I still remember that time me and some friends from college wanted to go and watch The Lego Movie, but it was sold out for the day, so we watched 12 Years a Slave instead. At the end of the movie, a friend was crying like hell, and she just mumbled "I. Wanted. To. Watch. The. Lego. Movie"
The fact you were able to sit through not only 200+ hours of movies, but able to watch all 2 hours of Crash makes you worthy of the Bravest RUclipsr nomination.
Um she literally just watched the trailers for like 90% of these movies. Horrible takes on every single one of the movies you can only get from watching three minutes.
@@KingofCrusherah yes these 40 second long mini talks about her random impressions from these movies are clearly meant to be serious and in depth takes.
Fun fact, actress Clara Bow (Wings) was discovered by Dorothy Arzner, one of the first female directors and also a lesbian. She and Clara were really close but it's unknown whether or not they were in a relationship. However, Arzner did invent the boom mic to help Clara be more comfortable while filming so that's pretty neat.
Another super depressing fact about All Quiet on the Western Front: a bunch of the actors (especially extras) were actually WWI veterans. Imagine having PTSD and then going to re-enact the situations that gave you PTSD in the first place.
@@chosen666sert Wikipedia mentions it, as does a website called military history. I've come across other sources that include the information too. What's so bad about me mentioning PTSD? I'm at no point claiming all veterans suffered from the condition. In fact, it's an anachronism for WWI soldiers; the comparable diagnosis they would have suffered from is shell shock which is slightly different anyway.
I find it really interesting that in a lot of cases, the winners faded into obscurity while the nominees they won against went down in history. Like How Green Was My Valley beating Citizen Kane, Going My Way beating Gaslight, and Gentleman's Agreement beating Miracle on 34th Street, amongst many others.
Don’t forget: The Apartment winning but nothing for Psycho. The Best Years of Our Lives beating It's a Wonderful Life. All About Eve beating Sunset Blvd. An American in Paris beating A Streetcar Named Desire. My Fair Lady Losing to Dr Strangelove. Kramer v Kramer beating Apocalypse Now. Dances With Wolves beating Goodfellas Or even Oliver! winning and 2001: A Space Odessey being completely ignored for the award.
I remember watching Dances with Wolves in grade 9 social studies. During the sex scene someone in the class blurted out “Man, this guy’s a machine!” We all laughed. Seriously, one of my favourite movies.
I watched Chicago in high school (sixth form in the UK) music class. During that movie’s opening sex scene, someone asked the amazing question “Is he plowing her to the beat of the music?”
I need to know how far back this goes bc I’m 38 and old which apart from having spina bifida that’s why I’m in a wheelchair, and uh I do not remember seeing this in school At all.
"Dances With Wolves" is underrated, although I agree with most people that in hindsight, "GoodFellas" should have won. That movie also has one of the best movie scores ever written. There's a reason why you've heard that same music used in other trailers and even in other commercials.
From this video the only thing I learned is if I just wrote down the worst moments in my life, put them into script and filmed it, Id win an Acadamy award
My favourite thing about Ben Hur is that people have found things like a watch in the chariot race and just imagine filming on such a ridiculous scale and editing all of that for hours and hours just to see Steve had his watch on and you can't reshoot.
@@expendableindigo9639that one is even more impressive, as it means no one on set noticed, the colorists (films are recolored often), didn't notice, the editors didn't notice, the VFX artists didn't notice. Or some noticed but couldn't get the word up the chain of command. As fixing it would be trivial Or it was noticed but no one cared
I went to look this up, and after viewing at it. I actually don't think it's a watch, pretty sure it's a metal bracelet that the sun hits in a way to make it look like a round watch face.
Fun fact about “I’m walkin’ here!” Apparently it was an unintended line. A real cab driver actually almost ran into that actor (sorry I don’t know his name) and the reactions you see are real. It was such a good/funny scene that they decided to keep it in the movie.
I was just recently thinking, why aren't there any horror movies nominated for the Oscars? and then I remembered that 'Silence of the Lambs' won multiple Oscars. But of course it's labeled as a thriller just like Aliens is called a sci-fi movie.
Horror is one of the most consistently successful genres and yet it gets no respect. When Exorcist was nominated, William Friedkin insisted that the nomination proved it wasn't a horror movie because horror movies don't win awards. No other genre has to insist upon itself as 'elevated' in order to be taken seriously. No one describes Rocky as an 'elevated' sports movie or Titanic as an 'elevated' romance.
Horror is like fantasy and sci-fi: when it's got the kind of message that Hollywood normally loves to give awards to, it's usually presented too abstractly or metaphorically for most Academy voters to pick up on. I'm not even much of a horror fan, but I've considered writing a horror movie simply because I had something to say that would be best expressed through bloody metaphor.
For "The English Patient" I would have shown the scene from Seinfeld where Elaine is denied service at the diner for saying the movie sucked. "You know, sex in a tub: That doesn't work!"
coming back to rewatch this video after having seen The Fablemanns and learning that the goofy car getting hit by train scene in The Greatest Show on Earth literally traumatised young Stephen Spielberg into making films for the first time as a coping mechanism
You can see that in every decade, there are genres and types of movies that are favored at the Oscars. Like war movies in the 1940s and 1980s, musicals in the 1960s, teary relationship dramas in the 1980s.... There are genres though that rarely get nominated, like comedies, action or horror, even thrillers. Mostly it's historical or psychological dramas.
The 80s were actually all about period movies - Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Amadeus, Out of Africa, Platoon, Last Emperor, Driving Miss Daisy, Dances With Wolves. Ordinary People and Terms of Endearment aren't relationship dramas, they're about family, as is Rain Man.
And, science fiction. So much imagination and innovation is put into scifi movies, and the people at the Academy would rather nominate depressing historical movies with copies of period costumes and sets.
@@samanthacline1265 That is slowly changing. These past two years a sci-fi movie got the most nominations (Dune and EEAAO). EDIT: Wait, I take it back, I forgot about Power of the Dog.
@@fabianhebestreit3240 I didn't hate The Power of The Dog. I think I would have enjoyed it more as a stage play than a movie. I was mad that Dune lost.
The sad thing about "Cimarron" is that one of the points important to Edna Ferber's novel was that the early Oklahoma settlers like Yancey Cravat WERE a bunch of despicable racists, but the movie celebrated and reinforced the racism Ferber disparaged.
Don't forget the many way the settlers cheated in order to get land. These people were called "sooners". So if you're wondering now why there's a college with a mascot name like that, well there's you're answer.
I think it’s very interesting and telling that most of these winners have fallen into obscurity while the films actually considered the best of their times are nowhere to be seen
Here's the list of the films she circled in green at 40:30 (recommended for everyone): It happened one night Casablanca All about Eve The bridge on the river Kwai The apartment Westside story The sound of music Oliver! Midnight cowboy The godfather The godfather II One flew over the coockoo's nest Rocky The las emperor Dances with wolves Silence of the lambs Forrest gump Braveheart Titanic Chicago Lord of the rings: the return of the king The departed No country for old men Slumdog millionaire Birdman Moonlight Shape of water Parasite
Honestly I think it's time we had the conversation that Braveheart was the worst nominee that year. I would've voted for Sense and Sensibility personally but Babe would've been such a good winner.
@@expendableindigo9639 I KNOW that’s my favorite fact to tell people… that and Happy Feet was directed by George Miller too! Mad Max Fury Road is so fucking good.
I feel like it's actually even more bizarre that Shakespeare in Love beat not just Saving Private Ryan for best picture, but also beat out Life is Beautiful, arguably another one of the greatest movies ever made. Like how the hell do you do that
Actually that decision was because of Harvey Weinstein (yes THAT Harvey Weinstein), the producer of Shakespeare in Love, courting all of the Academy members prior to voting. Then there are all of the acceptance speeches praising Harvey. To say those speeches haven't aged well is an understatement.
Okay, so our English teacher got reallx pissed when she found out that we watched Ghandi in History class and made us watch a movie that was super critical of Ghandi as an alternative, called Ghandi, My Father. So we got 2 end of year movies for the price of 1. Thanks, Ghandi!
I actually really love Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, and think more people should watch it. It's legitimately tense and the plot twists are super interesting and yet make perfect sense
Rebecca is actually one of my favorite books and I’m happy to tell anyone that will listen that the Hitchcock movie is the best book-to-movie adaptation I’ve ever seen. It stays true to most of the the story beats and characters, but most importantly it retains the tense mood and disturbing vibes that made the book so appealing to emo 13-year-old me. Also love the gay obsession and themes of ghostly torment.
@@AndSorrowsEnd I actually just finished the book for the first time in November and I totally agree. They're both such amazing works, and I think anyone who likes one will also love the other.
I figured out why you were recommended to me! Ive watched that clip at 32:43 5 times this week, just because i remembered it and now i have to hear it every 12 hours this week
Trying to watch this at 1:30am, stoned, and not laugh loudly enough to wake up my roommate is damn near impossible. I’ve laughed to the point of tears multiple times. This is SO goddamn good. Thanks for slogging through some of the awful ones.
I’m SO sad that you went through the monumental task of watching all these movies and didn’t give an opinion on a huge number of them. You’re really hilarious and I would have loved to hear what you think about these classics.
Honestly, I would have liked it if you'd said a few sentences about those movies "everybody has seen" as well. Both because I would have enjoyed hearing what you had to say about the ones I watched, and also because there were still a few in there that I hadn't watched.
@@EvasiveOne yeah, I figured that at the end during the movies you'd recommend segment, lol. But yeah, like op said, there were still movies I didn't really know much about and would like to hear just a one sentence synopsis of it. Though, I liked the one liners like "....it's Schindler's List" and then moving on right after 😂
It sucks knowing that Disney's Brave had better accuracy of the Scottish people. Wasn't the biggest fan of that movie but knowing that they were able to pronounce the word "freedom" far better, tells me that someone hired proper consultants. Heck, they even got Billy Connolly for that movie and he literally breathes the country at night. Come on, Mel! You never thought to add Connolly in your film!?
For the 2010 films (as in the 2011 Oscars, god I find that confusing), it wasn’t just The King’s Speech winning that bothered me (it’s a pretty decent film, but most of the other films were much better), but it also won Best Director. There was nothing noteworthy about the directing in that film, and this was a year where excellent directors David Fincher (who is personally my favorite director), Christopher Nolan (who didn’t even get nominated, WTF), the Coen Brothers and Darren Aronofsky all had films in the Best Picture nominations. What the actual hell?
I actually think Tom Hooper has a deceptively interesting personal style as a filmmaker. He frequently frames closeups in uncommon, idiosyncratic ways, he gets pretty dynamic use out of wide-angle lenses. _Personally_ I feel he doesn't always get the recognition he deserves as a visual stylist. That said, *I agree* Hooper is basically in possession of a Best Director Oscar that probably should have gone to Fincher or Aronofsky. Hooper's _interesting_ and capable of telling visual stories in unique ways, but he's not the cinema artist they are. And both "The Social Network" and "Black Swan", I feel, are superior films.
@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 That’s fair, and I only saw King’s Speech once so I might not be giving it the fairest assessment based off memory. I do remember thinking his directing in Les Mis was pretty great. I will have to pass on Cats though, LOL. Even a good director couldn’t save….whatever that was IMHO.
It's probably one of those situations where people split votes on the top and favorite to win and an 'underdog' ends up winning, which is why they should get rid of the 'one vote' thing and go for a point-based list system.
@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 Hooper definitely has an interesting personal style, the problem is that it does nothing for the movies he directs. Like, both in King's Speech and Les Mis his framing frequently took me out of the movie.
"What the actual hell?" The answer is simple---if Oscar voters generally believe that such-and-such movie is the Best Picture of the year, they will also give Best Director award to the person who made it. If you look at the instances where there is a split between Best Picture and Best Director, most of the times the director of the film that wins Best Picture was not nominated for Best Director.
I agree with most of your thoughts but man my heart broke at the Amadeus part! IMO it's the best costume drama ever made, mostly because it has a comedic sense that others in its genre don't.
Exactly my thoughts. Opinion is going to vary but for me Amadeus is so great because it's NOT the Mozart movie you expect. It's alive, funny, daring, and makes this very old story feel incredibly modern which is what so many period pieces struggle with.
This was an absolute Herculean task and boon to humanity. I was falling farther and farther behind with my watchload. The clock has been reset and I can begin not watching movies anew. Thank you! Triple bonus points for the Bugs Bunny quote. I've been using that one every time I hear the word 'Hoboken' for the last 50 years.
Omg it's so crazy to see your username again I had a YTP channel a decade ago and talked to you in the comments a few times back then. I vividly remember having your Special Agent Oso video on my favorites list on that old account 😳
I was truly not expecting to laugh so hard. You are hilarious, perfect delivery, so well done and clearly so much effort put in. I can’t wait to see more content from you!!
Watching this has made me realize just how many pre-1940s films I have seen. My film, bro dad thought movies went bad when they added color and sound. So I wasn't allowed to watch much else.
Those are the 27 movies that won Best Picture without winning Best Director: 1 - Wings by William Wellman in 1929. Wellman wasn't nominated for Best Director. The winners that year were Lewis Milestone for 2 Arabian Knights and Frank Borzage for 7th Heaven 2 - The Broadway Melody by Harry Beamount in 1930. Beaumont was nominated for Best Director but lost to Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady 3 - Cimarron by Wesley Ruggles in 1932. Ruggles was nominated for Best Director but lost to Norman Taurog for Skippy 4 - Grand Hotel by Edmung Goulding in 1932. Goulding wasn't nominated for Best Director. The winner that year was Frank Borzage for Bad Girl 5 - Mutiny on the Bounty by Frank Lloyd in 1936. Lloyd was nominated for Best Director but lost to John Ford for The Informer 6 - The Great Ziegfeld by Robert Leonard in 1937. Leonard was nominated for Best Director but lost to Frank Capra for Mr Deeds Goes to Town 7 - The Life of Emile Zola by William Dieterle in 1938. Dieterle was nominated for Best Director but lost to Leo McCarey for The Awful Truth 8 - Rebecca by Alfred Hitchcock in 1941. Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director but lost to John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath 9 - Hamlet by Laurence Olivier in 1949. Olivier was nominated for Best Director but lost to John Huston for The Treasure of Sierra Madre 10 - All the King's Men by Robert Rossen in 1950. Rossen was nominated for Best Director but lost to Joseph Mankiewicz for A Letter to 3 Wives 11 - An American in Paris by Vincente Minnelli in 1952. Minnelli was nominated for Best Director but lost to George Stevens for A Place in the Sun 12 - The Greatest Show on Earth by Cecile DeMille in 1953. DeMille was nominated for Best Director but lost to John Ford for The Quiet Man 13 - Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Anderson in 1957. Anderson was nominated for Best Director but lost to George Stevens for Giant 14 - In the Heat of the Night by Norman Jewison in 1968. Jewison was nominated for Best Director but lost to Mike Nichols for The Graduate 15 - The Godfather 1 by Francis Ford Coppola in 1973. Coppola was nominated for Best Director but lost to Bob Fosse for Cabaret 16 - Chariots of Fire by Hugh Hudson in 1982. Hudson was nominated for Best Director but lost to Warren Beatty for Reds 17 - Driving Miss Daisy by Bruce Beresford in 1990. Beresford wasn't nominated for Best Director. The winner that year was Oliver Stone for Born on the 4th of July 18 - Shakespeare in Love by John Madden in 1999. Madden was nominated for Best Director but lost to Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan 19 - Gladiator by Ridley Scott in 2001. Scott was nominated for Best Director but lost to Steven Soderbergh for Traffic 20 - Chicago by Rob Marshall in 2003. Marshall was nominated for Best Director but lost to Roman Polanski for The Pianist 21 - Crash by Paul Haggis in 2006. Haggis was nominated for Best Director but lost to Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain 22 - Argo by Ben Affleck in 2013. Affleck wasn't nominated for Best Director. The winner that year was Ang Lee for Life of Pi 23 - 12 Years a Slave by Steve McQueen in 2014. McQueen was nominated for Best Director but lost to Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity 24 - Spotlight by Tom McCarthy in 2016. McCarthy was nominated for Best Director but lost to Alejandro Iñárritu for Revenant 25 - Moonlight by Barry Jenkins in 2017. Jenkins was nominated for Best Director but lost to Damien Chazelle for La La Land 26 - Green Book by Peter Farrelly in 2019. Farrelly wasn't nominated for Best Director. The winner that year was Alfonso Cuarón for Roma 27 - CODA by Sian Heder in 2022. Heder wasn't nominated for Best Director. The winner that year was Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog
It's too bad Hitchcock never won best director, not even for Rebecca. But when he received a lifetime achievement award, he just said "thank you" and walked off, so I doubt he would've given a great speech then either.
22:45 Her recently deceased fiancé, was one of the main actors in "the deer hunter", the guy that Al Pacino kissed in godfather II (Fredo) John Cazale. Probably the actor with the highest % of Oscar winning movies of all time. 5 movies, 4 Oscars. The 5 one (The Dialog) lost against himself in godfather II.
Cazale had a truly great run for an actor who was in so few movies. It no doubt helped that the early 70s was a freewheeling time in filmmaking, with a lot of great directors liberated by loosened censorship restrictions and the studios feeling they'd lost track of what would be reliably profitable so anything goes. Very talented man, lost way too young to cancer.
"How Green Was My Valley" won against "Citizen Kane" and "The Maltese Falcon", "Going My Way" won against "Double Indemnity" and "Gaslight", "American Beauty" won against "The Sixth Sense", "Shakespeare in Love" won against "Elizabeth", "Life Is Beautiful" and "Saving Private Ryan"... Nuff said.
I'm so glad I clicked on this video because it's HILARIOUS, it's been years since I've laughed this hard because of a creator I had never even seen a video from before!
For someone like me who doesn't have the will power to watch everything but still wants to know it all, this video is gold 😂 I can't imagine the amount of hours that went into making this video! Thanks for the informative and hilarious video.
@@matts9064 it's informative in the sense that she did list all the names of the movies along with the year it won the award. It didn't always have the best plot summation but now I know what they are.
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This was a delight. I mean, all your videos are, but as a former film student this one was extra hilarious. The Bugs Bunny 'Hoboken' bit is pure excellence. 🏆
GREAT video. Thank you for posting. I, too, have watched every Best Picture winner, and it's amazing that only a handful are movies I would want to rewatch. I own about half a dozen on DVD. Fingers crossed that Everything Everywhere All At Once wins for movies released in 2022!
Thank you for sacrificing your time and energy to create this video. I laughed so hard throughout. I also agree that the Academy of Motion Pictures doesn’t know how to pick award nominees or recipients. Most of my favorite films have never been nominated.
Wings was a legitimately impressive movie for it's day. All those air to air dogfights and special effecta at a time when movies didn't even have speaking in them. In that context, it's still pretty impressive. Groundbreaking.
Fun fact, that "Mutiny on the Bounty" movie was based on a real life situation. If you go to Pitcairn Island today, you will be able to say "hi!" too all the descendants of Mr. Christian and Co. Also, Captain Bligh set a record for himself and the small amount of men in the rowboat for distance and survival which has not been beaten even now. Also, for my money, the obscure, black and white, made for TV "Hamlet" with Richard Burton is hands down the best version. You can see why people respected him so much as an actor.
For Hamlet, there are also other great adaptations of Hamlet just as good as Olivier's such as Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider, Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well, Rick Moranis's and Dave Thomas's Strange Brew, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Alan Johnson's To Be or Not to Be & Roger Allers's and Rob Minkoff's The Lion King.
@@rickardkaufman3988 Yes, Strange Brew is my second favorite "Hamlet", LOL. I remember hearing that after I saw it, and saying "Oh my god!" I need to re-watch that! SCTV people were the funniest.
@@lisathuban8969 I haven't SCTV other than I know Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy who were in it are friends who appeared in Eugene's and his son Dan Levy's show Schitt's Creek which is pretty good.
Although I liked the video overall, I do think it did a bit of disservice to that one. Amadeus is one of the few "musician biopic" movies I can think of that strays from the tired old "pre-fame -- success -- excess -- wilderness years -- redemption -- death" formula. Because it's seen from Salieri's perspective, it actually manages to make for a movie that's more clever, memorable, and meaningful than like 90% of films in that subgenre.
perhaps it has something to do with cult historical figures going "bronze" with time, so people can`t believe those were actual breathing human beings with flaws or sence of humour 🤔
Parasite is actually great. It's one of maybe three occasions when the best film of the year actually won the Oscar for best picture. I'd recommend it over most of the other films on this sad, depressing and tragic list. (Here are some other films that didn't win a best picture A.A: Citizin Kane, The Searchers, 12 Angry Men, Vertigo, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Chinatown, Nashville, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, Blade Runner, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Fargo, The Matrix, I Could Go On....) Fantastic job putting this together, BTW!
Here are my personal picks for Best Picture, I was inspired to create it after realizing that the Academy ignored many of my favorite movies (you'll probably disagree with many of my picks): 1927: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc 1929: Un Chien Andalou 1930: All Quiet on the Western Front 1931: City Lights 1932: Freaks 1933: King Kong 1934: It Happened One Night 1935: The Informer 1936: Modern Times 1937: A Star Is Born 1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood 1939: Gone with the Wind 1940: Rebecca 1941: Citizen Kane 1942: Casablanca 1943: Shadow of a Doubt 1944: Double Indemnity 1945: Brief Encounter 1946: It's a Wonderful Life 1947: Out of the Past 1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1949: The Third Man 1950: Sunset Boulevard 1951: A Streetcar Named Desire 1952: Singin' in the Rain 1953: From Here to Eternity 1954: On the Waterfront 1955: Marty 1956: The Searchers 1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai 1958: Vertigo 1959: Ben-Hur 1960: Psycho 1961: West Side Story 1962: Lawrence of Arabia 1963: 8½ 1964: Doctor Strangelove 1965: The Sound of Music 1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1967: Cool Hand Luke 1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey 1969: Midnight Cowboy 1970: Patton 1971: A Clockwork Orange 1972: The Godfather 1973: The Exorcist 1974: The Godfather Part II 1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1976: Taxi Driver 1977: Star Wars 1978: The Deer Hunter 1979: Apocalypse Now 1980: Raging Bull 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark 1982: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1983: The Right Stuff 1984: Amadeus 1985: Come and See 1986: Blue Velvet 1987: The Last Emperor 1988: Rain Man 1989: Do the Right Thing 1990: Goodfellas 1991: The Silence of the Lambs 1992: Unforgiven 1993: Schindler's List 1994 (TIE): Pulp Fiction & The Shawshank Redemption 1995: Braveheart 1996: Fargo 1997: Titanic 1998: Saving Private Ryan 1999: Fight Club 2000: Gladiator 2001: Mulholland Drive 2002: City of God 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2005: Brokeback Mountain 2006: The Departed 2007: There Will Be Blood 2008: The Dark Knight 2009: District 9 2010: The Social Network 2011: Drive 2012: The Master 2013: Gravity 2014: Birdman 2015: Mad Max: Fury Road 2016: Arrival 2017: Dunkirk 2018: The Favourite 2019: Parasite 2020: Nomadland 2021: Dune 2022: Top Gun: Maverick 2023: Oppenheimer
@@picmajik at the first Oscars there was a separate category that was like “most artistic picture” or something like that and sunrise won that award. After that first ceremony they got rid of that category
Good list, but I have to disagree about 1967. Bonnie and Clyde should have won BP over In the Heat of the Night. --OTOH, your choice of Cool Hand Luke was notable, in that it definitely should have been a one of the five nominees. Doctor Doolittle had no business being in there at all.
oh my god I absolutely love this. Your commentary is fantastic. Absolutely dying laughing at "thank heaven for little girls". How was that ever okay hahaha
If there is one great take-away I got from this video is that FINALLY someone is brave enough to voice out loud the exact same opinion I have had about Gladiator for all these years.
I have watched both and I prefer Bong Joon-ho's social class thriller more than the anime one with a teenager and his talking alien parasyte that inhabits his right hand.
"A Man for All Seasons" is fantastic! Thomas More was a lawyer, Judge, and Chancellor of England, not a priest. But that scene you referenced might be my favorite dialogue in any movie ever. Great great writing throughout!
Mozart (for those in the audience that don't know jack about Mozart, which is probably most people) is specifically not what you'd expect. I find that to be part of the genius of the film.
The Academy's refusal to consider popular blockbusters makes the list of 80's Best Picture winners one of the weakest decades, but of all the Best Picture winners of the 80's, "Amadeus" really stands out. Incidentally, the "F" in F. Murray Abraham stands for "Fakir". He made it an initial so that he would not be stereotyped playing Arab terrorists.
When I was a little girl, my crusty musty dance teacher made us perform to thank heaven for little girls. She gave us a prop to throw, and you’ll never guess what it was… a shower puff. We threw it into the air, and the teacher warned us not get too close to the edge of the stage and fall off. And that wasn’t even the worst performance she choreographed. Thanks for making me relive that.
I love this! There are about 10 videos I rotate to fall asleep to and this is one on of them. Don't get me wrong, your work doesn't put me to sleep, but it's enjoyable to listen to. I really appreciate your sense of humor and there are some really great jokes in here. Keep up the great work and I look forward to what you will put out in the future.
Ordinary People will always hold a special place in my heart. the book was assigned to us in English class in high school and the main character Conrad deeply resonated with me. Timothy Hutton's performance as him is just magical and seeing the character come to life on screen sometimes felt like I was looking at a mirror. I know the movie isn't perfect and hasn't aged that well in some places compared to the likes of another nominee that year Raging Bull for example but it's nonetheless one of my all time favorites. Great video!
jokes aside I thought Ordinary People was a beautiful film, but if you’re going to watch it you have to really have to be emotionally prepared, nobody leaves that film with a dry eye
@@EvasiveOne The last time I rented that movie, my eyes were dry. To give credit to Robert Redford, most movie stars who direct their first film will put themselves in front of the cameras. But they played Pachebel's "Canon in D Major" WAY too many times. This film is not in the same ballpark as either "Raging Bull" or "The Empire Strikes Back."
I've always thought it was unfair how Ordinary People is treated as a poor winner simply because it perhaps beat a slightly better movie. It's a beautiful film and probably the 2nd best winner that decade after Amadeus.
Here's the list of the films she circled in red at 40:34 (for the history of cinema): Wings The broadway melody Mutiny on the bounty Gone with the wind The best years of our lives An american in paris The greatest show on earth On the waterfront Ben-hur My fair lady In the heat of the night The french connection Annie hall Amadeus Rain man Unforgiven American beauty The artist
I just want you to know how much joy it brings me that you used the weird Kingdom Hearts award ceremony at Olympus Collusem music for the title cards 😂
Me, watching a serious hour long video essay about the best picture winners: Okay yeah sure. Interesting. Me, watching this: Finally! The essentials! (Also loud laughter)
17:35 I always crack up knowing Thomas Moore is a saint, considering all the heretics he burned at the stake. Of course the church still secretly loves that lmao. 19:25 omg that one episode of Community near the end where Chang stands in front of a flag and just salutes…I miss so many film references in that show, I swear.
I don't know, I *respectfully* disagree with your hot take on "Gone With the Wind". Personally, I admire the film very much. Top to bottom, everything about it, the sets, the costumes, the enormous, ridiculously talented cast, Fleming's camera and even Selznick's insanity, the scale of the entire production, it's basically the apotheosis of everything Golden Age Hollywood was capable of at the time, executed (in my opinion) brilliantly. It certainly portrays (greatly flawed) characters who are pro-Confederacy, but I disagree with your opinion *that the film ITSELF is* pro-Confederacy. That's a pretty damning condemnation that I don't feel is warranted. These distinctions matter.
Interesting endeavour! You are very committed to pain. While the Oscars have hit the bullseye a handful of times throughout the however many decades they've been around; it's ridiculous how many truly great and original films throughout history weren't even nominated.
This video is so funny & entertaining that I can not believe it's over 40 mins long. As a film buff, you really summarized how shitty some best picture winners are
In conclusion: there are only 2 types of movies that can win best picture
1. "The most epic movie ever made"
2. Deep depression
3. And sometimes musicals
Grave of the Fireflies fuckin WRECKED me and that should have absolutely won an Oscar.
4. Biopics
@@EvasiveOne but NOT La La Land
And gay one
I still remember that time me and some friends from college wanted to go and watch The Lego Movie, but it was sold out for the day, so we watched 12 Years a Slave instead. At the end of the movie, a friend was crying like hell, and she just mumbled "I. Wanted. To. Watch. The. Lego. Movie"
The lego movie is pretty good
Everything is awesome. Except being a slave.
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haha, yeah, that's a tough watch
This happened to my friend and I, except we wanted to see Her 🤣
That was fun. I can't wait for the sequel: " I Watched Every Razzie Worst Picture Winner".
You manifested this!
@@edsterrock 😈
It would probably be an overall more fun and enjoyable experience
Look up Cinematic Excrement. He has reviewed 43 of the 46 Worst Picture winners and counting.
Dear God, don't kill her!
The fact you were able to sit through not only 200+ hours of movies, but able to watch all 2 hours of Crash makes you worthy of the Bravest RUclipsr nomination.
Um she literally just watched the trailers for like 90% of these movies. Horrible takes on every single one of the movies you can only get from watching three minutes.
@@KingofCrusherah yes these 40 second long mini talks about her random impressions from these movies are clearly meant to be serious and in depth takes.
@@KingofCrusherproof?, it's like believing that everyone who sees a movie has a deep, serious and meaningful opinion.
I read the book 3 years ago except the last 30 pages and still can't bother to finish it to this day.
I watched it in Communications class and looking back………yeah
At this point I have nothing interesting to say, I just want RUclips to think this is the kind of video that generates lots of interaction.
me as well
Same
me
Ok. Here’s some words to feed the Al go rhythm. Hopefully we can get RUclips to support more videos like this.
Same
Fun fact, actress Clara Bow (Wings) was discovered by Dorothy Arzner, one of the first female directors and also a lesbian. She and Clara were really close but it's unknown whether or not they were in a relationship. However, Arzner did invent the boom mic to help Clara be more comfortable while filming so that's pretty neat.
Lesbians...getting shit done since 1928
If it’s “unclear” than its garunteed
Jesus, lesbians are so cool
That's so nice and cool!
“That young woman fills me with hope. Plus some other emotions which are weird and deeply confusing….”
Another super depressing fact about All Quiet on the Western Front: a bunch of the actors (especially extras) were actually WWI veterans. Imagine having PTSD and then going to re-enact the situations that gave you PTSD in the first place.
Where did you hear that? Went to look it up to read more but couldn't find anything, would love to know
source?
And also, not everyone coming back from war has PTSD
@@elenasweeney982Wikipedia mentions it! See the last paragraph of the "production" section. I know the info is in some more places, though.
@@chosen666sert Wikipedia mentions it, as does a website called military history. I've come across other sources that include the information too.
What's so bad about me mentioning PTSD? I'm at no point claiming all veterans suffered from the condition. In fact, it's an anachronism for WWI soldiers; the comparable diagnosis they would have suffered from is shell shock which is slightly different anyway.
well it'd result in some great acting...
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The fact that so many of these movies have been forgotten really goes to show how the Oscars don’t matter.
As does the fact that CITIZEN KANE got snubbed.
Oscar for the best movie in 1969 was won by "Oliver!". "2001 A Space Oddissey" was not even nominated. Which is the most remembered?
Hmmm many, yes. But I'd say roundabout 50% of them are still classics.
I think the fact they won Oscar’s helps remember them.
CODA is the last one to win it and already everyone forgot about it - if they ever remembered.
I find it really interesting that in a lot of cases, the winners faded into obscurity while the nominees they won against went down in history. Like How Green Was My Valley beating Citizen Kane, Going My Way beating Gaslight, and Gentleman's Agreement beating Miracle on 34th Street, amongst many others.
Going My Way beating Gaslight AND Double Indemnity. travesty
Don’t forget:
The Apartment winning but nothing for Psycho.
The Best Years of Our Lives beating It's a Wonderful Life.
All About Eve beating Sunset Blvd.
An American in Paris beating A Streetcar Named Desire.
My Fair Lady Losing to Dr Strangelove.
Kramer v Kramer beating Apocalypse Now.
Dances With Wolves beating Goodfellas
Or even Oliver! winning and 2001: A Space Odessey being completely ignored for the award.
I think this is the majority of cases.
This is why the Golden Globes were better for years. ...Except for black people.
Just look at recent winners like Nomadland and Coda. Nobody is ever going to talk about these movies again except in a movie quiz or something.
@@osmanyousif7849 The Apartment's great, if anything it should be more popular than it is
"It also got a Netflix remake staring a real life cannibal." Was not a sentence I was prepared to hear today. This is a great video, thank you!
I immediately looked it up
The Roaring (20)20s, indeed!
Imagine if you ended this with Everything Everywhere All at Once. What a way to go out.
I knew it was gonna win as soon as I saw it I should’ve put it in 😶🌫️
Why are you every where I go?
@@gachaheart2.0 I spend way too much time WATCHING RUclips when I should be editing my own videos. 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
I always forget that there is a Crash that isn’t about car crash fetishists
About the whom?
And Cronenberg's Crash is arguably the better, and certainly more fascinating, film!
@@SoaringTrumpet
Arguably?
I remember watching Dances with Wolves in grade 9 social studies. During the sex scene someone in the class blurted out “Man, this guy’s a machine!” We all laughed. Seriously, one of my favourite movies.
All I got was The Last Emperor in middle school. And maybe Amadeus, which I recommend between the two.
I watched Chicago in high school (sixth form in the UK) music class. During that movie’s opening sex scene, someone asked the amazing question “Is he plowing her to the beat of the music?”
I need to know how far back this goes bc I’m 38 and old which apart from having spina bifida that’s why I’m in a wheelchair, and uh
I do not remember seeing this in school
At all.
Canadian, eh?
"Dances With Wolves" is underrated, although I agree with most people that in hindsight, "GoodFellas" should have won. That movie also has one of the best movie scores ever written. There's a reason why you've heard that same music used in other trailers and even in other commercials.
From this video the only thing I learned is if I just wrote down the worst moments in my life, put them into script and filmed it, Id win an Acadamy award
A 3 hour film of me lying on my back after pinching my sciatic nerve.
Reminds me of an Emile Zola's quote: if a man sat down and then writes all of his life, he would make the greatest novel ever made.
Try
That's oddly accurate
Nobody wants to watch a story without conflict (unless it’s a really funny comedy I guess).
My favourite thing about Ben Hur is that people have found things like a watch in the chariot race and just imagine filming on such a ridiculous scale and editing all of that for hours and hours just to see Steve had his watch on and you can't reshoot.
Game of Thrones Starbucks cup moment.
There’s a man in jeans in Gladiator
@@expendableindigo9639that one is even more impressive, as it means no one on set noticed, the colorists (films are recolored often), didn't notice, the editors didn't notice, the VFX artists didn't notice.
Or some noticed but couldn't get the word up the chain of command.
As fixing it would be trivial
Or it was noticed but no one cared
I went to look this up, and after viewing at it. I actually don't think it's a watch, pretty sure it's a metal bracelet that the sun hits in a way to make it look like a round watch face.
@@andreas4010 Oh, they noticed. Are YOU gonna be the one to tell Sir Scott someone (he) goofed?
Fun fact about “I’m walkin’ here!” Apparently it was an unintended line. A real cab driver actually almost ran into that actor (sorry I don’t know his name) and the reactions you see are real. It was such a good/funny scene that they decided to keep it in the movie.
Dustin Hoffman
@@INDPND That’s right! Thank you very much 👍
@@CedarBlankenship Jesus, you don’t know Dustin Hoffman…sigh
@@benskelly8892 😄 Well not personally no. I forgot it was him that delivered the line.
@@CedarBlankenship Fun fact: Try to know film history before dispensing fun facts. Google is your friend.
I was just recently thinking, why aren't there any horror movies nominated for the Oscars? and then I remembered that 'Silence of the Lambs' won multiple Oscars. But of course it's labeled as a thriller just like Aliens is called a sci-fi movie.
The exorcist was nominated but it lost
the thriller label is like the “evaluated horror” label for the 90s.
Horror is one of the most consistently successful genres and yet it gets no respect. When Exorcist was nominated, William Friedkin insisted that the nomination proved it wasn't a horror movie because horror movies don't win awards. No other genre has to insist upon itself as 'elevated' in order to be taken seriously. No one describes Rocky as an 'elevated' sports movie or Titanic as an 'elevated' romance.
Horror is like fantasy and sci-fi: when it's got the kind of message that Hollywood normally loves to give awards to, it's usually presented too abstractly or metaphorically for most Academy voters to pick up on. I'm not even much of a horror fan, but I've considered writing a horror movie simply because I had something to say that would be best expressed through bloody metaphor.
Hereditary definitely got snubbed.
For "The English Patient" I would have shown the scene from Seinfeld where Elaine is denied service at the diner for saying the movie sucked.
"You know, sex in a tub: That doesn't work!"
I remembered that bit after the video was already finished I wish I had included it 🫠
Immsure the fictional Bagged Lunch was a better film than The English Patient
What about Jerry making out with someone during Schindler's List.
coming back to rewatch this video after having seen The Fablemanns and learning that the goofy car getting hit by train scene in The Greatest Show on Earth literally traumatised young Stephen Spielberg into making films for the first time as a coping mechanism
You can see that in every decade, there are genres and types of movies that are favored at the Oscars. Like war movies in the 1940s and 1980s, musicals in the 1960s, teary relationship dramas in the 1980s.... There are genres though that rarely get nominated, like comedies, action or horror, even thrillers. Mostly it's historical or psychological dramas.
The 80s were actually all about period movies - Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Amadeus, Out of Africa, Platoon, Last Emperor, Driving Miss Daisy, Dances With Wolves. Ordinary People and Terms of Endearment aren't relationship dramas, they're about family, as is Rain Man.
And, science fiction. So much imagination and innovation is put into scifi movies, and the people at the Academy would rather nominate depressing historical movies with copies of period costumes and sets.
@@samanthacline1265 That is slowly changing. These past two years a sci-fi movie got the most nominations (Dune and EEAAO).
EDIT: Wait, I take it back, I forgot about Power of the Dog.
@@fabianhebestreit3240 I didn't hate The Power of The Dog. I think I would have enjoyed it more as a stage play than a movie. I was mad that Dune lost.
The Oscar's love costume dramas, especially if they are epic. Comedies, not so much.
The sad thing about "Cimarron" is that one of the points important to Edna Ferber's novel was that the early Oklahoma settlers like Yancey Cravat WERE a bunch of despicable racists, but the movie celebrated and reinforced the racism Ferber disparaged.
That reminds me of how they removed the bisexuality from Breakfast at Tiffany's and replaced it with.....
...you guessed it, racism.
Don't forget the many way the settlers cheated in order to get land. These people were called "sooners". So if you're wondering now why there's a college with a mascot name like that, well there's you're answer.
A minute of silence for brokeback mountain and that STOLEN OSCAR
Honestly there were much better movies that got snubbed for Oscars than that one.
Great video and fun editing/pacing!
ariana, what are you doing here
holy shit it’s the guy with the pals
oh hai there! high praise and also: agreed. great job!
"Peter... the horse is here"
Furry endorsment! Nice
WALL-E was almost a nominee for Best Picture and the fact that it wasn't is a crime against cinema
Don't forget the first Toy Story and Shrek....
I think it’s very interesting and telling that most of these winners have fallen into obscurity while the films actually considered the best of their times are nowhere to be seen
Yeah, the only one I can really think of off the tip of my tunge is Titanic, and it was already bound to be a cultural phenomenon.
American Beauty beat The Matrix. Let that sink in.
@@ChrisSmith-bh2hgThe Matrix wasn't even nominated, let that sink in.
Whenever someone asks if I can name a best picture movie I always name Crash I only remember it because it’s so bad
Here's the list of the films she circled in green at 40:30 (recommended for everyone):
It happened one night
Casablanca
All about Eve
The bridge on the river Kwai
The apartment
Westside story
The sound of music
Oliver!
Midnight cowboy
The godfather
The godfather II
One flew over the coockoo's nest
Rocky
The las emperor
Dances with wolves
Silence of the lambs
Forrest gump
Braveheart
Titanic
Chicago
Lord of the rings: the return of the king
The departed
No country for old men
Slumdog millionaire
Birdman
Moonlight
Shape of water
Parasite
To the top
Cool, which ones are the ones for film history nerds? (Red circles)
She missed On The Waterfront
Thanks, I took a picture and was trying to figure out a few of them.
Generation bias 😂😂😂
Okay, the fact that you did not take this assignment seriously at all makes it 100% better.
Hear me out: Babe should have won best picture instead of Braveheart. Yes, it WAS nominated for best picture, and YES it does still hold up.
Honestly I think it's time we had the conversation that Braveheart was the worst nominee that year. I would've voted for Sense and Sensibility personally but Babe would've been such a good winner.
George Miller of Mad Max wrote it and directed the second, of course it’s kino.
@@expendableindigo9639 I KNOW that’s my favorite fact to tell people… that and Happy Feet was directed by George Miller too! Mad Max Fury Road is so fucking good.
Also, Babe is more historically accurate then Braveheart.
Apollo 13 should have won that year... also more historically accurate. I'd have handled Babe winning, though.
“It’s a film you either love or you hate….personally I’m indifferent” I didn’t know that was an option
I giggled
@@danielapardo9776 It's a good joke, but now I can't remember which film she was talking about when she said that.
@@paulhammond6978 Birdman 37:33
Or as some may say best:
A PRODUCT OF ITS TIME.
Bong Joon Ho is such a talented filmmaker. I hate the Oscars but Parasite deserved all the praise it got.
I feel like it's actually even more bizarre that Shakespeare in Love beat not just Saving Private Ryan for best picture, but also beat out Life is Beautiful, arguably another one of the greatest movies ever made. Like how the hell do you do that
Harvey Weinstein's dirty lobbying is how you do that
Harvey Weinstein happened. Paltrow's Oscar was also a sham.
Actually that decision was because of Harvey Weinstein (yes THAT Harvey Weinstein), the producer of Shakespeare in Love, courting all of the Academy members prior to voting. Then there are all of the acceptance speeches praising Harvey. To say those speeches haven't aged well is an understatement.
SPR is incredibly overrated. Aside from the awesome battle scenes it's a dull cliche war movie.
I've had to become embarrassed over time for loving Shakespeare in Love. But I did love it at the time. Umm (Goes to watch Shakespeare in Love)
Okay, so our English teacher got reallx pissed when she found out that we watched Ghandi in History class and made us watch a movie that was super critical of Ghandi as an alternative, called Ghandi, My Father. So we got 2 end of year movies for the price of 1. Thanks, Ghandi!
you must not have been paying much attention to either movie if you can't spell Gandhi
@@SpamEggSausage 😚
As a person who only watches barbie movies, I am so happy that I can now have a conversation with my film major friends. Bless you! ❤
I actually really love Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, and think more people should watch it. It's legitimately tense and the plot twists are super interesting and yet make perfect sense
Rebecca is actually one of my favorite books and I’m happy to tell anyone that will listen that the Hitchcock movie is the best book-to-movie adaptation I’ve ever seen. It stays true to most of the the story beats and characters, but most importantly it retains the tense mood and disturbing vibes that made the book so appealing to emo 13-year-old me. Also love the gay obsession and themes of ghostly torment.
@@AndSorrowsEnd I actually just finished the book for the first time in November and I totally agree. They're both such amazing works, and I think anyone who likes one will also love the other.
True
Rebecca is one of my favorite movies of all time 😭😭
it was the first hitchcock film i watched because i played mrs danvers in a school play when i was 11 (the play was rocky monster show)
you editing police sirens into "Thank Heaven For Little Girls" had me in tears
FBI OPEN UP!!!
I figured out why you were recommended to me! Ive watched that clip at 32:43 5 times this week, just because i remembered it and now i have to hear it every 12 hours this week
Trying to watch this at 1:30am, stoned, and not laugh loudly enough to wake up my roommate is damn near impossible. I’ve laughed to the point of tears multiple times.
This is SO goddamn good. Thanks for slogging through some of the awful ones.
I am in the same boat rn cause my roommate is NOCTURNAL and I am DYING
I’ve experienced this twice now with this video.
This is absolutely relatable
I did this like 5 years ago during a 3 month university break and it nearly killed me. Just insane. Fair play for you taking this long journey
The RUclips poop type edits through me off but made me outlaid laugh every time so thank you, fantastic video!!! can't wait to watch more!
I’m SO sad that you went through the monumental task of watching all these movies and didn’t give an opinion on a huge number of them. You’re really hilarious and I would have loved to hear what you think about these classics.
I TOTALLY AGREE
Tbh I’ve gotten enough requests I might make a follow up 🤫
They are all Best Picture winners, but that does NOT necessarily mean that all of those films are "classics."
@@eddiejc1 and some of them are Not Good
@@EvasiveOne Every Best Picture Oscar Movie Reviewed in a Single Paragraph
Weird when a mountain dew commercial looks more interesting than several best picture winners.
Also, this just might be my imagination, but I thought it was those Pepsi GenerationNext's ads
I watched 41 minutes of "I don't have much to say about this" but at least I got a list of movies I can bingewatch when depressed
Yeah, big letdown.
That's the only reason I watched this jackass!
Honestly, I would have liked it if you'd said a few sentences about those movies "everybody has seen" as well. Both because I would have enjoyed hearing what you had to say about the ones I watched, and also because there were still a few in there that I hadn't watched.
Yeah, I was kinda sad about that. Cause a movie can be really popular, but she still could've disliked/hated it, and I wanted to hear that
@@psychomanatee3459 all the most popular movies i didn’t talk about I unironically loved actually, especially the musicals like Chicago
@@EvasiveOne yeah, I figured that at the end during the movies you'd recommend segment, lol. But yeah, like op said, there were still movies I didn't really know much about and would like to hear just a one sentence synopsis of it. Though, I liked the one liners like "....it's Schindler's List" and then moving on right after 😂
your comedic timing and editing and just overall style is so tailored to my tastes I am loving this
I watched this 2 times despite having a short attention span and this video being almost an hour.U are really entertaining
The Braveheart vs real Scottish accent killed me. I knew exactly what video was coming yet it still gets me EVERY time XD
It sucks knowing that Disney's Brave had better accuracy of the Scottish people. Wasn't the biggest fan of that movie but knowing that they were able to pronounce the word "freedom" far better, tells me that someone hired proper consultants.
Heck, they even got Billy Connolly for that movie and he literally breathes the country at night. Come on, Mel! You never thought to add Connolly in your film!?
For the 2010 films (as in the 2011 Oscars, god I find that confusing), it wasn’t just The King’s Speech winning that bothered me (it’s a pretty decent film, but most of the other films were much better), but it also won Best Director. There was nothing noteworthy about the directing in that film, and this was a year where excellent directors David Fincher (who is personally my favorite director), Christopher Nolan (who didn’t even get nominated, WTF), the Coen Brothers and Darren Aronofsky all had films in the Best Picture nominations. What the actual hell?
I actually think Tom Hooper has a deceptively interesting personal style as a filmmaker. He frequently frames closeups in uncommon, idiosyncratic ways, he gets pretty dynamic use out of wide-angle lenses. _Personally_ I feel he doesn't always get the recognition he deserves as a visual stylist.
That said, *I agree* Hooper is basically in possession of a Best Director Oscar that probably should have gone to Fincher or Aronofsky. Hooper's _interesting_ and capable of telling visual stories in unique ways, but he's not the cinema artist they are. And both "The Social Network" and "Black Swan", I feel, are superior films.
@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 That’s fair, and I only saw King’s Speech once so I might not be giving it the fairest assessment based off memory. I do remember thinking his directing in Les Mis was pretty great.
I will have to pass on Cats though, LOL. Even a good director couldn’t save….whatever that was IMHO.
It's probably one of those situations where people split votes on the top and favorite to win and an 'underdog' ends up winning, which is why they should get rid of the 'one vote' thing and go for a point-based list system.
@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 Hooper definitely has an interesting personal style, the problem is that it does nothing for the movies he directs. Like, both in King's Speech and Les Mis his framing frequently took me out of the movie.
"What the actual hell?"
The answer is simple---if Oscar voters generally believe that such-and-such movie is the Best Picture of the year, they will also give Best Director award to the person who made it. If you look at the instances where there is a split between Best Picture and Best Director, most of the times the director of the film that wins Best Picture was not nominated for Best Director.
I've never made a video before, but this is making me want to learn how to do it so I can talk about every single Best Documentary winner.
This video was hilarious, I appreciate all the work and hours you put into this. Instant subscription
Ben Hur being summarized as "a movie about a guy who runs into Jesus a few times" is weirdly brilliant
Damn straight
Which is all more ironic, considering the actor the previous year, played a Prophet of God.
This video is a joy. I shared it with someone when I was only halfway through with it. Please DO make more of these!
Thank you so much! 🤩
I agree with most of your thoughts but man my heart broke at the Amadeus part! IMO it's the best costume drama ever made, mostly because it has a comedic sense that others in its genre don't.
I actually liked Amadeus! But I think I need to give it another watch to fully appreciate it
@@EvasiveOne oh, glad to hear it! It’s best enjoyed on a snowy or rainy afternoon with a large mug of hot cocoa :)
@@EvasiveOneNot to be a big snooterson pooterson but I’d also reccomend giving the sting another go
Exactly my thoughts. Opinion is going to vary but for me Amadeus is so great because it's NOT the Mozart movie you expect. It's alive, funny, daring, and makes this very old story feel incredibly modern which is what so many period pieces struggle with.
I hear the theatrical cut is better than the director’s cut
This was an absolute Herculean task and boon to humanity. I was falling farther and farther behind with my watchload. The clock has been reset and I can begin not watching movies anew. Thank you!
Triple bonus points for the Bugs Bunny quote. I've been using that one every time I hear the word 'Hoboken' for the last 50 years.
Omg it's so crazy to see your username again I had a YTP channel a decade ago and talked to you in the comments a few times back then.
I vividly remember having your Special Agent Oso video on my favorites list on that old account 😳
@@EvasiveOne That's really cool to hear!
I've seen your Electric Boogaloo video as well. Both are really great. Wishing the best for your channel!
The shear disappointment when my gay ass finally got to see Midnight Cowboy. I really thought it was going to be smut, but it's mostly just sad.
I was truly not expecting to laugh so hard. You are hilarious, perfect delivery, so well done and clearly so much effort put in. I can’t wait to see more content from you!!
Watching this has made me realize just how many pre-1940s films I have seen. My film, bro dad thought movies went bad when they added color and sound. So I wasn't allowed to watch much else.
Sad
my dad loves films and shows from the 60s and older. Dark Shadows, Gilligan's Island, Doctor Who, Pippi Longstockings, I Love Lucy, et cetera
Those are the 27 movies that won Best Picture without winning Best Director:
1 - Wings by William Wellman in 1929. Wellman wasn't nominated for Best Director. The winners that year were Lewis Milestone for 2 Arabian Knights and Frank Borzage for 7th Heaven
2 - The Broadway Melody by Harry Beamount in 1930. Beaumont was nominated for Best Director but lost to Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady
3 - Cimarron by Wesley Ruggles in 1932. Ruggles was nominated for Best Director but lost to Norman Taurog for Skippy
4 - Grand Hotel by Edmung Goulding in 1932. Goulding wasn't nominated for Best Director. The winner that year was Frank Borzage for Bad Girl
5 - Mutiny on the Bounty by Frank Lloyd in 1936. Lloyd was nominated for Best Director but lost to John Ford for The Informer
6 - The Great Ziegfeld by Robert Leonard in 1937. Leonard was nominated for Best Director but lost to Frank Capra for Mr Deeds Goes to Town
7 - The Life of Emile Zola by William Dieterle in 1938. Dieterle was nominated for Best Director but lost to Leo McCarey for The Awful Truth
8 - Rebecca by Alfred Hitchcock in 1941. Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director but lost to John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath
9 - Hamlet by Laurence Olivier in 1949. Olivier was nominated for Best Director but lost to John Huston for The Treasure of Sierra Madre
10 - All the King's Men by Robert Rossen in 1950. Rossen was nominated for Best Director but lost to Joseph Mankiewicz for A Letter to 3 Wives
11 - An American in Paris by Vincente Minnelli in 1952. Minnelli was nominated for Best Director but lost to George Stevens for A Place in the Sun
12 - The Greatest Show on Earth by Cecile DeMille in 1953. DeMille was nominated for Best Director but lost to John Ford for The Quiet Man
13 - Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Anderson in 1957. Anderson was nominated for Best Director but lost to George Stevens for Giant
14 - In the Heat of the Night by Norman Jewison in 1968. Jewison was nominated for Best Director but lost to Mike Nichols for The Graduate
15 - The Godfather 1 by Francis Ford Coppola in 1973. Coppola was nominated for Best Director but lost to Bob Fosse for Cabaret
16 - Chariots of Fire by Hugh Hudson in 1982. Hudson was nominated for Best Director but lost to Warren Beatty for Reds
17 - Driving Miss Daisy by Bruce Beresford in 1990. Beresford wasn't nominated for Best Director. The winner that year was Oliver Stone for Born on the 4th of July
18 - Shakespeare in Love by John Madden in 1999. Madden was nominated for Best Director but lost to Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan
19 - Gladiator by Ridley Scott in 2001. Scott was nominated for Best Director but lost to Steven Soderbergh for Traffic
20 - Chicago by Rob Marshall in 2003. Marshall was nominated for Best Director but lost to Roman Polanski for The Pianist
21 - Crash by Paul Haggis in 2006. Haggis was nominated for Best Director but lost to Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain
22 - Argo by Ben Affleck in 2013. Affleck wasn't nominated for Best Director. The winner that year was Ang Lee for Life of Pi
23 - 12 Years a Slave by Steve McQueen in 2014. McQueen was nominated for Best Director but lost to Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity
24 - Spotlight by Tom McCarthy in 2016. McCarthy was nominated for Best Director but lost to Alejandro Iñárritu for Revenant
25 - Moonlight by Barry Jenkins in 2017. Jenkins was nominated for Best Director but lost to Damien Chazelle for La La Land
26 - Green Book by Peter Farrelly in 2019. Farrelly wasn't nominated for Best Director. The winner that year was Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
27 - CODA by Sian Heder in 2022. Heder wasn't nominated for Best Director. The winner that year was Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog
It's too bad Hitchcock never won best director, not even for Rebecca. But when he received a lifetime achievement award, he just said "thank you" and walked off, so I doubt he would've given a great speech then either.
It's not all that unusual; statistically best picture/best director go to different movies about 25% of the time.
@@troodon1096 Actually 71% of the movies that won Best Picture also won Best Director. 69 of the 96 movies that won Best Picture won Best Director
In all fairness, I think half of those movies that won Best Director were far more deserving of Best Picture.
22:45 Her recently deceased fiancé, was one of the main actors in "the deer hunter", the guy that Al Pacino kissed in godfather II (Fredo) John Cazale. Probably the actor with the highest % of Oscar winning movies of all time. 5 movies, 4 Oscars. The 5 one (The Dialog) lost against himself in godfather II.
The 5th movie is called The Conversation.
Cazale had a truly great run for an actor who was in so few movies. It no doubt helped that the early 70s was a freewheeling time in filmmaking, with a lot of great directors liberated by loosened censorship restrictions and the studios feeling they'd lost track of what would be reliably profitable so anything goes. Very talented man, lost way too young to cancer.
@@weikko79 must be a local translation
The Conversation is one of the greatest films ever made
@@gnalkherewhat?
"How Green Was My Valley" won against "Citizen Kane" and "The Maltese Falcon", "Going My Way" won against "Double Indemnity" and "Gaslight", "American Beauty" won against "The Sixth Sense", "Shakespeare in Love" won against "Elizabeth", "Life Is Beautiful" and "Saving Private Ryan"... Nuff said.
You could do that with any yearly award. Life is Beautiful sucked
American Beauty is way better than any M. Night Shyamalan movies.
@@AndySola 1999 was one of the greatest years in Hollywood history. A ton of terrific films that year.
The sixth sense is really mid.
i loved american beauty!
I'm so glad I clicked on this video because it's HILARIOUS, it's been years since I've laughed this hard because of a creator I had never even seen a video from before!
For someone like me who doesn't have the will power to watch everything but still wants to know it all, this video is gold 😂
I can't imagine the amount of hours that went into making this video! Thanks for the informative and hilarious video.
thank you!! I have to put my film degree to use somehow 😮💨
This video is anything but informative.
@@matts9064 so true bestie
@@matts9064 it's informative in the sense that she did list all the names of the movies along with the year it won the award. It didn't always have the best plot summation but now I know what they are.
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This was a delight. I mean, all your videos are, but as a former film student this one was extra hilarious. The Bugs Bunny 'Hoboken' bit is pure excellence. 🏆
GREAT video. Thank you for posting. I, too, have watched every Best Picture winner, and it's amazing that only a handful are movies I would want to rewatch. I own about half a dozen on DVD. Fingers crossed that Everything Everywhere All At Once wins for movies released in 2022!
If I was an academy voter that’s the one that would have my vote for sure 😮💨
I loved this, I can't believe it was 41 minutes. The time flew by
Thank you for sacrificing your time and energy to create this video. I laughed so hard throughout. I also agree that the Academy of Motion Pictures doesn’t know how to pick award nominees or recipients. Most of my favorite films have never been nominated.
I’m so glad this video is getting the attention it deserves. Informative, educational, AND hilarious as fuck.
Your dry humour is everything. Meaning, it’s good. And… it was a highlight of my day. Thanks for being delightfully real. 😅
Wings was a legitimately impressive movie for it's day. All those air to air dogfights and special effecta at a time when movies didn't even have speaking in them. In that context, it's still pretty impressive. Groundbreaking.
Fun fact, that "Mutiny on the Bounty" movie was based on a real life situation. If you go to Pitcairn Island today, you will be able to say "hi!" too all the descendants of Mr. Christian and Co. Also, Captain Bligh set a record for himself and the small amount of men in the rowboat for distance and survival which has not been beaten even now.
Also, for my money, the obscure, black and white, made for TV "Hamlet" with Richard Burton is hands down the best version. You can see why people respected him so much as an actor.
For Hamlet, there are also other great adaptations of Hamlet just as good as Olivier's such as Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider, Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well, Rick Moranis's and Dave Thomas's Strange Brew, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Alan Johnson's To Be or Not to Be & Roger Allers's and Rob Minkoff's The Lion King.
@@rickardkaufman3988 Yes, Strange Brew is my second favorite "Hamlet", LOL. I remember hearing that after I saw it, and saying "Oh my god!"
I need to re-watch that! SCTV people were the funniest.
@@lisathuban8969 I haven't SCTV other than I know Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy who were in it are friends who appeared in Eugene's and his son Dan Levy's show Schitt's Creek which is pretty good.
@@rickardkaufman3988 Watch some SCTV sometime on RUclips. Still holds up.
@@lisathuban8969 Now that you have mentioned it, I have only seen Taxi Driver parodies.
Amadeus is exactly what you’d expect from a Mozart movie? Wtf kind of opinion of Mozart did you have before?
I guess the most popular one
Although I liked the video overall, I do think it did a bit of disservice to that one. Amadeus is one of the few "musician biopic" movies I can think of that strays from the tired old "pre-fame -- success -- excess -- wilderness years -- redemption -- death" formula. Because it's seen from Salieri's perspective, it actually manages to make for a movie that's more clever, memorable, and meaningful than like 90% of films in that subgenre.
perhaps it has something to do with cult historical figures going "bronze" with time, so people can`t believe those were actual breathing human beings with flaws or sence of humour 🤔
26:58 giggling so hard at this ur editing is perfect
You’re gonna be one of the biggest channels next year ❤️ mark my words
Parasite is actually great. It's one of maybe three occasions when the best film of the year actually won the Oscar for best picture. I'd recommend it over most of the other films on this sad, depressing and tragic list.
(Here are some other films that didn't win a best picture A.A: Citizin Kane, The Searchers, 12 Angry Men, Vertigo, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Chinatown, Nashville, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, Blade Runner, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Fargo, The Matrix, I Could Go On....)
Fantastic job putting this together, BTW!
It's depressing than anyone thinks The Matrix deserves to be mentioned among the others on that list.
@@troodon1096 That's just like, uhh, your opinion, man.
I'd argue that Portrait of a Lady on Fire was better, but yeah, Parasite was the best one that was nominated.
I forgot about that "new york film school graduate, SUCKAAA" video kfshdgjgd i think I buried it in my memory
Here are my personal picks for Best Picture, I was inspired to create it after realizing that the Academy ignored many of my favorite movies (you'll probably disagree with many of my picks):
1927: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc
1929: Un Chien Andalou
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
1931: City Lights
1932: Freaks
1933: King Kong
1934: It Happened One Night
1935: The Informer
1936: Modern Times
1937: A Star Is Born
1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939: Gone with the Wind
1940: Rebecca
1941: Citizen Kane
1942: Casablanca
1943: Shadow of a Doubt
1944: Double Indemnity
1945: Brief Encounter
1946: It's a Wonderful Life
1947: Out of the Past
1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949: The Third Man
1950: Sunset Boulevard
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire
1952: Singin' in the Rain
1953: From Here to Eternity
1954: On the Waterfront
1955: Marty
1956: The Searchers
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958: Vertigo
1959: Ben-Hur
1960: Psycho
1961: West Side Story
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: 8½
1964: Doctor Strangelove
1965: The Sound of Music
1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1967: Cool Hand Luke
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969: Midnight Cowboy
1970: Patton
1971: A Clockwork Orange
1972: The Godfather
1973: The Exorcist
1974: The Godfather Part II
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976: Taxi Driver
1977: Star Wars
1978: The Deer Hunter
1979: Apocalypse Now
1980: Raging Bull
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983: The Right Stuff
1984: Amadeus
1985: Come and See
1986: Blue Velvet
1987: The Last Emperor
1988: Rain Man
1989: Do the Right Thing
1990: Goodfellas
1991: The Silence of the Lambs
1992: Unforgiven
1993: Schindler's List
1994 (TIE): Pulp Fiction & The Shawshank Redemption
1995: Braveheart
1996: Fargo
1997: Titanic
1998: Saving Private Ryan
1999: Fight Club
2000: Gladiator
2001: Mulholland Drive
2002: City of God
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005: Brokeback Mountain
2006: The Departed
2007: There Will Be Blood
2008: The Dark Knight
2009: District 9
2010: The Social Network
2011: Drive
2012: The Master
2013: Gravity
2014: Birdman
2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
2016: Arrival
2017: Dunkirk
2018: The Favourite
2019: Parasite
2020: Nomadland
2021: Dune
2022: Top Gun: Maverick
2023: Oppenheimer
@@EvasiveOne Thank you!
I agree with your list more than of the actual winners. I thought Sunrise and Wings tied for Best Picture?
@@picmajik at the first Oscars there was a separate category that was like “most artistic picture” or something like that and sunrise won that award. After that first ceremony they got rid of that category
Good list, but I have to disagree about 1967. Bonnie and Clyde should have won BP over In the Heat of the Night. --OTOH, your choice of Cool Hand Luke was notable, in that it definitely should have been a one of the five nominees. Doctor Doolittle had no business being in there at all.
@@picmajik No, Wings was the only Best Picture winner at the 1st Oscars ceremony.
oh my god I absolutely love this. Your commentary is fantastic. Absolutely dying laughing at "thank heaven for little girls". How was that ever okay hahaha
If there is one great take-away I got from this video is that FINALLY someone is brave enough to voice out loud the exact same opinion I have had about Gladiator for all these years.
“I have not watched Parasite yet”
“Have you watched Parasyte yet?”
I have watched both and I prefer Bong Joon-ho's social class thriller more than the anime one with a teenager and his talking alien parasyte that inhabits his right hand.
No, and never intend to.
"A Man for All Seasons" is fantastic! Thomas More was a lawyer, Judge, and Chancellor of England, not a priest. But that scene you referenced might be my favorite dialogue in any movie ever. Great great writing throughout!
But Paul Scofield won over the best performance of Richard Burton's career. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is an absolute must-see for any film fan.
Read “Wolf Hall,” and you get a wildly different take on Thomas More
28:44 I would also like to make my peace with god if it means getting upsie-daisied outta the water 😂
Mozart (for those in the audience that don't know jack about Mozart, which is probably most people) is specifically not what you'd expect. I find that to be part of the genius of the film.
The Academy's refusal to consider popular blockbusters makes the list of 80's Best Picture winners one of the weakest decades, but of all the Best Picture winners of the 80's, "Amadeus" really stands out. Incidentally, the "F" in F. Murray Abraham stands for "Fakir". He made it an initial so that he would not be stereotyped playing Arab terrorists.
It's not really an accurate portrayal of Mozart, based on what his contemporaries actually observed of him.
When I was a little girl, my crusty musty dance teacher made us perform to thank heaven for little girls. She gave us a prop to throw, and you’ll never guess what it was… a shower puff. We threw it into the air, and the teacher warned us not get too close to the edge of the stage and fall off. And that wasn’t even the worst performance she choreographed. Thanks for making me relive that.
A SHOWER PUFF im dead
I love this! There are about 10 videos I rotate to fall asleep to and this is one on of them. Don't get me wrong, your work doesn't put me to sleep, but it's enjoyable to listen to. I really appreciate your sense of humor and there are some really great jokes in here. Keep up the great work and I look forward to what you will put out in the future.
I wished it was longer, I could listen to people talk about this subject for hours. I love it 🙌
Ordinary People will always hold a special place in my heart. the book was assigned to us in English class in high school and the main character Conrad deeply resonated with me. Timothy Hutton's performance as him is just magical and seeing the character come to life on screen sometimes felt like I was looking at a mirror. I know the movie isn't perfect and hasn't aged that well in some places compared to the likes of another nominee that year Raging Bull for example but it's nonetheless one of my all time favorites. Great video!
jokes aside I thought Ordinary People was a beautiful film, but if you’re going to watch it you have to really have to be emotionally prepared, nobody leaves that film with a dry eye
@@EvasiveOne The last time I rented that movie, my eyes were dry. To give credit to Robert Redford, most movie stars who direct their first film will put themselves in front of the cameras. But they played Pachebel's "Canon in D Major" WAY too many times. This film is not in the same ballpark as either "Raging Bull" or "The Empire Strikes Back."
I've always thought it was unfair how Ordinary People is treated as a poor winner simply because it perhaps beat a slightly better movie. It's a beautiful film and probably the 2nd best winner that decade after Amadeus.
31:57 that's fair considering they cut the Bisexuality out of the story.
Here's the list of the films she circled in red at 40:34 (for the history of cinema):
Wings
The broadway melody
Mutiny on the bounty
Gone with the wind
The best years of our lives
An american in paris
The greatest show on earth
On the waterfront
Ben-hur
My fair lady
In the heat of the night
The french connection
Annie hall
Amadeus
Rain man
Unforgiven
American beauty
The artist
I just want you to know how much joy it brings me that you used the weird Kingdom Hearts award ceremony at Olympus Collusem music for the title cards 😂
every time I’ve ever watched an awards show that song was in my head I had no choice but to use it
23:22 OH MY GOD AFTER ALL THIS YEAR … I FINALLY GET WHAT MADAGASCAR MOVIE REFERENCING !
You're so real for adding that dunkaccino clip
Me, watching a serious hour long video essay about the best picture winners: Okay yeah sure. Interesting.
Me, watching this: Finally! The essentials! (Also loud laughter)
17:35 I always crack up knowing Thomas Moore is a saint, considering all the heretics he burned at the stake. Of course the church still secretly loves that lmao.
19:25 omg that one episode of Community near the end where Chang stands in front of a flag and just salutes…I miss so many film references in that show, I swear.
I don't know, I *respectfully* disagree with your hot take on "Gone With the Wind". Personally, I admire the film very much. Top to bottom, everything about it, the sets, the costumes, the enormous, ridiculously talented cast, Fleming's camera and even Selznick's insanity, the scale of the entire production, it's basically the apotheosis of everything Golden Age Hollywood was capable of at the time, executed (in my opinion) brilliantly.
It certainly portrays (greatly flawed) characters who are pro-Confederacy, but I disagree with your opinion *that the film ITSELF is* pro-Confederacy. That's a pretty damning condemnation that I don't feel is warranted. These distinctions matter.
Interesting endeavour! You are very committed to pain. While the Oscars have hit the bullseye a handful of times throughout the however many decades they've been around; it's ridiculous how many truly great and original films throughout history weren't even nominated.
This is exactly what I needed to get through my Movie Theatre Closing Shift, very on brand for me.
Police showing up at 13:43 was hilarious
this got recommended so i think it’s gonna blow up i watched the whole movie
I was not expecting this video to be as funny as it is… but you are absolutely hilarious!! I can’t wait to see what else you make in the future!
This video is so funny & entertaining that I can not believe it's over 40 mins long. As a film buff, you really summarized how shitty some best picture winners are