Post by Ardbeg... innit on Feb 25, 2005 18:01:57 GMT -6
Face it some movies just hold up better over time than others, and hindsight is 20/20. Some Oscar Best Picture Winners are, today, real stinkers.
Empire Magazine has declared that Braveheart was the worst winner ever in the Oscar catagory of "Best Picture".
news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=213052005
Looking over the list of nominees and winners some other notables are in the same catagory... personally My Fair Lady (winner)/ Dr Strangelove, Rocky (winner)/Taxi Driver, Forrest Gump(winner) Shawshank Redemption.
To help jar your memory... here is the list of Best Picture nominees and winner (*) for the past 40 years...
Anybody else got that specially stinko Best Picture.
1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady*, Zorba the Greek
1965 Doctor Zhivago, Darling, Ship of Fools, The Sound of Music*, A Thousand Clowns
1966 Alfie, A Man for All Seasons*, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, The Sand Pebbles, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967 Bonnie and Clyde, Doctor Dolittle, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night*
1968 Funny Girl, The Lion in Winter, Oliver!*, Rachel Rachel, Romeo and Juliet
1969 Anne of the Thousand Days, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hello Dolly!, Midnight Cowboy*, Z
1970 Airport, Five Easy Pieces, Love Story, M*A*S*H, Patton*
1971 A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler on the Roof, The French Connection*, The Last Picture Show, Nicholas and Alexandra
1972 Cabaret, Deliverance, The Emigrants, The Godfather*, Sounder
1973 American Graffiti, Cries and Whispers, The Exorcist, The Sting*, A Touch of Class
1974 Chinatown, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II*, Lenny, The Towering Inferno
1975 Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Nashville, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest*
1976 All the President's Men, Bound for Glory, Network, Rocky*, Taxi Driver
1977 Annie Hall*, The Goodbye Girl, Julia, Star Wars, The Turning Point
1978 Coming Home, The Deer Hunter*, Heaven Can Wait, Midnight Express, An Unmarried Woman
1979 All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Breaking Away, Kramer vs. Kramer*, Norma Rae
1980 Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Ordinary People*, Raging Bull, Tess
1981 Atlantic City, Chariots of Fire*, On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reds
1982 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Gandhi*, Missing, Tootsie, The Verdict
1983 The Big Chill, The Dresser, The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies*, Terms of Endearment
1984 Amadeus*, The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart, A Soldier's Story
1985 The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Out of Africa*, Prizzi's Honor, Witness
1986 Children of a Lesser God, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Mission, Platoon*, A Room with a View
1987 Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction, Hope and Glory, The Last Emperor*, Moonstruck
1988 The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, Mississippi Burning, Rain Man*, Working Girl
1989 Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Driving Miss Daisy*, Field of Dreams, My Left Foot
1990 Awakenings, Dances with Wolves*, Ghost, The Godfather Part III, Goodfellas
1991 Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK, The Prince of Tides, The Silence of the Lambs*
1992 The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Howards End, Scent of a Woman, Unforgiven*
1993 The Fugitive, In the Name of the Father, The Piano, The Remains of the Day, Schindler's List*
1994 Forrest Gump*, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, The Shawshank Redemption
1995 Apollo 13, Babe, Braveheart*, The Postman, Sense and Sensibility
1996 The English Patient*, Fargo, Jerry Maguire, Secrets & Lies, Shine
1997 As Good As It Gets, The Full Monty, Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential, Titanic*
1998 Elizabeth, Life is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan, Shakespeare in Love*, The Thin Red Line
1999 American Beauty*, The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense
2000 Chocolat, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Gladiator*, Traffic
2001 A Beautiful Mind*, Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge
2002 Chicago*, Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Pianist
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*, Lost in Translation, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River, Seabiscuit
Gordon
Empire Magazine has declared that Braveheart was the worst winner ever in the Oscar catagory of "Best Picture".
"Braveheart was absolutely awful. Historically terrible and inaccurate, it was the worst kind of nationalistic rubbish. But the problem with the Oscars is that it is all to do with timing and emotion.
"They probably felt that it was time to give Gibson an Oscar. It made him part of the establishment.
"They probably felt that it was time to give Gibson an Oscar. It made him part of the establishment.
news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=213052005
Looking over the list of nominees and winners some other notables are in the same catagory... personally My Fair Lady (winner)/ Dr Strangelove, Rocky (winner)/Taxi Driver, Forrest Gump(winner) Shawshank Redemption.
To help jar your memory... here is the list of Best Picture nominees and winner (*) for the past 40 years...
Anybody else got that specially stinko Best Picture.
1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady*, Zorba the Greek
1965 Doctor Zhivago, Darling, Ship of Fools, The Sound of Music*, A Thousand Clowns
1966 Alfie, A Man for All Seasons*, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, The Sand Pebbles, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967 Bonnie and Clyde, Doctor Dolittle, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night*
1968 Funny Girl, The Lion in Winter, Oliver!*, Rachel Rachel, Romeo and Juliet
1969 Anne of the Thousand Days, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hello Dolly!, Midnight Cowboy*, Z
1970 Airport, Five Easy Pieces, Love Story, M*A*S*H, Patton*
1971 A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler on the Roof, The French Connection*, The Last Picture Show, Nicholas and Alexandra
1972 Cabaret, Deliverance, The Emigrants, The Godfather*, Sounder
1973 American Graffiti, Cries and Whispers, The Exorcist, The Sting*, A Touch of Class
1974 Chinatown, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II*, Lenny, The Towering Inferno
1975 Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Nashville, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest*
1976 All the President's Men, Bound for Glory, Network, Rocky*, Taxi Driver
1977 Annie Hall*, The Goodbye Girl, Julia, Star Wars, The Turning Point
1978 Coming Home, The Deer Hunter*, Heaven Can Wait, Midnight Express, An Unmarried Woman
1979 All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Breaking Away, Kramer vs. Kramer*, Norma Rae
1980 Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Ordinary People*, Raging Bull, Tess
1981 Atlantic City, Chariots of Fire*, On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reds
1982 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Gandhi*, Missing, Tootsie, The Verdict
1983 The Big Chill, The Dresser, The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies*, Terms of Endearment
1984 Amadeus*, The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart, A Soldier's Story
1985 The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Out of Africa*, Prizzi's Honor, Witness
1986 Children of a Lesser God, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Mission, Platoon*, A Room with a View
1987 Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction, Hope and Glory, The Last Emperor*, Moonstruck
1988 The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, Mississippi Burning, Rain Man*, Working Girl
1989 Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Driving Miss Daisy*, Field of Dreams, My Left Foot
1990 Awakenings, Dances with Wolves*, Ghost, The Godfather Part III, Goodfellas
1991 Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK, The Prince of Tides, The Silence of the Lambs*
1992 The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Howards End, Scent of a Woman, Unforgiven*
1993 The Fugitive, In the Name of the Father, The Piano, The Remains of the Day, Schindler's List*
1994 Forrest Gump*, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, The Shawshank Redemption
1995 Apollo 13, Babe, Braveheart*, The Postman, Sense and Sensibility
1996 The English Patient*, Fargo, Jerry Maguire, Secrets & Lies, Shine
1997 As Good As It Gets, The Full Monty, Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential, Titanic*
1998 Elizabeth, Life is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan, Shakespeare in Love*, The Thin Red Line
1999 American Beauty*, The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense
2000 Chocolat, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Gladiator*, Traffic
2001 A Beautiful Mind*, Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge
2002 Chicago*, Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Pianist
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*, Lost in Translation, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River, Seabiscuit
Gordon
