Best-Best Picture Winners
Best-Best Picture Winners
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#1Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 5:40pm
Interesting list.
I agree with The Godfather I & II.
Best of Oscar Best
#2re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 5:46pm
I could watch IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT for the rest of my life.
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nmartin
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#2re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 5:53pmnitsua, I feel the same way about the first two Godfathers and All About Eve.
#3re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 6:02pm
The two Godfathers definitely are two of the best films ever made, and I watch them whenever they're on tv. However, I also have a soft spot for Silence of the Lambs. To me it was outstanding in so many ways. Besides the performances of Hopkins and Foster, that of Ted Levine as Jaime Gumb is in my heart forever. Small role, but so strong.
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nmartin
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#4re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 6:07pmJane, I have seen the first two Godfathers countless times. I never miss them on tv either. They were recently on. I think on Bravo. In the 70's I went to a double feature of the Godfathers. I dreamed about organized crime all night.
#5re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:11pmI don't like their rankings at all.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#6re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:15pm
My own ranked list from a previous thread:
1. Gone with the Wind
2. The Sound of Music
3. West Side Story
4. All About Eve
5. It Happened One Night
6. Oliver!
7. Rebecca
8. Casablanca
9. How Green was My Valley
10. Ben-Hur
11. An American in Paris
12. Amadeus
13. Gigi
14. A Man for All Seasons
15. My Fair Lady
16. In the Heat of the Night
17. American Beauty
18. The Godfather Part II
19. The Godfather
20. All Quiet on the Western Front
21. Shakespeare in Love
22. You Can't Take it With You
23. The Best Years of Our Lives
24. Marty
25. All the King's Men
26. Titanic
27. Chicago
28. On the Waterfront
29. Lawrence of Arabia
30. Silence of the Lambs
31. The Life of Emile Zola
32. Driving Miss Daisy
33. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
34. Annie Hall
35. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
36. Schindler's List
37. Rocky
38. A Beautiful Mind
39. Midnight Cowboy
40. Mrs. Miniver
41. Going My Way
42. Gentleman's Agreement
43. Out of Africa
44. Forrest Gump
45. The Last Emperor
46. The Bridge on the River Kwai
47. From Here to Eternity
48. Unforgiven
49. The Apartment
50. Grand Hotel
51. Gandhi
52. Kramer vs. Kramer
53. Ordinary People
54. Terms of Endearment
55. Million Dollar Baby
56. Cavalcade
57. Wings
58. Rain Man
59. Mutiny on the Bounty
60. The French Connection
61. The Lost Weekend
62. The Deer Hunter
63. Braveheart
64. The Great Ziegfeld
65. The Broadway Melody
66. Gladiator
67. Patton
68. Dances with Wolves
69. The Sting
70. Hamlet
71. Around the World in 80 Days
72. Cimarron
73. Crash
74. The Greatest Show on Earth
75. Tom Jones
76. The Departed
77. Platoon
78. The English Patient
79. Chariots of Fire
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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mauriposa
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#8re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:19pm#26
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#9re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:33pmBest, I'm glad American Beauty was so high on your list. For some reason, I thought you hated that movie.
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#10re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:43pm
Me? No.
I think American Beauty is our modern "Human Comedy" and "Human Tragedy" all in one film.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#11re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:47pmAm I the only one who has never seen GODFATHER: PART II? Saw the first one . . . liked it . . . didn't understand what all the hoopla was about . . . but still liked it . . . and never gotten around to seeing the second one.
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#12re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:48pmThe second one is better than the first.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#13re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:48pm
I don't think I've seen any of them.
I've also never seen any of the Star Wars movies.
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#14re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:50pm
"I've also never seen any of the Star Wars movies."
And I worry about people who haven't seen Mrs. Miniver or All Quiet On the Western Front?
Good god man, get thee to Blockbuster!
Skip the new trilogy (for now, or altogether), and go back to the original.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#15re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:50pm
I've never seen those either, besty **hides**
I will eventually check GODFATHER: PART II out
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#16re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:52pm
Ivan and I are watching a lot of TCM.
I've seen the original OF HUMAN BONDAGE, but is the remake any good?
If any of it plays on TCM, we'll record it.
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#16re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:52pmIt's amazing to me how a cultural phenomenon from one generation can go "unevenly noticed" in another, to "all but forgotten" by a third.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#18re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:53pm
I've only seen each of the Godfathers once. I'm overdue for a revisit.
And, not a Best Picture, winner, but I watched NETWORK for the first time last week. Loved it. And it is scary that what was once meant as a satire has in many, many ways become reality.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#19re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 7:58pm
True, Priest, but it had the "sting" of truth to it even back then.
nitsua---No the remake wasn't anywhere near as good as the original!
The Godfather movies are "grand opera." Everything is heightened. The sweeping saga, the acting, the violence, the music. I'm not into gangsters or gangster movies at all, but I enjoyed these because of the stylistic, artistic approach.
And for those of you interested in seeing just how popular some films were "back in their day," take a look at this Box Office list, adjusted for inflation. Everything is on a level playing field. This list does include all theatrical re-releases, which rarely happens anymore. But you can see just how "big" certain films were, at the time.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#20re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 8:20pm
"Am I the only one who has never seen GODFATHER: PART II?"
I haven't even seen the first one...
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#21re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 8:51pm
Best, thanks for the boxofficemojo link. I didn't know about that.
To all of those who haven't seen the first two Godfathers, you have to rent those movies.
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#22re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 9:38pmI meant no Titanic on the linked list. Of course Besty had it on his because he knows what's good.
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#23re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/10/08 at 9:56pm
I prefer the second Godfather, too.
best12, many of those films were terrific. I only take issue with #68. I desperately wanted Goodfellas to win that year.
#24re: Best-Best Picture Winners
Posted: 1/11/08 at 2:09amTHE DEPARTED? SERIOUSLY?!!! I would actually put it as one of the worst.
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