What are the greatest Best Picture Oscar winners??

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bobbyb5



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I just noticed how few movies that won the Oscar for Best Picture are actually good. There's tons and tons of great movies that were nominated for Best Picture, but not too many great ones that actually won. I could barely come up with a top 10. Even though there's like 80 years worth.

What do you think are the greatest movies to win best picture Oscar??

Here's my top 10:

https://letterboxd.com/writer70/list/gr...rs/detail/
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1. No Country for Old Men
2. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
3. The Departed
4. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
5. Unforgiven
6. Forrest Gump
6. The Silence of the Lambs
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. The French Connection
7. The Godfather Pt II
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Kool Keith Sweat wrote:
1. No Country for Old Men
2. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
3. The Departed
4. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
5. Unforgiven
6. Forrest Gump
6. The Silence of the Lambs
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. The French Connection
7. The Godfather Pt II


I'm going to have to replace one of mine with one of your really good ones that you chose, because I mistakenly put Network, but Network didn't win that year. Probably I'll put the Departed or Silence of the Lambs. I completely overlloked Birdman. That's better then a couple of my choices actually.
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I wouldn't say that there are very many that aren't good, although I certainly agree that there are a few, and more often than not it isn't the best film that wins. Anyway, these are the ones I think are an easy 10/10...

It Happened One Night
Casablanca
The Best Years of Our Lives
All About Eve
On the Waterfront
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Apartment
West Side Story
Lawrence of Arabia
Midnight Cowboy
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Annie Hall
The Silence of the Lambs
Schindler's List
12 Years a Slave

So that's a chronological top 17. If I had to add three more to round it to a top 20 I'd throw in All Quiet on the Western Front, Rebecca, and probably Moonlight (although my sappy side could just as easily replace them with Gone with the Wind, The Sound of Music and Forrest Gump).


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Here's a top 10 of the nominees that didn't win:

Raging Bull
There Will Be Blood
The Revenant
The Conversation
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Fargo
The Tree of Life
Inglourious Basterds
Dunkirk

much better
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Kool Keith Sweat wrote:
Here's a top 10 of the nominees that didn't win:

Raging Bull
There Will Be Blood
The Revenant
The Conversation
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Fargo
The Tree of Life
Inglourious Basterds
Dunkirk

much better


About 7/10 of them should have won, at least from the nominated films. The Conversation probably could have gotten Coppola 3 best pictures in a row if it had come out a year prior but there's no way it wins against Godfather 2. The Revenant and Dunkirk were great but probably not my favorite of the respective nominees by a decent bit. Aside from that those are the ones that should have won (though Lars Von Trier's two most deserving films - at least from an academy standpoint - came out in '96 and '11 so in my imaginary Oscars Breaking the Waves and Melancholia dominate Fargo and Tree of Life).
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I usually like all the movies that win Best Picture, even though I rarely consider them the best movies of their years. I guess my top 10 would be:

1. The godfather
2. Schindler's list
3. The godfather II
4. The return of the king
5. The silence of the lambs
6. American beauty
7. Birdman
8. One flew over the cuckoo's nest
9. The sting
10. Gone with the wind
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Kool Keith Sweat wrote:
Here's a top 10 of the nominees that didn't win:

Raging Bull
There Will Be Blood
The Revenant
The Conversation
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Fargo
The Tree of Life
Inglourious Basterds
Dunkirk

much better


Some of the years of the mid-70s like 73, 74, 75, 76 were absolutely amazing for nominees. I would have had trouble picking one myself. So many great ones.
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There have been many great Best Picture winners. Narrowing down to 10 would be difficult for me. It's rare for me to consider the winner the best film of the year, but nevertheless, here are those I consider great:

Wings
All Quiet on the Western Front
It Happened One Night
You Can't Take it With You
Gone with the Wind
Rebecca
Casablanca
All About Eve
On the Waterfront
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Apartment
Lawrence of Arabia
In the Heat of the Night
Midnight Cowboy
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Sting
The Godfather Part II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Annie Hall
Kramer vs. Kramer
Platoon
Dances with Wolves
Silence of the Lambs
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
Forrest Gump
American Beauty
Gladiator
The Departed
No Country For Old Men
Slumdog Millionaire
The Artist
Argo
12 Years a Slave
Birdman


Don't get me wrong. I'm not a fan of the Academy, but they get it right every so often.
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I think what it is is that I was comparing the winners with the other nominees that year, and maybe the winners just didn't look as good as the nominees to me. Plus, a lot of the winners are often in a genre that I don't favor as much. For instance, I probably automatically pick something else over a war movie or western movie or something that's not one of my favorite types of movie. Plus, I think we tend to get a little bit sour grapes when our favorite didn't win. Ha ha
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