Best Picture Winners I've Seen
Submitted by MaxCastle on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 07:46
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- 1928 Wings
- 1929 The Broadway Melody
- 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front
- 1931 Cimarron
- 1932 Grand Hotel
- 1933 Cavalcade
- 1934 It Happened One Night
- 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty
- 1936 The Great Ziegfeld
- 1937 The Life of Emile Zola
- 1938 You Can't Take It with You
- 1939 Gone With the Wind
- 1940 Rebecca
- 1941 How Green Was My Valley
- 1942 Mrs. Miniver
- 1943 Casablanca
- 1944 Going My Way
- 1945 The Lost Weekend
- 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives
- 1947 Gentleman's Agreement
- 1948 Hamlet
- 1949 All the King's Men
- 1950 All About Eve
- 1951 An American in Paris
- 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth
- 1953 From Here to Eternity
- 1954 On the Waterfront
- 1955 Marty
- 1956 Around the World in 80 Days
- 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai
- 1958 Gigi
- 1959 Ben-Hur
- 1960 The Apartment
- 1961 West Side Story
- 1962 Lawrence of Arabia
- 1963 Tom Jones
- 1964 My Fair Lady
- 1965 The Sound of Music
- 1966 A Man for All Seasons
- 1967 In the Heat of the Night
- 1968 Oliver!
- 1969 Midnight Cowboy
- 1970 Patton
- 1971 The French Connection
- 1972 The Godfather
- 1973 The Sting
- 1974 The Godfather Part II
- 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 1976 Rocky
- 1977 Annie Hall
- 1978 The Deer Hunter
- 1979 Kramer vs Kramer
- 1980 Ordinary People
- 1981 Chariots of Fire
- 1982 Gandhi
- 1983 Terms of Endearment
- 1984 Amadeus
- 1985 Out of Africa
- 1986 Platoon
- 1987 The Last Emperor
- 1988 Rain Man
- 1989 Driving Miss Daisy
- 1990 Dances With Wolves
- 1991 The Silence of the Lambs
- 1992 Unforgiven
- 1993 Schindler's List
- 1994 Forrest Gump
- 1995 Braveheart
- 1996 The English Patient
- 1997 Titanic
- 1998 Shakespeare in Love
- 1999 American Beauty
- 2000 Gladiator
- 2001 A Beautiful Mind
- 2002 Chicago
- 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- 2004 Million Dollar Baby
- 2005 Crash
- 2006 The Departed
- 2007 No Country for Old Men
- 2008 Slumdog Millionaire
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So which is the best Best Picture?
pssst! It's #3... Casablanca
Pay no attention to the whispering cypher. It is 4 - All About Eve...
:)
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Hmm, I suspect it's actually one of the ones I inexplicably haven't seen. But of the ones I have, it's probably a toss up between All About Eve and The Apartment. :)
The winners for 1974 and 1962 would probably be my runners-up, so you may well be correct!
And, yes, Casablanca would be my fourth choice... Which is certainly no slight against that great film.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I have no idea what would make either of you think such things. Fever, altitude sickness, mercury poisoning. Gout. Is it gout? Oh please don't let it be gout. Motion sickness. The bends...
Casablanca is the perfect movie... even in spite of its flaws and perhaps because of them. Can you explain just how Charles de Gaulle's signature gets you out of Vichy-controlled Morrocco?
I've always thought lists along the lines of "The One Hundred Greatest Quotes in the History of Film" were riduculous on their face. Not only would Casablanca sweep the Top 5 (if not Top 10) it would provide the majority of the Top 50.
Perhaps this could be solved by limiting every movie to one spot. Casablanca would be #1 with the entry "With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes imprisoned in Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas." and then everything up to and including: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
I'm going to guess: hypoxia.
Well, consider how breathless I find myself watching All About Eve, you may well be right.
All four films I mentioned are in my top forty favorite films ever, though, so the difference between them is microscopic, and with my poor eyes, that may mean even less than it might for others...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs