Best Picture Hall of Fame
 

Best Picture Hall of Fame

Write Ups
Miss Vicky- LIST SENT
12 Years a Slave
Moonlight
Mutiny on the Bounty
Argo
Forrest Gump
The Godfather
Rocky
Silence of the Lambs
All the King's Men
On the Waterfront
A Beautiful Mind
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Gladiator

Neiba- LIST SENT
Moonlight
All the King's Men
Gladiator
The Godfather
Silence of the Lambs
Mutiny on the Bounty
Rocky
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
On the Waterfront
Forrest Gump


CitizenRules-LIST SENT
12 Years a Slave
Argo
All the King's Men
Rocky
A Beautiful Mind
Forrest Gump
Mutiny on the Bounty
Moonlight
Silence of the Lambs
Gladiator
On the Waterfront
The Godfather
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Thursday Next- LIST SENT
Moonlight
All the King's Men
Forrest Gump
A Beautiful Mind
Argo
Gladiator
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Mutiny on the Bounty
On the Waterfront
12 Years a Slave
Silence of the Lambs
Rocky
The Godfather

GBGoodies- LIST SENT
12 Years a Slave
Moonlight
All the King's Men
Rocky
Forrest Gump
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Godfather
Silence of the Lambs
Argo
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind
On the Waterfront
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Rauldc14- LIST SENT
The Godfather
Rocky
Silence of the Lambs
Mutiny on the Bounty
Argo
12 Years a Slave
A Beautiful Mind
All the King's Men
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Forrest Gump
On the Waterfront
Moonlight
Gladiator

Edarsenal- LIST SENT
A Beautiful Mind
Silence of the Lambs
The Godfather
On the Waterfront
Gladiator
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Argo
Mutiny on the Bounty
12 Years a Slave
Forrest Gump
All the King's Men
Rocky
Moonlight


Donniedarko
Moonlight
Silence of the Lambs

Seanc- LIST SENT
Moonlight
Rocky
Gladiator
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Godfather
A Beautiful Mind
All the King's Men
Mutiny on the Bounty

Siddon- LIST SENT
Forrest Gump
A Beautiful Mind
Rocky
12 Years a Slave
Moonlight
All the King's Men
Gladiator
On the Waterfront
Mutiny on the Bounty
Argo
Silence of the Lambs
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sarge- REQUESTED TO DROP OUT
Gladiator

SilentVamp- LIST SENT
Argo
Gladiator
All the King's Men
A Beautiful Mind
On the Waterfront
Moonlight
Forrest Gump
Rocky
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
12 Years a Slave
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Godfather
Silence of the Lambs

Clazor- LIST SENT
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Forrest Gump
Rocky
All the King's Men
Moonlight
Silence of the Lambs
A Beautiful Mind
The Godfather
12 Years a Slave
Mutiny on the Bounty
Gladiator
On the Waterfront
Argo

https://s.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/mid...re-winners.jpg

Getting into the spirit with the upcoming awards season, I wanted to do an Oscar Best Picture Hall of Fame. For me, it will be cool to revisit films that have become legendary in film history. I am going to make every film eligible that has ever WON the best picture.

I'll take nominations now, and depending how far we progress, I'll unveil the noms afterwards. I would like to end it sometime around the actual Oscars as I think it would just be like, cool you know.

I also want this to be a bit less pressure, but please only join if you are interested in rewatching these with us. For a lot of us, we have obviously seen a good chunk but I don't think it will be as fun if people join with no intentions of rewatching most of the films.

Members
Seanc NOM SENT
Citizen Rules NOM SENT
Rauldc14 NOM SENT
Miss Vicky NOM SENT
Edarsenal NOM SENT
Thursday Next NOM SENT
Neiba NOM SENT
Donniedarko NOM SENT
SilentVamp NOM SENT
Siddon NOM SENT
GBGoodies NOM SENT
Clazor NOM SENT
Sarge NOM SENT


Mutiny on the Bounty
1935, Frank Lloyd

http://images4.static-bluray.com/reviews/3530_3.jpg

All the King's Men
1949, Robert Rossen

http://torontofilmsociety.org/files/...ings-Men-2.jpg

On the Waterfront
1954, Elia Kazan

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopo...e_750/obit.jpg

The Godfather
1972, Francis Ford Coppola

http://deadshirt.net/wp-content/uplo...odfather-1.jpg

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975, Milos Forman

http://scriptshadow.net/wp-content/u...4/04/DekGi.jpg

Rocky
1976, John Avildsen

http://southfloridafilmmaker.com/wp-...76-02-g600.jpg

Silence of the Lambs
1991, Jonathan Demme

http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/y3b...oW-1200-80.jpg

Forrest Gump
1994, Robert Zemeckis

https://pmcfootwearnews.files.wordpr...ers.jpg?w=1024

Gladiator
2000, Ridley Scott

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rp0DF1tJp...gladiator1.jpg

A Beautiful Mind
2001, Ron Howard

http://images.contentful.com/7h71s48...tiful-mind.jpg

Argo
2012, Ben Affleck

https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/sm/uplo...g?k=e291d30eb2

12 Years a Slave
2013, Steve McQueen

https://dg7kra6zb39sn.cloudfront.net...-a-slave-2.jpg

Moonlight
2016, Barry Jenkins

http://prod-upp-image-read.ft.com/23...e-f14e55513608

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I am in

I like this idea! I'll send my nom shortly:p

Does that include films that have previously already won an Hof?

6th Hof - All Quiet On The Western Front
9th Hof - The Best Years Of Our Lives
13th Hof - Dances With Wolves
Silent Era Hof - Wings
Live Musical Hof - West Side Story
Musical Artist Hof - Amadeus

I just linked your Hof to the 1st post in the HoF Archives thread. This should be fun!

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I'm ok with leaving them out, just for the sake of getting another winner.

That's what I would choose, but it's up to everyone else to decide.

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Ah, what the hell.

Whats your take on Sunrise? Some people include it as a BP some just go strictly with Wings.

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It's a winner in my book.

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I definitely say leave winners out

There aren't too many of them anyways, so we will do this.

Sunrise is so much better though. I think that's the HOF I was most disappointed in with it's result.

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Sunrise should be allowed in this HOF, even if the Academy doesn't acknowledge their own history.

Same here, although I will watch anything I haven't seen.

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I'm in!!
Give me a bit to shoot over a nom
And THANKS @Citizen Rules for posting other HoF winners so that we can avoid them!

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Ed gives us 5.

Hopefully @Thursday Next and @SilentVamp can join too.

Hopefully @gbgoodies decides to come out of retirement for this Hof:p

Just had a look over the Oscars list - I've seen 41/90 Best Picture winners. Of those, I disliked or outright hated 18. :laugh:

This should be interesting.

I'm considering joining this HoF, but (with a few exceptions), most of the Best Picture winners that I haven't seen yet are movies that I don't have much interest in seeing. Plus most of the movies that I would want to nominate have either already been nominated in a HoF, (for example Kramer vs. Kramer and The Sting in the current HoFs), or they're musicals that most people here have no interest in seeing.


@rauldc14
How long do I have to decide if I want to join?

Probably at least until Sunday GBG. I hope you join as I would like to hear your input.

Such a difficult task of deciding what I want to nominate. The other 4 have sent theirs in.

Thanks. I'll let you know by Sunday.


I have a small list of possible noms, but several of them are musicals, and I know that some people here hate musicals, so I'll probably choose a different movie.

There is one movie that I haven't seen yet that I'm considering nominating as a "blind nomination", but I've never nominated a movie that I haven't seen before, so I might pass on that movie as well.

One of the Best Picture winners that I don't hate is a musical. I actually like it and even have it in my collection. Don't know if that's one you were considering though.

There's more than one musical that I'm considering, but I think I might know which one you like. It's a little different from the others.

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I like the most recent best picture that was a musical....oh wait Warren Beatty tricked me.

I still haven't seen La La Land yet, but I bought it on Blu-Ray on Black Friday, so hopefully I'll get around to it soon.

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OK, since it looks like it won't be too big a hall of fame and most of the films should be easy enough to get hold of, I think I will join. Not sure what to nominate yet, unless I blind-nominate Moonlight just to annoy Raul...

Well there's you, me and Citizen who all like musicals...

I've never blind nominated either but it might be an interesting way of expanding our films seen through this hall of fame... but if we all didn't like our own nominations it would make for a pretty weird hall of fame.

La La Land was amazing! I loved it, and too bad it didn't win, then maybe someone would have nominated it and I could watch it again:) It's a movie that's very re-watchable.

Yup and Ed too. I think Raul and Miss Vicky would be OK with a good musical too.

I think you and I have very different definitions of what constitutes a "good" musical. :laugh:

I had a musical first in mind (that was neither a winner or nominated - that I'm aware of) as well, then I saw a blind grab of a period piece I've wanted to see, but I figured both were iffy, so I moved on.

D@mn curious to see what musical @Miss Vicky actually likes and has. Did you mention it in the Musical HoFs, Vicky?

I think a large bit of my nominations HAVE been blind grabs. Including the very first HoF I was in. I'd have to check and see.

EDIT: Kind of surprised myself, I only did blind grabs in 3 of the HoFs including the present Women Directors. Actually thought there were more.
The Suspect in 40s HoF
La Grande Illusion in 14th HoF
and Orlando in Women Directors HoF

I don't remember if I mentioned it there or not. I didn't participate in the Live Action Musical HOF though. I just couldn't willingly subject myself to that kind of torture.

I should probably qualify my previous statement in saying that I still liked this particular Best Picture winning musical the last time I watched it, but it's been a few years since then so I might not feel the same the next time I see it. There's another on the BP list that I enjoyed the first couple of times I saw it and even bought the DVD, but then the last time I watched it I absolutely HATED it and gave the DVD away. :laugh:

OK, now THAT makes more sense :laugh:

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I'm thinking Miss Vicky liked Sound of Music?

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I was thinking SoM or MFL as well.

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just thought of something, does @neiba know about this, yet?

:laugh: :nope:

That's one of Funny Face's favorite movies though. :rolleyes:

FF rocks!
Haven't seen that one since my early twenties Used to watch it every year on TV growing up. Wonder how I'd feel about it now. . .

I'm pretty sure you DON'T like Oliver! which is the one I considered, but it had a trifecta against it: 1) Musical 2) Period piece 3) around 3 hours long.

I have high hopes for the blind nomination that I'm considering because it's been on my watchlist pretty much since it was in the theaters, and I just haven't gotten around to watching it yet. It also has a great rating on IMDB.

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I haven't seen it. But a three hour musical sounds like cruel and unusual punishment.

I didn't ed, thanks!!! :)

I'm in!

What about @CosmicRunaway I was hoping she would pop in and join.

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I was hoping she would join too.

Neiba is in and I got his nomination

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I got rep from her on one of my posts, so she's definitely aware of it.

I've been reading the thread, but I'm on the fence about joining.

While I like the idea of this HoF, my taste doesn't usually line up with the Academy's. Out of the Best Picture winners I've seen, I could probably count on one hand the number that I really thoroughly enjoy. I didn't think the others were bad (except for maybe one or two that I actively dislike), but I don't really have any interest in seeing them again either.

I know I could be pleasantly surprised by something I haven't seen yet, but I've had a really rough week and don't know if I have the energy for a HoF right now. I was dying with an intense flu all weekend (fever, shivers, body aches so bad my skin hurt to touch, horrible cough) which I'm still not quite over, and then this week at work we had twice the product to deal with thanks to the ferry not being able to run at all last week. So we got last week's stock, plus this week's (which was of course still on time).

I've been really looking forward to just chilling without any expectations or commitments for awhile, and I don't want to fall behind right at the start. If I don't join, I might watch some of the films anyway, or at the very least comment on any that I have already seen.

Ugh! that flu sounds horrible, and you have to work too? that's tough! Hope you feel better and real soon:)

Luckily it was a long weekend so I had Monday off. I had to leave early on Tuesday, but I managed to stay for my full shifts since then. I considered calling in sick today to give me some time to recover after a rough few days, but I knew we had even more to do today (since we can only leave so much stuff in receiving over the weekend), and we were already short staffed. It's a good thing I didn't call in, since someone who was obviously trying to fight off an illness yesterday did call in sick. I hope he doesn't have what I do.

Thanks! I think the worst is behind me at least. I'm really looking forward to going to bed tonight, and not having to get up at 3am tomorrow. I have nowhere to be, and nothing to do, so I can stay in bed as long as I like. I don't plan to get up before the sun for once. :cool:

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sorry to hear about the flu, @CosmicRunaway, that sounded rough. We had some of that the week before New Years.
Completely understand the need to stay in bed -- ENJOY and take sweet care!!

I'll join this one. This should be an easy one for me, too, because I am assuming all of the nominations will be easily accessible.

I work so much. :sick: I didn't plan on the job (that I only started last week) being this hard. :rolleyes: So I think it will be good to get into this again with an easier (for lack of a better word) HoF.

I'll send my nomination in just a bit.

Yeah!

SILENT!!

is it ironic I'm typing that word SO loudly? lol
sorry to hear the new job sucks. That -- well, it sucks :(

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Vamp and Siddon have both sent noms.

At this point I would like to conclude nominations, the invite is still open for Cosmic and GBGoodies to join by Sunday! :)

Would like to unveil Sunday Night if at all possible.

And yeah, I still haven't thought up what I want to pick. Luckily another member took one of my possible picks as well!

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Anyway I could get in on this @rauldc14

Haven’t done a HOF in a long while and this sounds like a good one

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I'm still deciding what to pick but I will have my nom in soon, honest!

Deciding between a blind nom and an old favourite...may come down to a coin toss.

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Damn I would really like to join this because I haven't seen that many best picture winners but am probably to busy at the moment to commit, although I'll be following this closely.

I'm good with it if everyone else is.

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I'm cool with donnie joining.

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If Donnie joins is he going to finish? He dropped out of the last Hof he was in, my Film Noir Part 2. He said he didn't have time to finish, but he was still posting on a daily basis here.

Yeah, I would be OK with it.


Mine is actually a half blind nomination (more like a 1/4 nomination, actually). I started to watch it but I couldn't finish it because the DVD was so bad. I returned it to the library and told them about it. They ended up putting it back on the shelf. :rolleyes: I think they have 2 copies at this particular library. I hope I get the one that isn't damaged this time! Otherwise I will have to not be so lazy and just go to a different library to pick it up.

Anyway, I know a few people have seen this (yeah, I was checking out people's lists :)), but I only know the opinion of one person. So we shall soon find out what the rest of you guys thought who have seen it. :)

I know the story - I know what happens (I won't say why just yet). But I really want to watch the movie and this gives me a push to do so (and there still are the members who haven't seen it, too). I just decided that this should be what I nominate.

I'll finish this one, and rewatch those I've seen, have more time for movies now and don't mind paying to rent them through services like amazon. I believe the film noir HOF was finishing around finals while this time I should have time to watch all the films before my classes even start :cool:

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Having Donnie joins works for me as well

Have I seen it?

I think blind nominations in this Hof are OK. I went with one that I had seen, but I could see going with a Best Picture winner that I hadn't seen. I do hope I get to see some movies I've never seen.

Most definitely. :) Now your guessing game can begin as to which one it is, but I think you might be able to figure it out. If you can remember our conversation about it a long time ago, of course. :)

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I'm betting my nom will be a rewatch for just about everybody. I could be wrong though.

ETA: Just had a look and all but one of the participants has it checked off their list.

I can't even remember what I did yesterday:p We've talked about a lot of movies so nope don't remember that. I might be able to guess though. Maybe after the noms are all in, but before Raul reveals them we can take a guess at what we think others nominated, sounds fun to me:)

Shakespeare in Love? nah I doubt we'll be seeing that one:p I probably could guess, and if I'm right I'd be real happy to see that one again.

Ew.

When I mentioned that there were one or two Best Picture Oscar films that I actively dislike, Shakespeare in Love was one that I was thinking of. :lol:

They showed a clip of Shakespeare in Live on tv the other day and my wife remarked how terrible it was. I didn't like it either of course.

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Too last minute for another to join in?

I actually like Shakespeare in Love:cool:, thought I do think either Saving Private Ryan or The Thin Red Line should have won.

I didn't think much of those either:shrug:

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I'm okay with Clazor joining if raul's okay with it.

Bet it was me, a bunch of classics I haven't seen

That is why I said If you can remember our conversation about it a long time ago, of course. :D I know how your mind works. :p But I think that once it is revealed (and assuming that it isn't revealed who nominated what), you will definitely know which is mine. At least I think so. :)

I actually like Shakespeare in Love, too. I am not big on Gwyneth Paltrow. I didn't think she was anything spectacular in there, but I love the supporting cast and I just adore Joseph Fiennes as Shakespeare (kind of thought he was robbed considering the less deserving Gwyneth won).

I do know Raul was looking for Sunday to reveal, so you be under the wire. Shoot him a PM with a nom and see what happens. Be cool to have ya!

Hmmmm

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We have 10 noms already. I didn't want this to get too huge in case it makes people feel stressed about watching too much plus we are awaiting GBG who got an invite earlier and should certainly be able to join. Unless there are no objections but after Clazor and Sarge and GBG I would say we stop.

Your call raul:p

Just out of curiosity what was the other one?

I would have guessed you to be a fan of The Thin Red Line. You're probably not a fan of Elizabeth from that year either? Actually I would be shocked if you liked that one. Though I liked it quite a bit.

I looked over the list of Best Pics and not really sure what yours might be, I'm guessing it's something newer that you weren't really too interested in. My guess is Argo? Well you can't tell me now of course.

Believe it or not I have the DVD as my wife and I both love it. Cate Blanchett can do no wrong.

Oh jesus! I would have never have guessed that...but cool that you like it.

There's not many costume/historical type movies I really like; that, Braveheart, The Patriot, Quills, Rob Roy, Barry Lyndon. I can't think of any others right now.

Chicago.

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We should have an Oscar Speech HOF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QUacU0I4yU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD2cVhC-63I

AMEN to that

I PMed my nom to Raul. I included a second choice just in case someone beat me to my first choice.

I decided to nominate the blind nom I was considering instead of a musical.

I PM'd my nom last night too, but if it takes the size past the tipping point then I am happy to sit it out.

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We are good Sarge, GB, and Clazor.. I am going to end the nomination process now and we will have our nominees posted tonight.

Can't wait to see what I nominated

You don't remember what you nominated!? Oh, now I know what you mean!

Great! Did you get my Nom? I was sure I sent it but there is nothing in my sent folder.

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I got it!

@rauldc14

About what time do you think you will do the reveal? I am only asking because if it isn't too late I will come back online to check them out, see where I can obtain them (if I don't happen to own any) and plan out from there. Otherwise, I won't be back online until at least Wednesday or Thursday night. And that is OK if I don't find out until then, too. I am just curious.

Probably in about 3-4 hours. I'll list all the nominees then we can do the usual guessing of who nominated what since that's usually been fun lately.

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Mini teaser factoid:

Only 2 decades look like they won't have a nomination.

Wow, that is a VERY nice spread. VERY cool!!

hmmm, curiouser and curiouser. . . now I can't wait to see what ya nominated, sean :)

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Our first 3

Mutiny on the Bounty
1935, Frank Lloyd

http://images4.static-bluray.com/reviews/3530_3.jpg

All the King's Men
1949, Robert Rossen

http://torontofilmsociety.org/files/...ings-Men-2.jpg

On the Waterfront
1954, Elia Kazan

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopo...e_750/obit.jpg

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I've seen On the Waterfront. It was good, but didn't love it. Will rewatch.

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The Godfather
1972, Francis Ford Coppola

http://deadshirt.net/wp-content/uplo...odfather-1.jpg

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975, Milos Forman

http://scriptshadow.net/wp-content/u...4/04/DekGi.jpg

Rocky
1976, John Avildsen

http://southfloridafilmmaker.com/wp-...76-02-g600.jpg

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****. I was afraid that would happen.

I've seen all three of these. Love Cuckoo's Nest. HATE the other two. Will rewatch them anyway.

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That second set is gorgeous