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Mar 13, 2022 · Photo : Courtesy of Allyson Riggs/SXSW. After winning a slew of precursor awards, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” swept the 2023 Oscars with seven trophies, becoming the most-awarded best ...
Feb 14, 2022 · In fact, if you listen to the critics, some best picture Oscar winners are downright terrible. Here's a look at every best picture winner, ranked from worst to best. We compiled our...
- '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.
- 'Casablanca' (1943) As Humphrey Bogart learns, you can stay neutral in war only until love and righteousness walk back through your nightclub doors.
- 'Schindler’s List' (1993) A moving, devastating Holocaust tale about hope and kindness, it's the best Steven Spielberg movie without a certain globetrotting archaeologist.
- 'On the Waterfront' (1954) Marlon Brando's New Jersey boxer-turned-longshoreman “coulda been a contender” but is definitely the champ of this stunning crime drama.
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Did win:"How Green Was My Valley" Should have won:"Citizen Kane" Perhaps the most egregious mistake came relatively early in Oscars history, with John Ford's coal-country drama – which took five Academy Awards to alone "Kane" screenplay win – getting the nod over Orson Welles' epic about an eccentric media mogul that is widely regarded as the best ...
Did win:"The Greatest Show on Earth" Should have won:"High Noon" Even with a stellar cast – including Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour and Jimmy Stewart – "Greatest Show" is essentially a 152-minute commercial for the circus. They musthave been clowning around because this category also included "High Noon," one of the greatest Westerns of the genre...
Did win:"A Man for All Seasons" Should have won:"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" That year's best picture win went to a rousingly successful Sir Thomas More biopic, along with a bunch of awards-season gold. But come on, "Man," they should have gone for Mike Nichols' debut black comedy about marital strife. It's absolutely nuts, risky for its time,...
Did win:"The Sting" Should have won: "The Exorcist" Both were huge hits that came in with 10 nominations, and Robert Redford and Paul Newman's ragtime-tinged con-man caper was the safe choice. "The Exorcist" was the true standout, a fright-fest masterpiece about faith and innocence that's scared the socks off audiences for nearly 50 years.
Did win: "Kramer vs. Kramer" Should have won:"Apocalypse Now" Not to take anything away from the wrenching look at divorce with Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, but "Apocalypse Now" was unlike any war film that came before it, an operatic and grandiose episode that delved into the horrors, physical and otherwise, inherent on the battlefield.
Did win:"Chariots of Fire" Should have won: "Raiders of the Lost Ark" One was a true-life story of Olympic athletes that we remember now mostly because of its catchy theme song. The other was a rip-roaring, two-fisted and hugely influential ode to the serial adventures of yesteryear – with an adventurous archaeologist on the hunt for the Ark of the...
Did win:"Out of Africa" Should have won:"The Color Purple" The epic romance with Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in colonial Kenya won over Oscar voters but not critics, who gave "Africa" mixed reviews. The Academy whiffed by not honoring a film with Whoopi Goldberg's Golden Globe-winning performance, Oprah Winfrey's high-profile Hollywood debut an...
Did win:"Driving Miss Daisy" Should have won:"Field of Dreams" The pairing of Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman in a heartwarming dramedy about an elderly white woman and her African-American driver took down "Born on the Fourth of July," "My Left Foot" and "Dead Poets Society." Good movies all around, but none as excellent as the corn-fed Kevin Cos...
Did win: "Forrest Gump" Should have won: "Pulp Fiction" Tom Hanks literally running through history in the overly earnest "Gump" is what the Oscars, at least back in the day, lived for. Not so much Quentin Tarantino's genre mash-up "Pulp Fiction," an ultraviolent, narratively complex cultural phenomenon that wasn't just the best picture that year b...
Did win:"The English Patient" Should have won:"Fargo" Anthony Minghella's romantic World War II drama is a fine film, though it tests viewers' patience over the course of three hours. On the other hand, "Fargo" spawned a TV series and a fandom for the Coen brothers' winningly quirky black comedy about murderous deeds and dimwits in snow-covered Min...
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)97%. #15. Critics Consensus: An engrossing look at the triumphs and travails of war veterans, The Best Years of Our Lives is concerned specifically with the...
Although the Academy never officially said so, many commenters noted the expansion was likely in part a response to public criticism of The Dark Knight and WALL-E (both 2008) (and, in previous years, other blockbusters and popular films) not being nominated for Best Picture.
Nov 4, 2023 · Film critics and scholars have extensively debated this, not only in terms of the merits of the films themselves, in comparison to others, but also in terms of what makes a movie more prone to win.
