Well Jeffrey, it wasn't about giving Brokeback Mountain best picture, it was about some people refusing to even see the film and campaigning against it, without even really knowing the film. Great film, with wonderful performances and it's bad enough it didn't win. Worse, they had the nerve to actually nominate what amounts to a under par made for TV movie and then give it best picture. From that day to this, I call it Trash not Crash, although both names are appropriate, depending on the context in which you are thinking about it.
James Harris agreed first time that I saw crash I said what is this and how did it get what it got. I know it won the Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble cast but considering Brokeback Mountain at a small cast that wasn't surprising. There were good performances in Crash from Matt Dillon and Sandra Bullock but my biggest concern was the fact that you're too many plot lines going on at the same time. One comment that really stands out to me was from Tony Curtis who said that we shouldn't be supporting films on that farm this.
Jefferey Hopkins I didn't have a problem with all of the different plots. The problem was that I'd seen it before and done much better. It was predictable, and just not very good. Definitely not Oscar worthy. Winning the SAG ensemble, or anything else was an injustice that hinted at what was coming. Since it was Los Angeles based, and dealt with blacks, whites, etc., it would be the perfect foil against the gay cowboy movie. Well, if you're going to pick something else, then at least, make sure it's worthy. You're talking about a film losing that, going in, was the most celebrated, critical winner ever, and it lost? Well, the same thing did happen to the second most critical winner as well, and that would be Saving Private Ryan. Both rightly won directing Oscars, and both lost to poor choices for best picture, although in its favor, Shakespeare In Love was nowhere near as mediocre as Trash.
Forrest Gump won the award over Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption. All three are top 100 all time, but you can make an argument for Shawshank being robbed as well. Forest Gump at the time had some innovated techniques in filmmaking. Great year for films.
Considering all the talent and money involved, you could make a strong case for Titanic being the most overrated movie in history. Yes, L.A. Confidential was far more deserving. How Green Was My Valley was a good little movie, but how many people remember it now? Citizen Kane is generally considered the greatest American movie ever made. Looking back, Kane not winning the Oscar is a bad joke.
I watched LA Confidential once and I liked it. Watched Titanic over 30 times and loved it every time. While LA Confidential is a really good kinda underrated film, Titanic is just epic.
Allan Fisch I was pissed that it wasn’t even nominated. How come trash Chicago can get Best Picture and not the greatest musical of all time get it. The Academy are at this point in time a fucking joke.
At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter because we’re all still talking abt films like singing in the rain and broke back mountain, but no one talks abt crash etc
I don’t really understand the hate over Crash. I loved that movie, maybe Brokeback Mountain was better, but I think Crash deserved to be up there too. I really loved the performances especially Matt Dillon and Thandie Newton
I agree with some of these. I am in the minority, but Titanic bored the shit out of me. The 1958 movie A Night to Remember is way better and still wrings tears from me. Even the 1952 20th Century Fox fictionalization is better. The 1997 movie was a technical triumph I suppose, but I cared not for any of the characters in it. Not even the old lady. Maybe a little for the people who perished in the elevator. Brokeback Mountain has lost some lustre over the years, but I agree it should have won.
Biggest Oscar Mistakes for Best Picture: 1. “Citizen Kane” over “How Green Was My Valley” 2. “Brokeback Mountain” over “Crash” 3. “Saving Private Ryan” over “Shakespeare in Love” 4. “Goodfellas” over “Dances with Wolves” 5. “Raging Bull” over “Ordinary People” 6. “Apocalypse Now” over “Kramer vs. Kramer” 7. “E.T.: the Extra Terrestrial” over “Gandhi” 8. “Do the Right Thing” over “Driving Miss Daisy” 9. “High Noon” over “The Greatest Show on Earth” 10. “The Grapes of Wrath” over “Rebecca” 11. “2001: A Space Odyssey” over “Oliver!” 12. “Reds” over “Chariots of Fire” 13. “La La Land” over “Moonlight” 14. “The Revenant” over “Spotlight” 15. “The Ten Commandments” over “Around the World in 80 Days” 16. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” over “A Man for All Seasons” 17. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” over “Hamlet” 18. “Double Indemnity” over “Going My Way”
Can I be contraversal and say that I think Citizen Kane was mainly great for its innovative techniques and now those are standard and have lost their impact I find it be a very overacted and quite boring film that didn't live up to the expectations I had of it watching it.
I still say Ordinary People over Raging Bull was probably the biggest mistake in any category. OP only got it because the Academy loves to reward actors who direct... not to mention that they hated Scorsese for many years for being too "New York".
I love Shawshank but it was a sleeper hit - it largely was ignored by everyone when it came out and then the word of mouth just made it go huge. I first watched on TV as it's rep preceded it by then - thinking let's see if it's as good as people say and it was and still is.
That's the problem with an artistic prize isn't it that you will be judging things that do different things equally well against each other, that and the question of influence, the composition of the judges - i.e. very white and middle aged and some years you'll get an embrassment of riches and some years will just be rich with embrassments.
I agree with many of yours, especially 2005. But I found the following to be questionable... 1937 Stage Door should have beaten The Life of Emile Zola; 1938 Jezebel over You Can't Take it With You; 1944 Gaslight over Going My Way; 1956 Giant over Around the World in 80 Days; 1958 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof over Gigi; 1971 The Last Picture Show over The French Connection; 1979 Apocalypse Now over Kramer v Kramer; 1985 The Color Purple over Out of Africa; 1988 Mississippi Burning over Rain Man; 2000 I would pick Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in Chinese over Gladiator; 2011 The Descendants over The Artist.
My only exception would be Driving Miss Daisy, I remember seeing Dead Poets Society, and enjoying it. However, DMD, left an impression that’s lasted a lifetime. If it’s streaming somewhere, I always hit play. As far as Shakespeare in Love, well that’s a dirty carpet nobody wants to lift up.
One that should at least got a dishonorable mention is Out of Africa over The Color Purple. I'd maybe even put it at #1. Looking back at it Mississippi Burning should have won over Rain Man. Is a much more powerful and timely movie
Crash is genuinely one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Like even though Brokeback is one of my all time favourites, I hadn't seen Crash at the time, so couldn't be that mad. But then I watched it...🤦🏽♂️
The Color Purple, up for 11 Academy Awards, and received zero is THE single worst night ever and it's this moment I lost all faith and hope and interest in it all.
My List: 1. Crash over Brokeback Mountain. 2. Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan. 3. How Green was my Valley over Citizen Kane. 4. Green Book over The Favourite or Roma. 5. Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas. 6. The Hurt Locker over Inglorious Basterds. 7. The King's Speech over Black Swan, Inception, The Social Network or Toy Story 3. 8. The Greatest Show on Earth over High Noon. 9. The Sting over The Exorcist. 10. Chariots of Fire over Reds. (Dis)Honorable Mentions: 1. Gladiator over Traffic. 2. Chicago over The Pianist. 3. Going my Way over Double Idemnity. 4. Driving Miss Daisy over Dead Poets Society. 5. American Beauty over The Sixth Sense. 6. The French Connection over A Clockwork Orange. 7. Gandhi over E.T. the Extra-Terrestial. 8. A Man for All Seasons over Who's Affraid of Virginia Wolf? 9. Oliver over The Lion in Winter or 2001: A Space Odyssey (Not Nominated) 10. The Artist over The Tree of Life, The Help or Hugo.
Personally, I think that " Do the Right Thing " should've won! However, " Driving Miss Daisy " was among the best films ever to depict positive Race Relations!
@@johnfitzpatrick3094 Argo isn't bad. It's quite good, just rather ordinarily so. That's an unusually strong crop of pictures, for what it's worth. But Argo isn't on the same level as Django Unchained (I'm not a Tarantino partisan, for the record) or Beasts of the Southern Wild. The latter should have won. It's one of those years where partisans of other nominees surely split the differences, and Argo won by default.
I think Network and TAxi Driver were better Movies than Rocky although Rocky the first one was also a great Movie. I would stil give Network a slight edge over Taxi Driver, but both Network and Taxi Driver are both great Movies.
I think all the ranting over Shakespeare in Love ignores that it's a good film - yes Harvey Weinstein - so what? All of those LA Confidential (also a great film) fans are kinda living in glass houses there because Kevin Spacey was just as bad.
9, 7, 6, 2 and 1 I can't agree with more, but 5 I disagree. I definitely don't think Rocky deserved to win but I think Network deserved to win. It got the best reviews of the year, has one of the best screenplays ever and is full of brilliant performances so it definitely deserved to win over both Rocky and Taxi Driver
1976 was an amazing year for movies, with Taxi Driver, Network, All the President's Men, and Rocky all nominated for Best Picture. The only year to surpass it in terms of number of classic movies nominated was 1939. Rocky is by far the weakest of the movies nominated. Taxi Driver and All the President's Men are both amazing, but I would have gone with Network for Best Picture. The screenplay is easily one of the 10 greatest in movie history and the performances are legendary.
Saving Private Ryan and Citizen Kane, yes. Apollo 13 was a spectacular film (one of my all-time favorites), but Braveheart deserves it. Nothing better with Dancing with Wolves.
1999 was a very good year for films - an Annus mirablis so I think that whatever won and got nominated masterpieces were going to get done dirty. I think American Beauty deserved the win and it's only become become disputed because of the Annus mirablis factor mentioned above and Kevin Spacey got rightly cancelled - he's trash but was a great actor and it's not really his film it's Sam Mendes and Alan Ball's.
@@EmoBearRights I changed my mind about who had to win, definitely Magnolia, it's a masterpiece, I still think American Beauty didn't had to win best picture.
I actually agree with all these though I prefer Network to both Rocky and Taxi Driver. So happy you chose LA Confidential, one of my favourite movies ever, over titanic, a very overrated movie
Did Hollywood "punish" Mr. Welles for his War of the Worlds radio prank a few years prior to Citizen Kane? I don't have the answer.Just a thought. Regardless, Citizen Kane is a wonderful film👍
I disagree with your Taxi Driver pick.I think Network should've won. Rocky was a goid flick also.Taxi Driver is disturbing on so many levels .Ive only seen it once and that was enough for me.
How green was my Valley over Citizen Kane Rebecca over the Grapes of Wrath Rocky over Network, not Taxi Driver Greatest Show over (tie) High Noon and Singin in the Rain
@@theferryman4916 i don't think people hate the movie itself, just the fact that it won best picture that year. when people talk about what the greatest movie of all time is, Shawshank Redemption is on the short list of movies that get brought up along with movies like Godfather and Citizen Kane. i think most people think Forrest Gump is good, but just not on that level
@@kyleblasberg Well, you won't like it but in my opinion Shawshank Redemtion is among the most overrated movies ever and I'd take Forrest Gump over it any day...
@@kyleblasberg Too cheesy, no edges, very black and white....just very "American" if that makes any sense....keeps the viewer safe and doesn't challenge him one bit
All great movies. They should have an award for second best movie of the year. Kinda of disagree with your list. But all the movies you listed was grrat.
I saw that too. Slumdog Millionaire is such an achievement in filmmaking. I mean, plot, casting, acting, soundtrack, editing, cinematography, direction... Cinema in my opinion doesn’t get any better than that... The Reader was great, don’t get me wrong, but not an instant classic like Slumdog Millionaire.
Grant Hernandez I love Kate Winslet and I think the acting was great, but overall just a standard period piece... Slumdog is still one of my favourite movies of all time after all these years
Ordinary People over Raging Bull English Patient over Fargo Hurt Locker over Avatar Kings Speech over Social Network or Black Swan Schindler's List over Piano or In the Name of the Father More biggest ocar mistakes.
Schindler's List is one of *THE* greatest movies of all time. The Piano and In the Name of the Father are great, but Schindler's List is a masterpiece.
Gladiator sucked. Agree with Dead Poets Society, Love LA Confidential. Agree with Goodfellas. Think Network should have beaten Rocky. Hated Shakespeare.
not giving Brokeback Mountain best picture is one of the Academy's worst embarrassments....
Jeffrey Turner Ikr, Crash is consistently ranked as the worst Best Picture winner of all time.
I agree wholeheartedly .
Crash was a jumbled mess .The academy was full of too many narrow minded members.
Well Jeffrey, it wasn't about giving Brokeback Mountain best picture, it was about some people refusing to even see the film and campaigning against it, without even really knowing the film. Great film, with wonderful performances and it's bad enough it didn't win. Worse, they had the nerve to actually nominate what amounts to a under par made for TV movie and then give it best picture. From that day to this, I call it Trash not Crash, although both names are appropriate, depending on the context in which you are thinking about it.
James Harris agreed first time that I saw crash I said what is this and how did it get what it got. I know it won the Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble cast but considering Brokeback Mountain at a small cast that wasn't surprising. There were good performances in Crash from Matt Dillon and Sandra Bullock but my biggest concern was the fact that you're too many plot lines going on at the same time. One comment that really stands out to me was from Tony Curtis who said that we shouldn't be supporting films on that farm this.
Jefferey Hopkins I didn't have a problem with all of the different plots. The problem was that I'd seen it before and done much better. It was predictable, and just not very good. Definitely not Oscar worthy. Winning the SAG ensemble, or anything else was an injustice that hinted at what was coming. Since it was Los Angeles based, and dealt with blacks, whites, etc., it would be the perfect foil against the gay cowboy movie. Well, if you're going to pick something else, then at least, make sure it's worthy. You're talking about a film losing that, going in, was the most celebrated, critical winner ever, and it lost? Well, the same thing did happen to the second most critical winner as well, and that would be Saving Private Ryan. Both rightly won directing Oscars, and both lost to poor choices for best picture, although in its favor, Shakespeare In Love was nowhere near as mediocre as Trash.
Forrest Gump won the award over Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption. All three are top 100 all time, but you can make an argument for Shawshank being robbed as well. Forest Gump at the time had some innovated techniques in filmmaking. Great year for films.
Saving Private Ryan not winning best picture was the most stupid thing the academy has ever done
Considering all the talent and money involved, you could make a strong case for Titanic being the most overrated movie in history. Yes, L.A. Confidential was far more deserving. How Green Was My Valley was a good little movie, but how many people remember it now? Citizen Kane is generally considered the greatest American movie ever made. Looking back, Kane not winning the Oscar is a bad joke.
Shakespeare In Love, while charming, just goes to show how much influence Harvey Weinstein had in Hollywood, and with the academy.
He practically decided who won and who didn't🤷♂️
What the hell gladiator is one of the epic film ever created how can that be a snuff
Shakespeare in love over saving private Ryan biggest oscar mistake
Princey Dhillon Shakespeare in Love is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, and Gwyneth Paltrow sill can’t act for shit!
Watched ‘Titanic’ once. Watched ‘LA Confidential’ about 30 times. There’s no comparison.
I watched LA Confidential once and I liked it. Watched Titanic over 30 times and loved it every time. While LA Confidential is a really good kinda underrated film, Titanic is just epic.
The year “Driving Miss Daisy” won it should have been a movie not even nominated: “Glory.”
Except for 52, Singin' in the Rain should have won.
Allan Fisch I was pissed that it wasn’t even nominated. How come trash Chicago can get Best Picture and not the greatest musical of all time get it. The Academy are at this point in time a fucking joke.
At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter because we’re all still talking abt films like singing in the rain and broke back mountain, but no one talks abt crash etc
I don’t really understand the hate over Crash. I loved that movie, maybe Brokeback Mountain was better, but I think Crash deserved to be up there too. I really loved the performances especially Matt Dillon and Thandie Newton
I thought crash was okay, and I also though brokeback was okay
Dances with wolves was deserving of that win..and so was Goodfellas..both of those movies were best picture winners in my mind.
L.A: Confidential was a sin not to win, one of the best films in history!
Kramer vs. Kramer over Apocalypse Now should be #1.
Do The Right Thing was the best picture of 1989.
Dead Poets society ,not winning was just heartbreaking
sorry no one remembers Traffic, everyone knows Gladiator. That was a great win
Traffic is a magnificent film.
Traffic was good, but Gladiator is a movie for the ages. Nobody remembers Traffic anymore
@@VileTorture right??? thanks
Gladiator vs memento vs almost famous is the real competition that year not some cocaine movies, but yeah traffic is good
Double Indemnity should have won over Going My Way
The biggest Oscar theft goes to The Color Purple, 11 noms, zero wins, it was then I realized the Oscars are fixed and a lost cause.
Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan was an absolute crime
#11 Oliver what should have won: The Lion in Winter. (And Peter O'Toole should have won best actor)
2001 A Space Odyssey.
@@PhilipJFry-zt3yw How that 📽️ didn't even get nominated for Best Picture amazes me! The same applies to " Psycho! "
I agree with some of these. I am in the minority, but Titanic bored the shit out of me. The 1958 movie A Night to Remember is way better and still wrings tears from me. Even the 1952 20th Century Fox fictionalization is better. The 1997 movie was a technical triumph I suppose, but I cared not for any of the characters in it. Not even the old lady. Maybe a little for the people who perished in the elevator. Brokeback Mountain has lost some lustre over the years, but I agree it should have won.
THe greatest mistake was Shakespeare in Love over Saving private Ryan
So true!!! Sssooooo ssssoooo true!
Nope, it's Crash over Brokeback Mountain
@@invictus88 yes i agree with you, another big mistake
@@alvarobenites5454 sorry i might be partial because i love Gwyneth in the 90s esp in Great Expectations. But i like Tom Hanks too in all his films
Also The King speech, all his oponents were best,the winner should be The social network or Inception or until Toy Story 3
I like the King's Speech.
Gotta Say I liked Rocky, Braveheart and Gladiator
Biggest Oscar Mistakes for Best Picture:
1. “Citizen Kane” over “How Green Was My Valley”
2. “Brokeback Mountain” over “Crash”
3. “Saving Private Ryan” over “Shakespeare in Love”
4. “Goodfellas” over “Dances with Wolves”
5. “Raging Bull” over “Ordinary People”
6. “Apocalypse Now” over “Kramer vs. Kramer”
7. “E.T.: the Extra Terrestrial” over “Gandhi”
8. “Do the Right Thing” over “Driving Miss Daisy”
9. “High Noon” over “The Greatest Show on Earth”
10. “The Grapes of Wrath” over “Rebecca”
11. “2001: A Space Odyssey” over “Oliver!”
12. “Reds” over “Chariots of Fire”
13. “La La Land” over “Moonlight”
14. “The Revenant” over “Spotlight”
15. “The Ten Commandments” over “Around the World in 80 Days”
16. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” over “A Man for All Seasons”
17. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” over “Hamlet”
18. “Double Indemnity” over “Going My Way”
Rebecca was a great Picture.
Can I be contraversal and say that I think Citizen Kane was mainly great for its innovative techniques and now those are standard and have lost their impact I find it be a very overacted and quite boring film that didn't live up to the expectations I had of it watching it.
Whereas a lot of Hitchcock's work still stands up.
@@EmoBearRights amen
Dead Poets Society is one of the greatest movies ever
Shakespeare in love over Saving Private Ryan
Crash over Brokeback Mountain
I still say Ordinary People over Raging Bull was probably the biggest mistake in any category. OP only got it because the Academy loves to reward actors who direct... not to mention that they hated Scorsese for many years for being too "New York".
i disagree on Daisy. That year should have been Glory.
Glory was Outstanding!
@@bobmorgan1762 Yes, and it wasn't even nominated for picture.
I love Shawshank but it was a sleeper hit - it largely was ignored by everyone when it came out and then the word of mouth just made it go huge. I first watched on TV as it's rep preceded it by then - thinking let's see if it's as good as people say and it was and still is.
How Titanic beat LA Confidential I will never know...
Definitely yes to LA Confidential.
loved it...but titanic was also great...
That's the problem with an artistic prize isn't it that you will be judging things that do different things equally well against each other, that and the question of influence, the composition of the judges - i.e. very white and middle aged and some years you'll get an embrassment of riches and some years will just be rich with embrassments.
Crash = Trash. Totally unknown and deservedly forgotten.
A complete miscarriage of justice. Just what were they thinking...
@@erichodge567 thinking? Just another gay film.
Brokeback Mountain, you were robbed
That I said I really love Shakespeare in Love although Cate Blanchett was robbed.
I agree with many of yours, especially 2005. But I found the following to be questionable... 1937 Stage Door should have beaten The Life of Emile Zola; 1938 Jezebel over You Can't Take it With You; 1944 Gaslight over Going My Way; 1956 Giant over Around the World in 80 Days; 1958 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof over Gigi; 1971 The Last Picture Show over The French Connection; 1979 Apocalypse Now over Kramer v Kramer; 1985 The Color Purple over Out of Africa; 1988 Mississippi Burning over Rain Man; 2000 I would pick Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in Chinese over Gladiator; 2011 The Descendants over The Artist.
In 1971, aren't you forgetting Kubrick's " A Clockwork Orange!? "
In 1944, " Double Indemnity " should've won!
My only exception would be Driving Miss Daisy, I remember seeing Dead Poets Society, and enjoying it. However, DMD, left an impression that’s lasted a lifetime. If it’s streaming somewhere, I always hit play. As far as Shakespeare in Love, well that’s a dirty carpet nobody wants to lift up.
#1 should have been...anything but Shakespeare in Love!
Spot on list!
Worst mistake was The Shape of Water. 3 Billboards should have won...
One that should at least got a dishonorable mention is Out of Africa over The Color Purple. I'd maybe even put it at #1. Looking back at it Mississippi Burning should have won over Rain Man. Is a much more powerful and timely movie
Crash is genuinely one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Like even though Brokeback is one of my all time favourites, I hadn't seen Crash at the time, so couldn't be that mad. But then I watched it...🤦🏽♂️
Titanic would never not win best picture even if you don’t love it I feel like you understand what I mean
Because of its Boffo Box Office and DiCaprio?
The Color Purple, up for 11 Academy Awards, and received zero is THE single worst night ever and it's this moment I lost all faith and hope and interest in it all.
My List:
1. Crash over Brokeback Mountain.
2. Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan.
3. How Green was my Valley over Citizen Kane.
4. Green Book over The Favourite or Roma.
5. Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas.
6. The Hurt Locker over Inglorious Basterds.
7. The King's Speech over Black Swan, Inception, The Social Network or Toy Story 3.
8. The Greatest Show on Earth over High Noon.
9. The Sting over The Exorcist.
10. Chariots of Fire over Reds.
(Dis)Honorable Mentions:
1. Gladiator over Traffic.
2. Chicago over The Pianist.
3. Going my Way over Double Idemnity.
4. Driving Miss Daisy over Dead Poets Society.
5. American Beauty over The Sixth Sense.
6. The French Connection over A Clockwork Orange.
7. Gandhi over E.T. the Extra-Terrestial.
8. A Man for All Seasons over Who's Affraid of Virginia Wolf?
9. Oliver over The Lion in Winter or 2001: A Space Odyssey (Not Nominated)
10. The Artist over The Tree of Life, The Help or Hugo.
7 - I disagree with but I love all the film's involved so would not have liked have made that choice.
Ditto 5 on the dishonourable mentions - also add Magnolia to the list. Both were annus mirablis of films.
Going my Way over Double Indemnity.
I disagree with #8
Also you forgot Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction.
Forrest Gump over The Shawshank Redemption
#5 was right. Except instead of Rocky or Taxi Driver, it should have been Network. Wholeheartedly agree with your top 3.
I think it was a toss up between Taxi Driver and Network.
Don't forget All the President's Men.
To my surprise I agree with almost all your comments with some exceptions of course. Notably I love Driving Miss Daisy An absolutely beautiful movie
Personally, I think that " Do the Right Thing " should've won! However, " Driving Miss Daisy " was among the best films ever to depict positive Race Relations!
Argo over Lincoln was a BIG mistake. Silver Lining Playbook and O Dark Thirty were even better.
And most importantly django unchained
The fact that Argo won over any of the others movies is stupid
@@hanielzein6921 yes
I would have put Raging Bull in the top ten
Agree 100% about LA Confidential! Dances with Wolves was a White Savior movie!
Hindsight is 2020. Does anyone really care who won an oscar even 10 minutes after it was awarded? Who cares?
Literally thousands of people in the industry. So you don't? No one cares about THAT, for sure.
You must be fun at parties....
"Boogie Nights" was the best film of the late 1990s, should have won Best Picture. Instead that year "Titanic" won.
Taxi Driver was stolen in 1976. Rocky is excellent, more Oscar-like, but Taxi Driver is much better ...
How many times was Scorsese screwed over at the Oscars?
Gandhi over ET
Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan
Green Book over Roma
Argo over the rest.
I was with you until Argo.
@@johnfitzpatrick3094 Argo isn't bad. It's quite good, just rather ordinarily so. That's an unusually strong crop of pictures, for what it's worth. But Argo isn't on the same level as Django Unchained (I'm not a Tarantino partisan, for the record) or Beasts of the Southern Wild. The latter should have won. It's one of those years where partisans of other nominees surely split the differences, and Argo won by default.
@@JeromeGentes I agree with you about Django Unchained.
Surprising I agree with this entire list.
L.A. Confidential is great story-telling, as is Citizen Kane, and, yes, both should have won, although How Green Was My Valley is a good movie.
Citizen Kane losing to How Green was my Valley? Wow! It was a good movie but cinematically, Citizen Kane is far superior & still holds up today.
I think Network and TAxi Driver were better Movies than Rocky although Rocky the first one was also a great Movie. I would stil give Network a slight edge over Taxi Driver, but both Network and Taxi Driver are both great Movies.
Made one video on director mistakes
I think all the ranting over Shakespeare in Love ignores that it's a good film - yes Harvey Weinstein - so what? All of those LA Confidential (also a great film) fans are kinda living in glass houses there because Kevin Spacey was just as bad.
9, 7, 6, 2 and 1 I can't agree with more, but 5 I disagree. I definitely don't think Rocky deserved to win but I think Network deserved to win. It got the best reviews of the year, has one of the best screenplays ever and is full of brilliant performances so it definitely deserved to win over both Rocky and Taxi Driver
If you haven't seen Network, see it.
I said that it deserved to win best picture that year over Rocky and Taxi Driver. It's one of my all time favourite movies
All The President's Men should have been Best Picture.
1976 was an amazing year for movies, with Taxi Driver, Network, All the President's Men, and Rocky all nominated for Best Picture. The only year to surpass it in terms of number of classic movies nominated was 1939. Rocky is by far the weakest of the movies nominated. Taxi Driver and All the President's Men are both amazing, but I would have gone with Network for Best Picture. The screenplay is easily one of the 10 greatest in movie history and the performances are legendary.
Crash was unexpected
Saving Private Ryan and Citizen Kane, yes. Apollo 13 was a spectacular film (one of my all-time favorites), but Braveheart deserves it. Nothing better with Dancing with Wolves.
In 1989 should won do the right thing, but it wasn't even nominated
1999 American Beauty winning over Fight Club (not even nominated).
1999 was a very good year for films - an Annus mirablis so I think that whatever won and got nominated masterpieces were going to get done dirty. I think American Beauty deserved the win and it's only become become disputed because of the Annus mirablis factor mentioned above and Kevin Spacey got rightly cancelled - he's trash but was a great actor and it's not really his film it's Sam Mendes and Alan Ball's.
@@EmoBearRights I changed my mind about who had to win, definitely Magnolia, it's a masterpiece, I still think American Beauty didn't had to win best picture.
I don’t agree with you about 1990, 95 and 97, but I agree with about high noon
I actually agree with all these though I prefer Network to both Rocky and Taxi Driver. So happy you chose LA Confidential, one of my favourite movies ever, over titanic, a very overrated movie
How about 1985? Out of Africa won against The Color Purple and Back to the Future wasn't even nominated!
It's the times... 30 years later, The Color Purple would have won. As to Back to the Future, the Academy doesn't dig fantasy-comedies.
Did Hollywood "punish" Mr. Welles for his War of the Worlds radio prank a few years prior to Citizen Kane? I don't have the answer.Just a thought. Regardless, Citizen Kane is a wonderful film👍
It's more recent but I think Get Out or Three Billboards should've won over Shape of Water
I've been thinking the same thing. Both of those movies are more relevant and much better. The Shape of Water is forgettable.
I agree that Shape of Water did not deserve it but Three Billboards is shit
Definitely Three Billboards. That was a great film.
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I say Forest Gump winning over Pulp Fiction was a travesty. I also prefer Field of Dreams over Driving Miss Daisy.
We studied Crash in school and I hated it! It was so boring. What a dreadful film to try and write an essay on
How green was my valley was the worst win
Shakespeare in Love will always and always stand out like a sore thumb.
And not in a good way!
Same with Slumdog Millionaire.
There has been some doozies. Some they should declare no winner - sometimes multiple. 1939 could have named five or six.
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I disagree with your Taxi Driver pick.I think Network should've won. Rocky was a goid flick also.Taxi Driver is disturbing on so many levels .Ive only seen it once and that was enough for me.
Taxi driver was just too dark disturbing n violent! Oh and Jodie as a 13 yr old prostitute oh boy. V disturbing 😳
Having disagreed with the actors I agree with most of these.
Out of Africa over The Color Purple
Oh hell yes. The Color Purple was robbed.
How green was my Valley over Citizen Kane
Rebecca over the Grapes of Wrath
Rocky over Network, not Taxi Driver
Greatest Show over (tie) High Noon and Singin in the Rain
Forrest Gump winning over Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption should definitely be on here
Actually, I really like Forrest Gump - never understood the hate it got later on
@@theferryman4916 i don't think people hate the movie itself, just the fact that it won best picture that year. when people talk about what the greatest movie of all time is, Shawshank Redemption is on the short list of movies that get brought up along with movies like Godfather and Citizen Kane. i think most people think Forrest Gump is good, but just not on that level
@@kyleblasberg Well, you won't like it but in my opinion Shawshank Redemtion is among the most overrated movies ever and I'd take Forrest Gump over it any day...
@@theferryman4916 oh wow that's a hot take. what about Shawshank doesn't work for you?
@@kyleblasberg Too cheesy, no edges, very black and white....just very "American" if that makes any sense....keeps the viewer safe and doesn't challenge him one bit
You forgot Terms of Endearment over The Right Stuff.
Qual o nome da belíssima canção?
English?
Nice video
thanks
Rocky over Taxi Driver, shame on the Acadamy Members.
Saving private ryan should have won its buggest mistake oscar made ever
I agree with most... except Titanic...
How Braveheart won an Oscar is beyond me.
All great movies. They should have an award for second best movie of the year. Kinda of disagree with your list. But all the movies you listed was grrat.
4:28 The Thin Red Line*
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Best film of of 1995 was toy story
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LA Confidential was robbed! It was a great film and well acted. (I love Kate Winslet though.)
Shouda, woulda, but they didn’t. They were right the first time, sore looser.
I agree with Gladiator but Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon should have won not Traffic.
Traffic should have won, one of the best movies of all time
Does that say The Reader should've beat out Slumdog Millionaire?!
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I saw that too. Slumdog Millionaire is such an achievement in filmmaking. I mean, plot, casting, acting, soundtrack, editing, cinematography, direction... Cinema in my opinion doesn’t get any better than that... The Reader was great, don’t get me wrong, but not an instant classic like Slumdog Millionaire.
@@jorgeccaa I actually really don't like The Reader. I was baffled by the fact it was even nominated, especially over The Dark Knight
Grant Hernandez I love Kate Winslet and I think the acting was great, but overall just a standard period piece... Slumdog is still one of my favourite movies of all time after all these years
@@jorgeccaa Kate Winslet and Roger Deakins' cinematography are the best parts about it
Ordinary People over Raging Bull
English Patient over Fargo
Hurt Locker over Avatar
Kings Speech over Social Network or Black Swan
Schindler's List over Piano or In the Name of the Father
More biggest ocar mistakes.
Schindler's List over In The Name of The Father and The Piano a mistaek
Out of Africa over The Color Purple
Schindler's List is one of *THE* greatest movies of all time. The Piano and In the Name of the Father are great, but Schindler's List is a masterpiece.
I hated The English Patient and loved Fargo!
How about Ordinary People over The Empire Strikes Back? Gandhi over ET, Crash over Brokeback Mountain, Chicago over The Pianist?
Gladiator sucked. Agree with Dead Poets Society, Love LA Confidential. Agree with Goodfellas. Think Network should have beaten Rocky. Hated Shakespeare.