Did the right movie win best picture the year you were born? - Page 2

[South Florida]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 7:39pm

Is AE the only person older than me in here?

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 7:39pm

Me? The movie? Not particularly.

And looks like I'm a year older than you.

Updated On: 2/6/15 at 07:39 PM

[South Florida]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 7:41pm

Of all the Neil Simon plays that ever made it to a movie, that was my favorite.

[South Florida]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 7:52pm

How bout trying to list your favorite movies from every decade beginning with the 20's?

1920's - The Gold Rush
1930's - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1940's - The Snake Pit
1950's - On The Waterfront
1960's - The Counterfeit Traitor
1970's - Jaws
1980's - Platoon
1990's - Schindler's List
2000's - Juno
2010's - The Artist

Hope I dint get any decade wrongs

[Marianne2]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 7:54pm

1984 was Terms of Endearment. I don't know. I actually have not seen any of the nominees. I do like a lot of movies from this year though.

[South Florida]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 8:00pm

Wait. Scratch Jaws, insert Network.

[South Florida]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 8:01pm

Wilmington is an effed up person.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 8:20pm

" What Flicker was released the year After Eight was unleashed upon society? "

BIRTH OF A NATION, I'm sure.

***

As for my birth year, the winner was FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. I can live with that.

[trentsketch]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 8:31pm

Out of Africa won for 1985. I think The Color Purple or even Kiss of the Spider Woman would have been better winners. I actually like all of the nominees (the other two being Witness and Prizzi's Honor).

Amadeus won at the ceremony in 1985 and I've encountered very few people who disagree with that choice.

[jv92]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 8:42pm

South Florida, that sounds fun!

1920's - **I don't know enough films from the 20s to claim a favorite, mea culpa
1930's - Pygmalion (1938 )
1940's - Citizen Kane (1941)
1950's - Sunset Boulevard (1950)
1960's - The Producers (1968 )
1970's - All That Jazz (though I do love Jaws dearly) (1979/1975)
1980's - Fanny and Alexander (1982)
1990's - Boogie Nights (1997)
2000's - The Aviator (2004)
2010's - **Too soon to tell


Updated On: 2/6/15 at 08:42 PM

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 9:22pm

Schindler's List. Not gonna argue with that.

[Fantod]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 11:08pm

That game sounds like fun. I'll bite

1920's - The Crowd
1930's - The Wizard of Oz
1940's - Meet Me in St. Louis
1950's - way too many to say. Possibly A Streetcar Named Desire
1960's - Mary Poppins
1970's - Murder on the Orient Express
1980's - Airplane!
1990's - Barton Fink
2000's - Moulin Rouge! / Amelie
2010's (so far) The Grand Budapest Hotel

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 11:30pm

20s Metropolis
30s Modern Times
40s The Heiress
50s Rear Window (hon. mention Smiles of a Summer Night)
60s The Apartment
70s Nashville
80s Hannah and her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors (toss up)
90s Persuasion and The Sixth Sense (tie) (hon. mention Fargo)
00s A History of Violence, Pan's Labyrinth and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (triple tie) (hon. mention Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
10s Amour (hon. mentions Nebraska and Her)










Updated On: 2/7/15 at 11:30 PM

[Fantod]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 11:37pm

Oh I forgot about The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Wonderful film.

[The Josh]

Posted: 2/6/15 at 11:41pm

Forrest Gump... tough call, but I'm going to say yes.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 2/7/15 at 12:46am

Kramer vs. Kramer won exactly a month and a half after I was born. I admit that I haven't seen it; All That Jazz is the only nominee from that year that I've seen all the way through (I've only seen parts of Apocalypse Now and Norma Rae and none of Breaking Away). So I'll let others say whether the right movie won or not.

As for my favorites of each decade:
1920s - Phantom of the Opera (though I've seen very few silent movies, so not a huge list to choose from)
1930s - The Wizard of Oz
1940s - Pinocchio
1950s - Singin' in the Rain
1960s - The Sound of Music
1970s - Star Wars
1980s - 3 way tie: E.T., Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (but really so many movies from this decade that I love, the list could go on and on)
1990s - Beauty and the Beast
2000s - Monsters, Inc.
2010s - Toy Story 3

[Fantod]

Posted: 2/7/15 at 12:53am

Apocalypse Now was a lot better than Kramer vs. Kramer, as was All That Jazz in my opinion.

[Melissa25]

Posted: 2/7/15 at 1:49am

To Kill a Mockingbird should have won instead of Lawrence of Arabia IMO.

See NPR article regarding so many great films from 1962 that were NOT even nominated including:

The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz, Days of Wine and Roses, The Miracle Worker, Long Day's Journey into Night, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Sweet Bird of Youth.



1962: The Year Oscar Really Needed 10 Nominees Updated On: 2/7/15 at 01:49 AM

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 2/7/15 at 7:40am

Annie Hall 1978, love the film so it's perfect It won the Oscar the year I was born.

[LarryD2]

Posted: 2/7/15 at 8:47am

Year of my birth: 1971. The French Connection wins Best Picture. While I enjoy the film, I judge The Last Picture Show and A Clockwork Orange to be superior.

Films by decade
1920s: Metropolis
1930s: Grand Hotel
1940s: Mrs. Miniver
1950s: Limelight/Tokyo Story
1960s: A bout de soufflé
1970s: Cries and Whispers/Annie Hall
1980s: Reds/sex, lies, and videotape
1990s: The Piano
2000s: Michael Clayton/In the Bedroom
2010s: Boyhood/The Grand Budapest Hotel (so far, at least)

Updated On: 2/7/15 at 08:47 AM

[canmark]

Posted: 2/7/15 at 10:56am

1967 (40th) BEST PICTURE
Bonnie and Clyde
Doctor Dolittle
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
>>> In the Heat of the Night

While I’m familiar with all of these films, I’m embarrassed to admit that I haven’t seen any of them in their entirety.

[LarryD2]

Posted: 2/7/15 at 11:13am

canmark, Mark Harris (Entertainment Weekly columnist, who's also Tony Kushner's husband) wrote a book on the five films nominated for the 1967 Best Picture Oscar. It's a very interesting read:
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of a New Hollywood

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/7/15 at 11:16am

WINGS? Sure it was the right movie.

[Bilbo3]

Posted: 2/7/15 at 11:35am

1920s: Hollywood Revue.
1930s: Gone With the Wind.
1940s: Spellbound.
1950s: A Streetcar named Desire.
1960s: Judgment at Nuremberg.
1970s: Deer Hunter.
1980s: Ordinary People
1990s: Tie between American Beauty and Schindler's List.
2000s: Lord of The rings trilogy
2010s: The Kids are all right.

[canmark]

Posted: 2/7/15 at 11:36am

Favorite films by decade:
1920s –
1930s - Gone with the Wind (1939)
1940s - Fantasia (1940)
1950s - Some Like It Hot (1959)
1960s - West Side Story (1961)
1970s - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
1980s - A Passage to India (1984)
1990s - To Live "Huo zhe" (1994)
2000s - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
2010s - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)