Really? Widely accepted by who? It’s got a 70 on rotten tomatoes and it’s not on sight and sound top 100.

IMDB.

The rating system of audiences, not just film critics.

And AFI

Ask a filmmaker if they want audiences to like their films or just critics.

Plus you can't really swing a dead cat and not hit a cable channel showing it at some time.




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The question wasn’t “which best picture winners do the most uneducated audience like”. it was which is best.

I'm trying to figure out if this is sarcasm. We all have our tastes and opinions, but everything about this is the opposite of correct. I mean "the art style isn't that great?" No depth?



You were definitely hopped up on meds.

So how do we determine that? Is it only old white guys opinions that matter?

I.e. film critics.



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Nice try.

My wife and daughter went out of town a couple weekends ago, so my 11-year old son and I did some movie watching.

First up was Us. He love love loved it. Couldn't stop talking about it. We listened to the music a lot afterward.

The next day, we watched Get Out with my brother, who hadn't seen it (I had already seen these movies). Son thought it was even better than Us.

That night, we made double bacon cheeseburgers with fried pickles and watched Alien. I was afraid it might be a little letdown after the first two movies, but he just looked at me when it was over and said, "Awesome." He knew about the chest-bursting scene because he had previously watched Spaceballs, but it was still a thrill when it happened.

We also watched Shaun of the Dead this past weekend. He had seen Hot Fuzz so was really excited for it. Did not disappoint. My wife had thought she had seen it and remembered not liking it, but afterward, she said she hadn't seen it before and loved it.

You too.

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Some of the choices probably were "Best Picture of the Year". But it would be an eternal argument and subjective judgement. And certainly many were picked for a variety of reasons - from the silly to the superfluous to the stupendous.


• 2020 - "Parasite
• 2019 - "Green Book"
• 2018 - "The Shape of Water"
• 2017 - "Moonlight"
• 2016 - "Spotlight"
• 2015 - "Birdman"
• 2014 - "12 Years a Slave"
• 2013 - "Argo"
• 2012 - "The Artist"
• 2011 - "The King's Speech"
• 2010 - "The Hurt Locker"
• 2009 - "Slumdog Millionaire"
• 2008 - "No Country for Old Men"
• 2007 - "The Departed"
• 2006 - "Crash"
• 2005 - "Million Dollar Baby"
• 2004 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
• 2003 - "Chicago"
• 2002 - "A Beautiful Mind"
• 2001 - "Gladiator"
• 2000 - "American Beauty"
• 1999 - "Shakespeare in Love"
• 1998 - "Titanic"
• 1997 - "The English Patient"
• 1996 - "Braveheart"
• 1995 - "Forrest Gump"
• 1994 - "Schindler’s List"
• 1993 - "Unforgiven"
• 1992 - "The Silence of the Lambs"
• 1991 - "Dances With Wolves"
• 1990 - "Driving Miss Daisy"
• 1989 - "Rain Man"
• 1988 - "The Last Emperor"
• 1987 - "Platoon"
• 1986 - "Out of Africa"
• 1985 - "Amadeus"
• 1984 - "Terms of Endearment"
• 1983 - "Gandhi"
• 1982 - "Chariots of Fire"
• 1981 - "Ordinary People"
• 1980 - "Kramer vs. Kramer"
• 1979 - "The Deer Hunter"
• 1978 - "Annie Hall"
• 1977 - "Rocky"
• 1976 - "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"
• 1975 - "The Godfather Part II"
• 1974 - "The Sting"
• 1973 - "The Godfather"
• 1972 - "The French Connection"
• 1971 - "Patton"
• 1970 - "Midnight Cowboy"
• 1969 - "Oliver!"
• 1968 - "In the Heat of the Night"
• 1967 - "A Man for All Seasons"
• 1966 - "The Sound of Music"
• 1965 - "My Fair Lady"
• 1964 - "Tom Jones"
• 1963 - "Lawrence of Arabia"
• 1962 - "West Side Story"
• 1961 - "The Apartment"
• 1960 - "Ben-Hur"
• 1959 - "Gigi"
• 1958 - "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
• 1957 - "Around the World in 80 Days"
• 1956 - "Marty"
• 1955 - "On the Waterfront"
• 1954 - "From Here to Eternity"
• 1953 - "The Greatest Show on Earth"
• 1952 - "An American in Paris"
• 1951 - "All About Eve"
• 1950 - "All the Kings Men"
• 1949 - "Hamlet"
• 1948 - "Gentleman's Agreement"
• 1947 - "The Best Years of Our Lives"
• 1946 - "The Lost Weekend"
• 1945 - "Going My Way"
• 1944 - "Casablanca"
• 1943 - "Mrs. Miniver"
• 1942 - "How Green Was My Valley"
• 1941 - "Rebecca"
• 1940 - "Gone with the Wind"
• 1939 - "You Can't Take It with You"
• 1938 - "The Life of Emile Zola"
• 1937 - "The Great Ziegfeld"
• 1936 - "Mutiny on the Bounty"
• 1935 - "It Happened One Night"
• 1933/1934 - "Cavalcade"
• 1932/1933 - "Grand Hotel"
• 1931/1932 - "Cimarron"
• 1930/1931 - "All Quiet on the Western Front"
• 1929/1930 - "The Broadway Melody"
• 1928/1929 - "Wings"


Enjoy arguing about all the above. I'll just listen to Bach and drink Gin & Tonics as a more productive use of my time.

Just eyeballing the list: No Country, Hurt Locker, Million Dollar Baby all look fine. I’ll have to look at the competition.

I remember the year Spotlight won there were some great movies: Mad Max, Big Short, Revenant, The Room.

2012, 2015 and 2018 are a joke imo. And 2006 obv though that looks like a bad year for movies

My class watched It Happened One Night today. They loved it.

Locke is very good, and unusually set in one location, the inside of his car, so some people say it would have made a better stage play.

Forrest Gump is a delightful film

So is Shakespeare In Love. But that doesn't make either one the best films of their respective years.

Agree it was a fun film. I wonder if there is such a thing as charity voting, where someone votes for a choice that they think won't win just to give it some recognition. If enough people have the same idea at the same time -- Viola! an Oscar.

Parasite. It's interesting that someone posted the list of past oscar winners and there was a discussion about great movies.

Before we watched it I asked my niece if she liked it and she replied "loved it". Then we talked about going to the movies and if she would want to see it again and she replied with an emphatic "no".

That's really how I felt about it. I enjoyed it but it just doesn't seem like a movie I would want to see again. In fact, I can't see one on the list that I have wanted to watch more than once since No Country for Old Men. Maybe King's Speech. But there's a bunch before those two that I've rewatched many times.

While we are talking about rewatchable movies. I think I've seen Forrest Gump at least 5 times beginning to end. At least 50 times I've caught it on TV and watched a half hour or more of it. Love it.

BackCountry Some bad decisions lead to some bad consequences.

Kinda dumb but watchable.

hmmmm The usual cast

I think it's very interesting to see the movies that were nominated but DIDN'T win best picture of the year...

Jesus that poster. He really needs to dial down the twee a little.