One of the reasons films like Around the World in 80 Days, The Greatest Show on Earth, & Gigi were so highly praised by the academy was because they relied on lots of color & spectacle that couldn’t be duplicated by the big new threat to cinemas in the 1950s: Television. The academy made it a point to honor very colorful, spectacle-heavy films in the 1950s (oftentimes, undeservedly) in order to send the message “you can’t get this on tiny black & white TV, folks! Only in theaters can you experience this 🤩!”
Excellent point ! Plus people at that time must have enjoyed but man Giant was a great picture , but no arguments, it’s hard to remember that faint memory of that huge screen and all that wonderful cinematic experience.
Be glad Green Book won. From what I heard, academy voters had Bohemian Rhapsody in 2nd place as the winner that year, so it could’ve been MUCH worse😳 And as for Crash winning Best Picture… All I say to that is about 10 years later a survey was done by academy members from that year and they agreed voting for Crash was a mistake.
Plus the worst award that night was infamously the Live Action Short Film WINNER ‘Skin’ which is easily the absolute worst deserved Oscar Winner in the entirely of the short film category.
@ I disagree. The worst award that night was when Bohemian Rhapsody won best film editing. Like really??? That was one of the worst parts of that movie.
@@leandrocerqueira9910 Meh. 'Bridge on the River Kwai' is extremely overrated. It's good, but one of the best eve? Not even close. If you put on '12 Angry Men' people watching it for the first time are always blown away, but 'Bridge on the River Kwai' just comes across as an alright old film.
@@colleen4ever I was shortening the name. Of course it was not Shakespeare. But don't forget that slimy Harvey Weinstein spread a lot of money around to get that Oscar.
Harrison Ford didn't like Shakespeare in Love? And this coming from a guy who did Indians Jones racist & imperialist adventures [ ok, the Nazis were rotten n] & some stupid movies like The Fugitive a cheap movie copy of an old tv show? Give me a break!😛😛
I agree with you about "Giant" over "Around the World in 80 Days." What was also deserving for Best Picture that year was a film that wasn't nominated for anything, let alone Best Picture. That film is John Ford's "The Searchers," considered one of the best westerns of all time.
Giant is a masterpiece, if a little too long. Love Stevens’s director win. Another great Texas/oil/family drama/Rock Hudson movie from that year is Written on the Wind.
@@karlkarlos3545 If your preference is Giant, it’s no problem. But saying it’s better than The Searchers is a bit too much. It’s one of the most acclaimed films ever and one of the favorites of David Lean, Scorsese, Spielberg, George Lucas and many upcoming filmmakers like me.
Yeah when I watched it i assumed it was still a good movie since it won best picture, just not the best one of that year. I was shocked when I realised that it was just not a good movie in general. I have no idea what was going on with voters that year.
@@salvatoresultana4058 completely agree. My friends and I walked out of that movie shaking our heads, wondering why it was getting such great reviews. I was stunned when it won.
There was only one other film in the running for Best Picture against "Crash," and that was "Munich." The supposed favorite, "Brokeback Mountain" was too depressing. "Good Night and Good Luck" was too boring, and "Capote" was too dark. "Munich" was dark as well, but at least there was an undercurrent to the violence that made sense. Had Spielberg not made such a heavy handed attempt to compare sex with violence near the end of his film, it might have beaten out "Crash." Speaking of which... Go back and read it's reviews when it premiered. It got very good reviews up until the moment it actually won best picture. I don't know who uploaded this, but apparently he doesn't realize that the Academy Awards has always been 60% politics, and only 40% art!
I was in college when Crash came out, and I took a foreign student I was tutoring in English. It was so bad...if I were by myself, I would have walked out, but I had a guest. And he LOVED it, because coming from outside American culture, the heavy-handed clumsiness of the messages in the movie didn't seem cringey to him. 😭
Surprisingly, Vertigo got very mixed reviews when it first came out and has only grown to be a classic over the decades. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is a great pick.
I was *so* confident that Brokeback was going to win, I was like “Welp, I’m gonna go pee, I’ll come back in time for the speech.” I came back and was like “….uh, did something happen to Ang Lee?” Even Paul Haggis doesn’t think Crash deserved to win. I’m glad we finally got a queer cinema win with Moonlight, but I doubt we’ll see another for a long time.
The Broadway Melody was a revolutionary film that was a box office hit back in the day, so that’s more an example of the movie not aging very well than a bad decision I would say.
I think that's why it won; same as Forrest Gump. First successful musical but by musical standards it was pretty poor (same song 3 times) AND the technical advances were such that it was old hat within a couple of years. By the end of the thirties musicals are going all Busby Berkeley. While Broadway Melody is basically one camera pointed at a theatre stage.
I'm a gay man and I can't watch BM again yet. It's still too raw. And worse, Heath Ledger was robbed for Best Actor. The shirts scene - 😭😭 I pretty much stopped going to movies after that.
Imagine, on planet Earth, there was actually a year where "Driving Miss Daisy" won a Best Picture Oscar in a year that created "Do the Right thing" "Glory" "Field of Dreams" and "Crimes and Misdemeanors." .... Just Terrible.
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Do the Right Thing would have been a very worthy winner, if nominated. Of the nominees, I would have voted for Field of Dreams. But the best movie of 1989, imho, was The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.
Coda is not a bad movie at all and I like it, but Best Picture at the Oscars? It's a lot. West Side Story, The Power of the Dog, Licorice Pizza and Dune deserved a million more
@@Story2ScreenMovieReviewPodcast Apple TV+. Just Gawdawful! No ounce of cinematic qualities or ambitions or originality. Not even a worthy Lifetime Movie of the Week.
I did like "Ordinary People", and I was glad that it got noticed at the Oscars, and Timothy Hutton was an interesting choice for Best Actor, but it certainly didn't need to be "rewarded" as the BEST Movie of that year!
That Crash clip of Bullock telling her husband(?) that she got carjacked and her bringing up racism was major major cringe that even those who are against racism couldn’t help but squirm. That’s how bad it was.
Mine: 1. Green Book 2. Shakespeare in Love 3. Cimarron 4. Cavalcade 5. Crash 6. The King’s Speech 7. The Broadway Melody 8. A Beautiful Mind 9. The Life of Emile Zola 10. The Artist
Which of Emile Zola's competitors would you have picked? I really enjoyed Stage Door and A Star is Born, and The Awful Truth is fantastic, of course. But when Leo McCarey won best director for it, he said that they gave him the Oscar for the wrong film--he would have liked more recognition for Make Way for Tomorrow. I agree, it's a profound film, but it wasn't nominated, unfortunately.
I agree with this but The King Speech feels like an aged badly win more than a bad one, just like Ordinary People winning 1981, getting forgotten and nowadays everyone feels like that Raging Bull deserved it more
Giant is a fine movie but if you really wanted to change the Best Picture winner of 1956, it should have been Ford’s masterpiece The Searchers. A movie that still influences many filmmakers and is a landmark in every aspect of filmmaking.
Do the Right Thing is the exact opposite of some of these films. The dialog around race becomes more relevant and hits that much harder with each passing year.
@ exactly. I can see why the Academy were scared of it, though. They obviously wanted a movie that made them feel good about themselves, where Do The Right Thing actually treats its audience like adults and doesn’t give them after-school special level fixes like Driving Miss Daisy. I don’t even hate Driving Miss Daisy, it’s just… tone deaf.
1989 was a year of snubs. 'Do the Right Thing', 'Say Anything', 'Glory', 'Drugstore Cowboy', 'Crimes and Misdemeanors', 'The Mighty Quinn'... But 'Field of Dreams got a nod instead 😂
I've seen every Best Picture winner, and while for the most part I do agree with your comments, for my money the number one absolutely worst Best Picture winner (so far) was 'Going my way' from 1944. As bad as Shakespeare in Love, Cavalcade and Cimmaron et al are, they're no match for that ghastly, simpering, schlocky slice of drivel! It's utterly emetic. (I also think Forrest Gump beating both Pulp Fiction and the Shawshank Redemption should surely rate highly among the Academy's worst choices.)
Honorable Mentions: Oliver! over 2001: A Space Odyssey Out of Africa over The Color Purple and Back to the Future (not even nominated) Braveheart over Toy Story American Beauty over The Green Mile (Especially as The Green Mile has aged very well unlike the latter) Chariots of Fire over Raiders of the Lost Ark Ordinary People over Raging Bull, The Elephant Man and The Empire Strikes Back (not even nominated) The Great Ziegfeld over Modern Times or Mr. Deeds Goes to Town A Man for All Seasons over Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? or The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Tom Jones over How the West Was Won or 8 1/2 (not even nominated) The Sting over The Exorcist A Beautiful Mind over The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Departed over Pan’s Labyrinth (If any of Guillermo Del Toro’s films deserved an Oscar win for BP instead of The Shape of Water, I think this would’ve been a better choice) Slumdog Millionaire over The Dark Knight The King’s Speech over The Social Network Argo over Life of Pi Birdman over Boyhood or The Grand Budapest Hotel Spotlight over The Revenant and The Shape of Water over Dunkirk and Get Out
@@rpg7287 Glad to know you had an easier time comprehending the film when you saw it. I still have no idea what that entire con that Robert Redford and Paul Newman pulled off throughout the entire duration of the film was about.
Vertigo is just out of this world. The title tells you what experience you'll have. I've seen it at least half a dozen times and it just gets deeper and deeper with every viewing - it's the ultimate mystery movie.
When Elizabeth Taylor died, our regional art theatre did a special showing of "Giant," a movie that was totally not on my radar. So enjoyable -- right down to the ridiculous fistfight scene.
@@joseortiz3582 I agree. But the actor playing the bigoted diner owner, Mickey Simpson, got his comeuppance at the hands of a mere woman (!) in the 3 Stooges short "Gents in a Jam" (1952). Check it out, as brutish wrestler Rocky Duggan (Simpson) is beating the hell out of poor Shemp Howard, until Mrs. McGruder, the petite landlady, intervenes and nails Simpson with a wicked right hook..one of the most convincing punches ever seen on the screen. You'll love it!
I know Crash is the popular number 1 answer but I was at least entertained by it despite how bad it is. Driving Miss Daisy is the most boring, flavorless, generic piece of crap best picture winner I have seen. I can watch Crash and laugh at it. Driving Miss Daisy is cinematic NyQuil
I don't like Titanic, but I understand why Cameron won Best Director. Any of the other movies nominated that year should've won best picture. My pick would probably be L.A.Confidential.
@@shadysorkin9214 Can I blame her for being onoxious and super arrogant while she got the major award of her discipline in an highly undeserved way for a MEDIOCRE performance?!
That is overreacting. Crash is not a bad movie and Brokeback wasn't deserving of an Oscar. Better choice would be Kramer vs Kramer winning over Apocalypse Now, Rocky winning over Taxi Driver and Network, Forrest Gump winning over Pulp Fiction and How Green Was My Valley winning over Citizen Kane. THOSE are awful choices
Ive always theorized Crash got the win that year because the Academy was voting not for it as a best picture, but because a vote for Crash was a vote for the type of people they wanted to see themselves as.
Shakespeare in Love winning over Private Ryan is even a bigger outrage than Crash winning. Brokeback was ahead of its time and the topic might have been too much for the 2005 oscar voter😕
Completely wrong and pure genre bias. Saving Private Ryan is a horrendously overrated movie. War movies are not inherently more elevated than comedies.
Shakespeare in Love had no business winning any Oscars but the movie is decent. Crash is truly awful and I think Moonlight was an awful choice. The Academy loved it because it was about gay black dudes but LA LA Land should've won it. I could even accept Hacksaw or Hell or High Water winning it but not Moonlight.
I don't have that much problem with Driving Miss Daisy, my problem that year is Do The Right Thing getting snubbed. I think it should've been nominated, and indeed should have won.
Agreed. It was one of the better Marvel movies but didn't deserve to be in that company. On the other hand I thought Logan was a superhero movie that did deserve to be nominated for several of the big awards, not just Screenplay.
Brian is going to keep ragging on Shakespeare in Love… which is fine because it just gives me an excuse to remember what a great film it is. Sometimes the Oscar goes to the romantic comedy over the”serious drama.” Not often enough, but I’m so glad it did this time.
@ Next you’ll be telling me the play’s original title wasn’t, “Romeo and Ethyl the Pirate’s Daughter.” :) It’s a romantic comedy, not a historic drama.
Love your channel 💕 Do you have a list for someone just starting to get into film history, that is a “You really need to watch this”, and maybe the reasons to do so? Have a great new year🎉
There’s actually quite an interesting reason why Around the World in Eighty Days won. All Talking Pictures made an enormous breakdown of the Oscar’s that year and it really made me appreciate the film a lot more, because to be honest it saved and transformed the industry upon television becoming affordable for everyone.
@@jefferson92929 Something Schaffrillas would agree with and I can see being in his bottom rankings if he ever does a ranking of the Best Picture winners.
From recent memory it has to be CODA. Don't get me wrong I love that film, it's a warm slice of apple pie, but it is not BP material, I guess people got swept up with the feels and let that rule over head.
Forrest Gump. Sorry Gump fans - it’s an overrated movie on its own - and when you realise it beat out arguably the best movie of all time - and perhaps the best non traditional? Movie of all time - Gump should not have won
@@robgronotte1 the same year Gump won best picture - Shawshank Redemption & Pulp Fiction were also nominated. Pulp Fiction is my favourite of the 3 but I will concede that it’s certainly not the type of movie the y goes for. Shawshank?? It’s not my favourite movie ever - but I can admit how good it is. Certainly miles ahead of freaking Forrest Gump
Munich was the best movie nominated that year and Crash didn't even deserve to be nominated. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and A History of Violence are two movies off the top of my head that deserved to be nominated over Crash.
Shakespeare was a far more interesting pick than Private Ryan. After Spielberg's horrifying, gruesome, true to life beginning it became another story about heroes on a quest being picked off one by one. An old story "updated" to World War II. I came up with better stories as a kid when I played with my toy soldiers. Not only that, there is a fatal flaw in that the story is told in flashback by someone who wasn't there until the end of the quest! I was glad something as comedic as Shakespeare took the prize.
@lilbatz most anything was better than Crash. I watch Brokeback and find something different to see each time. I see it less and less as a "gay" love story, and see it as a regular love story that happens to be between two men. I find that the movie is a study of American life, the people, and heavy suppression of society's beliefs in that period. Some of the finest acting by a cast too 👌
People say Brokeback lost because of homophobia, which could very well be true. But it also had a much more depressing ending than Crash, and in the early to mid-2000s the Academy was rewarding depressing movies with best director (Traffic, The Pianist), then choosing more triumphant/entertaining/uplifting films for best picture (Gladiator, Chicago). That all changed by the time No Country for Old Men rolled around.
1. Crash 2.The Greatest Show on Earth 3. Cavalcade 4. Green Book 5. The Broadway Melody 6. Cimarron 7. The Great Ziegfeld 8. Going My Way 9. Chicago 10. Oliver!
Your next list could be top 10 greatest films to have never won best picture. You could include Brokeback Mountain citizen Kane saving Private Ryan etc.
Honestly Crash is overhatted. Out of all the films that were nominated that I watched, the thinnest was Capote, and Brokeback Mountain, I got why people like it, but it was an okay film, so Crash winning was the right choice there.
I watched Brokeback Mountain again with my wife recently. As a straight man, even though I couldn't relate to the characters in the movie, I did feel a lot of empathy for them. I thought what it did really well is showing this situation from all sides, the relationship between Ennis and Jack obviously but also from their wives perspectives. I felt for them too. But yes a masterful movie Heath and Jake give great performances and yes the BP win is egregious. Crash I remember being a fine movie. I did like some of the performances particularly Matt Dillon. I guess the real question is, Best Actor. Do you give it to Heath over PSH for Capote? Jake should have won over George Clooney.
An American in Paris over A Place in the Sun or A Streetcar Named Desire? How Green Was My Valley over Citizen Kane? What is everyone's thought on Rocky over Network?
Network should’ve won. Rocky won because it was a populist blockbuster in a time when a lot of American cinema was dark and depressive. That’s not to say it’s bad, but Network is far superior in my opinion.
I think Rocky’s a fine win. I liked Network more, but Rocky was my second choice. And I can understand why it did too. The other 4 nominees that year were very politically charged and critical of society, which may have exhausted people. Rocky was a feel-good independent movie whose premise of a little man overcoming the odds paralleled its campaign of the little film that became the highest grossing film of the year, which likely struck a chord with voters.
I'd be really curious to see the vote totals for Brokeback vs. Crash. I know the Academy would never reveal that information, but I've always wondered how close the Best Picture vote was. Did Brokeback lose by only a couple dozen votes or was it a bigger/smaller margin? Interestingly, shortly after Crash won, my high school English teacher (a non-white woman who, as far as I can tell, liked the movie - or at least didn't criticize it) showed it to us in class.
I realise now that I actually gave up on the Oscars as any kind of arbiter of excellence with the loss of Brokeback Mountain. Corruption, ignorance, prejudice and cynicism won so convincingly that the Academy Awards were revealed as just another failed institution.
10:59 Actually, the 2018 lineup is considered one of the weakest in recent years, if not the weakest. Roma and The Favourite are the only ones from that category that have a universal appreciation. The rest are just treated with a shrug if you see the online discord.
I just waiting for you to get to "Shakespeare in Love", that displaced "Saving Private Ryan" for Best Picture back in '98. EDIT: Wow! First one out of the gate! Well done!
The Greatest Show on Earth was worthy of Best Picture. I enjoy watching it over every 10 years. High Noon is soo overrated! Slow, boring, and Grace Kelly married to aged Gary Cooper…ugh!
@@alvaropelayo8084Yes, Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth is so maligned because movie critics have a hard on for High Noon, which IMHO, is overrated because it’s such a slowly developing plot and not believable having the young gorgeous Grace Kelly married to the great actor Gary Cooper who is fabulous in EVERY movie he ever appeared in, including this one, except from a casting perspective, he was more appropriate as her grandfather than her husband.
Honestly Shakespeare In Love is one of my faves. Totally deserved the win. So original. But yes, best actress deserved to go to Cate Blanchett or Ferdinanda Montenegro (sp?)
My list of the worst winners (omitting films from before 1938) would include The Shape of Water, The Greatest Show on Earth, EEAAO, Gigi, Out of Africa, Kramer vs Kramer, Around the World, Million Dollar Baby, Birdman, and maybe Terms of Endearment.
Oh Shakespeare in Love. Absolutely shouldn't have been saving private Ryan but I'm a diehard theater dork, so many nods in that movie towards my little corner of the world😊
Every single movie mentioned is a better movie than Braveheart, the single worst best picture nominee, nevermind winner. Every single person who voted for it should have their membership to the academy revoked for being an absolute clown. Seriously, the script is awful, the acting is awful, the direction is awful (if you’re filming the battle of Stirling bridge, it should be basic filmmaking to include a bloody bridge). If it’s not clear, I hate that movie so much. Everyone involved in making it should feel nothing but shame.
I generally like "guy movies" over "girl movies" despite being a woman, but I just could not get into Braveheart _at all._ I found it really boring and never finished it. (It doesn't help that I never found Mel Gibson attractive in the least, but that's beside the point.) X)
I predicted Green Book to win that year. Remember, the Academy now used ranked choice voting. Green Book wasn’t as polarizing of a film as Roma. It probably didn’t get the most 1st place votes, but it most likely did get a lot of 2nd and 3rd place votes that put it over the top
I still remembered i was Deversated Dune part 1 lost to CODA. It was like The Equilivant of a horse of that you bet on, fallen over the last Hurdel. I thought it was home and dry, and i can tell i was very upset by it.
Dune is a sci-fi film They almost always get snubbed and ignored by the academy in best picture and director categories Same will happen this yr for Part 2 probably (I hope not)
@@timgriffin3368 no, but it happened to Star Wars trilogy ,Back to the Future ,2001 a space odyssey,Alien,Matrix and Interstellar should I go On? Generally speaking Horror,Fantasy and Sci-fi films rarely win best picture/director by the academy (cuz they value more dramatic movies) There’s ofc rare wins here and there like Silence of the Lambs and LOTR but these are rare moments where the film checks all boxes of Oscar bait
I will not sit through SPR a second time. If the movie had only been (the first) twenty minutes: yes! best picture. But from minute 21 through the end it sounded like a propaganda war picture from the 40s, but with less grace.
Totally disagree with you bashing Shakespeare in Love. Really beautifully written movie. Just because it’s not about war doesn’t mean it’s not a great film. Tom Stoppard wrote it beautifully.
It's a decent movie but had no business winning Best Picture or Best Actress. I could even accept Elzabeth winning Best Picture which was a far better period piece and Cate without question should beaten Patrow.
Back in the mid-70s, one of my college professors had the privilege of interviewing Irene Dunne, and I had the pleasure of hearing the tape of that interview. Speaking of "Cimarron," she said she had recently seen a screening of it and felt that neither the film nor her performance had held up very well. (As noted, the film won "Best picture"; Miss Dunne and co-star Richard Dix received acting nominations.)
Yes, Brokeback Mountain should have won. But Crash takes too much hate. It's pretty good and much better than Cimarron, Cavalcade, Gigi, and a few others.
One of the reasons films like Around the World in 80 Days, The Greatest Show on Earth, & Gigi were so highly praised by the academy was because they relied on lots of color & spectacle that couldn’t be duplicated by the big new threat to cinemas in the 1950s: Television.
The academy made it a point to honor very colorful, spectacle-heavy films in the 1950s (oftentimes, undeservedly) in order to send the message “you can’t get this on tiny black & white TV, folks! Only in theaters can you experience this 🤩!”
Excellent point ! Plus people at that time must have enjoyed but man Giant was a great picture , but no arguments, it’s hard to remember that faint memory of that huge screen and all that wonderful cinematic experience.
nicholson's reaction to reading crash says it all
Be glad Green Book won. From what I heard, academy voters had Bohemian Rhapsody in 2nd place as the winner that year, so it could’ve been MUCH worse😳 And as for Crash winning Best Picture… All I say to that is about 10 years later a survey was done by academy members from that year and they agreed voting for Crash was a mistake.
Even the Crash director (Paul Haggis) said that Brokeback Mountain was a better film.
@@randomguy6695 and also, Green book was not that bad
Plus the worst award that night was infamously the Live Action Short Film WINNER ‘Skin’ which is easily the absolute worst deserved Oscar Winner in the entirely of the short film category.
@@francescocendronIt's not anywhere near great either.
@ I disagree. The worst award that night was when Bohemian Rhapsody won best film editing. Like really??? That was one of the worst parts of that movie.
You forgot 12 Angry Men in the 50s films. One of the best films ever made and the one that made me fall in love with the Golden Age of Cinema.
12 Angry Men lost to Bridge on the River Kwai, one of the best films ever
@@leandrocerqueira9910 Meh. 'Bridge on the River Kwai' is extremely overrated. It's good, but one of the best eve? Not even close.
If you put on '12 Angry Men' people watching it for the first time are always blown away, but 'Bridge on the River Kwai' just comes across as an alright old film.
It is not one of the 10 worst ever. Bridge on the River Kwai is too good a film for it to be considered a major travesty.
Great movie. I just watched Juror #2 and I was kind of surprised how much parts of it were very similar to the vastly superior 12 Angry Men.
@@leandrocerqueira9910 Kwai is great movie, but it's not "one of the best films ever". Meanwhile, 12 Angry Men is
Harrison Ford reading "Shakespeare in Love" with a higher level of disgust in his tone of voice is 👍🏻
I don't care how disgusted Ford was. I was happy and relieved.
@ that Shakespeare won over Private Ryan?
@@motherofbeagles8532That movie was NOT Shakespere!!
@@colleen4ever I was shortening the name. Of course it was not Shakespeare. But don't forget that slimy Harvey Weinstein spread a lot of money around to get that Oscar.
Harrison Ford didn't like Shakespeare in Love? And this coming from a guy who did Indians Jones racist & imperialist adventures [ ok, the Nazis were rotten
n] & some stupid movies like The Fugitive a cheap movie copy of an old tv show? Give me a break!😛😛
I agree with you about "Giant" over "Around the World in 80 Days." What was also deserving for Best Picture that year was a film that wasn't nominated for anything, let alone Best Picture. That film is John Ford's "The Searchers," considered one of the best westerns of all time.
Giant is a masterpiece, if a little too long. Love Stevens’s director win. Another great Texas/oil/family drama/Rock Hudson movie from that year is Written on the Wind.
The Searchers is one of the best films ever made. The Giant doesn’t come close.
@@vajinderkaursamra8075 Actually, I prefer Giant. The Searchers, despite being gorgeous looking, is very uneven.
Giant is in my top 10... aswell as The Ten Commandements is. So one of those two should have one.
@@karlkarlos3545 If your preference is Giant, it’s no problem. But saying it’s better than The Searchers is a bit too much. It’s one of the most acclaimed films ever and one of the favorites of David Lean, Scorsese, Spielberg, George Lucas and many upcoming filmmakers like me.
Agree 100%. Crash is not merely boring or forgettable, it’s downright ugly.
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@@adonisjoaquin4281 I didn’t hate crash but it certainly wasn’t the top movie
Yeah when I watched it i assumed it was still a good movie since it won best picture, just not the best one of that year. I was shocked when I realised that it was just not a good movie in general. I have no idea what was going on with voters that year.
It’s an awful movie. I hated watching it. There were moments that bordered on comical.
@@salvatoresultana4058 completely agree. My friends and I walked out of that movie shaking our heads, wondering why it was getting such great reviews. I was stunned when it won.
Before I even clicked on "play" for this video, I thought: "Number 1 worst has to be Crash."
That was my thought, too, going in!
Same😂
There was only one other film in the running for Best Picture against "Crash," and that was "Munich." The supposed favorite, "Brokeback Mountain" was too depressing. "Good Night and Good Luck" was too boring, and "Capote" was too dark. "Munich" was dark as well, but at least there was an undercurrent to the violence that made sense. Had Spielberg not made such a heavy handed attempt to compare sex with violence near the end of his film, it might have beaten out "Crash." Speaking of which... Go back and read it's reviews when it premiered. It got very good reviews up until the moment it actually won best picture. I don't know who uploaded this, but apparently he doesn't realize that the Academy Awards has always been 60% politics, and only 40% art!
I was in college when Crash came out, and I took a foreign student I was tutoring in English. It was so bad...if I were by myself, I would have walked out, but I had a guest. And he LOVED it, because coming from outside American culture, the heavy-handed clumsiness of the messages in the movie didn't seem cringey to him. 😭
I would have thought the opposite. Assumed it was a big American thing cause so heavy handed
Only racists dislike it.
Surprisingly, Vertigo got very mixed reviews when it first came out and has only grown to be a classic over the decades. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is a great pick.
Vertigo is sh--t! I hated it!😛😝
@ Riiiight.
@@joseortiz3582 I never liked it. Good ending, but too drawn out, goes on and on. Boring.First 40 minutes is a cure for insomnia.
Hmmm bad ending for me!
Vertigo is a masterpiece; perhaps my favorite film. Perhaps not enough explosions or superheroes for some viewers.
I was *so* confident that Brokeback was going to win, I was like “Welp, I’m gonna go pee, I’ll come back in time for the speech.”
I came back and was like “….uh, did something happen to Ang Lee?”
Even Paul Haggis doesn’t think Crash deserved to win.
I’m glad we finally got a queer cinema win with Moonlight, but I doubt we’ll see another for a long time.
The Broadway Melody was a revolutionary film that was a box office hit back in the day, so that’s more an example of the movie not aging very well than a bad decision I would say.
I think that's why it won; same as Forrest Gump. First successful musical but by musical standards it was pretty poor (same song 3 times) AND the technical advances were such that it was old hat within a couple of years. By the end of the thirties musicals are going all Busby Berkeley. While Broadway Melody is basically one camera pointed at a theatre stage.
The first 40 minutes are pretty entertaining, too.
The reason early talkies are so difficult to get through is the pacing of dialogue that makes everything seem boring.
The English Patient snatching the Oscar from Fargo s unforgiven
Saving Private Ryan deserved the award. It’s still one of the best movies ever made.
Prime Spielberg made it look easy
Agreed, I could even accept Elizabeth or The Thin Red Line winning but not Shakespeare in Love.
Shakespeare in Love was a better film than Saving Private Ryan, sorry
@@sreyangovender3404You must hate Shakespere!
@@sreyangovender3404 Agreed.
I'm a straight man and I still think about the end of Brokeback Mountain on a regular basis. It was so heartbreaking. I never think about Crash.
I think about Crash. And laugh at how bad it is from time to time.
I'm a gay man and I can't watch BM again yet. It's still too raw. And worse, Heath Ledger was robbed for Best Actor. The shirts scene - 😭😭 I pretty much stopped going to movies after that.
Imagine, on planet Earth, there was actually a year where "Driving Miss Daisy" won a Best Picture Oscar in a year that created "Do the Right thing" "Glory" "Field of Dreams" and "Crimes and Misdemeanors." .... Just Terrible.
I might be wrong here but I think Katherine Hepburn was quoted as saying that “No one wins an Oscar for the role they deserved it for”.
Spoiler-Free Timestamps
10. 0:45 The Movie That Beat Saving Private Ryan
9. 2:33 The Movie That Beat a Lost Film
8. 4:48 The Movie That Beat Dead Poets Society, My Left Foot, Do the Right Thing, When Harry Met Sally, Born on fhe 4th of July, and Racism
7. 6:43 The Movie That Beat a Fugitive
6. 8:23 The Movie That Beat Rock Hudson and Liz Taylor
5. 10:38 The Movie That Beat A Star Is Born
4. 12:21 The Movie That Beat Gary Cooper
3. 14:12 The Movie That Beat The Master of Suspense and Tennesee Williams
2. 16:05 The Movie That Beat Comedy
1. 17:56 The Movie That Beat Not Knowing How to Quit You
I mean don't get me wrong, I love born on the 4th of July, but come on, best picture had to go to do the right thing in 1989. It is truly exceptional
But unfortunately it wasn't even nominated
Dead poets society all the way
Do the Right Thing would have been a very worthy winner, if nominated. Of the nominees, I would have voted for Field of Dreams. But the best movie of 1989, imho, was The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.
I agree! But it was nominated 🤦🏾♂️
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover would have been great too (if it was nominated in the first place).
Coda is not a bad movie at all and I like it, but Best Picture at the Oscars? It's a lot.
West Side Story, The Power of the Dog, Licorice Pizza and Dune deserved a million more
Also it's never seen a home media release and I think that has contributed to people forgetting it.
Coda is a great movie. Honestly your list is awful.
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Apple TV+. Just Gawdawful! No ounce of cinematic qualities or ambitions or originality. Not even a worthy Lifetime Movie of the Week.
@@Clumsyone. CODA is “great”??? Jeez.
CODA is a better movie than Power of the Dog, West Side Story and Licorice Pizza. Only Dune is better, but no way that academy will award that
The Oscars are a joke and are nothing more than ego trips much like with all award shows.
It’s a world unto itself.
It's high school voting for the prom .
Ever since "Ordinary People" won over "Raging Bull" in 1980,
I've turned away ever since.
Ordinary People is easily top 5 Best Pic winner of all time
@@sikarasmahasawin1774 Are you serious? That film
was one of the most forgettable & boring films ever
put out.
Hear ya..
you don't know movies
I did like "Ordinary People", and I was glad that it got noticed at the Oscars, and Timothy Hutton was an interesting choice for Best Actor, but it certainly didn't need to be "rewarded" as the BEST Movie of that year!
That Crash clip of Bullock telling her husband(?) that she got carjacked and her bringing up racism was major major cringe that even those who are against racism couldn’t help but squirm. That’s how bad it was.
Yeah. That film was such a pandering mess. And it was insulting how it patted itself on its back.
The best reason for Crash winning. It wasn't antiWhite.
Mine:
1. Green Book
2. Shakespeare in Love
3. Cimarron
4. Cavalcade
5. Crash
6. The King’s Speech
7. The Broadway Melody
8. A Beautiful Mind
9. The Life of Emile Zola
10. The Artist
Which of Emile Zola's competitors would you have picked? I really enjoyed Stage Door and A Star is Born, and The Awful Truth is fantastic, of course. But when Leo McCarey won best director for it, he said that they gave him the Oscar for the wrong film--he would have liked more recognition for Make Way for Tomorrow. I agree, it's a profound film, but it wasn't nominated, unfortunately.
@@melanie62954Between Awful Truth or A Star is Born would be awesome.
I agree with this but The King Speech feels like an aged badly win more than a bad one, just like Ordinary People winning 1981, getting forgotten and nowadays everyone feels like that Raging Bull deserved it more
Wow so Harrison Ford announced both Schindler’s List and Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture
He's the bad omen 🤭
@@jonathanvelazquezph.d.2719Schindler’s list is a good one for Ford
Jack Nicholson announced Gwyneth in Actress and Crash in BP… yikes
@ for gwyneth it was an obligation.
Giant is a fine movie but if you really wanted to change the Best Picture winner of 1956, it should have been Ford’s masterpiece The Searchers. A movie that still influences many filmmakers and is a landmark in every aspect of filmmaking.
It wasn’t even nominated, but Do The Right Thing should have won in ‘89.
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Do the Right Thing is the exact opposite of some of these films. The dialog around race becomes more relevant and hits that much harder with each passing year.
@ exactly. I can see why the Academy were scared of it, though. They obviously wanted a movie that made them feel good about themselves, where Do The Right Thing actually treats its audience like adults and doesn’t give them after-school special level fixes like Driving Miss Daisy. I don’t even hate Driving Miss Daisy, it’s just… tone deaf.
1989 was a year of snubs. 'Do the Right Thing', 'Say Anything', 'Glory', 'Drugstore Cowboy', 'Crimes and Misdemeanors', 'The Mighty Quinn'... But 'Field of Dreams got a nod instead 😂
@@AndresGomez-ct7qb I'll add Sex, Lies, and Videotape as another film that was snub for Best Picture.
I've seen every Best Picture winner, and while for the most part I do agree with your comments, for my money the number one absolutely worst Best Picture winner (so far) was 'Going my way' from 1944. As bad as Shakespeare in Love, Cavalcade and Cimmaron et al are, they're no match for that ghastly, simpering, schlocky slice of drivel! It's utterly emetic.
(I also think Forrest Gump beating both Pulp Fiction and the Shawshank Redemption should surely rate highly among the Academy's worst choices.)
You have a problem with Christians?
I remember being upset and surprised when Green Book won. Really bad choice.
Best Original Screenplay? Best Picture? It’s TV Movie of the Week at best!
Better than Coma...ops, Roma 😂
@@thecinematicmind come on Coda is a TV Movie. Green Book at least looks cinematic and has a great dialogue and great acting.
Green Book was pretty good.
Honorable Mentions: Oliver! over 2001: A Space Odyssey
Out of Africa over The Color Purple and Back to the Future (not even nominated)
Braveheart over Toy Story
American Beauty over The Green Mile (Especially as The Green Mile has aged very well unlike the latter)
Chariots of Fire over Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ordinary People over Raging Bull, The Elephant Man and The Empire Strikes Back (not even nominated)
The Great Ziegfeld over Modern Times or Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
A Man for All Seasons over Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? or The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Tom Jones over How the West Was Won or 8 1/2 (not even nominated)
The Sting over The Exorcist
A Beautiful Mind over The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Departed over Pan’s Labyrinth (If any of Guillermo Del Toro’s films deserved an Oscar win for BP instead of The Shape of Water, I think this would’ve been a better choice)
Slumdog Millionaire over The Dark Knight
The King’s Speech over The Social Network
Argo over Life of Pi
Birdman over Boyhood or The Grand Budapest Hotel
Spotlight over The Revenant
and
The Shape of Water over Dunkirk and Get Out
Several of these like Braveheart, Birdman and The Departed were VERY worthy of the wins!
@ That’s fine if you think they deserve the BP win. This list is just my personal opinion.
I still think The Sting is one of the few deserving best picture winners. It’s a great movie.
@@rpg7287 Glad to know you had an easier time comprehending the film when you saw it. I still have no idea what that entire con that Robert Redford and Paul Newman pulled off throughout the entire duration of the film was about.
Some of these are either poorly aged or coin toss type of wins, where the losing film was slightly better or equally good
The one thing I like about "Around the World in 80 Days" getting the top prize is that Buster Keaton appeared in a Best Picture winner.
That shot of Kim Novak at the Golden Gate Bridge should have won “Vertigo” the Oscar….PERIODT!!!
Vertigo is just out of this world. The title tells you what experience you'll have. I've seen it at least half a dozen times and it just gets deeper and deeper with every viewing - it's the ultimate mystery movie.
Really??????😜😜😜😜
Don't care for Vertigo at all.
Overrated movie.Nothing charming.Rear Window was excellent
@@grantc61 🤢
Titanic and American Beauty winning were both absolutely ridiculous.
When Elizabeth Taylor died, our regional art theatre did a special showing of "Giant," a movie that was totally not on my radar. So enjoyable -- right down to the ridiculous fistfight scene.
My mom absolutely loved Giant. Then again, my mom would have loved a toothpaste commercial if it had James Dean.
I just rewatched Giant a few months ago. Much better on second viewing.
Kudos for a guy defending two Hispanics from a bigot! My parents were
Hispanics.😁😁
@@joseortiz3582 I agree. But the actor playing the bigoted diner owner, Mickey Simpson, got his comeuppance at the hands of a mere woman (!) in the 3 Stooges short "Gents in a Jam" (1952). Check it out, as brutish wrestler Rocky Duggan (Simpson) is beating the hell out of poor Shemp Howard, until Mrs. McGruder, the petite landlady, intervenes and nails Simpson with a wicked right hook..one of the most convincing punches ever seen on the screen. You'll love it!
I am in the minority here..thought Giant was dull but that's me..The Searchers was far better in my opinion..
I know Crash is the popular number 1 answer but I was at least entertained by it despite how bad it is. Driving Miss Daisy is the most boring, flavorless, generic piece of crap best picture winner I have seen. I can watch Crash and laugh at it. Driving Miss Daisy is cinematic NyQuil
That City Lights was closed out of any academy recognition is so bewildering. It’s got such an affecting story- the last scene is perfection.
Paused at 1:20 just to say "Saving Private Ryan" was stupid, manipulative trash, speaking as a veteran and cinemaphile.
Glory should have won in 1989
Was it even nominated? Out of curiosity what do you make of Crash?
"It's got some decent songs...and shit" lol. I love how angry you get, but yeah, 100% warranted for Crash.
Honorable Mentions:
1998 - English Patient. Fargo should’ve won.
1997 - Titanic. Any of the other nominees were more deserving.
Totally agree. Titanic is a terrible film.
Agree with Titanic but not with English Patient, a great and underrated movie.
I don't like Titanic, but I understand why Cameron won Best Director. Any of the other movies nominated that year should've won best picture. My pick would probably be L.A.Confidential.
How I hated The English Patient.
After seeing The English Patient, I never again made the mistake of going to the theater solely to see the "Best Picture." It's in my bottom 10.
It Happened One Night is one of my favorite films!
Screw Shakespeare in love and most importantly Gwyneth!!😂😂😂
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What a wonderful thought :)
The power of fucking Harvey Weisntein in action.
You shouldn't blame an actress for doing her job or winning an award.
@@shadysorkin9214 Can I blame her for being onoxious and super arrogant while she got the major award of her discipline in an highly undeserved way for a MEDIOCRE performance?!
Nothing will ever be a worse choice than Crash.
What were the other choices that year? I can't remember
That is overreacting. Crash is not a bad movie and Brokeback wasn't deserving of an Oscar. Better choice would be Kramer vs Kramer winning over Apocalypse Now, Rocky winning over Taxi Driver and Network, Forrest Gump winning over Pulp Fiction and How Green Was My Valley winning over Citizen Kane. THOSE are awful choices
Agreed, the other 4 movies were far better, and Crash didn't even deserve to be nominated.
@@swvi9459 Munich or Capote were far better than Crash. I think people overrate Brokeback but it's still better than Crash on every level.
@@EddieHenderson92 Lol
Ive always theorized Crash got the win that year because the Academy was voting not for it as a best picture, but because a vote for Crash was a vote for the type of people they wanted to see themselves as.
Shakespeare in Love winning over Private Ryan is even a bigger outrage than Crash winning. Brokeback was ahead of its time and the topic might have been too much for the 2005 oscar voter😕
Completely wrong and pure genre bias.
Saving Private Ryan is a horrendously overrated movie. War movies are not inherently more elevated than comedies.
Shakespeare in Love had no business winning any Oscars but the movie is decent. Crash is truly awful and I think Moonlight was an awful choice. The Academy loved it because it was about gay black dudes but LA LA Land should've won it. I could even accept Hacksaw or Hell or High Water winning it but not Moonlight.
18:44 As a gay man married to a woman in 2005, it changed my life. We know why it lost, and that makes it even more egregious.
Lol. By the book made Oscar bait movie
Your life is a lie.
It just wasn’t that good. I Love You Phillip Morris was 20 times better than Brokeback Mountain.
Dare I ask what hapoened to your marriage? Did you end up getting an annulment?
@ divorced. Been together with my husband for nearly 20 years, married for 12.
the first 20 minutes of private Ryan was outstanding but then it went so sentimental and typical we are going to save the day territory
Forget it, franzcohenfan3619. It’s Spielbergtown…
Thank you! I never understood the outrage about "Private Ryan" not winning best picture. It's meh.
I don't have that much problem with Driving Miss Daisy, my problem that year is Do The Right Thing getting snubbed. I think it should've been nominated, and indeed should have won.
11:02: Black panther is by no means a "wonderful film" and doesn't deserve a best picture nomination. This is ridiculous
Agreed. It was one of the better Marvel movies but didn't deserve to be in that company. On the other hand I thought Logan was a superhero movie that did deserve to be nominated for several of the big awards, not just Screenplay.
This. Black Panther is overrated movie
BP was just another average MCU movie but critics had to pretend like it was this masterpiece out of fear.
@@EddieHenderson92 exactly
It’s not a bad film but definitely not best picture worthy. It’s basically a retelling of the lion king and Rocky 3.
Brian is going to keep ragging on Shakespeare in Love… which is fine because it just gives me an excuse to remember what a great film it is. Sometimes the Oscar goes to the romantic comedy over the”serious drama.” Not often enough, but I’m so glad it did this time.
Another smart person. Yay
100% thank you.
NO! Shakespeare in love is an upmarket Lifetime period movie it doesn't hold up.
It's laugh out loud cringe.
But it's not even a real Shakespere story! They couldn't even get the theater right!
@ Next you’ll be telling me the play’s original title wasn’t, “Romeo and Ethyl the Pirate’s Daughter.” :) It’s a romantic comedy, not a historic drama.
Love your channel 💕
Do you have a list for someone just starting to get into film history, that is a “You really need to watch this”, and maybe the reasons to do so?
Have a great new year🎉
There’s actually quite an interesting reason why Around the World in Eighty Days won. All Talking Pictures made an enormous breakdown of the Oscar’s that year and it really made me appreciate the film a lot more, because to be honest it saved and transformed the industry upon television becoming affordable for everyone.
I would vote for Oliver winning over 2001 a space odyssey
Thats a good one
BLAPHEMY!!! 🤬
Oliver is an absolutely fantastic movie though.
@@fromomelastocarcosa3575it’s no 2001
@@jefferson92929 Something Schaffrillas would agree with and I can see being in his bottom rankings if he ever does a ranking of the Best Picture winners.
If around the world in 80 days had lost best picture, the Soviets would have won the Cold War.
From recent memory it has to be CODA. Don't get me wrong I love that film, it's a warm slice of apple pie, but it is not BP material, I guess people got swept up with the feels and let that rule over head.
Forrest Gump. Sorry Gump fans - it’s an overrated movie on its own - and when you realise it beat out arguably the best movie of all time - and perhaps the best non traditional? Movie of all time - Gump should not have won
It was a year with a lot of excellent films. Any one of which I’d take over Forest Gump and its celebration of stupidity.
What movie are you referring to?
@@robgronotte1 the same year Gump won best picture - Shawshank Redemption & Pulp Fiction were also nominated. Pulp Fiction is my favourite of the 3 but I will concede that it’s certainly not the type of movie the y goes for. Shawshank?? It’s not my favourite movie ever - but I can admit how good it is. Certainly miles ahead of freaking Forrest Gump
Gump is a good movie, but I would've given Pulp Fiction Best Director and Shawshank Best Picture.
If the Academy was dead set against making Brokeback Mountain win, they should have voted for Capote.
“No, don’t vote for the gay film, vote for Capote” 😅
@@billcook4768 Yeah, also a movie about a gay man.
Munich was the best movie nominated that year and Crash didn't even deserve to be nominated. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and A History of Violence are two movies off the top of my head that deserved to be nominated over Crash.
I found your channel recently, and can't stop binging on these "Worst" lists! Thanks for bringing back all the memories!
I can't imagine why Annie Hall had won the academy award when I thought Star wars was better.
Shakespeare was a far more interesting pick than Private Ryan. After Spielberg's horrifying, gruesome, true to life beginning it became another story about heroes on a quest being picked off one by one. An old story "updated" to World War II. I came up with better stories as a kid when I played with my toy soldiers. Not only that, there is a fatal flaw in that the story is told in flashback by someone who wasn't there until the end of the quest! I was glad something as comedic as Shakespeare took the prize.
Crash winning over Brokeback Mountain still irritates 🙄 me.
I get people were squirrelly about voting for Brokeback Mountain, but why not Capote? Much better than Crash.
@lilbatz most anything was better than Crash. I watch Brokeback and find something different to see each time. I see it less and less as a "gay" love story, and see it as a regular love story that happens to be between two men. I find that the movie is a study of American life, the people, and heavy suppression of society's beliefs in that period. Some of the finest acting by a cast too 👌
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Broke back mountain even being nominated still irritates me. Crash is trash too though
People say Brokeback lost because of homophobia, which could very well be true. But it also had a much more depressing ending than Crash, and in the early to mid-2000s the Academy was rewarding depressing movies with best director (Traffic, The Pianist), then choosing more triumphant/entertaining/uplifting films for best picture (Gladiator, Chicago). That all changed by the time No Country for Old Men rolled around.
I absolutely love Gigi 😂, the cast is so great in that one.
I agree. "Gigi" is so charming, an absolute delight.
1. Crash
2.The Greatest Show on Earth
3. Cavalcade
4. Green Book
5. The Broadway Melody
6. Cimarron
7. The Great Ziegfeld
8. Going My Way
9. Chicago
10. Oliver!
Since the real best movies of that year weren't even nominated I'm even happy Oliver! won, quite enjoyable
I loved “Oliver”! It’s easily on my top 10 list of all time!
I still can't figure out how Chicago won Best Picture of 2002 over Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers!?!?
Your next list could be top 10 greatest films to have never won best picture. You could include Brokeback Mountain citizen Kane saving Private Ryan etc.
i was playing this video in the background as i worked on a project but i stopped and laughed several times, you were in rare form on this one!
I was expecting Gladiator to show up on this list but I'm so happy it didn't!
Gladiator wasn't a bad picture, but many overvaluated 😐
@ I'm a fan of Gladiator but The Awards Contender hates it so I thought he was going to put it on the list
Honestly Crash is overhatted. Out of all the films that were nominated that I watched, the thinnest was Capote, and Brokeback Mountain, I got why people like it, but it was an okay film, so Crash winning was the right choice there.
That’s it. I’m unsubscribing. I am sick and tired of this vendetta you have against Jessica Tandy and that wonderful movie.
I watched Brokeback Mountain again with my wife recently. As a straight man, even though I couldn't relate to the characters in the movie, I did feel a lot of empathy for them. I thought what it did really well is showing this situation from all sides, the relationship between Ennis and Jack obviously but also from their wives perspectives. I felt for them too. But yes a masterful movie Heath and Jake give great performances and yes the BP win is egregious. Crash I remember being a fine movie. I did like some of the performances particularly Matt Dillon. I guess the real question is, Best Actor. Do you give it to Heath over PSH for Capote? Jake should have won over George Clooney.
An American in Paris over A Place in the Sun or A Streetcar Named Desire? How Green Was My Valley over Citizen Kane? What is everyone's thought on Rocky over Network?
Network should’ve won. Rocky won because it was a populist blockbuster in a time when a lot of American cinema was dark and depressive. That’s not to say it’s bad, but Network is far superior in my opinion.
I think Rocky’s a fine win. I liked Network more, but Rocky was my second choice. And I can understand why it did too. The other 4 nominees that year were very politically charged and critical of society, which may have exhausted people. Rocky was a feel-good independent movie whose premise of a little man overcoming the odds paralleled its campaign of the little film that became the highest grossing film of the year, which likely struck a chord with voters.
@@oscarman42 how green was my valley is a masterpiece, Idk if it deserved or not but as a movie it's too good to be in any list like this.
Rocky is a great movie whose reputation is sullied by the sequels.
Rocky winning is awesome
It was a travesty that Brokeback Mountain didn’t win Best Picture. I was shocked that night. Brokeback Mountain was a masterpiece.
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It's a depressing piece of work that isn't elevated just because it's two main characters are gay.
CODA had no business being nominated for Best Picture.
I'd be really curious to see the vote totals for Brokeback vs. Crash. I know the Academy would never reveal that information, but I've always wondered how close the Best Picture vote was. Did Brokeback lose by only a couple dozen votes or was it a bigger/smaller margin? Interestingly, shortly after Crash won, my high school English teacher (a non-white woman who, as far as I can tell, liked the movie - or at least didn't criticize it) showed it to us in class.
It still enrages me to this day that Crash won instead of Brokeback Mountain. A travesty!
I realise now that I actually gave up on the Oscars as any kind of arbiter of excellence with the loss of Brokeback Mountain. Corruption, ignorance, prejudice and cynicism won so convincingly that the Academy Awards were revealed as just another failed institution.
10:59 Actually, the 2018 lineup is considered one of the weakest in recent years, if not the weakest. Roma and The Favourite are the only ones from that category that have a universal appreciation. The rest are just treated with a shrug if you see the online discord.
I was about to comment that 2018 was a brilliant year for cinema, but then realised you meant 2019. Agreed - not a great year.
I just waiting for you to get to "Shakespeare in Love", that displaced "Saving Private Ryan" for Best Picture back in '98.
EDIT: Wow! First one out of the gate! Well done!
The Greatest Show on Earth was worthy of Best Picture. I enjoy watching it over every 10 years. High Noon is soo overrated! Slow, boring, and Grace Kelly married to aged Gary Cooper…ugh!
I agree absolutely. Didn't like high noon and I have always enjoyed The Greatest Show On Earth, one of the best pictures in history.
When you reach Gary Cooper's age you will go after young women! Wanna bet?😝😛
@@alvaropelayo8084Yes, Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth is so maligned because movie critics have a hard on for High Noon, which IMHO, is overrated because it’s such a slowly developing plot and not believable having the young gorgeous Grace Kelly married to the great actor Gary Cooper who is fabulous in EVERY movie he ever appeared in, including this one, except from a casting perspective, he was more appropriate as her grandfather than her husband.
Remember the only major impact of Gigi is the soundtrack appearance on a Pink Floyd album cover.
Honestly Shakespeare In Love is one of my faves. Totally deserved the win. So original. But yes, best actress deserved to go to Cate Blanchett or Ferdinanda Montenegro (sp?)
The Shape of Water should be no. 1 on every list of the worst choice for Best Movie. What a joke!🤡
My list of the worst winners (omitting films from before 1938) would include The Shape of Water, The Greatest Show on Earth, EEAAO, Gigi, Out of Africa, Kramer vs Kramer, Around the World, Million Dollar Baby, Birdman, and maybe Terms of Endearment.
Mad Max: Fury Road should’ve easily won over Spotlight.
Spotlight winning is reasonable, but George Miller losing Best Director was just egregious.
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Fury Road was just a great film. Wish they'd done a sequel with Tom Hardy and Charlize. (The prequel is really good.)
Come on! Out of Africa instead of The Color Purple 1986. That is the one.
Still burns my butt!!!!!
Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan was the worst injustice ever in the Best Picture category.
No, that's reserved for Oliver over the Greatest Film ever made: 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Oh Shakespeare in Love. Absolutely shouldn't have been saving private Ryan but I'm a diehard theater dork, so many nods in that movie towards my little corner of the world😊
Every single movie mentioned is a better movie than Braveheart, the single worst best picture nominee, nevermind winner. Every single person who voted for it should have their membership to the academy revoked for being an absolute clown. Seriously, the script is awful, the acting is awful, the direction is awful (if you’re filming the battle of Stirling bridge, it should be basic filmmaking to include a bloody bridge).
If it’s not clear, I hate that movie so much. Everyone involved in making it should feel nothing but shame.
I generally like "guy movies" over "girl movies" despite being a woman, but I just could not get into Braveheart _at all._ I found it really boring and never finished it.
(It doesn't help that I never found Mel Gibson attractive in the least, but that's beside the point.) X)
I predicted Green Book to win that year.
Remember, the Academy now used ranked choice voting.
Green Book wasn’t as polarizing of a film as Roma.
It probably didn’t get the most 1st place votes, but it most likely did get a lot of 2nd and 3rd place votes that put it over the top
And yet Green Book is still a lousy film.
I still remembered i was Deversated Dune part 1 lost to CODA.
It was like The Equilivant of a horse of that you bet on, fallen over the last Hurdel.
I thought it was home and dry, and i can tell i was very upset by it.
Dune is a sci-fi film They almost always get snubbed and ignored by the academy in best picture and director categories
Same will happen this yr for Part 2 probably (I hope not)
well it won 6 awards which was amazing it on 2022 most awards list
@Glory-Compass yeah, that happened to LOTR too, oh, wait it won.
Maybe Dunes just not that great as Twitter thinks.
@@timgriffin3368 no,
but it happened to Star Wars trilogy ,Back to the Future ,2001 a space odyssey,Alien,Matrix and Interstellar should I go On?
Generally speaking Horror,Fantasy and Sci-fi films rarely win best picture/director by the academy (cuz they value more dramatic movies)
There’s ofc rare wins here and there like Silence of the Lambs and LOTR but these are rare moments where the film checks all boxes of Oscar bait
@@timgriffin3368 or X.
Yeah cause Elon musk too over but
Same old same old
Live by the last-minute SAG ensemble frontrunner upset, die by the last-minute SAG ensemble frontrunner upset.
Spielberg deserved Best Director for the D Day sequence alone, but Shakespeare in Love deserved Best Picture.
Somebody smart. Yay
LOL no it didn't, Shakespeare in Love is a very average movie.
Agree, after the D- day sequence, the movie never reaches those heights
I will not sit through SPR a second time. If the movie had only been (the first) twenty minutes: yes! best picture.
But from minute 21 through the end it sounded like a propaganda war picture from the 40s, but with less grace.
I never liked Shakespeare in Love. It's like sitting in a theater arts class with teenagers writing a half baked play by committee. Worst win ever.
Kramer vs Kramer over Apocalypse Now.
Crash is and always be the worst
Born on the Fourth of July continues to be criminally overlooked. Tom Cruise's best acting work.
Brokeback is one of the best films I’ve ever seen. I’m still mad! Lol
Great entertainment and review. 👏🏻🥃
Totally disagree with you bashing Shakespeare in Love. Really beautifully written movie. Just because it’s not about war doesn’t mean it’s not a great film. Tom Stoppard wrote it beautifully.
And Marc Norman.
It's a decent movie but had no business winning Best Picture or Best Actress. I could even accept Elzabeth winning Best Picture which was a far better period piece and Cate without question should beaten Patrow.
Back in the mid-70s, one of my college professors had the privilege of interviewing Irene Dunne, and I had the pleasure of hearing the tape of that interview. Speaking of "Cimarron," she said she had recently seen a screening of it and felt that neither the film nor her performance had held up very well. (As noted, the film won "Best picture"; Miss Dunne and co-star Richard Dix received acting nominations.)
Yes, Brokeback Mountain should have won. But Crash takes too much hate. It's pretty good and much better than Cimarron, Cavalcade, Gigi, and a few others.
No, not better than "Gigi"..