Last Oscar Winning Best Picture that Actually Deserved It...- Page 2

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:00am

oh, elaine, i mean brendan, you're so bad!

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:02am

Have seen English Patient many times. Three times when it was released, I then bought it on video and I recently got the special edition DVD. Love it.

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:03am

is it true that the special edition dvd of the english patient comes with its very own handgun?

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:06am

No

[BrendanStryker]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:07am

Okay, Pop, because I like you AND, I value your opinion, please tell me what you liked about it? Not that anything could change my mind about it; but I've not met anyone who has claimed to like it. RobbO - LOL

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:09am

Brendan, sometimes my love of Poppy takes a backseat to his incredulous movie tastes, too.
*cough you know who cough*
I still love him anyway, even adding Patient to the list.

[DG]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:14am

I would have walked out of THE ENGLISH PATIENT if it hadn't put my entire body to sleep.

I'd actually say LOTR: RETURN OF THE KING. It seemed to me that it was a cumulative award for the series, and I had no issue with that being acknowledged as a landmark cinematic achievement.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:18am

I'd personally put Network, All the President's Men and Taxi Driver WAY ahead of Rocky for the 1976 Best Picture, and, of the list, I'd have voted for Network, which is still one of the greatest satires ever created.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:19am

I agree that LOTR was a great epic trilogy. But, for it to win best picture is just to give it a misnomer.

Better films that year were:

In America
House of Sand and Fog
City of God
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Big Fish
Finding Nemo
The Barbarian Invasions
21 Grams

They should create new categories to honor films like the LOTR series, rather than award one film the award a series of films should receive. Same goes for the best actor and actress awards that go to someone because they SHOULD have won for something else.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:20am

Not only is English Patient absolutely glorious to look at but it contains 3 matchless performances from Fiennes, Binoche and Scott-Thomas. And I think the story is just beautiful, intense, heartbreaking, passionate. I adore it.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:31am

When you were born should have very little to do with this conversation.
Are you also required to have watched the ceremony, or to have seen every single movie that came out in a given year?

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:34am

"I'd personally put Network, All the President's Men and Taxi Driver WAY ahead of Rocky for the 1976 Best Picture, and, of the list, I'd have voted for Network, which is still one of the greatest satires ever created."

Yes.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:37am

Let's not forget about Carrie, A Star is Born, and Seven Beauties in 1976.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:42am

I personally didn't care for Girl With A Pearl Earring, but that may have been because the book is exquisite and the adaptation for the screen was horrific. And I don't get the fuss with 21 Grams. I was really excited for it as the trailers for it didn't give much away, just enough to get you interested (which is rare these days). I avoided all press for the movie before seeing it. Within 10 minutes of it starting, thanks to the HORRIBLE structure, I'd put together the whole movie and was quite bored.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:43am

I thought 21 Grams was brilliant and would have given Naomi Watts the Best Actress Oscar over Theron is a heartbeat.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:45am

Oh, I wouldn't have. All Watts did the entire movie was cry. Any actress working can do that. Theron winning was one of the best things Oscar has done in that category in years.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:47am

Oh, please. Monster is nothing but a glorified after-school special with swearing and sex. Watts' portrayal was deeply layered and textured.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:48am

Amen! Theron's performance is astonishing. Watts was more than tearful, but still didn't deserve the Oscar.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:52am

I have to say, of all the recent "let's give a pretty lady uglied down an Oscar" awards, Theron's was hands-down the most deserving.
And I might be the only human being on the planet who does think that Hilary Swank is an absolutely riveting young actress and deserving of both of her wins.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:54am

She most certainly deserved it for Boys Don't Cry. Not so much for Million Dollar Baby. Imelda Staunton was far superior.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:54am

Oh, please. Monster is nothing but a glorified after-school special with swearing and sex. Watts' portrayal was deeply layered and textured.

And so was Theron's, more so than Watts. She totally transcended the material in Monster and I have never been so transfixed by a performance. Ever.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:56am

I thought '21 Grams' using gimmicked storytelling was useless to the narrative. It was just a gimmick and it lessened my enjoyment of the movie. Unlike something like 'Memento' where the gimmick works as part of the structure of the story.

As for most recent movie to win that deserved it, I'd go with last year: 'Million Dollar Baby.' 'Eternal Sunshine' was my favorite movie of last year but of those nominated I thought 'Baby' was easily the pick of the litter.

[BrendanStryker]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:56am

CARRIE is my favorite film from 1976. I like ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and TAXI DRIVER, as well. Not as much as ROCKY; and, NETWORK, to me, is almost as dull as THE ENGLISH PATIENT. I hated it, and think that both Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie were robbed by the actresses in that snooze-fest.

[broadway86]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 11:57am

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Before that, American Beauty.

[DBillyP]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 12:09pm

bwaysinger, I wholeheartedly agree about Ms. Swank.