I just got interested. Here are some of my favourite movies of all time and a list of who won the Oscar for Best Picture in the year it was released... American History X - 1998 Winner of 1998 - Shakespeare in Love Pulp Fiction - 1994 Winner of 1994 - Forest Gump Annie Hall - 1977 Winner of 1977 - Annie Hall Pi - 1998 See Am Hist X Goodfellas - 1990 Winner of 1990 - Dances With Wolves The Graduate - 1967 Winner of 1967 - In the Heat of the Night Spanish Prisoner - 1997 Winner of 1997 - Titanic A Clockwork Orange - 1971 Winner of 1971 - The French Connection (okay, this one I can let go!) Who the hell listens to the Oscars? Especially in 1998!!!!
What about my fav movie. Platoon, winner of four oscars including Best Picture (I think) and Best Sounds
yes, shakespeare in love sucked. but i think 1994 was somewhat warranted. pulp fiction is a great movie, but its not an oscar winner. its too good for that. forest gump, however, was your generic family flick where you learn about good american morals and become better people by watching it. it was a good movie for the oscars. not that i dislike it. its cute. nothing extremely spectacular, but it WAS heartwarming.
Gump was a great movie for the Oscar genre. I think they should rename the Best Picture Award to 'Best Picture that Would be Seen by Someone Who's Never Heard of Cannes'. Pulp won there, I believe. God that was an amazing movie.
tyler, how can you say one film festival sucks in favor of another film festivaL? its all the same shit. except the french are prissier, more prone to existentialist film noir, and more "cultured."
ubermich: Actually, this is a well kept secret. There is only one film festival, they just move it around from city to city. Even the people who attend are packed in crates and transported about. Umm, on the subject: None of my favorite movies have won Oscars, I think. BTW, American History X was not any better than Shakesphere in Love. I actually thought Shakesphere in Love was decent, but then I'm a bit infatuated with the Elizabethan golden age.
easy. the cannes festival looks at all movies. the oscars looks at movies that people who think Requiem For A Dream is a Mozart watch.
Other bad picks 1980 - "Kramer vs Kramer" won over "Breaking Away" 1975 - "The Godfather Part II" won over "Chinatown" 1959 - "Gigi" won and "Vertigo" (arguable the best film ever made) wasn't even nominated! 1960 - "Ben-Hur" won (okay) but "North by Northwest" wasn't even nominated! (Was Hitchcock being boycotted?) As for 1977 and "Annie Hall" -- yes a great film but that was the "Star Wars" year. I would have to go with "Star Wars"
"As for 1977 and "Annie Hall" -- yes a great film but that was the "Star Wars" year. I would have to go with "Star Wars" " Disagree. Annie Hall had one of the most brilliant scripts, one of the most insightful movies of all time and was superbly acted. Star Wars was just a really cool sci-fi flick with a couple good actors (notably; Ford).
