I think we all know the sentimental favorite; it's atop Matt Zoller Seitz's ballot:
http://mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com/2006/03/last-call-for-worst-lists_29.html
Assembling mine; I've never seen ten of the winners (including 4 of the last 12).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)
-- Dr Morbius (wjwe...), March 29th, 2006 4:53 PM. (Dr Morbius) (later)
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)
― Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)
CimarronCalvacadeThe Greatest Show on EarthThe StingGandhiRain ManBraveheartGladiatorA Beautiful MindCrash
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)
That's chronological, Alfred -- are you sweating the ranking?
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)
― +++, Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)
― conconcon, Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)
1. Cimmaron2. Broadway Melody3. American Beauty4. Chariots Of Fire5. Out Of Africa6. Going My Way7. Around The World In 80 Days8. Greatest Show On Earth9. Tom Jones10. Cavalcade
― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)
It's been so long since I watched Around the World or Oliver! (which at least has a couple nice tunes and the G-rated murder of a whore) that I can't judge them.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)
― +++, Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)
― +++, Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)
God, I forgot about Mrs. Miniver.
I ENVY YOU
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)
This is a quandry I have making a list like this. Because when you get down to it there is a lot of stuff that is okay enough, pretty mediocre to even decent, but when suddenly saddled with the BEST PICTURE OF TEH YEAR label it seems to make the film 8x worse than it actually is. Gandhi is a pretty great example of this, and to be totally honest I'd say quite a significant portion of the last decade or two's winners fall into this category (of the ones I've seen, maybe Million Dollar Baby is just awesome and great jawdropping masterpiece filmmaking but I really, really doubt it).
But...I'm reticient to put them on a WORST list just because they really aren't terrible films, and yeah there are a lot of "OK WTF this film is truly c-level bad" choices to pick from.
True or false: the films that fall into the first category, the "actually not really totally BAD but not good either" films, are a lot more memorable and a lot easier to immediately remember as "Worst Oscar winner ever" than the truly laughably terrible ones. (Obv this only applies to OSCAR WINNING PICTURES TM).
― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)
― +++, Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)
― +++, Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)
― +++, Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)
― +++, Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)
haha how is trife anonymous???
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)
1. It Happened One Night2. The Apartment3. All About Eve4. On The Waterfront5. Rebecca6. Casablanca7. Godfather II8. Annie Hall9. Midnight Cowboy10. Lost Weekend
― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)
this is my favourite phrase of the day
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)
another xpost The English Patient and Out of Africa hold special places in my heart representing hours I wished I could gouge my own eyes out. Forrest Gump is pretty hilarious but--while I don't normally care about or really make this distinction in terms of enjoyment--ts intentional v unintentional funny.
― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)
-- +++ (...) (webmail), March 30th, 2006 12:51 PM. (later) (link)
― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)
xpost I don't know who trife is; EVERYONE expects me and the Spanish Inquisition.
blount had a point after all.
Also, for the record, I would really appreciate it if the three of you on this thread would just stop replying to Morbius. -- Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyza...), March 30th, 2006.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)
(xxxx-post)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)
― +++, Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)
I don't like that word either but I don't have another word to distinguish between first category "films that aren't really terrible but seem 10x worse because they won best picture and don't meet that expectation in any way" and second category "truly, this is crap" :(
― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)
― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)
― +++, Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)
Forrest GumpCrashCimarronMrs. MiniverThe Greatest Show On EarthAmerican BeautyYou Can't Take It With YouCalvacade A Beautiful Mind American Beauty
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 30 March 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)
― gear (gear), Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:08 (twenty years ago)
― Robocock (noodle vague), Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:11 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:11 (twenty years ago)
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:11 (twenty years ago)
― gear (gear), Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)
― gear (gear), Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:22 (twenty years ago)
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.2001: Fellowship of the Ring.2002: The Pianist.2003: Lost in Translation.2004: Sideways.2006: Brokeback Mountain.
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:31 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:32 (twenty years ago)
― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 31 March 2006 00:39 (twenty years ago)
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 31 March 2006 01:01 (twenty years ago)
1. Mrs. Miniver2. Out of Africa -- date movie with Streep + Redford = DIE3. Gandhi -- "like going to the funeral of someone you didn't know"4. Gladiator -- carnage, yawn5. Driving Miss Daisy6. Oliver!7. Gigi -- totally foreign to me8. Shakespeare in Love -- date move with Gwyneth + a Fiennes = DIE9. Ben-Hur -- kind of harmless in a "watch it on tv, forget about it afterward" way, but still stupid10. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King -- I liked the first in the series but the other two aren't coherent
― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 31 March 2006 04:49 (twenty years ago)
Marty, Greatest Show On Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons, Oliver, Patton, Godfather II, Kramer v. Kramer, Ordinary People, Terms of Endearment, Out of Africa, Braveheart, English Patient, A Beautiful Mind, Million Dollar Baby.
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 March 2006 05:10 (twenty years ago)
― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 31 March 2006 06:01 (twenty years ago)
― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 31 March 2006 06:06 (twenty years ago)
JD, you mean this thread is just crawlin with film majors? (oh wait -- I see. Yeah, not much need for them.)
Wasn't Jane Seymour the original Constanze?
rosemary, you are correct!
http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4083
7. Gigi -- totally foreign to me
Oh, that's sad! (not bein snarky -- I break into "The Night They Invented Champagne" fairly often)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0058085/
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:48 (twenty years ago)
The book's ok. That cartoon with the lion as Willie Fogg is pretty cool.
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)
I can only understand people hating it for getting Best Picture if they thought the award should go the best film of its year. Yeah right.
― Robocock (noodle vague), Friday, 31 March 2006 16:41 (twenty years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)
I only saw 80 Days on TV when I was maybe 12. I don't recall it using Cantinflas especially well tho.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)
regarding Cavalcade, it CREAKS like the worst of the early sound films, and it gets weirdly moralistic towards the end - what is that crazy Jazz-montage where the point seems to be "jazz is evil, that's why the world has gone to seed" I find it hard to believe that was in the Coward source material, but maybe it was????
― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)
http://eddieonfilm.blogspot.com/2006/04/and-losers-are.html
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 April 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 1 April 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: a power and finesse vocalist (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 April 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)
Kthxbye.
― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 2 April 2006 00:30 (twenty years ago)
I think Gigi is the only winner that was an original musical for film, as opposed to a compiled 'jukebox' (like American in Paris) or adaptation from Broadway.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:32 (twenty years ago)
― Dan (Gah) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Monday, 3 April 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)
― phil d. (Phil D.), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)
It's listicle clickbait season, so Slant did this!
https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/every-best-picture-oscar-winner-ranked-from-worst-to-best
I don't know who the fella is who wrote the My Fair Lady (#64) take, but his mention of Shaw's "repulsive premise: The reason poor people are poor is that rich people don't like the way they talk" seems rather clueless.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 15:45 (eight years ago)
there was this one too
http://www.newsweek.com/all-90-best-pictures-ranked-90-61-813603
― piscesx, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:11 (eight years ago)
Surprising to see On The Waterfront in the Top 10, any Top 10 these days, when i was a lad you couldn't read an article about the film without that whole Kazan-grassing-up-commies thing being mentioned, but not a whisper of it here.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:19 (eight years ago)
Since ratting in that fashion is unrelated to current purity obsessions it probably wasn't a factor.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:22 (eight years ago)
Solid top twelve.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:00 (eight years ago)
I'd be interested to know if anyone has a compelling argument for a worse best picture winner than the one that everyone else seems to agree is the worst.
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:05 (eight years ago)
it's approximately two hours shorter than The English Patient?
― piper at the gates of d'awwww (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:07 (eight years ago)
ok, it's only 50 minutes shorter. EP was only 2 hrs 42, it only felt like four hours
― piper at the gates of d'awwww (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:08 (eight years ago)
'd be interested to know if anyone has a compelling argument for a worse best picture winner than the one that everyone else seems to agree is the worst.
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), T
Cavalcade is interminable and less than two hours.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:09 (eight years ago)
i actually *like* The English Patient, though I admit it's not a super exciting film. But it's the kind of boring film I like for some reason. it's a thin line between that and a film that actually bores me, I can't quite pin it down. but i think the actors elevate it considerably.
― omar little, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:11 (eight years ago)
some people at Slant still can't see through Her.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:13 (eight years ago)
I ranked the 2010s to date for ya.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:01 (seven years ago)
and the 1940s.
― a Stalin Stale Ale for me, please (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 February 2019 02:35 (seven years ago)