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Best Picture Oscars that actually deserved it

posted 4 years ago by Adam60z (3766)
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Instead of asking which ones didn't deserve it. To me most of the "winners" are losers of the worst kind. So I'll pick out the few I think were actually good enough to win legitimately, chronologically. All the ones not listed you can surmise my opinion of them.

1939-Gone with the wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFu-jemU-bA
1943-Casablanca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEWaqUVac3M&t=5s
1945-Lost Weekend
1961-West Side Story
1965-The Sound of Music
1967-In the Heat of the Night
1968-Oliver!
1969-Midnight Cowboy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnPcKk3YO3s
1972-The Godfather
1974-The Sting
1975- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976-Rocky
1977-Annie Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXy9Lp8bu98
1978--Deerhunter
1988-Rainman

And that's it for me!

[–] BullSchmidt (3189) 4 years ago

Interesting ...

> 1965-The Sound of Music

Certainly an excellent movie, but I personally think My Fair Lady was better.

> 1975- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Kind of a disappointment for me, because the book was so much better. To be fair, it would be impossible to effectively turn that book into a movie; so much of the best action goes on inside Chief Bromden's psychotic head.

I also notice you don't list Forrest Gump, which I infer means you don't think it deserved Best Picture in the 1995 awards. I thought Quiz Show should have got the award that year. What do you think?

[–] mikethemartian (6714) 4 years ago

No Country for Old Men (2007) is one of my favorite movies of all time.