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Mar 24, 2022 · 1. 'The Godfather' (1972) With violence, betrayal, drama, Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, the sprawling gangster epic is the cannoli on top of the Oscars' best picture cake. "Oppenheimer" is...
All 96 Best Picture Winners, Ranked by Tomatometer. Oppenheimer wins Best Picture — see where it ranks!
- The Godfather (1972) What is left to say about The Godfather that hasn’t already been said? Francis Ford Coppola’s landmark film launched hundreds of imitators, but has yet to be equalled.
- Casablanca (1943) The first time Sam plays “As Time Goes By…” A bar full of expatriates and refugees singing “La Marseillaise…” Humphrey Bogart’s Rick and Ingrid Bergman’s Ilsa dancing to “Perfidia…” Captain Renault instructing his henchmen to round up the usual suspects… Everyone has their own favourite Casablanca moment, but one thing is certain: each one feels just right.
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean’s take on the Middle East campaign during the First World War is the very definition of epic: sprawling desert landscapes, stunning 70mm cinematography, battle sequences, glorious music and one of the best-written screenplays in film history.
- The Apartment (1960) With The Apartment, director Billy Wilder hits the sweet spot between tragedy and comedy. Jack Lemmon plays C.C. Baxter, a lonely office drone who loans his apartment out to his company’s philandering executives.
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Mar 11, 2024 · From 'Wings' to 'Everything Everywhere All at Once,' let's take a look through Oscar history and rank all 96 Best Picture winners.
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- Crash
- Cimarron
- Out of Africa
- A Beautiful Mind
- Braveheart
- The Broadway Melody
- Around The World in 80 Days
- Shakespeare in Love
- Gladiator
- The Greatest Show on Earth
Crash is set in a world where race is at the forefront of every consciousness during every minute of every day, where elaborately worded slurs are loaded into everyone’s speech centers like bullets in a gun, ready to be fired at the instant that disrespect is given. The characters are anachronistic cartoons posing as symbols of contemporary distres...
As pre-Code spectacles go, Cimarron is something of a big-budget exercise in experimentation, though not in the sense that it actually produces anything innovative. Wesley Ruggles helms a screenplay spanning 40 years to create what’s meant to be eye-catching spectacle; the film’s story begins with a restaging of the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889, a seq...
Out of Africa attempts to merge the sweeping visuals of Lawrence of Arabia with a Gone with the Wind-style story. But director Sydney Pollack is neither David Lean nor David O. Selznick, with the interminable result shellacked to the highest of glosses by John Barry’s syrupy score. This bloated, self-important film depicts Danish writer Isak Dinese...
If the cartoonists at Hanna-Barbera wanted to quickly convey the extent of a cartoon character’s world travels, they might cut from a shot of, say, Huckleberry Hound walking before the Eiffel Tower to a shot of the pooch prancing before Big Ben. In A Beautiful Mind, a film that doesn’t lack for the laziest of short cuts, a young John Nash (Russell ...
Braveheart substitutes polished aesthetics, quotable speeches, and superficially bravura camerawork for a genuine examination of historical legend, while its would-be woozy romance remains trapped beneath the weight of both its unmerited running time and overly orchestrated sense of tragedy. Never have the Dark Ages appeared so plasticine and manic...
Philosophically speaking, F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise was the first film to win the award associated with the qualities we now associate with the best picture category, in a year in which the industry tossed The Jazz Singer an honorary award rather than make the field of silents compete against it. In its second year, Oscar embraced the future with both ...
Oscar has awarded expansive tedium more often than not, but even by those pitiful standards, Around the World in 80 Days is a specialized case. Adapting a Jules Verne novel but framing the entire proceedings as a reactionary pre-Space Age paean to days gone by, Michael Anderson’s epic is regressive in every way. From David Nivens’s entitled superci...
John Madden’s Shakespeare in Love is a beautifully costumed and designed mess. The greatest voice the theater has ever seen, the author of an unequaled canon that serves as inspiration for nearly all narrative works in the modern age, William Shakespeare is here portrayed by Joseph Fiennes as an egotistical cad—an unrepentant scoundrel who’s capabl...
Directed by Ridley Scott on depressing autopilot, Gladiator displays none of the technically nimble artistry of such classics as Alien and Blade Runner. The overstuffed production meanders through knotty character dilemmas and rote attempts at Shaekepearean esoterica in as bland a manner possible. All the better to elevate Russell Crowe’s Maximus t...
As far as tributes to vagrancy and animal abuse go, mid-century American cinema has done worse. But even taking into account Hollywood’s then-emerging neo-gigantism, it’s shocking how much effort Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth goes into missing the forest for the trees. Cecil B. DeMille, then regarded as Hollywood’s undisputedly grea...
Mar 9, 2023 · The 15 worst Oscar Best Picture winners of all time. From Crashto Gigi to Driving Miss Daisy, here are the Academy Award winners that just don't measure up—and the movies that should...
