johnm001 Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 The discussion on the Barbra/Kate thread, made me think of what and who should have won, over the years. Limit the list to those that were actually nominated. My list would be somewhat different, including all and any from each year. I stopped at 1991, which was about when I stopped caring. 1936 ? San Francisco ? Best Picture 1937 - In Old Chicago ? Best Picture 1938 ? The Adventures of Robin Hood ? Best Picture, Wendy Hiller for Pygmalion ? Best Actress 1939 - Jimmy Stewart for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -Best Actor 1940 - The Grapes of Wrath - Best Picture 1941 - Barbara Stanwyck for Ball of Fire - Best Actress 1943 - The Song of Bernadette - Best Picture 1946 - Larry Parks for The Jolson Story - Best Actor 1948 - Olivia De Havilland for The Snake Pit - Best Actress and The Snake Pit - Best Picture 1951 - A Place in the Sun - Best Picture 1952 - The Quiet Man - Best Picture 1953 - Deborah Kerr for From Here To Eternity - Best Actress 1954 - The Caine Mutiny - Best Picture, Bing Crosby for The Country Girl - Best Actor 1956 - The Ten Commandements - Best Picture, Patty McCormack for The Bad Seed - Best Supporting Actress 1957 - Witness for the Prosecution - Best Picture 1962 - The Music Man - Best Picture 1963 - How the West Was Won - Best Picture 1964 - Mary Poppins - Best Picture, Robert Stevenson for Mary Poppins - Best Director 1965 - Julie Andrews for The Sound of Music - Best Actress 1966 - Richard Burton and George Segal for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor 1967 - Anne Bancroft for The Graduate - Best Actress 1968 - Patricia Neal for The Subject Was Roses - Best Actresses and Sondra Locke for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Best Supporting Actresses 1970 - Airport - Best Picture, Maureen Stapleton for Airport - Best Supporting Actress 1971 is just the worst year, ever for all the nominees. 1972 - Paul Winfiled for Sounder - Best Actor, Diana Ross for Lady Sings the Blues - Best Actress, Shelley Winters for The Poseidon Adventure - Best Supporting Actress 1975 - Jaws - Best Picture, Ann-Margret for Tommy - Best Actress 1976 - Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire for Rocky - Best Actor and Actress, Piper Lauiie for Carrie - Best Supporting Actress 1977 - Anne Bancroft for The Turning Point - Best Actress 1978 - Ingrid Bergman for Autumn Sonata - Best Actress 1979 - Peter Sellars for Being There - Best Actor 1980 - Coal Miner's Daughter - Best Picture, Robert Duvall and Michael O'Keefe for The Great Santini - Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor 1981 - Raider's of the Lost Ark - Best Picture, Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon and Louis Malle for Atlantic City - Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director 1982 - Robert Preston, Leslie Ann Warren for Victor Victoria - Best Supporting Actor and Actress 1984 - Sissy Spacek for The River - Best Actress 1985 - Witness - Best Picture, James Garner for Murphy's Romance - Best Actor, Peter Weir for Witness - Best Director 1986 ? A Room With a View ? Best Picture and James Ivory for Best Director, Piper Laure for Children of a Lesser God ? Best Supporting Actress 1988 ? Mississippi Burning ? Best Picture and Alan Parker Best Director, Tom Hanks for Big ? Best Actor 1989 ? Jim Sheridan for My Left Foot ? Best Direcor 1991 ? Beauty and the Beast ? Best Picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimpole Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Interesting idea, though I must say the only idea I agree with is Sellars' win for Being There. And why would one prefer How the West was Won to The Last Picture Show ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnm001 Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 > {quote:title=skimpole wrote:}{quote} > Interesting idea, though I must say the only idea I agree with is Sellars' win for Being There. And why would one prefer How the West was Won to The Last Picture Show ? I don't understand the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 You got a very nice list but the last for 1991? For me the best picture would be "Silence of the Lambs" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxreyman Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I tend to disagree with you about 1971. It may not have been one of the better years for nominees, but then not everyone is always satisfied with the Academy's choices each and every year. Best Picture: Won: "THE FRENCH CONNECTION", "A Clockwork Orange", "Fiddler on the Roof", "The Last Picture Show", "Nicholas and Alexandra" Best Actor: Won: GENE HACKMAN in "The French Connection", Peter Finch in "Sunday, Bloody Sunday", Walter Matthau in "Kotch", George C. Scott in "The Hospital", Topol in "Fiddler on the Roof" Best Actress: Won: JANE FONDA in "Klute", Julie Christie in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller", Glenda Jackson in "Sunday, Bloody Sunday", Vanessa Redgrave in "Mary, Queen of Scots", Janet Suzman in "Nicholas and Alexandra" Best Supporting Actor: Won: BEN JOHNSON in "The Last Picture Show", Jeff Bridges in "The Last Picture Show", Leonard Frey in "Fiddler on the Roof", Richard Jaeckel in "Sometimes a Great Notion", Roy Scheider in "The French Connection" Best Supporting Actress: Won: CLORIS LEACHMAN in "The Last Picture Show", Ann-Margret in "Carnal Knowledge", Ellen Burstyn in "The Last Picture Show", Barbara Harris in "Who is Harry Kellerman, and Why is He Saying These Terrible Things About Me?", Margaret Leighton in "The Go-Between" Best Director: Won: WILLIAM FRIEDKIN for "The French Connection", Peter Bogdanovich for "The Last Picture Show", Norman Jewison for "Fiddler on the Roof", Stanley Kubrick for "A Clockwork Orange", John Schlesinger for "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimpole Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Well, if you say How the West was Won deserved a best picture award, and you say that all the nominees of 1971, including The Last Picture Show, were bad, it's reasonable to assume the you prefer the former movie to the latter. It's not clear to me why you would, and as it happens both movies deal with living in the American west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnm001 Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 > {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > You got a very nice list but the last for 1991? > > For me the best picture would be "Silence of the Lambs" Except, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS did win. The idea is which years did you disagree with what/who won? I hate the film, and with the exception of the acting by its two stars, I find it woefully inept, on almost every imaginable level. Certainly nothing of the cinematic masterpiece that is BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Plus, it had basically already been done in MANHUNTER, so it wasn't even anything new. But, it's just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnm001 Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 > {quote:title=fxreyman wrote:}{quote} > I tend to disagree with you about 1971. It may not have been one of the better years for nominees, but then not everyone is always satisfied with the Academy's choices each and every year. > Other than Best Supporting Actress, the entire list is dreary, imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnm001 Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 > {quote:title=skimpole wrote:}{quote} > Well, if you say How the West was Won deserved a best picture award, and you say that all the nominees of 1971, including The Last Picture Show, were bad, it's reasonable to assume the you prefer the former movie to the latter. It's not clear to me why you would, and as it happens both movies deal with living in the American west. That's like saying if you love GONE WITH THE WIND, you should love MADEA GOES TO JAIL, because they are both about people living in Clayton County, Georgia! There is simply no comparison. Actually, I don't find THE LAST PICTURE SHOW so horrible, just not remarkable. When I saw HTWWW in Cinerama, it was remarkable. And, I'd still rather watch it, than many of the films made since it. Including THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosebette Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 I saw "Nicholas and Alexandra" on TCM a couple of weeks ago. I had seen it when it was released, and this was the first time I had watched it in years. It was a beautiful film and the performances were outstanding. If it were released today, it probably would have gotten best picture and possibly best actress for Janet Suzman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinokima Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 I can't really comment much on 1971 since I've only seen The French Connection & Fiddler on the Roof. French Connection is alright but I much prefer Fiddler. I also prefer Topol's performance to Hackman's. Still it seems Clockwork Orange and Last Picture Show (neither of which I have seen) are the nominees most highly regarded today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxreyman Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Okay, here is a list that might take people here awhile to read and or comprehend...... 1932/1933 Cavalcade won Best Picture *Queen Christina* should have won. Other contenders could have been: 42nd Street, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, and The Private Life of Henry VIII. 1936 The Great Ziegfeld won Best Picture *Dodsworth* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Modern Times, My Man Godfrey, and The Story of Louis Pasteur. 1937 The Life of Emile Zola won Best Picture *Lost Horizon* should have won. Other contenders could have been: The Awful Truth, The Good Earth and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Life of Emile Zola and Stage Door. 1938 You Can't Take It With You won Best Picture *The Adventures of Robin Hood* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Bringing Up Baby, The Citadel, Holiday, Jezebel, and The Lady Vanishes. 1940 Rebecca won Best Picture. *The Grapes of Wrath* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Fantasia, Foreign Correspondent, The Great Dictator, His Girl Friday, The Letter, The Long Voyage Home, The Mark of Zorro, My Favorite Wife, Northwest passage, The Philadelphia Story, Pride and Prejudice, The Sea Hawk, The Shop Around the Corner and Rebecca. 1941 How Green Was My Valley won Best Picture. *Citizen Kane* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Ball of Fire, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, How Green Was My Valley, The Lady Eve, The Maltese Falcon, Meet John Doe, Sergeant York, Sullivan's Travels, and Suspicion. 1942 Mrs. Miniver won Best Picture. *Random Harvest* should have won. Other contenders could have been: In Which We Serve, Kings Row, The Magnificent Ambersons, Mrs. Miniver, Now Voyager, Pride of the Yankees, Random Harvest, The Talk of the Town, To Be or Not To Be, Woman of the year, and Yankee Doodle Dandy. 1944 Going My Way won the Best Picture. *Meet Me in St. Louis* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Going My Way, To Have and Have Not, Henry V, Laura, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Mr. Skeffington, Murder My Sweet, Since You Went Away, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 1945 Lost Weekend won Best Picture *They Were Expendable* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Brief Encounter, The Clock, The Lost Weekend, Mildred Pierce, Objective, Burma!, Spellbound, The Story of G.I. Joe, A tree Grows in Brooklyn, and A Walk in the Sun 1947 Gentleman's Agreement won Best Picture. *Odd Man Out* should have won. Other contenders could have been: The Bishop's Wife, Black narcissus, Body and Soul, Brute Force, Crossfire, The Farmer's Daughter, Gentleman's Agreement, Kiss of Death, and Out of the Past 1948 Hamlet won Best Picture. *Red River* should have won. Other contenders could have been: The Big Clock, Call Northside 777, Fort Apache, Hamlet, I Remember Mama, Johnny Belinda, Key largo, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Oliver Twist, The Red Shoes, The Search, State of the Union, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. 1949 All the King's Men won Best Picture. *Twelve O'Clock High* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Adam's Rib, All the King's Men, The Big Steal, Champion, Criss Cross, The Fountainhead, The Heiress, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Set Up, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, They Live By Night, and White Heat. 1950 All About Eve won Best Picture. *Winchester '73* should have won. Other contenders could have been: All About Eve, The Asphalt Jungle, Battleground, Born Yesterday, D.O.A., Father of the Bride, Gun Crazy, The Gunfighter, Harvey, In a Lonely Place, The Men, Panic in the Streets, Rio Grande, and Wagon Master. 1951 An American in Paris won Best Picture. *The Thing From Another World* should have won. Other contenders could have been: An American in Paris, The African Queen, Bright Victory, Captain Horatio Hornblower, A Christmas Carol, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Lavender Hill Mob, No Highway in the Sky, A Place in the Sun, Quo Vadis, The Red Badge of Courage, Show Boat, Strangers on a Train, and A Streetcar Named Desire. 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth won Best Picture. *Singin' in the Rain* should have won. Other contenders could have been: The Bad and the Beautiful, Clash By Night, The Greatest Show on Earth, High Noon, The Narrow Margin, The Quiet Man, and Pat and Mike. 1955 Marty won Best Picture. *The Night of the Hunter* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Bad Day at Black Rock, Blackboard Jungle, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The Desperate Hours, East of Eden, Kiss Me Deadly, The Man From Laramie, Marty, Mister Roberts, Oklahoma!, Rebel Without a Cause, Richard III, The Rose Tatoo, To Catch a Thief, and The Trouble With Harry 1956 Around the World in Eighty Days won Best Picture. *The Searchers* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Anastasia, Around the World in Eighty Days, Carousel, Forbidden Planet, Friendly Persuasion, Giant, The Harder They Fall, High Society, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Killing, The King and I, Lust for Life, Tea and Sympathy, and The Ten Commandments 1958 Gigi won Best Picture. *Vertigo* should have won. Other contenders could have been: The Big Country, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Defiant Ones, Gigi, A Night to Remember, Run Silent, Run Deep, Separate Tables, South Pacific, and Touch of Evil. 1960 The Apartment won Best Picture. *Spartacus* should have won. Other contenders could have been: The Apartment, Elmer Gantry, The Entertainer, Exodus, Inherit the Wind, The Magnificent Seven, Psycho, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Sundowners, Sunrise at Campobello, Swiss Family Robinson, and Tunes of Glory. 1961 West Side Story won Best Picture. *Judgment at Nuremberg* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Children's Hour, The Guns of Navarone, The Hustler, King of Kings, One, Two, Three', A Raisin in the Sun, and West Side Story. 1964 My Fair Lady won Best Picture. *Seven Days in May* should have won. Other contenders could have been: The Americanization of Emily, Becket, The Best Man, Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Fail-Safe, Goldfinger, A Hard Day's Night, Mary Poppins, The Train, and Zorba the Greek. 1968 Oliver! won Best Picture. *2001: A Space Odyssey* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Bullitt, Hell in the Pacific, The Lion in Winter, The Odd Couple, Once Upon a Time in the West, Planet of the Apes, The Producers, Romeo and Juliet, The Subject Was Roses, Targets, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Will Penny. 1969 Midnight Cowboy won Best Picture. *The Wild Bunch* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Anne of the Thousand Days, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cactus Flower, Downhill Racer, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, and Women in Love. 1976 Rocky won Best Picture. *All the President's Men* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Bound for Glory, The Front, The Last Tycoon, Marathon Man, Network, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, The Omen, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Rocky, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and The Shootist, 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer won Best Picture. *The China Syndrome* should have won. Other contenders could have been: 10, Apocalypse Now, Being There, Breaking Away, Heartland, Kramer vs. Kramer, Manhattan, Norma Rae, and The Rose. 1980 Ordinary People won Best Picture. *The Stunt Man* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Atlantic City, Breaker Morant, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, The Empire Strikes Back, The Long Good Friday, Melvin and Howard, Ordinary People, and Raging Bull. 1981 Chariots of Fire won Best Picture. *Raiders of the Lost Ark* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Chariots of Fire, Das Boot, Eye of the Needle, Gallipoli, My Dinner With Andre, On Golden Pond, Outland, Prince of the City, and Reds. 1983 Terms of Endearment won Best Picture. *The Right Stuff* should have won. Other contenders could have been: A Christmas Story, Cross Creek, The Dresser, Educating Rita, Local Hero, Silkwood, Tender Mercies, Terms of Endearment, Testament, Under Fire, and Yentl. 1986 Platoon won Best Picture. *Hannah and Her Sisters* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Children of a Lesser God, The Color of Money, Duet for One, Hoosiers, The Mission, Salvador, Stand By Me, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. 1988 Rain Man won Best Picture. *A World Apart* should have won. Other contenders could have been: The Accidental Tourist, The Accused, Big, Bull Durham, Cinema Paradiso, Crossing Delancey, Dangerous Liaisons, Die Hard, A Fish Called Wanda, The Last Temptation of Christ, Little Dorrit, Midnight Run, Mississippi Burning, Rain Man, Stand and Deliver, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. 1989 Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture. *Henry V* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Born on the Fourth of July, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Dead Poets Society, Do the Right Thing, Driving Miss Daisy, Farewell to the King, Field of Dreams, Glory, My Left Foot, and When Harry Met Sally..... 1992 Unforgiven won Best Picture. *Howards End* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Chaplin, The Crying Game, Enchanted April, A Few Good Men, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Last of the Mohicans, A League of Their Own, Malcolm X, One False Move, Passion Fish, The Player, A River Runs Through It, and Unforgiven. 1995 Braveheart won Best Picture. *Apollo 13* should have won. Other contenders could have been: The American President, Babe, The brOther s McMullen, Cry Beloved Country, Dangerous Minds, Get Shorty, Heat, Mighty Aphrodite, Nixon, Sense and Sensibility, and Toy Story. 1996 The English Patient won Best Picture. *Lone Star* should have won. Other contenders could have been: The Birdcage, Breaking the Waves, Courage Under Fire, Emma, The English Patient, Fargo, Flirting With Disaster, Fly Away Home, Hamlet, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Secrets and Lies, and Star Trek: First Contact. 1997 Titanic won Best Picture. *L.A. Confidential* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Air Force One, Amistad, The Apostle, As Good As It Gets, Boogie Nights, Contact, Eve's Bayou, The Game, Good Will Hunting, The Sweet Hereafter, Wag the Dog, and The Wings of a Dove. 1998 Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture. *Saving Private Ryan* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Bulworth, Down in the Delta, Elizabeth, Gods and Monsters, Next Stop Wonderland, Pleasantville, Primary Colors, Ronin, and A Simple Plan. 1999 American Beauty won Best Picture. *The Insider* should have won. Other contenders could have been: American Beauty, Being John Malkovich, The Cider House Rules, Election, The Green Mile, The Hurricane, The Limey, A Map of the World, Music of the Heart, Sleepy Hollow, The Straight Story, Stuart Little, Three Kings, and Topsy-Turvy. 2002 Chicago won Best Picture. *The Pianist* should have won. Other contenders could have been: About Schmidt, Adaptation, Antwone Fisher, Catch Me If You Can, Chicago, Far From Heaven, The Hours, In America, The Quiet American, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Road to Perdition, The Sum of All Fears, Tadpole, 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won Best Picture. *Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World* should have won. Other contenders could have been: American Splendor, Big Fish, Cold Mountain, House of Sand and Fog, Intolerable Cruelty, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Lost in Translation, Love Actually, Mystic River, Open Range, Seabiscuit, The Station Agent, 2004 Million Dollar Baby won Best Picture. *Hotel Rwanda* should have won. Other contenders could have been: The Aviator, Being Julia, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, Kinsey, Million Dollar Baby, The Notebook, Ray, Sideways, and Vera Drake. 2005 Crash won Best Picture. *The Constant Gardener* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Batman Begins, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Cinderella Man, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck, Munich, North Country, The Squid and the Whale, Syriana, Walk the Line, and War of the Worlds. 2008 Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture. *Gran Torino* should have won. Other contenders could have been: Appaloosa, Body of Lies, Brideshead Revisited, Burn After Reading, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Express, Frost/Nixon, Ghost Town, Iron Man, Last Chance Harvey, Milk, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Slumdog Millionaire, The Visitor, and The Wrestler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimpole Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 Well, if we have to confine ourselves to what the Academy actually nominated, I think my preferences would go like this. In fact the nomination process is one reason the award process is so flawed. Keep in mind there are years where I don't offer an alternative not because I prefer the academy's choice, but because I haven't seen either the winner or the other nominees, or I can't make up my mind, or I don't care enough about them to make a choice. I prefer the Academy's choice for best picture in 1930-1931, 1943, 1951, 1954, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1987, 1993, 2003, 2008. I prefer the Academy's choice for best actor in 1931-1932, 1942, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1971, 1972, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1990, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008. I prefer the Academy's choice for Best Actress in 1939, 1949, 1951, 1961, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2010. Best director can be implied from the choice for best picture except when otherwise mentioned. 1932-33: Little Women over Calvacade. Paul Muni in I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang over Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII 1934: The Thin Man over It Happened One Night, William Powell over Clark Gable. 1935: Top Hat over Mutiny on the Bounty 1936: Dodsworth or Mr Deeds goes to Town over The Great Ziegfeld. Ditto for best actor over Paul Muni. I prefer Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey over Luise Rainer. 1937: The Awful Truth over The Life of Emile Zola. I prefer Greta Garbo in Camille over Luise Rainer in The Good Earth 1938: Grand Illusion over You can't take it with you 1939: The Wizard of Oz over Gone With the Wind, Clark Gable over Robert Donat 1940: The Philadelphia Story over Rebecca,with Hepburn over Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath over Stewart, Ford keeps his oscar.. 1941: Citizen Kane over How Green was my Valley, and with Welles over Gary Cooper in Sergeant York 1942: The Magnficent Ambersons over Mrs. Miniver, Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year over Greer Garson. Michael Curtiz for Yankee Doodle Dandy over William Wyler. 1943: Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca over Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine 1944: Double Indemnity over Going my Way, with Barbara Stanwyck over Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight 1945: The Bells of St Mary's over The Lost Weekend 1946: It's a Wonderful Life over The Best Years of Our Lives (sorry William Wyler), and Stewart over March. 1947: Great Expectations over Gentleman's Agreement 1948: The Red Shoes over Hamlet (nice try, Laurence Olivier) 1949: The Heiress over All the King's Men 1950: Sunset Blvd over All About Eve, with Holden over Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac and Swanson over Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday (sorry Joseph Mankewicz) 1951: Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire over Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen 1952: High Noon over The Greatest Show on Earth 1954: I haven't seen Grace Kelly in The Country Girl but no one has given a good reason that she is better than Judy Garland in A Star is Born 1955: James Dean in East of Eden over Ernest Borgnine in Marty 1957: 12 angry Men over The Bridge over the River Kwai 1959: Anatomy of a Murder over Ben-Hur, with Stewart or Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot over Charleton Heston. Billy Wilder for best director for Some Like it Hot. 1960: Laurence Olivier in the The Entertainer over Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry and indeed the unnominated Anthony Perkins in Psycho (Hitchcock still wins best director.) 1962: Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia over Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbirg 1963: Fellini over Tony Richardson for 8 1/2 1964: Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned to stop Worrying and Love the Bomb over My Fair Lady, with Sellers over Harrison 1966: Michaelangelo Antonioni for Blow-Up 1967: Bonnie and Clyde over The Heat of the Night, with Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate over Rod Steiger, and Faye Dunaway over Katharine Hepburn in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. 1969: Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey 1969: Z+ over Midnight Cowboy, with Dustin Hoffmann over John Wayne in True Grit+ 1970: Five Easy Pieces over Patton 1971: The Last Picture Show over The French Connection 1973: Cries and Whispers over The Sting 1974: Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence over Ellen Burstyn in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1975: Barry Lyndon over One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Isabelle Adjani in The Story of Adele H over Louis Fletcher 1976: All the President's Men over Rocky, with Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver over Peter Finch in Network 1979: Apocalypse Now over Kramer vs. Kramer, with Peter Sellers in Being There over Hoffmann. 1980: Tess over Ordinary People 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark over Chariots of Fire 1982: Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria over Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice 1983: The Right Stuff over Terms of Endearment, with Jane Alexander in Testament over Shirley MacClaine. Ingmar Bergman for best director for Fanny and Alexander 1984: The Killing Fields over Amadeus 1985: Probably Jack Nicholson in Prizzi's Honor but definitely someone over William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman Akira Kurosawa for best director for Ran over Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa 1986: The Mission over Platoon, Sigourney Weaver in Aliens over Marlee Maitlin in Children of a Lesser God 1988: Dangerous Liasons over Rain Man, with Charles Crichton for best director for A Fish Called Wanda over Barry Levinson for Rain Man 1989: Born on the fourth of July over Driving Miss Daisy, with Jessica Lange in The Music Box over Jessica Tandy, with Tom Cruise over Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot, but with Kenneth Branagh as best director for Henry V over Stone. 1990: Goodfellas over Dances with Wolves 1991: JFK over The Silence of the Lambs 1992: The Crying Game over Unforgiven, Stephen Rea in The Crying Game over Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman 1993: Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day over Tom Hanks in Philadelphia 1994: Pulp Fiction over Forrest Gump, with Travolta over Hanks 1995: Babe over Braveheart, with Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking over Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas 1996: Secrets and Lies over The English Patient 1997: L.A. Confidential over Titanic, with Atom Egoyan as best director for The Sweet Hereafter 1998: Saving Private Ryan over Shakespeare in Love, with Terrence Malick as best director for The Thin Red Line 1999: The Insider over American Beauty 2000: Erin Brokavich over The Gladiator 2001: The Fellowship of the Ring over A Beautiful Mind, Tom Wilkinson in In the Bedroom over Denzel Washington in Training Day, with David Lynch as best director for Mulholland Drive 2002: The Pianist over Chicago, with Diane Lane in Unfaitful over Nicole Kidman in The Hours 2003: Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Carribean over Sean Penn in Mystic River, with Samantha Morton in In America over Charlize Theron in Monster 2004: The Aviator over Million Dollar Baby, Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanda over Jamie Foxx in Ray and Imelda Staunton in Vera Drake over Hilary Swank. 2005: Capote and quite frankly, almost anything over Crash 2007: There will be Blood over No Country for old Men, Julie Christie in Away from Her over Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose 2008: Anne Hathway in Rachel Getting Married over Kate Winslett in The Reader 2010: Toy Story 3 over The King's Speech, Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network over Colin Firth, and with David Fincher as best director. 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JonasEB Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 Best Picture only and only what was nominated each year. Any years not commented on are: 1) Selections I am fine with or 2) years with a slate of films that don't matter or 3) I just don't really care any which way (most commonly it's the latter two, particularly #2, than the former.) 1927/1928 - Seventh Heaven 1931 - I don't lean to any in particular; the Lubitsch, Vidor, and Sternberg films are fine. 1932 - A Farewell to Arms 1938 - Grand Illusion 1939 - Stagecoach 1941 - I'm perfectly fine with How Green Was My Valley winning this year. 1942 - The Magnificent Ambersons 1948 - The Red Shoes 1949 - A Letter to Three Wives 1952 - The Quiet Man 1959 - Anatomy of a Murder 1963 - America, America 1967 - The Graduate 1970 - Five Easy Pieces 1971 - The Last Picture Show 1973 - Cries and Whispers 1974 - The Conversation 1975 - Barry Lyndon 1976 - Taxi Driver 1979 - Apocalypse Now 1980 - Raging Bull, Tess, or The Elephant Man would be fine. 1986 - Hannah and Her Sisters 1990 - Goodfellas 1991 - JFK or Beauty and the Beast 1996 - Fargo 1997 - L.A. Confidential 1998 - The Thin Red Line 1999 - The Insider 2001 - Gosford Park 2002 - Gangs of New York or The Pianist 2004 - Mystic River 2005 - All four are absolutely better than Crash. 2010 - The Social Network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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