It's A Wonderful Life should be top 5 at least. The Best Years of Our Lives was really good, so a tough break on IWL's part. Would have won in any other year in the forties except 1943. One of the best movies ever made.
Thing with It's a wonderful life was it was a commerical failure and was panned upon release, so in 1946 Best Years would of been seen as logical and it spoke more to the audience of the time.
As much as I love Goodfellas, really higher than Citizen Kane? U used Hymn to the Fallen from Saving Private Ryan for the last part of the video. Clever cuz those films fell
This video's list: 25- 1938 - the adventures of robin hood 0:49 24- 1964 - marry poppins 1:21 23- 1967 - bonnie and clyde 1:43 22- 1986 - hannah and her sisters 2:16 21- 1950 - sunset boulevard 2:58 20- 1991 - beauty and the beast 3:14 19- 1981 - Reds 3:38 18- 1951 - A streetcar named desire 4:46 17- 2002 - the pianist 4:57 16- 1980 - raging bull 5:21 15- 2007 - there will be blood 5:46 14- 1982 - ET.extra terrestrial 6:09 13- 1940 - the philadelphia story 6:21 12- 1994 - the shawshank redemption 6:37 11- 1951 - a place in the sun 7:12 10- 2001 -TLOTR, the fellowship of the ring 7:33 9- 1996 - fargo 8:16 8- 1979 - apocalypse now 8:53 7- 1948 - the treasure of the sierra madre 9:19 6- 1939 - the wizard of oz 9:40 5- 1977 - star wars 10:00 4- 2005 - brokeback mountain 10:21 3- 1998 - saving private ryan 10:40 2- 1941 - citizen kane 10:56 1- 1990 - goodfellas 11:16
@jimbojamesIV No, he has two movies from 1951 on the list of 25 that didn't win Best Picture. If I had made the list, I would have had two from 1974 -- Chinatown and The Conversation.
This list makes a lot more sense than your list of Worst Best Pictures, but I'm still shocked that you didn't include Double Indemnity. I'm beginning to think you've never seen it. Also, were was "The Maltese Falcon"? Or "Chinatown"? Maybe you don't care for noir.
Another tough list to create but #1 & #2 have to be Saving Private Ryan & The Shawshank Redemption. My personal top 25 would have also included (in no particular order) The Green Mile, L.A. Confidential, Scent of a Woman, 12 Angry Men, To Kill A Mockingbird, Bonnie & Clyde, Butch Cassidy, Chinatown, Jaws. Taxi Driver, Midnight Express, Raiders of The Lost Ark, Fatal Attraction, Mississippi Burning, My Left Foot, Goodfellas, JFK, The Prince of Tides, A Few Good Men, The Pianist, As Good as it Gets, Star Wars. Raging Bull. There are others that are deserving as well
Oh dear... Beauty and the Beast, The Pianist, Brokeback Mountain, Citizen Kane, LOTR, Saving Private Ryan and E.T. not winning Best Picture was and will always be unforgivable.
MercuryHeart Beauty and the Beast didn't stand a chance at winning, not because of it being an animated film, but because it was facing The Silence Of The Lambs that year, which totally deserved it's win.
Beauty and the Beast over The Silence of the Lambs? Get real. LOTR did win; just because 2 out of the 3 didn't doesn't give you a reason to complain other than being mad they didn't get more despite being tied for the world record. E.T. had a 50/50 between Gandhi; it's not entirely bad if either of those won; just be thankful it went to a beautiful story such as Gandhi and not any of the other 3 nominations, which you can't mention without looking them up.
Sensational montage, my friend. Only Saving Private Ryan should not be on the list. After the extraordinary beach landing sequence, the movie turned ito a cheesy 'rites of passage' saga. nice work - Cheers, DJ.
2007 was a tough call. There Will Be Blood is just brilliant, but No Country For Old Men is right up there with the greats. At least Daniel Day Lewis got best actor, which was so well deserved. Gandhi beating E.T. was also controversial, and many Indians hated that movie, but personally I loved it, watched it 100 times and can quote almost every line. Shawshank losing to Forrest Gump was more of a popularity contest, with all of Robert Zemeckis' bag of tricks. Chick flick The English Patient beating Fargo is a cinematic crime. Apocalypse Now is absolutely epic, but quite hard to swallow for 1979 audiences when the war was still an unpopular subject. Annie Hall over Star Wars? You gotta be kidding! Same with another chick flick Shakespeare In Love beating Saving Private Ryan - no f'n way! Dances With Wolves? I tried re-watching it recently and had to shut it off due to Kevin Costner's incredibly annoying nasal drawl. Meanwhile Goodfellas is arguably the greatest gangster movie of all time.
To me the most glaring omission from this list is The Killing Fields, which lost to Amadeus. Also missing is It's a Wonderful Life, A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove.
Yes, I have seen Amadeus. It is a wonderful movie. My comment was not that The Killing Fields is superior to Amadeus; just that The Killing Fields is a film that should be considered worthy of Best Picture in most years.
It's a Wonderful Life and The Killing Fields certainly deserved to be here. Dr. Strangelove as well. A Clockwork Orange on the other hand was an ideological mess and I'm not sure if it even deserved a nomination.
I'm glad you included LotR and Treasure of the Sierra Madre in the top 10, I really love those movies. I have a question though: "The final chapter in this chronicle" Does that mean that you won't make a video of Top 25 Best Picture Winners, or did you already make one and something happened to it?
Believe it or not your comment just opened up my eyes! I'm an aspiring writer/director who's life long dream was to win an Oscar! Now I realize movies aren't about publicity or winning a trophy. It's about touching the hearts of thousands, even millions with movies they'll cherish for generations! Thanks! :D
#25 - Lost To: You Can't Take it With You #24 - LT: My Fair Lady #23 - LT: In the Heat of the Night #22 - LT: Platoon #21 - LT: All About Eve #20 - LT: The Silence of the Lambs #19 - LT: Chariots of Fire #18 (and #11) - LT: An American in Paris #17 - LT: Chicago #16 - LT: Ordinary People (I'll continue in the next post...)
I LOVE movies, and one of the things I love so much that comes with them is the incredible base of film buffs. It's so nice to be able to look through a comment section and not see people degrading other people's race, religion, sexuality etc. and actually see debates and arguments that have to do with the topic at hand. Stay classy guys.
Glad to see that you gave Pulp Fiction an honorable mention. Personally, i believe it should have won best picture in 1994. Forest Gump was good, as were the other nominees, but Pulp Fiction was a film of the highest order of excellence.
BONNIE & CLYDE changed cinema forever. thanx for your heads up list. the effects of artillery on a human body was finally shown. some were not ready for it. when Sam Peckinpah made 'the WILD BUNCH' ,he requisitioned a print of it to be sent down to Mexico by WB's .folks weren't ready for the Bunch ,either.
I disagree on both Spielberg films, but overall, this is a really, really impressive and inspired list! We seem to have really similar taste. Really, most of these are remarkable and brilliant films that would have been incredible winners. I really, really enjoyed this. :]
I thought this was a very accurate list. Just a couple of questions. Do you think all of these deserved the best picture or are just good films that didn't win? That being said, which ones do you think truly deserved best picture? Also, why no Taxi Driver, and why is Pulp Fiction only honorable mention? Not criticism, just interested to here your opinion.
I think it goes either way, Good films that deserved a good in but lost to inferior movies and some loses were justified since it lost to another classic but left the movie listed out in the cold
Thank you for putting the Pianist on this list, I dare say I would've put it higher since it deserved it over Chicago, same for Raging Bull, but I am less upset cause Ordinary People is a good film, those two and Fargo would definitely be top 5 on my list, but I really like your list, great job...
@burrowsshreds Back to my point, voice is only half of the performance, if the other half of the performance is done for you by a computer, then you're not demonstrating your full directoral ability, this is why the Best Animated Feature was introduced.
Nice vid Jason ( I especially liked the inclusion of Fargo), but I was disappointed to see that neither Jaws nor The Exorcist made your list. And Star Wars only #5? Still, some good picks.
@PhantomDawg594 Thank you so much! I am so glad, I put a lot of work into these videos and its nice to hear appreciation. I like your channel too- Singin' in the Rain appears in some of my other videos :)
Inception was so ridiculously overrated. The fact that it even got nominated was a surprise. The Social Network was the one that should have won that year.
Shawshank Redemption, Saving Provate Ryan, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, Citizen Kane, Goodfellas,
Raging Bull
The masterpiece Saving Private Ryan losing to Shakespeare in Love was criminal.
That was Weinstein Bribe Job!
'Inglorious Basterds'; 'Pulp Fiction'; 'Dog Day Afternoon'.
What about A Clockwork Orange, Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds?
RZ K Yeah and Its a wonderful Life, and Life is beautiful
Barry Lyndon...
One of the most underrated films of all time!
One of my favorite RUclips videos here
Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, Traffic, The Aviator? Better than many of your list
Giant, Grapes of Wrath, Taxi Driver, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf, High Noon, The Quiet Man
It's A Wonderful Life should be top 5 at least. The Best Years of Our Lives was really good, so a tough break on IWL's part. Would have won in any other year in the forties except 1943. One of the best movies ever made.
Thing with It's a wonderful life was it was a commerical failure and was panned upon release, so in 1946 Best Years would of been seen as logical and it spoke more to the audience of the time.
What number was 2001: A Space Odyssey?
that was not nominated for best picture
Excellent list! Great job!
Jason, great editing with the music. Really enjoyed it and spot on for choices.
As much as I love Goodfellas, really higher than Citizen Kane?
U used Hymn to the Fallen from Saving Private Ryan for the last part of the video. Clever cuz those films fell
Breaking Away should be on this list. That film is wonderful.
No love for Chinatown (1974)?
This video's list:
25- 1938 - the adventures of robin hood 0:49
24- 1964 - marry poppins 1:21
23- 1967 - bonnie and clyde 1:43
22- 1986 - hannah and her sisters 2:16
21- 1950 - sunset boulevard 2:58
20- 1991 - beauty and the beast 3:14
19- 1981 - Reds 3:38
18- 1951 - A streetcar named desire 4:46
17- 2002 - the pianist 4:57
16- 1980 - raging bull 5:21
15- 2007 - there will be blood 5:46
14- 1982 - ET.extra terrestrial 6:09
13- 1940 - the philadelphia story 6:21
12- 1994 - the shawshank redemption 6:37
11- 1951 - a place in the sun 7:12
10- 2001 -TLOTR, the fellowship of the ring 7:33
9- 1996 - fargo 8:16
8- 1979 - apocalypse now 8:53
7- 1948 - the treasure of the sierra madre 9:19
6- 1939 - the wizard of oz 9:40
5- 1977 - star wars 10:00
4- 2005 - brokeback mountain 10:21
3- 1998 - saving private ryan 10:40
2- 1941 - citizen kane 10:56
1- 1990 - goodfellas 11:16
Thank u
@jimbojamesIV No, he has two movies from 1951 on the list of 25 that didn't win Best Picture. If I had made the list, I would have had two from 1974 -- Chinatown and The Conversation.
This is an AWESOME list. Thanks so much! :)
Where's Chinatown
This list makes a lot more sense than your list of Worst Best Pictures, but I'm still shocked that you didn't include Double Indemnity. I'm beginning to think you've never seen it. Also, were was "The Maltese Falcon"? Or "Chinatown"? Maybe you don't care for noir.
Neither Alfred Hitchcock nor Stanley Kubrick was ever awarded an Oscar.
Another tough list to create but #1 & #2 have to be Saving Private Ryan & The Shawshank Redemption. My personal top 25 would have also included (in no particular order) The Green Mile, L.A. Confidential, Scent of a Woman, 12 Angry Men, To Kill A Mockingbird, Bonnie & Clyde, Butch Cassidy, Chinatown, Jaws. Taxi Driver, Midnight Express, Raiders of The Lost Ark, Fatal Attraction, Mississippi Burning, My Left Foot, Goodfellas, JFK, The Prince of Tides, A Few Good Men, The Pianist, As Good as it Gets, Star Wars. Raging Bull. There are others that are deserving as well
Oh dear... Beauty and the Beast, The Pianist, Brokeback Mountain, Citizen Kane, LOTR, Saving Private Ryan and E.T. not winning Best Picture was and will always be unforgivable.
MercuryHeart Beauty and the Beast didn't stand a chance at winning, not because of it being an animated film, but because it was facing The Silence Of The Lambs that year, which totally deserved it's win.
I, however, agree with most of your other choices
Beauty and the Beast over The Silence of the Lambs? Get real.
LOTR did win; just because 2 out of the 3 didn't doesn't give you a reason to complain other than being mad they didn't get more despite being tied for the world record.
E.T. had a 50/50 between Gandhi; it's not entirely bad if either of those won; just be thankful it went to a beautiful story such as Gandhi and not any of the other 3 nominations, which you can't mention without looking them up.
Please, name of the song which start at 2:55. I loved the voice and music. Please help me to get the name of it!
In 1975, One flew over the cuckoos nest was defiantly more deserving than Jaws.
Please share the titles of all the soundtracks being used in this video.
Adventures of Robin Hood--one of the all-time wonderful movies!
I watched Reds recently for the first time, and that movie BLEW me away! Glad you mentioned it here!
wher is chinatown
Brilliant clip Jason,as always, love it. But it would be nice to see what movies actually won.
Great list, nicely put together :) And in my opinion, #s 1-5 should have taken the Oscars... and a few others, too (9, 11, 14, 21...)
Can somebody please tell me who that is that Humphrey Bogart is talking to in Treasure of the Sierra Madre? I recognize that voice...
what about the thin red line?!
please name the soundtracks used in this composition
hey man grate video. what it call the songs on the video are very beautiful thank you so much!!!
Sensational montage, my friend. Only Saving Private Ryan should not be on the list. After the extraordinary beach landing sequence, the movie turned ito a cheesy 'rites of passage' saga. nice work - Cheers, DJ.
Nice one right there. Any more?
great list
great list jason keep it up thanks for being one of the people that loves film and its history like i do.
pulp Fiction? Chinatown?
GOODFELLAS OVER CITIZEN KANE?!?!? NOTHING BEATS CITIZEN KANE I DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS
2007 was a tough call. There Will Be Blood is just brilliant, but No Country For Old Men is right up there with the greats. At least Daniel Day Lewis got best actor, which was so well deserved. Gandhi beating E.T. was also controversial, and many Indians hated that movie, but personally I loved it, watched it 100 times and can quote almost every line. Shawshank losing to Forrest Gump was more of a popularity contest, with all of Robert Zemeckis' bag of tricks. Chick flick The English Patient beating Fargo is a cinematic crime. Apocalypse Now is absolutely epic, but quite hard to swallow for 1979 audiences when the war was still an unpopular subject. Annie Hall over Star Wars? You gotta be kidding! Same with another chick flick Shakespeare In Love beating Saving Private Ryan - no f'n way! Dances With Wolves? I tried re-watching it recently and had to shut it off due to Kevin Costner's incredibly annoying nasal drawl. Meanwhile Goodfellas is arguably the greatest gangster movie of all time.
To me the most glaring omission from this list is The Killing Fields, which lost to Amadeus. Also missing is It's a Wonderful Life, A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove.
um....have you seen Amadeus? Because if you really think it was an unworthy winner than I am just going to assume you have not seen it.
Yes, I have seen Amadeus. It is a wonderful movie. My comment was not that The Killing Fields is superior to Amadeus; just that The Killing Fields is a film that should be considered worthy of Best Picture in most years.
katrph91 ah I see, my bad.
Calvin Candie It's cool, Calvin. Wish there were more movies like that made nowadays.
It's a Wonderful Life and The Killing Fields certainly deserved to be here. Dr. Strangelove as well.
A Clockwork Orange on the other hand was an ideological mess and I'm not sure if it even deserved a nomination.
what is the name of the background music?
Thank you for adding The Shawshank Redemption. It is one of my favorite films of all time.
Lovely editing of the clips.
and Taxi Driver?
Hi Jason your list is dead on great choices!
@TheProducerPeople
THANK YOU!!! The Oscars need a category for Best Animated Performance!!
I would think that As Good As it Gets should be on the list (In fact I was sure it would be #1, though Goodfellas is also deserving of the top spot)
can you please list the music when you post a video. im tired of asking on every video
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
A good list but what about Pulp Fiction and LA Confidential?
How exactly are they not great accomplishments? And what is the greatest fantasy film according to AFI if I may ask?
where's INCEPTION? By the way where is the music at the end from?
It is 'hymn for the fallen' from Saving Private Ryan
What is the title of the first piece of music in this movie
"Sad Romance" version violin
I'm glad you included LotR and Treasure of the Sierra Madre in the top 10, I really love those movies. I have a question though:
"The final chapter in this chronicle"
Does that mean that you won't make a video of Top 25 Best Picture Winners, or did you already make one and something happened to it?
Please name the music! you play, they are wonderful. I agree with your choices!
Believe it or not your comment just opened up my eyes! I'm an aspiring writer/director who's life long dream was to win an Oscar! Now I realize movies aren't about publicity or winning a trophy. It's about touching the hearts of thousands, even millions with movies they'll cherish for generations! Thanks! :D
Please make this available for mobile devices! Thank you!
These past few years, Best Picture winners are so underwhelming.
#25 - Lost To: You Can't Take it With You
#24 - LT: My Fair Lady
#23 - LT: In the Heat of the Night
#22 - LT: Platoon
#21 - LT: All About Eve
#20 - LT: The Silence of the Lambs
#19 - LT: Chariots of Fire
#18 (and #11) - LT: An American in Paris
#17 - LT: Chicago
#16 - LT: Ordinary People
(I'll continue in the next post...)
I LOVE movies, and one of the things I love so much that comes with them is the incredible base of film buffs. It's so nice to be able to look through a comment section and not see people degrading other people's race, religion, sexuality etc. and actually see debates and arguments that have to do with the topic at hand. Stay classy guys.
Glad to see that you gave Pulp Fiction an honorable mention. Personally, i believe it should have won best picture in 1994. Forest Gump was good, as were the other nominees, but Pulp Fiction was a film of the highest order of excellence.
BONNIE & CLYDE changed cinema forever. thanx for your heads up list. the effects of artillery on a human body was finally shown. some were not ready for it. when Sam Peckinpah made 'the WILD BUNCH' ,he requisitioned a print of it to be sent down to Mexico by WB's .folks weren't ready for the Bunch ,either.
Could you do a list of the top 25 movies of the 1970's
Love movies and lists like yours. Just wish you had found room for Double Indemnity, an overlooked film noir classic.
A list, time stamps or chapters would have been nice
What's the song that starts at 2:51?
Wizard of Oz owns Gone With the Wind so much
how about the social network?
100% agree with #1. There's no question about it.
what music is the first piece that plays?
This sad music... IT'S TEARING MEEE AAPAART!...
;)
Cool Hand Luke
I disagree on both Spielberg films, but overall, this is a really, really impressive and inspired list! We seem to have really similar taste. Really, most of these are remarkable and brilliant films that would have been incredible winners. I really, really enjoyed this. :]
what is the song that plays at 3:10
@linado1994 I never said it wasn't. I just ranked The Wizard of Oz 6th as the best to lose.
Good compilation, but what about "The mission" with De Niro , Irons?
There is "The hours"??
I thought this was a very accurate list. Just a couple of questions. Do you think all of these deserved the best picture or are just good films that didn't win? That being said, which ones do you think truly deserved best picture? Also, why no Taxi Driver, and why is Pulp Fiction only honorable mention? Not criticism, just interested to here your opinion.
I think it goes either way, Good films that deserved a good in but lost to inferior movies and some loses were justified since it lost to another classic but left the movie listed out in the cold
What is the title of the first song?
I agree so much about all of these. I still can't believe Brokeback Mountain lost...
Thank you for putting the Pianist on this list, I dare say I would've put it higher since it deserved it over Chicago, same for Raging Bull, but I am less upset cause Ordinary People is a good film, those two and Fargo would definitely be top 5 on my list, but I really like your list, great job...
What about Jaws or Taxi driver?
really enjoyed this video
There were only 25 slots. Some movies aren't going to make the cut. Good movie mentions though.
0:38 what the name of this instrumental
@burrowsshreds Back to my point, voice is only half of the performance, if the other half of the performance is done for you by a computer, then you're not demonstrating your full directoral ability, this is why the Best Animated Feature was introduced.
I wish you indicated which picture won instead
What about Doctor Zhivago?
Silence of the Lambs deserved the win above beauty and the beast
Jonathan Green It did but beauty and the beast was a close second
Nice vid Jason ( I especially liked the inclusion of Fargo), but I was disappointed to see that neither Jaws nor The Exorcist made your list. And Star Wars only #5? Still, some good picks.
Anyone know the name of the first song?
@PhantomDawg594 Thank you so much! I am so glad, I put a lot of work into these videos and its nice to hear appreciation. I like your channel too- Singin' in the Rain appears in some of my other videos :)
Totally agree with you on number 1!
E.T should have won Best Picture. That's one of the most touching movies ever.
you need to give me hell of an argument of why is not INCEPTION on this list? im waiting
I was really surprised to see that missing as well. Not even an honorable mention...
Inception was so ridiculously overrated. The fact that it even got nominated was a surprise. The Social Network was the one that should have won that year.
Enya's "Marble Halls".
would have switched shawshank redemption with pulp fiction for 1994