The worst of Oscar best
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Edward Copeland is running a fun poll at his film blog: What are the ten worst Best Picture winners of all time?
Go through the list of winners and pick your 10 least favourite. Or, to put it another way, the 10 you dislike the most — in order, with 1 the worst and 10 the 10th worst. E-mail your list to Edward (his e-mail is in the post). Make sure you list 10, no less. And make sure you only list films you’ve actually seen. The poll closes in a few days. Edward will tally and post the results.
I’ve seen all of the winners except Crash.
My list (in reverse order): Ordinary People, Million Dollar Baby, Rebecca, Chicago, The Deer Hunter, Forrest Gump, Gigi, West Side Story, Titanic, and Braveheart.
Yes, Braveheart is the worst Best Picture winner of all time. Period. (With the exception of Rebecca, note that my list includes only musicals and winners since 1978).
While we’re at it, here’s my list of the best (without really thinking about it), from 10 to 1: Dances With Wolves, It Happened One Night, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Godfather Part II, All About Eve, Schindler’s List, Chariots of Fire, The Godfather, Patton, Annie Hall.
That’s right: Annie Hall. The best of the best.
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6 Responses to “The worst of Oscar best”
Dances with Wolves? Great movie, but Goodfellas was far superior, and should have won. (Plus I think one reason Dances with Wolves is loved as much as it is is because of John Barry’s brilliant score).
I agree with you, but only about the first half of Goodfellas. The second half was quite weak in places.
Not a big fan of musicals, but West Side Story is one of the greatest musicals. Is it the way it was shot that does not appeal to you, the R&J ripoff, or what? It cannot be the music.
I’d have a few of your best on the worst: Dances With Wolves, and Schindler’s List, certainly. Titanic’s bad, but almost Rocky Horror Picture Show campy. Who hasn’t cheered when Leo’s frozen corpse sinks below the sea? But Schindler’s list- every imaginable ethnic cliche, and ever imaginable melodramatic twist: ‘Tell me I’m a good man!’ UGH! Deux!
That Crash and Brokeback Mountain, which friends have told me were Titanic messes, were the top two films this year, says alot, especially when Match Point and The New Worls were around.
A better list would be best films that never won Oscars.
This is interesting and I’m going to have to watch a few of these again plus there are some I missed. Never saw Annie Hall, but I love Diane Keaton! The Forrest Gump entry was interesting. I like to read the books from which movies are derived and Forrest Gump was absolutely the worst book I have ever read. I have no idea how such a good movie was made from such a bad book and I have no idea how someone could have read the book and thought it was worthy of the film stock!
I still love the movie!
Fred, I talke it you haven’t read Infinite Jest yet?
Sorry dude but “Titanic” was absolutely, positively the WORST best Picture winner of all time. If you are looking for wooden acting, moronic dialogue, and downright silly staging, then it has to win.
I also do not get why “Dances With Wolves” gets such a high ranking unless you really like every PC cliche ever written about Indians, soldiers, the “winning of the West ” and all that nonsense. I will say that the costumes, weapons, and other material culture in “Dances…” were dead-on accurate, but shit, you can say that about the reconstructed ship in “Titanic.” I am neither a Costner nor a Gibson fan and I honestly do not know why you think “Dances…” schmaltz so much better than “Braveheart” schmaltz?