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Surprising to who? Annie Hall was original and inventive. Star Wars ripped off Hidden Fortress and a number of other films.
Must agree on the Raging Bull slight. It got beat by Ordinary People.
LOTR: Return of the King also won 11 awards, and West Side Story won 10 plus it earned a special honorary award for choreography.
And saying Apoc. Now should have won b/c it has great quotes is one of the dumber things
I've read in a while.
I think you meant "At least Goodfellas..."
Gandhi freed millions of people from torture from the British.
And you call him an Indian dude in a diaper?
Disgusting
Hollywood is a bunch of losers.
1/3. Listening to Marlon Brando mumble incoherently for 40 minutes isn't my idea of a
good night out.
As for Jaws vs. Cuckoos Nest....they should have given out two Oscars that year.
also the year I stopped giving a shit about the Oscars.
As for Star Wars.. it was a wonderful, magical film, and I remember rooting for it to win best picture. But it's really hard to argue that a movie with so many imperfections - some rather amateurish acting, mediocre dialogue - should have won Best Picture. Empire Strikes Back has a better case.
While I love Hitchcock, I don't think Psycho was one of his greatest films, just one of his most famous, so I wouldn't put that on the list either.
Others I agree with - E.T. (the critics certainly rated it above Ghandi even at the time), Saving Private Ryan, Dr. Strangelove, Goodfellas
The Maltese Falcon. The Searchers. Chinatown. Network. The Right Stuff.
Are you kidding me? It, along with the 10 Commandments, are standard staple on TV programming come Easter time. The sea battle/galley oarsmen bit is great stuff.
this link could be a good starting point
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articl...
cares about now directed by someone who hasn't done anything good since made by a
studio that has gone bankrupt now. Saving Private Ryan kills the run-on sentence.
HUZZAH.
You think Gandhi should have lost out to ET?
I'm surprised you didn't b*tch about Grimlins losing to Amadeus.
and "Philadelphia" should have won Best Picture. Those films were popular and crowd-
pleasing, but also drenched in over-acting and sentimentality. Hardly the hallmarks of
"best" or signal achievements. For "Psycho," I challenge you or anyone to watch that
movie again, with your modern cinema mind. It is slow as molasses, and only 3 scenes
set that film apart from countless dreck: 1.) the protagonist is killed 30 minutes into the
picture, 2.) the shower scene was racy and violent, excellent editing, and 3.) the twist
ending. Other than that, it was Hitchcock's spin on a genre, he himself admitted.
Also, "Apocalypse, Now" lost out to "Kramer v Kramer" because by 1979, Vietnam was
already tiring everyone out, and "K v K" was one of the first films to look at the exploding
phenom of divorce, of the consequences the children involved pay, and so resonated
better with viewers than a retelling of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."
Office Space
Fight club
Only some of the greatest movies of all time.
DUMB!
Scott
You feel E.T. deserved it rather than Gandhi???!!
You feel Spielberg was better than Attenborough in comparison, in this context??
You feel a fantasy film shot in some backyard better than a feature shot in 3 different
continents featuring actors from 3 continents?
Gandhi and his deeds will endere humanity until eternity.
A two bit ET will tickle laughs 50 years from now.
Cheers
Jason - I am with you on the Saving Private Ryan comment.
Dinero was terrific, and the screen play was also super.
A true classic.
I saw the original, with Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck which was very well produced. But this is one time a remake was far superior tho the original.
Picture????? Come on!!!! And hey, Oscars is about politics, not about great film making.
Magnolia? That's perfection.
LOL. I agree that SPR should have won....but LOL.
!2 Monkeys: another complex masterpiece, that Pitt fella again as it happens, and Bruce actually acting... and Terry Gilliam helming one of his most moving parables.
And as for old films... the very first Best Picture winner was Wings, but I would have chosen Metropolis. I mean, come on! Metropolis is for the ages. Even now it doesn't seem dated. It seems prophetic.
I agree with you on The Searchers. John Wayne only won one Oscar, for True Grit, and he deserved to win so many more than that.
Please, dear God, send the planetkiller now!
i would suggest you don't even try to instigate or provoke someone to use hatements in comments by saying stuff like "skinny indian dude wearing a white diaper"
i won't care to elaborate for someone like you, what an ideal example gandhi was for the common man to defeat any oppressive rule in the most simple ways...without using any show of strength or aggressiveness.
check wikipedia or watch "lage raho munnabhai" movie.
The movie was nothing short of amazing... truly one of the most moving moments of my life watching that film... and... the part where Tom Hanks describes the opera song as it plays in the background, has to be one of the great moments in cinema history. If you can't appreciate that... I truly feel sorry for you.
Of course I'm equally shocked at some of the other classics that didn't win best film. Now I'm wondering whether it is worth me filling out my Oscar Ballot for this year. :|
Empire of the Sun (early Christian Bale actually acting, not just looking ominous)
Hope and Glory (wwII family in Britain)
Shawshank (there is no overacting)
Raging Bull / Goodfellas (some overacting)
Alien (sci-fi shocker but a sci-fi movie will never win)
Blade Runner (same as Alien)
Stand By Me / Dolores Claiborne / Dead Zone (all by King, all great acting)
Deer Hunter (a snoozer...come on, now....Mow! Mow!)
Apocalypse Now (there was no competition even if people were "tired of Vietnam"
Nice website and you forget the travesties of the Oscars and Emmys as years go by. Some movies get better with repeated watchings, like Shawshank. The award should be for acting, story and location. Special effects shouldn't be considered. That was an incredibly stupid comment about Ghandi.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/reagan.asp
And yes, Shawshank does get better with repeated viewings. Here's a very subtle joke in the movie which I laughed at: when Andy DuFresne's bible is opened by the warden at the end, and it has been carved open to hide a rock pick: what book of the Bible does it fall open to? Exodus! Ha! (For those who don't know, that's the book in which Moses leads the Hebrews out of Egyptian captivity).
I saw Blade Runner in the theater when it opened. I knew it was a masterpiece 5 minutes in.
Looking at the list on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_... ) I find that I disagree with as many as half the Best Picture winners. Look at 1973: The Sting beats Cries and Whispers and American Graffiti?
She should listen to Scorsese talk about Ben-Hur before she opens his pie hole.
i'll vote for it to win ...
Checkout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_Prison_riots
One last note:
Office Space? Cast Away? Really people? Let's focus.
Driver.
was better, as was In the Name of the Father. Daniel Day Lewis or Liam Neeson should have
beaten Hanks. Hell, even Denzel should have beaten him in his own film. Tommy Lee Jones
winning best supporting actor that year was a farce too - he was up against Ralph Fiennes,
Pete Postlewaithe and Di Caprio.
what are the great under-acknowledged films?
It changed my life forever.
If that was humor, maybe you should be a little wary about your attempts at making people laugh. Gandhi as a film is a separate issue from Gandhi as a man. But since your film-appreciation seems to be misguidedly based on abuses (racist?) and diapers, maybe you should be questioning yourself about your own credibility at judging films.
People may get angry for saying this but, I think that Titanic is over-rated.
The biggest shock to me was when Crash won over Brokeback Mountain. I almost vomitted completely because of that. Like we've never see racism on the big screen before.
http://filmschools4u.blogspot.com/
was lame and filled with carcictures, much like Titanic."
Ain't that the truth. Great camerawork by Janusz Kaminski in opening seems to blind people
to the fact the rest was tosh.
Air Force One
Independence Day
Star Wars Ep III Revengene of the Sith
4 of the best movies I have seen in the last 10 years...were they even nominated?
Politics! Politics! Politics! That is my opinion f the Oscars.
And I didn't even mention, "The Color Purple," or "Close Encounters."
One of the best movies ever made, should have win best picture.
well for me its Shawshank Redemption which should have got the Oscars..
And another fine example of the Academy's blind eye for film was the 41st ceremony. Now, how is it that Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Leone's epic Once Upon a Time in the West were more or less excluded form the awards altogether? Both are among the most influential of their genres, and far more deserving of the "Besr Picture" award than the Oscar-friendly Oliver!.