Go check it out. And email your answers to the email-address given in that post (eddiesworst@yahoo.com). The survey is: pick the Academy’s BEST best picture winners. Edward provides a list of all of the “Best Picture” winners since the Oscars began – so all you have to do is choose 10, put them in order (1 being the best) and email them to Eddie.
Here are mine – and – this list could change at any moment in time, but for now?? I’m going with that. I feel like The Apartment needs to be on my list. Also Annie Hall … But whatever. It’s a survey. There can only be 10 on my list so I had to be brutal. I knew the films that HAD to be on there – the non-negotiables of my list – and those are my top 5. After that? I made some tough choices – going with the films that made the deepest impression, that I love the most.
1. 1943 – Casablanca
2. 1973 – The Sting
3. 1984 – Amadeus
4. 1954 – On the Waterfront
5. 1993 – Schindler’s List
6. 1934 – It Happened One Night
7. 1950 – All About Eve
8. 1978 – The Deer Hunter
9. 1974 – The Godfather Part II
10. 1980 – Ordinary People
But go over there – and email Edward your choices. His commentary is great, too. I’ll add some comments to each film on my list later – but I wanted to give you all the heads up about the survey.
AHH!! What are you doing to me, Sheila!? Now I HAVE to do this and I HAVE to decide the best of the best??!
Oh, what lovely discombobulation!!
I know!! I’m still sad I had to leave some off … I am one of those weirdos who prefers Godfather II to Godfather – I think it’s one of the best films I’ve ever seen.
Other great films on the list that almost made it on my list: Oliver, Midnight Cowboy, Gandhi, Lawrence of Arabia, Patton …
Tough!!
I live for crap like this.
Here’s my list, for what it’s worth.
1. Casablanca
2. The Godfather
3. Patton
4. Unforgiven
5. The Godfather, Part II
6. The Bridge On The River Kwai
7. The Silence of the Lambs
8. Braveheart
9. Schindler’s List
10. Amadeus
By the way, I cursed when I remembered that I couldn’t put Apocalypse Now on my list.
I can’t put on my favorite movies of all time: Notorious, Fearless, Witness, and Running on Empty. Bummer.
But it made it easier that I had to limit the choices!
Seriously, though, I don’t feel quite right about leaving The Apartment off.
God, Witness is so good…
I haven’t seen it in a long time.
I know that movie shot by shot, Alex. It’s kind of creepy. hahahaha Literally: wide shot, zoom in, slow zoom, wide shot … I have it all memorized. And yet I STILL watch it, probably, once a month on average – and never get over it!!
By the way, Sheila, did you see the article in the UK’s Mirror today about your favorite star of the Oscar-winning Rain Man?
If he wasn’t so insane, I’d dismiss this as being total bullshit.
But, you know, he’s just…..gone. This should clinch it for anyone who hasn’t yet been repulsed by his ever-worsening bizareness.
He was kidding. He mentioned it on the Diane Sawyer interview, said it as a joke, “Yes. I am going to eat placenta. It’s very nutritious”, rolled his eyes, and then said, “Now watch – they’re all gonna print it as true.”
As Gawker says: “Way to follow instructions, everyone.”
I’m not sticking up for Tom, but he’s crazy enough without pumping yourself up over a joke. Deal with the real issue – that the man is shilling for a destructive cult – and is becoming seriously unhinged. This brou-haha is a distraction from all of that. I wouldn’t put it past him to have floated the eat-placenta story out there DELIBERATELY so that everyone goes into a tizzy over THAT and leaves him alone about Xenu and about gay rumors and about Katie Holmes rumors. He puts that out there, knowing people will run with it – – so the heat goes off him a bit. He gets a respite now because everyone’s running around shrieking about placenta.
My 2 cents.
And let’s keep this on-topic please, Alex. I’d rather not get into that here, which is why I didn’t post about it in the first place.
Don’t knock it until you have tried it with Placenta-Helper.
On topic. Gotcha.
A good survey would be the 10 best Best Picture losers.
This is me looking for an excuse to put Apocalypse Now and Goodfellas on an Oscar-related top 10 list…
Noonz – I think Edward over there on his site DID do that – because of the whole Crash controversy. Let me see if I can find the link. I’ve gotta put A Beautiful Mind on MY list. I thought that movie was good for, oh, 2 seconds – and I’m a HUGE Russell Crowe fan … but the more I thought about it, the worse it seemed!!
Here’s the post!
this was from another survey – so here were the 20 films on the list who received the most votes for WORST Best picture. You got it? Kinda confusing:
http://eddieonfilm.blogspot.com/2006/04/and-losers-are.html
I am always glad to encounter more Forrest Gump haters. I always find myself on the defensive when I say I hate that movie – people look at me as though I have just said, “I love throwing puppies down wells!”
My worst Best Picture list – I can’t get up to 10 at the moemnt:
Starting off with:
Forrest Gump
The English Patient
A Beautiful Mind
Chicago
American Beauty
Gentleman’s Agreement
Lord of the Rings – loved it but I didn’t think it deserved Best Picture that year
Here are mine uneducated picks… there movies that I can watch again and again (i.e. I’ll stop and watch ’em if they’re on despite the fact that I own most of them on DVD):
1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai
1959 – Ben-Hur
1961 – West Side Story
1965 – The Sound of Music
1968 – Oliver!
1970 – Patton
1972 – The Godfather
1976 – Rocky
1991 – The Silence of the Lambs
1995 – Braveheart
Every time I’m surfing and I see that Patton’s on, I have to stop and watch too. So good.
Wait, you didn’t like The English Patient? A knife! Through my heart!
I may have been totally blinded by my unholy lust for Ralph Fiennes (He turned me on in Schindler’s List, for god’s sake, and don’t even get me started on Quiz Show.) but I loved that movie. Sat entranced and sobbing at the same time.
::sigh::
I guess you can have your Annie Hall and I can have my The English Patient and we’ll just have to bond over Bring It On.
You’re not weird, Sheila. At least, not for preferring Godfather II. :) I prefer Godfather II to Godfather I, too. Mainly because of that powerhouse De Niro performance.
Lisa – hahahahaha Now why on earth Bring It On isn’t on this list is BEYOND ME!
I didn’t like The English Patient. I am so so sorry. I only like Ralph Fiennes when he plays villains … like he did in Schindler’s LIst. I am not attracted to him like many women are. I love that you have “unholy” lust for him. hahahahaha
I hope we can move thru this difficult conflict, Lisa, and come out on the other side!!
Rob – totally. I am just RIVETED by Godfather II in a way that I’m not by the firs tone – even though it’s a great movie as well.
It is an unholy lust. I can’t help it; it’s the accent. And the patrician bearing.
The producers of Bring It On are coming out with a new movie about gymnastics called Stick It. I smell a new classic. . .
With you, Sheila, on all of your worst picks, but most especially with:
The English Patient (I’ve tried watching this a few of times, but like Ellen Benes I am absolutely bored to tears)
Chicago (give me a break, worst adaption of a Broadway play ever nominated for Best Picture)
American Beauty (Okay, I realize that depressing movies aren’t my suit but The Insider, The Green Mile and especially The Sixth Sense were far better, IMHO)
Yeah – I just did not GET the whole Chicago brou-haha, JFH – totally didn’t get it! WhatEVS. Catherine Zeta Jones was great, but still. Whatever.
Lisa – Yeah, I saw that!! Stick it!
Dammit, woman, why don’t we live closer to each other. This would be the perfect movie for us to go to together.
Ten Best Best
Inspired by Sheila, I decided to do take this survey. I can’t help it. I’m a movie fan. Rate the “Ten Best Best Pictures” of all time. No Raiders of the Lost Ark, no Local Hero, no L.A. Confidential, no Man in the Moon, etc…… Most of my faves don’t…
Recently watched “Double Indemnity”
and I think it is one of the greatest movies
I have ever seen. I’d personally include it on
any top ten list.
I’d also include “Unforgiven” and believe it or
not, I’d consider “Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid”. Great epic, an ending that
left me speechless.
Just ordered “It Happened One Night”.
Looking forward to seeing that soon.
Regards.
Totally agree with you about double indemnity – sad that it wasn’t on the list to choose from!! what a film!!
The only movies that come to my mind which won the Oscar as best picture and which I LOVE are American Beauty and Rebecca. I had never a high opinion of the Academy Awards. I use to say: If a movie wins an Oscar as best picture, then it can´t be bad. But that´s all. I think it was Scorsese who said something like: “Hitchcock never won the oscar. Kubrick never won the Oscar. So what do you care…”
I love Butch Cassidy!!!
I don’t see “Dave” in there!