Favorite Oscar Winner?

What is your favorite Oscar winner for best picture?

Film: Jaws
Person: Robert De Niro
Best Picture winner: The Godfather or The Silence of the Lambs

Meaning films that have won Best Picture, any performance that has won an Oscar, or just any movie that has won any kind of Oscar? U-571, Harry and the Hendersons and The Ghost and the Darkness are all Oscar winners.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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Gladiator- because it's pile of Oscars provide rather definitive evidence that the awards are basically irrelevant as a scale of a film's quality

No Country for Old Men.

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Jaws didn't win Best Picture.

Yes, but the post didn't originally ask for Best Picture Oscar winner, it just said Oscar winner. It has been edited.

There is an existing thread, HERE, but it was in 2005, didn't have a whole lot of responses, and there have been four more Best Picture winners since then. But he did have the decency to ask what he was looking for from the start and to give the list of all the winners from Wings to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.



I'll stick with my picks from there, with All Quiet on the Western Front, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather and Unforgiven as the best of the Best Picture winners with The Greatest Show on Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, Out of Africa, The English Patient and Gladiator the worst Best Picture winners. And if I have to pick from among those ten I'll go with Lawrence of Arabia as #1 and The Greatest Show on Earth as the worst of the worst.

Just curious... if you're in an answering mood that is. Which flick would you have given the Oscar to besides Out of Africa? Do you hate it? Or just think its undeserving? I could get behind that, I really like it but it doesn't seem like a Best Picture type of flick to me.

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I just plain don't think much of it as a film. Of the other nominees Prizzi's Honor and Witness are much better to me, but most of what I consider to be the best stuff made that year didn't even get nominated (as usual): Brazil, RAN, After Hours, Lost in America...Out of Africa wouldn't even squeak into my top thirty for 1985. To me it does stick out as one of the least movies to be named Best Picture.

But, you know, different strokes and all.

I'll go with :

Casablanca
The Godfather

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You and Holden should get a lump of coal from Santa for not liking that movie more.

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Right HERE on the IMDb. It's also one of the MoFo Lists, HERE. But just for the heck of it...


1927-28: Wings
1928-29: Broadway Melody
1929-30: All Quiet on the Western Front
1930-31: Cimarron
1931-32: Grand Hotel
1932-33: Cavalcade
1934: It Happened One Night
1935: Mutiny on the Bounty
1936: The Great Ziegfeld
1937: The Life of Emile Zola
1938: You Can't Take It With You
1939: Gone With the Wind
1940: Rebecca
1941: How Green Was My Valley
1942: Mrs. Miniver
1943: Casablanca
1944: Going My Way
1945: The Lost Weekend
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives
1947: Gentlemen's Agreement
1948: Hamlet
1949: All the King's Men
1950: All About Eve
1951: An American In Paris
1952: The Greatest Show on Earth
1953: From Here to Eternity
1954: On the Waterfront
1955: Marty
1956: Around the World in 80 Days
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958: Gigi
1959: Ben-Hur
1960: The Apartment
1961: West Side Story
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: Tom Jones
1964: My Fair Lady
1965: The Sound of Music
1966: A Man for All Seasons
1967: In the Heat of the Night
1968: Oliver
1969: Midnight Cowboy
1970: Patton
1971: The French Connection
1972: The Godfather
1973: The Sting
1974: The Godfather Part II
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976: Rocky
1977: Annie Hall
1978: The Deer Hunter
1979: Kramer vs Kramer
1980: Ordinary People
1981: Chariots of Fire
1982: Gandhi
1983: Terms of Endearment
1984: Amadeus
1985: Out of Africa
1986: Platoon
1987: The Last Emperor
1988: Rain Man
1989: Driving Miss Daisy
1990: Dances With Wolves
1991: The Silence of the Lambs
1992: Unforgiven
1993: Schindler's List
1994: Forrest Gump
1995: Braveheart
1996: The English Patient
1997: Titanic
1998: Shakespeare in Love
1999: American Beauty
2000: Gladiator
2001: A Beautiful Mind
2002: Chicago
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004: Million Dollar Baby
2005: Crash
2006: The Departed
2007: No Country for Old Men

My fave Best Picture winner is Midnight Cowboy, but that shouldn't be a big surprise.



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I have not seen many old movies, here is my favorite.

1988: Rain Man

1990: Dances With Wolves

1992: Unforgiven

1995: Braveheart

1997: Titanic

1999: American Beauty

Here we go:

As everybody knows, West Side Story is my alltime favorite Oscar-winner and movie....hands down. It's the tops for me!

However, some of my other favorite Oscar winners are as follows, in no particular order:

Lawrence of Arabia

Midnight Cowboy

Dr. Zhivago

Sound of Music

Kramer vs. Kramer

Schindler's List

Braveheart

The Departed

I'm still liking No Country for Old Men the best.

Unforgiven