In the Heat of the Night was a good movie, but that was the year of Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, and Heat was a distant third compared to those two.
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Driving Miss Daisy or Shakespeare in Love
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I pretty much waffle between two answers to this question...sometimes I think it's THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH and sometimes I think it's AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS.
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Others on my least deserving list are Slumdog Millionaire,Million Dollar Baby,Driving Miss Daisy and The English Patient.
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1941:I haven't seen it but I seriously doubt How Green Was My Valley is better then Citizen Kane.
1991: I admit I'm biased on this one since it's one of my favorite movies but I think Beauty and the Beast should have won this year. I saw Silence of the Lambs and didn't really care for it (Anthony Hopkins was amazing though) but I've never been a fan of slasher-esque films anyway.
1998: No idea how Shakespeare In Love beat Saving Private Ryan.
2005: Brokeback Mountain. "Nuff said.
2008: The Dark Knight should have gotten a nomination at least.
1991: I admit I'm biased on this one since it's one of my favorite movies but I think Beauty and the Beast should have won this year. I saw Silence of the Lambs and didn't really care for it (Anthony Hopkins was amazing though) but I've never been a fan of slasher-esque films anyway.
1998: No idea how Shakespeare In Love beat Saving Private Ryan.
2005: Brokeback Mountain. "Nuff said.
2008: The Dark Knight should have gotten a nomination at least.
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1941:I haven't seen it but I seriously doubt How Green Was My Valley is better then Citizen Kane.
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The 1994 nominations were incredible. Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, and Shawshank Redemption? I would have been happy if any of those won, and Forrest took it in the end.
1998: Saving Private Ryan should have won imo.
2002: The Pianist should have won.
2009: Inglorious Basterds should have won.
2010: Anything EXCEPT the King's Speech should have won. (another good year)
2012: Haven't seen Argo, but I don't know if it topped Django Unchained or Life of Pi.
1998: Saving Private Ryan should have won imo.
2002: The Pianist should have won.
2009: Inglorious Basterds should have won.
2010: Anything EXCEPT the King's Speech should have won. (another good year)
2012: Haven't seen Argo, but I don't know if it topped Django Unchained or Life of Pi.
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Never thought about it before, but THE GRADUATE or BONNIE AND CLYDE were far superior nominees for Best Picture of 67 than the winner.
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Never thought about it before, but THE GRADUATE or BONNIE AND CLYDE were far superior nominees for Best Picture of 67 than the winner.
A few others:
Taxi Driver over Rocky
Apocalypse Now over Kramer vs. Kramer
Raging Bull over Ordinary People
JFK over Silence of The Lambs
Sense and Sensibility over Braveheart
Anything (but preferably Good Will Hunting) over Titanic
The Fellowship of the Ring over A Beautiful Mind
Anything over Chicago
The Aviator over Million Dollar Baby
There Will Be Blood over No Country for Old Men
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Counting the movies that were better than the Oscar winners is like counting the number of grains of sand in the beach.
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No argument regarding OLIVER! I will never understand that win, but I loved ORDINARY PEOPLE.
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