Barbra Streisand presenting the Best Picture Oscar® for "Dances With Wolves" to Producers Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson - the 63rd Annual Academy Awards® in 1991.
A lot of things have been said about Dances with Wolves since 1990, some negative, and many positive, but in my personal experience the best thing I can say about this 1990 classic is that you'll become a better person after watching it.
"You'll become a better person after watching it." Gosh, love this high praise. Never thought of this movie this way. But now you have mentioned it, it rings true.
'Thirteen years later, their homes destroyed, their buffalo gone, the last band of free Sioux submitted to white authority at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. The great horse culture of the plains was gone and the American frontier was soon to pass into history.' Gets me every time when that comes up at the end of this truly magnificent film. Thank you Kevin Costner thank you.
In terms of pure beauty, of the essence of the message of the living, there is nothing above Dances with wolves, which is a pure jewelry, a film that stops time.
Plains native living in Pennsylvania when this movie was in theaters and went every weekend to see the wide open spaces and the sky. Really missed the western sky.
Dances with wolves is one of the best movies ever made...absolutely brilliant..I went through every emotion watching this movie..I left the cinema knowing that this movie has made history..well done Kevin Costner !!!!
There was a remake of Dances with Wolves which did much, much better at the Box Office. Actually, it was a Plagerized a Film that didn't officially credit the Movie- it was essentially a remake. That Movie was called Avatar which is basically a Science Fiction Version of Dances with Wolves.
@@markanderson7364 disagree, both films are on the same level and are great in different aspects. Personally, after watching both movies three times, I've gotta say that I prefer Dances with wolves over Goodfellas.
I don't understand why so many people blame Dance with wolves for winning over goodfellas. I love both movies and both are great. But just one of the movies is about good people who where loosing their homes and their lives. where missunderstood and slaughtered... Dance with wolves gives them a face and a voice. The messange of the movie to care about nature and each other is absolutely beautiful. This makes Dance with wolves to my absolute favorite movie and much more valuable than goodfellas!
Dances With Wolves is one-note, poorly paced, not visually interesting, has no intriguing character dynamics and fits the “white savior” trope to the T. There’s a reason that hardly anyone under 50 thinks it’s an especially good movie. Even if Goodfellas wasn’t one of the greatest American movies ever, Dances With Wolves would still not be a good BP winner.
@@liteflightify you were clearly not able to "read inbetween the lines" of the movie. It's about how white people destroy the american land and the native american culture. It's about a white guy who learns to worship the beauty of nature, animals and humans (indians). It's not the white man who saves the indians, the indians who save john dunbar. The movie was made in a time when the native american culture was not acceptable in the US. It gave the Indians a platform to show themselve as intelligent and decent human beings. they where given the oppertunity to talk in one of their own languages. the movie shows us what we destroy and loose in the world if we go trough it as ignorant selfish people who are not able to see more than our selfe. don't just follow a story. try to see behind the curtain. see it in conterxt of time and its economic, curltural, religious, political and social influence. see it's ethic message!
"My Native American brothers and sisters across the country". Wow thats so kewl. One of my favorite natives American movies. Greeting from the Navajo Nation. #rezboywelder
i´m sorry, but this IS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS to have ever won an Oscar.... this is one of the best films out there and I haven´t seen too many films to top this classic masterpiece...
When Dances with Wolves was released, I was 11 yo. It was since then I have started being madly interested in the history of the Native Americans. Even though I live in Europe. And I kept the admiration and fascination for their magnificent culture until today.
Wow, Dances won against some really awesome competition. I mean Godfather 3, though not all that great, and Goodfellas? Wow, excellent films. And Costner was great in Dances and the script was riveting, the cinematography was grand scale; a totally epic film and among my personal top 5 movies of all time.
Growing up in Ireland I had a visit to my now departed Dad from the foster home I was living in and at the age of 14yr he took me to see this. My Dad struggled with mental illness but he did his very best to show love and support for his kids. This film holds a very special place in my life as it was the only time we done this.
My team and I created the HD digital master and the 4 hour version. We digitally cleaned every single frame of the film by hand. I can't remember how many months were spent and how many hours spent with Mr. Costner in the viewing room. Even after all those man-hours I still don't ever tire of the film. It is truly a masterpiece.
Actually just watched it and openly remarked about how beautiful the color correction and sharpness was. Your team did a marvelous job remastering Dances with Wolves and the work did not go unnoticed.
Funny, but few people ever comment like you did. I suppose if a viewer doesn’t notice anything about the picture quality, then that means we did our jobs properly
Certainly one of the most deserving Oscars in movie history. One of the best movies ever. One of the best Westerns ever. One of the best soundtracks ever. One of the most deserving themes. If one can't appreciate that, then one really has no business here.
Ray Cologne 'Dances with Wolves', on the other hand, speaks to everyone in any time, while 'Goodfellas', although very good, is about nasty people doing nasty things without a shred of remorse or even of recognition of their inhumanity - and for that reason it should be held aloft?
Ray Cologne Did GoodFellas leave you with some thoughts after you left the theatre? I was spell bound, when I saw it for the first times in the theatre, it left me with deep thoughts.
"While it's not as important as the rest of the world's situation where it sits, it will always be important to us and we thank you for this." No, Kevin - we thank YOU! This is one of the most important movies I ever watched, thank you for making it.
I watched more than 1000 films of Hollywood from 1940 to 2020,but i never forget this film after butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid....,its my all time favorite movie. Every scene in 4 hours of movie make u ' u r living in that era....
A lot of people say Goodfellas should have won, and I totally disagree. While it was one of the best movies ever. Dances with Wolves is something of beauty and another level of greatness.
Dances With Wolves is perfectly fine, like most of the entries on this list. Unfortunately, the Oscars are meant to recognize the best of the best, and Dances With Wolves certainly doesn’t qualify in that regard. The film, which follows a Civil War soldier who forms a relationship with Sioux Indians was star Kevin Costner’s directorial debut, and was also fairly popular, especially considering its lengthy runtime. Perhaps most notably, the film won out over Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, which is still widely regarded as one of the best gangster films of all time. Dances With Wolves is widely scorned for its win, and for beating out not just Goodfellas but also other films like Edward Scissorhands and Misery, which weren’t even nominated for the top prize in spite of their widespread acclaim. Ultimately, it seems as though Costner’s directorial debut wasn’t the most deserving film of 1990-- it wasn’t even close.
100 years from now, Dances with Wolves will still hold up as a masterpiece, much the same as a Da Vinci painting. It redefined the Western genre, and was the closest thing to actually traveling back in time. The buffalo hunt scene alone qualifies it for Best Picture.
We just watched the movie for the first time last night and are very happy that this great tribute has been shown to the Indians of whom we love. For the past few weeks we have been doing much research on the history of America and how it relates to the Indians and are shocked at what we are finding to be the REAL story. These tribal ppl are an incredible example to our depraved culture we live in today!!!!! We are so inspired by the movie and all the many things we have learned about these ppl.
DANCES WITH WOLVES is a masterpiece and truly deserved to win, I don't care who says what. Years later, what are you going to do to change it? You cannot raise the Titanic, you cannot erase the Kennedy assassination, nor the Lincoln assassination, WWI or WWII...it's HISTORY. Please allow DANCES WITH WOLVES to enjoy its place in the Oscar history books. It's there and no big eraser will remove it. And to those who use such vulgar language, shame on you.
Only history that was made there was that, that was one of the biggest oscar snubs ever right next to citizen kane not being nominated and forrest gump winning over pulp fiction and shawshank redemption
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Dances With Wolves is a magnificent movie and it absolutely deserved the Oscar! I can't watch this movie without crying and feeling all the emotions the characters in the movie felt and to me that's what makes a film a masterpiece!
Yes very very good movie, had to watch it over 2 days because of the length. In my honest opinion the movie could and should have been cut down by at least 30 mins. For example the first hour or so was really drawn out. That is the reason why I give it 9/10 and not 10/10. I have only ever given 4 movies the perfect 10, so I am a very tough judger.
Personally I find Dances with Wolves to be a beautiful and touching movie and Kevin Costner is just nervous and humbled by the honor of winning an Oscar.
Wow!!! Stiff competition for Best Picture. Damn. Dances with Wolves was worthy of the win. It's a touching and beautiful portrayal of the Native American, unlike had ever been done before.
Absolutely, I am a huge fan of Goodfellas it is way up there in my top 10. But Dances With Wolves is more culturally impacting. The Oscars does mean a film is better than another.
Dances With Wolves absolutely deserved this award. This film makes is a masterpiece of story telling, and it is a film that people will share with those they love many, many years from now. I can understand if another film happened to connect with you, and connect stronger, for some, the year that this film won. But I have no understanding of the comments here that suggest that this film was anything less than fully deserving of the award it received. This film is great! Way to go Costner!
Dances with Wolves and Goodfellas are both classics, and both deserved to be nominated. Dances with Wolves most likely won because Costner created a very spiritual and epic atmosphere (the kind of atmosphere that's missing in Hollywood today in my opinion) But at the end of the day, all that matters is that Costner and Scorsese both created great films for movie lovers to enjoy.
I truly believe this movie "Dances With Wolves" is the best film of the last 30 years. But that's just my opinion. It is so brilliant in every way imaginable.
Magnificent cast, magnificent story,absolutely magnificent music and magnificent memories. Thankyou to everybody involved in the production of this movie 👍
This movie opened the way to a lot of native great other movies, but still the best even after 30 years, it didn't aged at all! A great man and a great movie. The making of is really emotional too.
Dances With Wolves stands out over Goodfellas because it was the first time that a mostly all 1st Nation Indigenous Cast was in the entire movie! If you know the ugly history of racism in this country, in the past Hollywood hardly ever gave parts to 1st Nation/Natives, instead the part would be played by a white cast, and/or they would make the Natives out as being the villains, which was an insult to these people whose land was stolen, and culture, and people were senselessly slaughtered. Kevin Costner showed more of a truthful version of these great people, and used much of the Indigenous languages, and tribal dialects, which was awesome.
@@darkknight3769 Exactly, I 200% agree :) I know very well Natives history (past and now). I'm french, but I have read a lot and watch a lot of documentary and real natives movies too (almost all, more than 30 made by and with "Natives", not old movies with false indians). I'm a hudge "fan" of them, I know a lot about american injustice about treaties, stolen lands, pipeline project, ... I respect the reals americans: Natives :)
@@baswordfish That's awesome! My Grandfather, and Mom were Seminole, and very proud people. My siblings and I were told many stories, and my family had some evil people try to take my Grandfather's land in the state they lived in, but we thank God we were able to defend it legally, documents, and all.
@@darkknight3769 Kevin Costner has a little bit of cherokee blood (his grand father was half cherokee from what I've read). I saw the docu serie (8 episodes) "500 nations" with him, a good one!
@@darkknight3769 Good that you were able to won :) Usually it's not fair, even in the rez. Some "white" are "renting" land, and there is not a lot left to Natives, so unfair. Tho worst is the government I guess. They "legally" rob everything. Like for Dann sisters! Carrie and Mary Dann. So so unfair. US government would never recognize the genocide they did, the bigest on hearth! A native is less than black people for them, and a black (afro-american) is already nothing for them... And after that, they are proud to be "american"... well... It's really unfair not to talk about that in school.
Ah, back when we had excellent written scripts and movies, the Oscars represented class, elegance and was truly a spectacular event, and we all liked each other a little bit more. Nowadays, at the Oscars, all we have is regurgitation, political posturing and lectures to the viewers, and mankind has a seething hatred between itself as we're headed 100mph down a dead end street to self destruction with no seat belts on.
Goodfellas is probably my 2nd favorite film of all time. Scorsese is a GOD to me. But this movie means a lot to me and other native Americans, the first of its kind as well. Whereas many films like Goodfellas existed before it. Both great, you don't have to hate on one.
DJ Standing Elk I do not "hate" on Goodfellas...sure it was a very well done movie...but Dances with Wolves is an EPIC film, all respect to our Native brothers and sisters...it was EPIC...and may Michael Blake rest in eternal peace.
Don’t you loved it when Costner went back to Barbra and kissed her again. Pity he didn’t get Barbra to be in the bodyguard. Whitney was great, but Barbra would have to amazing as well
Dances With Wolves made me so touched in so many ways. If a movie can provoke anger, joy and sadness at the same time it's a success. I especially love that the movie i almsot 4 hours long. (I watched Director's Cut, don't know any other). Fantastisk movie!
Павел Деревянский agree bro. There is a particular scene in DWW which is sooo moving that everytime it brings tear into my eyes , when kevin Costner and the Indians pass the scene of carnage of bisons by the Whites and a solitary calf mooing as they pass helpless and pensive. With the powerful background music,this scene haunts me till today and this is what precisley cinema is all about.
Nicht nur der Sioux, er spricht von allen indianischen Schwestern und Brüder. Die Kultur der Plainsstaemme ist bei uns am bekanntesten. Auch deren Untergang😭. Aber alle Ureinwohner ehrten die Natur und fühlten sich tief verbunden mit ihr
GOODFELLAS is the film I watch more than DANCES WITH WOLVES and im pretty sure most people would tend to agree but DANCES WITH WOLVES S is just one of them truly breathtaking epics films that comes along and has something extra that blows your F**king mind. A well deserved win.
Dances with Wolves is by far the best movie ever made. It has everything , drama, action, comedy romance. If you haven't seen it you should. It will make your spirit rise. And to all my Native American friends I have met through the years stay proud!
looking back over the years, goodfellas appears more often on t.v. and is generally considered one of the best movies ever....dances with wolves was of its time and it was important to give the native american side...often neglected.... a man called horse was very similar to dances and was a great film in its day.
"Goodfellas" was revaluated some years later. In 1991 ALL knew DWW was the best film of the year. Infact it won the Oscar. Critics described that film like a masterpiece Recentely the obstinate fans of Goodfellas have begun to criticize and insult DWW. Goodfellas is a great film but DW is absolutely better. Even Scorsese(who is a sensitive and intelligent person) knows this. I repeat, Goodfellas is excellent..but it isn't the best film by Martin. Taxi driver, Raging bull, The departed are better
The Departed 😂😂 Just look at their impact and legacy and you will know that GoodFellas is the best film of year, probably the best of the decade. Scoresese was robbed three times of an Oscar for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and GoodFellas.
Look, DWW is a very unique and awesome movie, but Goodfellas is also an amazing work of art in its own way. Appreciate art when you see it, asshole. Goodfellas is pure genius. Not everything has to be "meaningful" to be beautiful.
***** I'm talking about people that still think this was one of the Academy's biggest robberies ever. You want robberies? Look at How Green Was My Valley, Driving Miss Daisy, or Chariots of Fire. THOSE are true injustices! At worst, Dances With Wolves is The French Connection or Rocky. And you honestly think Godfather 3 and Awakenings are far better? Don't make me laugh!
because of hipsters like you that believe that a movie should be ''meaningful beauty' we''re full of crap oscar bait movies...and thanks to hipsters like you all Hitchcok and kubrick never won an oscar in their life,and for the same reason the crap movie shakespere in love beated the 1000x times better saving private ryan and beninni won over edward norton and citzen kane got ignored for so many years. Let's all thanks the hipsters...all hail the Hipsters!!!!
Kevin was working on orders from God. The god that colonial monsters have been trying to erase from our lives and souls for centuries. The director's full version of 4 hours of humanity that no one can make today. Perhaps not even humanity is undesirable. This monumental spiritual epic is forever a life's work and the meaning of life for many of us. There are two tasks in life: to find oneself and to lose oneself for the sake of one's fellow man.
So deserved. The movie is a masterpiece!!! Godfather Part III is possibly one of the most boring movies ever made...not to mention the stereotypes it created!
Jordan Alford What you fail to understand is that while Goodfellas is indeed ONE of the greatest movies of all time, pretty much all of the movies being made at the time and nominated for awards were damn good, much better than anything being made today, but I digress, the point is that there'd been a hundred billion gangster movies that were made and we knew the story before we ever watched them, and every now and again there'd be a really good one made, but we still knew the story before we watched it. Dances With Wolves was revolutionary, for the simple fact it was the only Western, if you ask me, every made in Hollywood that came close to reality and portrayed the Indians as people and not savages and goofs, and white men as not just Indian killers, but as understanding. So when it comes to great moviemaking we need more than just a way of making someone shoot someone or stick an icepick in someone's face look more glamourous, we need a movie that is courageous and innovative and real and all the while remaining entertaining. That is why Dances With Wolves won. I love Marty Scorsese as much as the next movie buff, but a real movie buff can totally appreciate the greatness of Dances With Wolves and why it truly deserved to win that award. Just saying, sometimes Oscar gets it right.
You know, I agree.. This is such a great, epic Hollywood classic.. Goodfellas was very very good, too, and I do not begrudge others who believe it deserved to win.. But, I have to respectfully disagree.. Dances With Wolves is a true masterpiece.. A movie that reflects upon us an echo of a civilization long passed, and makes us understand why that happened.. And what our role in that was.. I have seen it 15 times, and it never fails to make me an emotional wreck..
I've always been a fan of Kevin kostner every since the film he did with Whitney Houston.I really enjoyed dancing with Wolfe's, real talk especially the love scene.
A lot of things have been said about Dances with Wolves since 1990, some negative, and many positive, but in my personal experience the best thing I can say about this 1990 classic is that you'll become a better person after watching it.
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"You'll become a better person after watching it." Gosh, love this high praise. Never thought of this movie this way. But now you have mentioned it, it rings true.
Brilliantly put
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'Thirteen years later, their homes destroyed, their buffalo gone, the last band of free Sioux submitted to white authority at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. The great horse culture of the plains was gone and the American frontier was soon to pass into history.'
Gets me every time when that comes up at the end of this truly magnificent film. Thank you Kevin Costner thank you.
Esta pelicula le gusta a mi papa y le emocionan esos textos y dialogos,porque es un progresista...
+cloudydaez Gets me too, I really cry every time !
I agree, that entire ending scene was magnificent.
I read your comment just this moment. I began to cry as I realized how special the people really were and are.......
JR🌾
Me too. A moving film
In terms of pure beauty, of the essence of the message of the living, there is nothing above Dances with wolves, which is a pure jewelry, a film that stops time.
+Oiseau Rare I found the ending very depressing. Costner has a way to depress everybody in his character I think.
+Marcelo dos Santos the ending was meant to be depressing - it reflected the reality of the first deliberate Holocaust!
no more depression through Jesus
Just to see a recreation of a buffalo hunt made the film worth seeing.
Goodfellas is a brilliant film but there is something magical about Dances with Wolves!
Well deserved Oscar, brilliant film Dances with wolves.
Not even close to as great a movie as Goodfellas. Dances with Wolves is a good movie. Goodfellas is a masterpiece of movie making.
Thank you John Barry ; the music was Awesome! RIP!
kevin Costner is what I like mostly about American men and their culture...
Plains native living in Pennsylvania when this movie was in theaters and went every weekend to see the wide open spaces and the sky. Really missed the western sky.
Back when the Academy had some class
About what ?
Will always be okay with Dances with Wolves winning that Oscar. Oustanding movie and you can see the audience reaction that it was well deserved
Dances with wolves is one of the best movies ever made...absolutely brilliant..I went through every emotion watching this movie..I left the cinema knowing that this movie has made history..well done Kevin Costner !!!!
There was a remake of Dances with Wolves which did much, much better at the Box Office. Actually, it was a Plagerized a Film that didn't officially credit the Movie- it was essentially a remake. That Movie was called Avatar which is basically a Science Fiction Version of Dances with Wolves.
@@HoldenNY22 I never saw AVATAR because it looked so stupid and off putting.
@@HoldenNY22 who watches Avatar?
@@marjanp4784 many of us
@@HoldenNY22 actually, I didn't think of dances with wolves at all when I watched avatar. Completely different movie.
Dances With Wolves and Goodfellas were both amazing films.
Goodfellas and Dances With Wolves are legit classics. I don’t blame the Academy for having to choose one or the other.
@@markanderson7364 well said what happens is that he envies Martin Scorsese
Ghost is better than both
@@markanderson7364 disagree, both films are on the same level and are great in different aspects.
Personally, after watching both movies three times, I've gotta say that I prefer Dances with wolves over Goodfellas.
I love all of the movies.
@@markanderson7364 hey look, another internet troll that joined UA-cam just to leave a petty comment.
I don't understand why so many people blame Dance with wolves for winning over goodfellas. I love both movies and both are great. But just one of the movies is about good people who where loosing their homes and their lives. where missunderstood and slaughtered... Dance with wolves gives them a face and a voice. The messange of the movie to care about nature and each other is absolutely beautiful. This makes Dance with wolves to my absolute favorite movie and much more valuable than goodfellas!
Dances With Wolves is one-note, poorly paced, not visually interesting, has no intriguing character dynamics and fits the “white savior” trope to the T. There’s a reason that hardly anyone under 50 thinks it’s an especially good movie. Even if Goodfellas wasn’t one of the greatest American movies ever, Dances With Wolves would still not be a good BP winner.
@@liteflightify you were clearly not able to "read inbetween the lines" of the movie. It's about how white people destroy the american land and the native american culture. It's about a white guy who learns to worship the beauty of nature, animals and humans (indians). It's not the white man who saves the indians, the indians who save john dunbar. The movie was made in a time when the native american culture was not acceptable in the US. It gave the Indians a platform to show themselve as intelligent and decent human beings. they where given the oppertunity to talk in one of their own languages.
the movie shows us what we destroy and loose in the world if we go trough it as ignorant selfish people who are not able to see more than our selfe.
don't just follow a story. try to see behind the curtain. see it in conterxt of time and its economic, curltural, religious, political and social influence. see it's ethic message!
Dances with Wolves is a good picture. Goodfellas is on another level. This was a joke.
@@liteflightifyWhat are you, 12 years old? Go back to your boring Marvel movies 😂
"My Native American brothers and sisters across the country". Wow thats so kewl. One of my favorite natives American movies. Greeting from the Navajo Nation. #rezboywelder
i´m sorry, but this IS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS to have ever won an Oscar.... this is one of the best films out there and I haven´t seen too many films to top this classic masterpiece...
1991 was a brutally competitive year for Oscars. Dances With Wolves just about made it due to its sheer beauty and timing.
Brutally competitive? The only other movie I remember seeing among these top choices was goodfellas.
Hardly surprising; Hollywood is always going to award left wing "political correctness".
I loved the part where he and Stands With A Fist, were reunited. The way she practically tackled him, as he barely got off his horse. 💘 💘 💘
That was one of THE best scenes in any movie I have ever seen. I also thought it was the best scene in the film
When Dances with Wolves was released, I was 11 yo. It was since then I have started being madly interested in the history of the Native Americans. Even though I live in Europe. And I kept the admiration and fascination for their magnificent culture until today.
You watch the movie Grey Owl with Pierce Brosnan , it came out in 1999 , a true story !
Me too!
This is one of those epic films that I can watch 100 times and never tire of it.
No
i dont believe you, goodfellas all day everyday
Wow, Dances won against some really awesome competition. I mean Godfather 3, though not all that great, and Goodfellas? Wow, excellent films. And Costner was great in Dances and the script was riveting, the cinematography was grand scale; a totally epic film and among my personal top 5 movies of all time.
It was very innovated. The Godfather was washed up by this point
Growing up in Ireland I had a visit to my now departed Dad from the foster home I was living in and at the age of 14yr he took me to see this. My Dad struggled with mental illness but he did his very best to show love and support for his kids. This film holds a very special place in my life as it was the only time we done this.
That movie really is a beautiful film. The fact that it was his directing debut is just amazing.
My team and I created the HD digital master and the 4 hour version. We digitally cleaned every single frame of the film by hand. I can't remember how many months were spent and how many hours spent with Mr. Costner in the viewing room. Even after all those man-hours I still don't ever tire of the film. It is truly a masterpiece.
Which company did you work for? Are you still in the industry?
Actually just watched it and openly remarked about how beautiful the color correction and sharpness was. Your team did a marvelous job remastering Dances with Wolves and the work did not go unnoticed.
I worked for Kodak Cinesite in Hollywood. No longer in the industry
Thank you much
Funny, but few people ever comment like you did. I suppose if a viewer doesn’t notice anything about the picture quality, then that means we did our jobs properly
costner is such a cutie! :)
he's bisexual
even better. @@harveyweinstein6346
Kevin looks just like his dad! His mom was so happy and proud!🥰🥰🥰
Love that part
Love this film. Greetings from a proud member of Mi'kmaq Nation.
"Dances With Wolves" is my life-long favorite movie. I grew up watching the movie since I was born.
I agree. My favourite all time film too
Certainly one of the most deserving Oscars in movie history.
One of the best movies ever.
One of the best Westerns ever.
One of the best soundtracks ever.
One of the most deserving themes.
If one can't appreciate that, then one really has no business here.
One should also respect goodfellas instead of hating on it
Goodfellas should have won, it was clearly beyond its time and will stand the test of time
Ray Cologne In what way was it "beyond its time"? That statement is ironic in itself as it was set in the past.
Ray Cologne 'Dances with Wolves', on the other hand, speaks to everyone in any time, while 'Goodfellas', although very good, is about nasty people doing nasty things without a shred of remorse or even of recognition of their inhumanity - and for that reason it should be held aloft?
Ray Cologne Did GoodFellas leave you with some thoughts after you left the theatre? I was spell bound, when I saw it for the first times in the theatre, it left me with deep thoughts.
Costner seems so down to earth, so sincere and very grounded, love his soft spoken voice
30 years ago.
Much deserved honor.
Commercially and artistically.
i recently watched that movie nd OMG that was one of the most beautifull movies i have ever seen...just beautifull....epic
What would you say about a "Sequel"?
@@charlesfuentes3695 Hell Na
Absolute masterpiece 🙂
You're lucky. You got to experience it for the first time.
"While it's not as important as the rest of the world's situation where it sits, it will always be important to us and we thank you for this." No, Kevin - we thank YOU! This is one of the most important movies I ever watched, thank you for making it.
That "tatanka" can never be forgotten.
I’m so glad Dances with Wolves won it deserved that Oscar for best picture
The best speech I have ever heard from anyone. Congratulations to especially to the Lakota Sioux people. Love & Hugs to you all.
I watched more than 1000 films of Hollywood from 1940 to 2020,but i never forget this film after butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid....,its my all time favorite movie.
Every scene in 4 hours of movie make u ' u r living in that era....
Watching again today for the 5th time. Timeless classic masterpiece
I just saw it last night after so many years,started crying at the very beginning as I remembered everything...One of the best movies ever made!
A Great Movie "Dances with Wolves" I never get tired of watching it.
A lot of people say Goodfellas should have won, and I totally disagree. While it was one of the best movies ever. Dances with Wolves is something of beauty and another level of greatness.
Exactly!
Dances With Wolves is perfectly fine, like most of the entries on this list. Unfortunately, the Oscars are meant to recognize the best of the best, and Dances With Wolves certainly doesn’t qualify in that regard. The film, which follows a Civil War soldier who forms a relationship with Sioux Indians was star Kevin Costner’s directorial debut, and was also fairly popular, especially considering its lengthy runtime.
Perhaps most notably, the film won out over Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, which is still widely regarded as one of the best gangster films of all time. Dances With Wolves is widely scorned for its win, and for beating out not just Goodfellas but also other films like Edward Scissorhands and Misery, which weren’t even nominated for the top prize in spite of their widespread acclaim. Ultimately, it seems as though Costner’s directorial debut wasn’t the most deserving film of 1990-- it wasn’t even close.
100 years from now, Dances with Wolves will still hold up as a masterpiece, much the same as a Da Vinci painting. It redefined the Western genre, and was the closest thing to actually traveling back in time. The buffalo hunt scene alone qualifies it for Best Picture.
takes ur breath, takes ur whole day. four hours long, how could anyone forget this
Yaa...
Love this movie. What an achievement my Costner and Wilson. That acknowledgment my Richard Harris. Sure miss that man. A extraordinary actor.
Godfather 3 was nominated for best picture??? Wtf?
Wow! What an incredible year for movies!
We just watched the movie for the first time last night and are very happy that this great tribute has been shown to the Indians of whom we love. For the past few weeks we have been doing much research on the history of America and how it relates to the Indians and are shocked at what we are finding to be the REAL story. These tribal ppl are an incredible example to our depraved culture we live in today!!!!! We are so inspired by the movie and all the many things we have learned about these ppl.
love this movie cried a lot to see my beautiful native american brothers and sisters go throught all they did much love from the mexica people
DANCES WITH WOLVES is a masterpiece and truly deserved to win, I don't care who says what. Years later, what are you going to do to change it? You cannot raise the Titanic, you cannot erase the Kennedy assassination, nor the Lincoln assassination, WWI or WWII...it's HISTORY. Please allow DANCES WITH WOLVES to enjoy its place in the Oscar history books. It's there and no big eraser will remove it. And to those who use such vulgar language, shame on you.
vulgar language? how old are you? Goodfellas deserved to win, period. Anyone who disagrees has brain damage
Ray Cologne Or has humanity.
Shame on me? that is knowing more about your sense of history..... SHAME ON YOU!!!!!
How not the honor the poor souls that got lost, in the WW1 and world war 2.....
Only history that was made there was that, that was one of the biggest oscar snubs ever right next to citizen kane not being nominated and forrest gump winning over pulp fiction and shawshank redemption
Thank God John Barry scored the film! It brought the whole movie together. It would not be the same without that incredible music.
So true!!!!
Dances With Wolves is a spectacular American epic. It shows what American cinema was and still is capable of without the overuse of CGI.
Please stop bashing CGI
@@kbanghart please stop relying on it at the expense of a movie worth watching.
@@arsxxmoriendi good thing I don't
watching it right now in 2013 and its still awesome!!!! Love this movie!!!
Kevin Costner = STUD..!
ولكني أعلم أن الله أنزل ألسنة نار علي الحواريين والبابليين ....أنسان الجبل هو ملائكته وخلق بابل لم يقابلوا شيطان آدم ...أستجابوا لرب غير الله فلعنهم وتغيرت ألسنتهم من كلام قاله آدم ونوح وأدريس لكلام سيقوله موسي وعيسي والحواريين نظرا لأن بفلم الرسالة يقول النجاشي ذاك وهو ملك اليهود في الحبشة لا في بيت عاهر النمور ..... وذاك ثروة الحبشة لا كتاب يدفع في ثمنه أي مقابل .
فتحولت كلمات توت توت ...إياحا .....وكثرا من هذه التخاريف ل أبن أبن ....البعد عن ما قبل رمضان في رمضان ....ولاعزاء للمهاجرين أغريب أن نجد شخصا مفتون بعدما خسر زوجه وبلده وأصاب قدمه ب الحب ....تعرف علي قبيلة ضعيفة ...ألهمهم ما يبدو أنه الخلاص من الاحتلال إنه لم يعرف أن زوجه خائنة ..ولكنه لم يخن حتي التي من بني جلدته .....كسب الكل لم يكسب العيس والسمك والارض بالخير علي شريط الفلم يخرج رجحل فرنسا المريض تحمله زوجته علي حصانه يتأكد أهل هذه العشيرة أنه لن يقع تأخذ القبيلة سيرها المعتاد حيث لا هو سيدها ولا هي قبيلته ...بالجبل المليء بالثلوج وبخطوط مترجمة بيضاء تفهم ان القبيلة آخر دليل لن يموت علي الهندي الاحمر ... وان السيد من حقل السبانخ بزوجه ذات الحياة البسيطة والتي هي هي الواقفة بقبضتها منذ خرجت علي يد أقسي أنواع الريد ز حتي تربت علي يد عجوز شمطاء تعرف انها حية فقط حيث أولئك الريدز سيقتاتون علي هذه القبيلة يوما كرهتها لكنها لاتزال واقفة بقبضتها مع زوجها الراحل الي العدم من ساعتها مفيس لكوستن ر فلما عالميا موازي حتي افلام ك3 أيام للقتل يحارب فيها توم كروز صاحب فلم جاك ريشار ...ولولا مشهده الموازي لمشهد روبرت ريدفورد في اوائل افلام هذه الالقافلة لقلت ان الهنود هم من يحطمون النوافذ مكان الاشهب
Dances With Wolves is a magnificent movie and it absolutely deserved the Oscar! I can't watch this movie without crying and feeling all the emotions the characters in the movie felt and to me that's what makes a film a masterpiece!
No
One of the best movies of all time!!!
Yes very very good movie, had to watch it over 2 days because of the length. In my honest opinion the movie could and should have been cut down by at least 30 mins. For example the first hour or so was really drawn out. That is the reason why I give it 9/10 and not 10/10. I have only ever given 4 movies the perfect 10, so I am a very tough judger.
Fuck you and your judging.
@@GameOvais what are the 4 10/10
Personally I find Dances with Wolves to be a beautiful and touching movie and Kevin Costner is just nervous and humbled by the honor of winning an Oscar.
Wow!!! Stiff competition for Best Picture. Damn. Dances with Wolves was worthy of the win. It's a touching and beautiful portrayal of the Native American, unlike had ever been done before.
Absolutely, I am a huge fan of Goodfellas it is way up there in my top 10. But Dances With Wolves is more culturally impacting. The Oscars does mean a film is better than another.
Kostner never stopped his admiration to Native Peoples.
YELLOWSTONE 2 decades later continues to show the spirit of Native Peoples.
Dances With Wolves absolutely deserved this award.
This film makes is a masterpiece of story telling, and it is a film that people will share with those they love many, many years from now.
I can understand if another film happened to connect with you, and connect stronger, for some, the year that this film won. But I have no understanding of the comments here that suggest that this film was anything less than fully deserving of the award it received.
This film is great! Way to go Costner!
No
L + Ratio + GoodFellas bettah
Goodfellas should’ve won
***** I can understand why you hate people like that. Just try and respect others opinions like I do with yours about Dances With Wolves.
Taylor Tri They are a product of the thing they idolise, you see.
Godfather III , Dances with wolves , Goodfellas , how hard it was for thebAcademy !
Godfather 3 seriously
Dances with Wolves and Goodfellas are both classics, and both deserved to be nominated. Dances with Wolves most likely won because Costner created a very spiritual and epic atmosphere (the kind of atmosphere that's missing in Hollywood today in my opinion) But at the end of the day, all that matters is that Costner and Scorsese both created great films for movie lovers to enjoy.
I truly believe this movie "Dances With Wolves" is the best film of the last 30 years. But that's just my opinion. It is so brilliant in every way imaginable.
Magnificent cast, magnificent story,absolutely magnificent music and magnificent memories. Thankyou to everybody involved in the production of this movie 👍
I love Dances with Wolves. Borderline love Goodfellas. I think the academy got this right
This movie opened the way to a lot of native great other movies, but still the best even after 30 years, it didn't aged at all! A great man and a great movie. The making of is really emotional too.
Dances With Wolves stands out over Goodfellas because it was the first time that a mostly all 1st Nation Indigenous Cast was in the entire movie! If you know the ugly history of racism in this country, in the past Hollywood hardly ever gave parts to 1st Nation/Natives, instead the part would be played by a white cast, and/or they would make the Natives out as being the villains, which was an insult to these people whose land was stolen, and culture, and people were senselessly slaughtered. Kevin Costner showed more of a truthful version of these great people, and used much of the Indigenous languages, and tribal dialects, which was awesome.
@@darkknight3769 Exactly, I 200% agree :) I know very well Natives history (past and now). I'm french, but I have read a lot and watch a lot of documentary and real natives movies too (almost all, more than 30 made by and with "Natives", not old movies with false indians). I'm a hudge "fan" of them, I know a lot about american injustice about treaties, stolen lands, pipeline project, ... I respect the reals americans: Natives :)
@@baswordfish That's awesome! My Grandfather, and Mom were Seminole, and very proud people. My siblings and I were told many stories, and my family had some evil people try to take my Grandfather's land in the state they lived in, but we thank God we were able to defend it legally, documents, and all.
@@darkknight3769 Kevin Costner has a little bit of cherokee blood (his grand father was half cherokee from what I've read). I saw the docu serie (8 episodes) "500 nations" with him, a good one!
@@darkknight3769 Good that you were able to won :) Usually it's not fair, even in the rez. Some "white" are "renting" land, and there is not a lot left to Natives, so unfair. Tho worst is the government I guess. They "legally" rob everything. Like for Dann sisters! Carrie and Mary Dann. So so unfair. US government would never recognize the genocide they did, the bigest on hearth! A native is less than black people for them, and a black (afro-american) is already nothing for them... And after that, they are proud to be "american"... well... It's really unfair not to talk about that in school.
I will have to say that that dances with wolves is one of my favorite films in my whole life . Spectacular movie and thier is love in it
I know millions of people loved this movie. Bshulman.
wendy Thankyou for your comment .We can be friends.
What a great President Kevin Costner would be , pure class and above all integrity
The Third film from Orion Pictures to win Best Picture!!!
Ah, back when we had excellent written scripts and movies, the Oscars represented class, elegance and was truly a spectacular event, and we all liked each other a little bit more. Nowadays, at the Oscars, all we have is regurgitation, political posturing and lectures to the viewers, and mankind has a seething hatred between itself as we're headed 100mph down a dead end street to self destruction with no seat belts on.
You hit the nail on the head, well put. Back when there was respect, class and decency.
Please Oscars channel, upload Robert Redford winning best director for Ordinary People!
Just so people can state the obvious in the comments section.
Don't forget Shakespeare in Love beating Saving Private Ryan. Or Crash winning Best Picture. For two HORRIBLE examples.
Goodfellas is probably my 2nd favorite film of all time. Scorsese is a GOD to me. But this movie means a lot to me and other native Americans, the first of its kind as well. Whereas many films like Goodfellas existed before it. Both great, you don't have to hate on one.
DJ Standing Elk I do not "hate" on Goodfellas...sure it was a very well done movie...but Dances with Wolves is an EPIC film, all respect to our Native brothers and sisters...it was EPIC...and may Michael Blake rest in eternal peace.
Goodfellas is an extremely different kind of gangster Flick, which is why it was amazing
And Goodfellas is a god like film and should have won this and more oscars, period
Don’t you loved it when Costner went back to Barbra and kissed her again. Pity he didn’t get Barbra to be in the bodyguard. Whitney was great, but Barbra would have to amazing as well
Dances With Wolves made me so touched in so many ways. If a movie can provoke anger, joy and sadness at the same time it's a success. I especially love that the movie i almsot 4 hours long. (I watched Director's Cut, don't know any other).
Fantastisk movie!
Yeah, that's what I want to see. Anybody? Can you produce that for us? Thanks.
where is kayne west when you need him
"Goodfellas should of won"
1:15
I think Keven Costner was acknowledging that Richard Harris’s film, A Man Called Horse was a big inspiration for Dances With Wolves
Goodfellas didn't win because the academy didn't have the brains to understand it
so you're saying that this movie was better than goodfellas?
Павел Деревянский agree bro. There is a particular scene in DWW which is sooo moving that everytime it brings tear into my eyes , when kevin Costner and the Indians pass the scene of carnage of bisons by the Whites and a solitary calf mooing as they pass helpless and pensive. With the powerful background music,this scene haunts me till today and this is what precisley cinema is all about.
hahahaha... sorry man... even though goodfellas was a fantastic film... dances with wolves blows it out of the water.
@@AbhyudaySharda
Goodfellas is romanticized bullshit
Dances with wolves are such an great beutiful movie. Avatar used alot of the story from it and still many movies use that kliche :) which i love:D
There has never been, and will never be a movie that equals Dances with wolves. It honoured the Sioux people tremendously.
Nicht nur der Sioux, er spricht von allen indianischen Schwestern und Brüder. Die Kultur der Plainsstaemme ist bei uns am bekanntesten. Auch deren Untergang😭. Aber alle Ureinwohner ehrten die Natur und fühlten sich tief verbunden mit ihr
Remarkable story about how the book, Dances with Wolves was written .. worth looking up and how KC promised to turn the book into a film...👍
Was the Novel good- even better than the Movie?
GOODFELLAS is the film I watch more than DANCES WITH WOLVES and im pretty sure most people would tend to agree but DANCES WITH WOLVES S is just one of them truly breathtaking epics films that comes along and has something extra that blows your F**king mind. A well deserved win.
Dances with Wolves is by far the best movie ever made. It has everything , drama, action, comedy romance. If you haven't seen it you should. It will make your spirit rise. And to all my Native American friends I have met through the years stay proud!
looking back over the years, goodfellas appears more often on t.v. and is generally considered one of the best movies ever....dances with wolves was of its time and it was important to give the native american side...often neglected.... a man called horse was very similar to dances and was a great film in its day.
great great movie
dances with wolves is a good movie but y'all are delusional. this along with best director should have gone to goodfellas 100%. robbery
Kevins just like his dad
Dances with Wolves is an extremely good film. But I would've given the Best picture to Goodfellas.
"Goodfellas" was revaluated some years later. In 1991 ALL knew DWW was the best film of the year. Infact it won the Oscar. Critics described that film like a masterpiece
Recentely the obstinate fans of Goodfellas have begun to criticize and insult DWW.
Goodfellas is a great film but DW is absolutely better. Even Scorsese(who is a sensitive and intelligent person) knows this.
I repeat, Goodfellas is excellent..but it isn't the best film by Martin. Taxi driver, Raging bull, The departed are better
The Departed 😂😂 Just look at their impact and legacy and you will know that GoodFellas is the best film of year, probably the best of the decade. Scoresese was robbed three times of an Oscar for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and GoodFellas.
Dances with Wolves! I am Wind In His Hair. Do you see that I am your friend? Can you see that you will always be my friend?
A Movie that will live in eternity...A lesson for all
انا من العراق وشاهد الفلم اكثر من مرة فلم روعه ويستحق الوسكار
Kevin Costner was a good looking guy. Love Dances with Wolves, one of my favorite movies.
This movie deserves every Oscar goddammit
Kevin and Silva had run their course long before their divorce. There was a huge disconnect from each other even then.
KC was so happy! 😃
Goodfellas fanboys prefer macho foulmouths to meaningful beauty.
+link biff Well said. Goodfellas was okay like a catchy pop song, but Dances with Wolves was classical, on a higher level.
***** Very well said!
Look, DWW is a very unique and awesome movie, but Goodfellas is also an amazing work of art in its own way. Appreciate art when you see it, asshole. Goodfellas is pure genius. Not everything has to be "meaningful" to be beautiful.
***** I'm talking about people that still think this was one of the Academy's biggest robberies ever. You want robberies? Look at How Green Was My Valley, Driving Miss Daisy, or Chariots of Fire. THOSE are true injustices! At worst, Dances With Wolves is The French Connection or Rocky.
And you honestly think Godfather 3 and Awakenings are far better? Don't make me laugh!
because of hipsters like you that believe that a movie should be ''meaningful beauty' we''re full of crap oscar bait movies...and thanks to hipsters like you all Hitchcok and kubrick never won an oscar in their life,and for the same reason the crap movie shakespere in love beated the 1000x times better saving private ryan and beninni won over edward norton and citzen kane got ignored for so many years.
Let's all thanks the hipsters...all hail the Hipsters!!!!
Kevin was working on orders from God. The god that colonial monsters have been trying to erase from our lives and souls for centuries. The director's full version of 4 hours of humanity that no one can make today. Perhaps not even humanity is undesirable. This monumental spiritual epic is forever a life's work and the meaning of life for many of us. There are two tasks in life: to find oneself and to lose oneself for the sake of one's fellow man.
So deserved. The movie is a masterpiece!!! Godfather Part III is possibly one of the most boring movies ever made...not to mention the stereotypes it created!
Have you seen Goodfellas it is one of the greatest movies of all time
Jordan Alford What you fail to understand is that while Goodfellas is indeed ONE of the greatest movies of all time, pretty much all of the movies being made at the time and nominated for awards were damn good, much better than anything being made today, but I digress, the point is that there'd been a hundred billion gangster movies that were made and we knew the story before we ever watched them, and every now and again there'd be a really good one made, but we still knew the story before we watched it. Dances With Wolves was revolutionary, for the simple fact it was the only Western, if you ask me, every made in Hollywood that came close to reality and portrayed the Indians as people and not savages and goofs, and white men as not just Indian killers, but as understanding. So when it comes to great moviemaking we need more than just a way of making someone shoot someone or stick an icepick in someone's face look more glamourous, we need a movie that is courageous and innovative and real and all the while remaining entertaining. That is why Dances With Wolves won. I love Marty Scorsese as much as the next movie buff, but a real movie buff can totally appreciate the greatness of Dances With Wolves and why it truly deserved to win that award. Just saying, sometimes Oscar gets it right.
Jordan Alford +1
You know, I agree.. This is such a great, epic Hollywood classic.. Goodfellas was very very good, too, and I do not begrudge others who believe it deserved to win.. But, I have to respectfully disagree..
Dances With Wolves is a true masterpiece.. A movie that reflects upon us an echo of a civilization long passed, and makes us understand why that happened.. And what our role in that was..
I have seen it 15 times, and it never fails to make me an emotional wreck..
roo7227 agreed.
He didn't have to trivialize it! That movie lasts.
The horse, the wolf...
I've always been a fan of Kevin kostner every since the film he did with Whitney Houston.I really enjoyed dancing with Wolfe's, real talk especially the love scene.