Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
#1Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/8/14 at 10:33pm
Since we're into "high Oscar season," I thought I would offer this up. Pick your top 5 Oscar-winning Best Pictures, Favorite AND Least Favorite.
Here's the full list:
2012 - "Argo"
2011 - "The Artist"
2010 - "The King's Speech"
2009 - "The Hurt Locker"
2008 - "Slumdog Millionaire"
2007 - "No Country for Old Men"
2006 - "The Departed"
2005 - "Crash"
2004 - "Million Dollar Baby"
2003 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
2002 - "Chicago"
2001 - "A Beautiful Mind"
2000 - "Gladiator"
1999 - "American Beauty"
1998 - "Shakespeare in Love"
1997 - "Titanic"
1996 - "The English Patient"
1995 - "Braveheart"
1994 - "Forrest Gump"
1993 - "Schindler’s List"
1992 - "Unforgiven"
1991 - "The Silence of the Lambs"
1990 - "Dances With Wolves"
1989 - "Driving Miss Daisy"
1988 - "Rain Man"
1987 - "The Last Emperor"
1986 - "Platoon"
1985 - "Out of Africa"
1984 - "Amadeus"
1983 - "Terms of Endearment"
1982 - "Gandhi"
1981 - "Chariots of Fire"
1980 - "Ordinary People"
1979 - "Kramer vs. Kramer"
1978 - "The Deer Hunter"
1977 - "Annie Hall"
1976 - "Rocky"
1975 - "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"
1974 - "The Godfather Part II"
1973 - "The Sting"
1972 - "The Godfather"
1971 - "The French Connection"
1970 - "Patton"
1969 - "Midnight Cowboy"
1968 - "Oliver!"
1967 - "In the Heat of the Night"
1966 - "A Man for All Seasons"
1965 - "The Sound of Music"
1964 - "My Fair Lady"
1963 - "Tom Jones"
1962 - "Lawrence of Arabia"
1961 - "West Side Story"
1960 - "The Apartment"
1959 - "Ben-Hur"
1958 - "Gigi"
1957 - "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
1956 - "Around the World in 80 Days"
1955 - "Marty"
1954 - "On the Waterfront"
1953 - "From Here to Eternity"
1952 - "The Greatest Show on Earth"
1951 - "An American in Paris"
1950 - "All About Eve"
1949 - "All the Kings Men"
1948 - "Hamlet"
1947 - "Gentleman's Agreement"
1946 - "The Best Years of Our Lives"
1945 - "The Lost Weekend"
1944 - "Going My Way"
1943 - "Casablanca"
1942 - "Mrs. Miniver"
1941 - "How Green Was My Valley"
1940 - "Rebecca"
1939 - "Gone with the Wind"
1938 - "You Can't Take It with You"
1937 - "The Life of Emile Zola"
1936 - "The Great Ziegfeld"
1935 - "Mutiny on the Bounty"
1934 - "It Happened One Night"
1932/1933 - "Cavalcade"
1931/1932 - "Grand Hotel"
1930/1931 - "Cimarron"
1929/1930 - "All Quiet on the Western Front"
1928/1929 - "The Broadway Melody"
1927/1928 - "Wings"
I'll start out ...
FAVORITE:
1. "Gone With the Wind"
2. "The Sound of Music"
3. "All About Eve"
4. "Amadeus"
5. "How Green Was My Valley"
LEAST FAVORITE:
1. "The Hurt Locker"
2. "The Departed"
3. "Slumdog Millionaire"
4. "No Country For Old Men"
5. "Platoon"
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#2Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/8/14 at 11:08pm
I've seen 47 "Best Picture" films. Choosing 5 is difficult.
I'm interpreting "favorite" to mean a film I enjoy so much, I can watch it again and again. [As opposed to "best," where I would rank SCHINDLER'S LIST way at the top. Wouldn't want to see it "again and again" though.]
Top 5 Favorites:
1) West Side Story
2) Forrest Gump
3) Titanic
4) The Departed
5) Chicago
Least Favorites:
1) Gladiator
2) Ben-Hur
3) The Bridge of the River Kwai
4) Dances With Wolves
5) The Hurt Locker
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--Aristotle
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#2Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/8/14 at 11:09pm
Favorite-In no order
1. Chicago
2. The Sound of Music
3. Rocky
4. West Side Story
5. Forrest Gump
This one was hard because there is only 1 movie that I've seen that I didn't like. So, I actually only really dislike 1 movie on this list. I guess I should add that I also have not seen a lot of these movies, so my lists were limited to begin with.
Least Favorite:
1. Lord of The Rings: The Return of the King
2. Titanic
3. The Apartment
4. Gigi
5. Million Dollar Baby
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#3Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/8/14 at 11:43pm
Stressing these are my favorites, not best, I don't want to lose my standing as an intellectual snob. :)
Favorites -
Titanic
Chicago
The Artist
Annie Hall (controversial?)
West Side Story
Least Favorites -
LOTR : Return of the King
Braveheart
Million Dollar Baby
The Hurt Locker
A Beautiful Mind
(Best12, I thought Oliver! would be in your Top 5!)
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Updated On: 2/9/14 at 11:43 PM
#4Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/8/14 at 11:46pm
Oh, that is hard. Good question, besty!
Allow the absence of your favorite movies to be indications I haven't seen it/them yet.
FAVORITE:
1. Schindler's List
2. Amadeus
3. Forrest Gump
4. Casablanca
5. The Apartment
(Also considered: All Quiet on the Western Front, On the Waterfront, West Side Story, The Sting, Platoon, Rain Man.)
LEAST FAVORITE
1. Gentleman's Agreement
2. The Godfather, Part II
3. Driving Miss Daisy
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Gladiator (which is where I get to films I still like, but is least among liked.)
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#5Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/8/14 at 11:52pm
SO many of these I haven't seen so it's hard to choose, but my choices for this date are:
Favorite:
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
ALL ABOUT EVE
THE GODFATHER
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Least Favorite:
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Sorry, everyone. I think its overrated)
KRAMER VS. KRAMER
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
FORREST GUMP
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#6Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/8/14 at 11:57pm
Favorite
Silence of the lambs
Lawrence of Arabia
Gone with the wind
Amadeus
Sound of music
Really sad to think that none of them since lambs, has been a worthy winner.
Least
Lord of the Rings - return of the king
Hurt locker
Crash
No country for old men
Shakesphere in love
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#7Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 12:05am
FAVORITE:
1. West Side Story
2. Forrest Gump
3. Argo
4. Chicago
5. Broadway Melody
LEAST FAVORITE:
1. Kramer vs. Kramer
2. American Beauty
3. Gladiator
4. Beautiful Life
5. The Godfather
#8Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 12:15am
rosscoe(au), I usually agree with you, but couldn't disagree more that no Best Picture winner since 1991 has been a worthy winner. I think it's important to recognize the great work that is being done today.
Least Favorite:
CRASH
FORREST GUMP
A BEAUTIFUL MIND
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
THE DEPARTED
Favorite:
WEST SIDE STORY
CHICAGO
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
ALL ABOUT EVE
AMERICAN BEAUTY
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#9Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 12:19amWorst and Best is much different than Favorite and Least Favorite... I think many lists, including mine, would be different if it were the former.
#10Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 12:21amTrue. I changed that on mine.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
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#11Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 12:26am
In no particular order:
Favorites:
The French Connection
Schindler's List
Slumdog Millionaire
Patton
In The Heat of The Night
Least Favorite:
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Crash
Ordinary People
The Last Emperor
The Artist
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#12Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 12:44am
FAVORITES
"No Country for Old Men"
"Shakespeare in Love"
"Amadeus"
"All About Eve"
"It Happened One Night"
LEAST FAVORITES
"Crash"
"Braveheart"
"Forrest Gump"
"Dances With Wolves"
"Gandhi"
#13Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 1:08amHappy to see some love for SHAKESPERARE IN LOVE in the "Favorite" category. Also, how could I forget how much I hate and despise FORREST GUMP? Editing my choices to add that in right now.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#14Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 1:48am
Favorites:
Lawrence of Arabia
Titanic
Chariots of Fire
Casablanca
Tom Jones
Least appreciated by me:
The Departed
Ordinary People
The English Patient
Oliver
Dances With Wolves
On another day the lists would likely differ except for Lawrence of Arabia and Ordinary People.
#15Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 2:05am
Favorite:
The Departed
American Beauty
The Silence of the Lambs
Annie Hall
West Side Story
Least Favorite:
Crash
Million Dollar Baby
LOTR: The Return of the King
Forrest Gump
Braveheart
#16Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 2:35am
Fun thread. Kind of difficult to narrow it down to just 5 on each, but I believe in playing by the rules. Here they are in no particular order:
FAVORITE:
No Country for Old Men
Million Dollar Baby
Amadeus
Midnight Cowboy
My Fair Lady
LEAST FAVORITE:
Titanic
The King's Speech
Lord of the Rings
Gladiator
On the Waterfront (not kidding)
#17Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 5:54amJay, it was tough to keep it to five. Oliver! would be right up there, for sure. So would West Side Story and (believe it or not) Titanic.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#18Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 6:57am
I've made it a point over the past few years to see all of these. Picking 5 faves is near impossible, but:
FAVORITE
The Return of the King
Grand Hotel
The Life of Emile Zola
All About Eve
The Last Emperor
Picking my 5 least fave was actually pretty easy:
LEAST FAVORITE
Gigi
The English Patient
The Hurt Locker
Crash
Dances with Wolves
....but the world goes 'round
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#19Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 8:41am
favorite:
All About Eve
two Billy Wilder masterpieces: The Apartment and The Lost Weekend
The Godfather Part II (a masterpiece that won over another masterpiece, Chinatown)
Oliver! (a complete pleasure, and the most underrated oscar winning best picture)
interesting fact: only two movies have won both the best picture oscar and the top honor at Cannes. One is The Lost Weekend, the other Marty.
hon mention: Terms of Endearment
least favorite:
Titanic
The English Patient
Braveheart
The Greatest Show on Earth
Crash
dishon mentions: Gladiator, Forest Gump, Out of Africa
Updated On: 2/10/14 at 08:41 AM
#20Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 8:43am
Bottom:
The English Patient
Rocky
Shakespeare in Love
Forrest Gump
Lord of the Rings
Top:
Schindler's List
The Godfather
Gone With the Wind
Silence of Lambs
West Side Story
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#21Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 9:31am
Favorite:
1. West Side Story
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather Part II
4. The Sound of Music
5. All About Eve
Least Favorite:
1. Annie Hall
2. Forrest Gump
3. Crash
4. Braveheart
5. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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#22Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 11:39am
Favorites: An American in Paris, My Fair Lady, Oliver!, The Silence of the Lambs, Million Dollar Baby
Least favorites: Around the World in 80 Days, Tom Jones, Ordinary People, A Beautiful Mind, The King's Speech
#23Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/9/14 at 12:08pm
So hard to keep it to five, as there are many that I could watch over and over.
Favorites:
Annie Hall
Amadeus
American Beauty
It Happened One Night
Oliver
Least Favorite:
Million Dollar Baby
Crash
Ben Hur
Platoon
No Country For Old Men
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#24Pick Your Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Best Picture Winners
Posted: 2/10/14 at 11:40am
Favorite:
Schindler's List
All About Eve
West Side Story
Terms of Endearment
Amadeus
Least Favorite:
The Departed
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The English Patient
Out of Africa
Around the World in 80 Days
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