Best & worst of the Best

Academy Award Winners
What do you think is the best and the worst out of the list?
(List copied from "listofthebest.com"

1927WingsWilliam A. Wellman
1928The Broadway MelodyNorman Taurog
1929All Quiet on the Western FrontLewis Milestone
1930CimarronWesley Ruggles
1931Grand HotelEdmund Goulding
1932CavalcadeFrank Lloyd
1934It Happened One NightFrank Capra
1935Mutiny on the BountyFrank Lloyd
1936The Great ZiegfeldRobert Z. Leonard
1937The Life of Emile ZolaWilliam Dieterle
1938You Can't Take It with YouFrank Capra
1939Gone with the WindVictor Fleming & Sam Wood & George Cukor 1940RebeccaAlfred Hitchcock
1941How Green Was My ValleyJohn Ford
1942Mrs. MiniverWilliam Wyler
1943CasablancaMichael Curtiz
1944Going My WayLeo McCarey
1945The Lost WeekendBilly Wilder
1946The Best Years of Our LivesWilliam Wyler
1947Gentleman's AgreementElia Kazan
1948HamletLaurence Olivier
1949All the King's MenRobert Rossen
1950All About EveJoseph L. Mankiewicz
1951An American in ParisVincente Minnelli
1952The Greatest Show on EarthCecil B. DeMille
1953From Here to EternityFred Zinnemann
1954On the WaterfrontElia Kazan
1955MartyDelbert Mann
1956Around the World in 80 DaysMichael Anderson
1957The Bridge on the River KwaiDavid Lean
1958GigiCharles Walters & Vincente Minnelli
1959Ben-HurWilliam Wyler
1960The ApartmentBilly Wilder
1961West Side StoryRobert Wise & Jerome Robbins

1962Lawrence of ArabiaDavid Lean
1963Tom JonesTony Richardson
1964My Fair LadyGeorge Cukor
1965The Sound of MusicRobert Wise
1966A Man for All SeasonsFred Zinnemann
1967In the Heat of the NightNorman Jewison
1968Oliver!Carol Reed
1969Midnight CowboyJohn Schlesinger
1970PattonFranklin J. Schaffner
1971The French ConnectionWilliam Friedkin
1972The GodfatherFrancis Ford Coppola
1973The StingGeorge Roy Hill
1974The Godfather Part IIFrancis Ford Coppola
1975One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestMilos Forman
1976RockyJohn G. Avildsen
1977Annie HallWoody Allen
1978The Deer HunterMichael Cimino
1979Kramer vs. KramerRobert Benton
1980Ordinary PeopleRobert Redford
1981Chariots of FireHugh Hudson
1982GandhiRichard Attenborough
1983Terms of EndearmentJames L. Brooks
1984AmadeusMilos Forman
1985Out of AfricaSydney Pollack
1986PlatoonOliver Stone
1987The Last EmperorBernardo Bertolucci
1988Rain ManBarry Levinson
1989Driving Miss DaisyBruce Beresford
1990Dances with WolvesKevin Costner
1991The Silence of the LambsJonathan Demme
1992UnforgivenClint Eastwood
1993Schindler's ListSteven Spielberg
1994Forrest GumpRobert Zemeckis
1995BraveheartMel Gibson
1996The English PatientAnthony Minghella
1997TitanicJames Cameron
1998Shakespeare in LoveJohn Madden
1999American BeautySam Mendes
2000GladiatorRidley Scott
2001A Beautiful MindRon Howard
2002ChicagoRob Marshall
2003The Lord Of the Rings: The Return Of the KingPeter Jackson



I think that out of all of the movies listed here the worst is Titanic the best is Braveheart. A very close second to best is Unforgiven.

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“The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

Braveheart is the best, Return of the King is the worst

The Greatest Show on Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, Out of Africa, The English Patient and Gladiator are the worst Best Picture winners.

All Quiet on the Western Front, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather and Unforgiven are the best of the Best Picture winners.

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Empire Magazine's Top Ten Worst Best Pictures...

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The Best

• The Godfather Pt. II (Francis Ford Coppola - 1974)
• The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola - 1972)
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman - 1975)
• Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood - 1992)
• Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean - 1962)

The Worst

• Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner - 1990)
• Titanic (James Cameron - 1997)
• Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack - 1985)
• The English Patient (Anthony Minghella - 1996)
• Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Anderson - 1956)

The Best:

Forrest Gump
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Rain Man
The Deer Hunter

The Worst:

Titanic
A Beautiful Mind
Chicago
Gladiator

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-Aragorn: The Lord of the Rings the Return of the King

Best: The Godfather (I and II) and The Deer Hunter.

Worst: Titanic, Rocky, LOTR:ROTK

How can a beautiful mind and gladiator be the worst when you have movies like titanic and lotr in the same list, jeebis

Best
Unforgiven
Ben Hur
Chariots of Fire

Worst
Anything from 95' on up.

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worst
Rocky
Braveheart
Titanic
Chicago
Around The World In 80 Days
best
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Last Emperor
Deer Hunter
Casablanca

Best

Annie Hall, enough so that it was immortalized in a Fugazi song.

It Happened One Night, for the fact that it's the epitome of what comedy should be, smart, funny and daring in its portrayal of man and woman equally witty. And historic in the fact that it is a comedy at all.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Dances With Wolves, sorry but I have to break with the Costner bashers here and call this one of my favorite films.

Deer Hunter
Casablanca
The last Emperor
West Side Story/An American in Paris, two of a short list of Musicals that I repress the gag reflex over.
Gandhi
Braveheart, historically inaccurate and grandiose but I loved this movie.
American Beauty, the best of the best in a decade of crap.
Terms of Endearment
Silence of the Lambs
Midnight Cowboy

Worst
The Greatest Show on Earth
Titanic WTF?!?!?
Chicago GAG....BARF!!!!!
Going My Way

Best Should have been/also ran...
Malcolm X
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars
2001
A Clockwork Orange
I realize some of these films may have been nominated/produced in the same year as films I may have mentioned ...perfect world there would be several winners in a year...

The Best:

• Casablanca
• The Godfather
• The Godfather: Part II
• Annie Hall

The Worst:

• Chicago
• A Beautiful Mind

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

Worst: BRAVEHEART (dull), BEAUTIFUL MIND (dull), CHICAGO (stupid)

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BEST

1962Lawrence of ArabiaDavid Lean

WORST

1976RockyJohn G. Avildsen

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worst. return of the king definatly. say what you want about titanic, rotk was still worse.

best is without a doubt unorgiven simply because i havnt seen most of those other movies.

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