisy"? Come ON

 

 

1990s: OBVIOUSLY Schindler’s List. But, no Pulp Fiction? Saving Private Ryan? Goodfellas? Fargo? <--- All should have won best picture, though Goodfellas lost to Dances with Wolves, which is a deserving movie. And I like Forrest Gump, but it's no Pulp Fiction. The English Patient is alright, Fargo is better. And SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE beating SAVING PRIVATE RYAN? Gag. Edit: you're right @Karret, WHERE'S FIGHT CLUB... for that matter, what about The Matrix?

 

 

2000s: Gladiator, The Departed. But There Will Be Blood was a contender for me here.

 

 

2010s: For me, that movie is MAD MAX, FURY ROAD!!!! It was in the running but action movies ALWAYS lose out for best picture. Though, I found NIGHTCRAWLER to be just as good, especially in performances... but the technical achievement of Fury Road is too jaw-dropping to beat. And where’s BLACK SWAN? Yeah, Black Swan should have beat The King’s Speech. And Green Book beat Blackkklansmen? Pathetic.

 

 

Embarrassing winners that should have NEVER won, not just because they were up against a better movie (that I KNOW of):

The Artist

Shakespeare in Love

Green Book

Giant (kill me now)... not best picture but shouldn't have won ANYTHING

Mrs. Miniver (dumb propaganda)

The Sting

Driving Miss Daisy

 

Doing this list made me realize that the Academy Awards has a strong bias against movies with very dark messages... antisocial dark. Some have won. I consider Midnight Cowboy to be this kind of movie, The Deer Hunter, Silence of the Lambs, Platoon, maybe I'd count The Godfather. But it seems often a better movie with a more antisocial message loses out to a fluffier movie. Just take how Sunset Boulevard was beaten by All About Eve... All About Eve is fantastic, but Sunset Boulevard is better. They even have some similar themes, but Sunset Boulevard is MUCH darker.

 

 

[Skycaptain]

The last film on that list I've seen was Silence of the Lambs😋😋

[SithLord]

Chose "don't make me choose" when I literally had no idea what any of them were, or didn't care in the slightest. So a bit different from the "they're all so good!" idea that phrase suggests. Not a film buff and only realized later I got a few classics confused with later films/shows/whatever with the same name. Meh. 

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19 hours ago, SithEmpress said:

Chose "don't make me choose" when I literally had no idea what any of them were, or didn't care in the slightest. So a bit different from the "they're all so good!" idea that phrase suggests. 

That is one way, though I use it more "I want to spare your feelings by not picking" 

 

It is a reference to this

 

[ShrimpyShiro]

I feel like I'm missing out on something. Of all the films in that poll, the only ones I've seen are the Sound of Music and Forrest Gump. 🙃

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