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The Oscars Got It Wrong Every Year, Tell Me a Year and I'll Fix It (1 Viewer)

Ilov80s

Ilov80s

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Pretty simple, the Academy Awards is 0/96 on naming the actual best picture of the year*.You guys name a year anywhere between 1929 and 2024 and I'll tell you what was actually the rightful winner. Arguments and snark are welcome. Basing on the year of the award show, not the year the movie came out. So Wicked could be 2025 even though it came out in 2024.

Ok I am going to get a list here of what I've already covered with a link to the post

YEAR MY WINNER -- ACTUAL WINNER

2025 The Brutalist -- Anora




2020 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood --Parasite


2017 Dunkirk -- The Shape of Water
2016 Mad Max Fury Road -- Spotlight
2015 The Grand Budapest Hotel -- Birdman




2010 Up -- The Hurt Locker
2009 The Dark Knight -- Slumdog Millionaire
2008 There Will Be Blood -- No Country for Old Men





2002 Fellowship of the Rings -- A Beautiful Mind
2001 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -- Gladiator



1997 Fargo -- The English Patient

1995 Pulp Fiction -- Forrest Gump
1994 Jurassic Park -- Schindler's List

1992 Boyz n the Hood -- Silence of the Lambs
1991 Goodfellas -- Dances with Wolves
1990 Do the Right Thing -- Driving Miss Daisy

1988 Broadcast News -- The Last Emperor


1985 This is Spinal Tap -- Amadeus





1979 Coming Home -- The Deer Hunter
1978 Star Wars -- Annie Hall
1977 Network -- Rocky


1974 The Exorcist --The Sting
1973 Cabaret -- The Godfather
1972 McCabe and Mrs. Miller -- The French Connection
1971 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion -- Patton






1965 Dr. Strangelove -- My Fair Lady






1958 12 Angry Men -- The Bridge on the River Kwai










1947 It's a Wonderful Life -- The Best Years of Our Lives

1945 Meet Me in St. Louis -- Going My Way


1942 Citizen Kane -- How Green Was My Valley




1940 The Wizard of Oz -- Gone with the Wind



1936 Top Hat -- Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 The Thin Man -- It Happened One Night




1930 The Docks of New York -- The Broadway Melody
1929 Sunrise -- Wings
 
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1976.

I was a dumb 11 year-old kid who thought Rocky was a lock to win best picture; was not happy when Network won (because I was 11).

Have yet to watch Network.
 
Mister CIA said:
1977

I was a dumb 11 year-old kid who thought Rocky was a lock to win best picture; was not happy when Network won (because I was 11).

Have yet to watch Network.
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I have good news and bad news for you.

Good News- Rocky did win Best Picture.
Bad News- Network should have won.

Or All The President's Men. Or Taxi Driver. Loaded year and Rocky is almost a perfect movie but I think Network is an actual perfect movie. For our bicentennial, it sure was an interesting line-up. Taxi Driver told us our cities had become rotten, All the President's Men told us our politics had become criminal and Network told us the news media had become nothing more than cheap corporate entertainment. Rocky told us any dream can come true in America. That's a nice sentiment for the time to counter all the **** going on in the world but for me Network saw so far into the future and did it with a laugh. It's a fantasy that became our reality.

1977 Oscar goes to Network
 
Also because I know it can be confusing and I should have said it up front, I am going go with the year as the year of the Award show, not the year of the movie unless I feel like someone definitely made it clear which one thet actually mean but just got confused
 
Ilov80s said:
Mister CIA said:
1977

I was a dumb 11 year-old kid who thought Rocky was a lock to win best picture; was not happy when Network won (because I was 11).

Have yet to watch Network.
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I have good news and bad news for you.

Good News- Rocky did win Best Picture.
Bad News- Network should have won.

Or All The President's Men. Or Taxi Driver. Loaded year and Rocky is almost a perfect movie but I think Network is an actual perfect movie. For our bicentennial, it sure was an interesting line-up. Taxi Driver told us our cities had become rotten, All the President's Men told us our politics had become criminal and Network told us the news media had become nothing more than cheap corporate entertainment. Rocky told us any dream can come true in America. That's a nice sentiment for the time to counter all the **** going on in the world but for me Network saw so far into the future and did it with a laugh. It's a fantasy that became our reality.

1977 Oscar goes to Network
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Ha! Now that you have pointed that out, I'll bet it was best actor that had me miffed.
 
the moops said:
1991
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Actual Winner: Dances with Wolves

This is an easy one. I know it's kind of typical now to say DWW sucks and is boring. People obviously disagreed at the time. It made over $400 million dollars on it's release which adjusted for inflation probably makes it like a Spiderman movie in todays world. So people did love it at the time. I still do. It is slow and it is long but it's beautiful, tells a story not typically told and is a classy well made movie. That said Goodfellas is like being on drugs, it's insanely good. Totally untouchable.

1991 Oscar should have gone to Goodfellas.
 
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1994/5

Please, please tell me why and you don't even need to knock the movie that won. I changed the date to the release and award year.
 
Don Quixote said:
I would not oppose a slow burn thread starting in 1929 and going on.
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Actual Winner: Wings

This was the first award show and wasn't much of a big deal. Just a way to create some extra press about the movie studios. They awarded Wings, the Top Gun of it's time, the best picture and it is a worthy winner. If you've never seen it, you wont't believe the flying stunts they pull off. No CGI, heck the planes didn't even have roofs. There is a plane crash in it and I am pretty sure they did that just by literally having one of the pilots crash their plane. Real good war movie. In 1929, they also gave the movie Sunrise a special artistic award. It's just a notch better than Wings. It has a better story, innovative special effects and much better acting. This is a close race but...

1929 Oscar should have gone to Sunrise
 
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Ilov80s said:
Don Quixote said:
I would not oppose a slow burn thread starting in 1929 and going on.
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Actual Winner: Wings

This was the first award show and wasn't much of a big deal. Just a way to create some extra press about the movie studios. They awarded Wings, the Top Gun of it's time, the best picture and it is a worhty winner. If you've never seen it, you wont't believe the flying stunts they pull off. No CGI, heck the planes didn't even have roofs. Real good war movie. There is a plane crash in it and I am pretty sure they did that just by literally having one of the pilots crash their plane. In 1929, they also gave the movie Sunrise a special artistic award that year. It's just a notch better than Wings. It has a better story, innovative special effects and much better acting. This is a close race but...

1929 Oscar should have gone to Sunrise
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Alright, 100% agree.
 
Ilov80s said:
Don Quixote said:
I would not oppose a slow burn thread starting in 1929 and going on.
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Actual Winner: Wings

This was the first award show and wasn't much of a big deal. Just a way to create some extra press about the movie studios. They awarded Wings, the Top Gun of it's time, the best picture and it is a worhty winner. If you've never seen it, you wont't believe the flying stunts they pull off. No CGI, heck the planes didn't even have roofs. Real good war movie. There is a plane crash in it and I am pretty sure they did that just by literally having one of the pilots crash their plane. In 1929, they also gave the movie Sunrise a special artistic award that year. It's just a notch better than Wings. It has a better story, innovative special effects and much better acting. This is a close race but...

1929 Oscar should have gone to Sunrise
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Sunrise won an Oscar that year for "Best Unique and Artistic Picture".

It's an incredible movie and in many ways it's the apotheosis of silent cinema.
 
Ilov80s said:
the moops said:
1991
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Actual Winner: Dances with Wolves

This is an easy one. I know it's kind of typical now to say DWW sucks and is boring. People obviously disagreed at the time. It made over $400 million dollars on it's release which adjsuted for inflation probably makes it like a Spiderman movie in todays world. So people did love it at the time. I still do. It is slow and it is long but it's beautiful, tells a story not typically told and is a classy well made movie. That said Goodfellas is like being on drugs, it's insanely good. Totally untouchable.

1991 Oscar should have gone to Goodfellas.
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That was 1990
 
-fish- said:
1977
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I already did the 1977 Oscar year above but if you meant 1978 awards featuring 1977 movies like Star Wars, then lets do this.

Actual Winner: Annie Hall
I think Annie Hall is great and one of the 3 or 4 rom-coms that redefined what a rom-com could be. I don't mind it as a winner but this was Star Wars' year. Yeah it's kind of cheesy and clunky. But the impact it had on young audiences, the incredible leap forward in special effects combined with the best music yet written for a movie gave it enough special qualities to overcome it's weaknesses. Plus it was a pretty soft movie year overall IMO. Star Wars was a phenomenon not seen since Gone with the Wind.

1978 winner should have gone to Star Wars
 
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the moops said:
Ilov80s said:
the moops said:
1991
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Actual Winner: Dances with Wolves

This is an easy one. I know it's kind of typical now to say DWW sucks and is boring. People obviously disagreed at the time. It made over $400 million dollars on it's release which adjsuted for inflation probably makes it like a Spiderman movie in todays world. So people did love it at the time. I still do. It is slow and it is long but it's beautiful, tells a story not typically told and is a classy well made movie. That said Goodfellas is like being on drugs, it's insanely good. Totally untouchable.

1991 Oscar should have gone to Goodfellas.
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That was 1990
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I am pretty sure Dances with Wolves won the 1991 Award for Best Picture. But I did take an edible. I'll do 1990 since you posted that before I made my clarification.
 
Ilov80s said:
the moops said:
Ilov80s said:
the moops said:
1991
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Actual Winner: Dances with Wolves

This is an easy one. I know it's kind of typical now to say DWW sucks and is boring. People obviously disagreed at the time. It made over $400 million dollars on it's release which adjsuted for inflation probably makes it like a Spiderman movie in todays world. So people did love it at the time. I still do. It is slow and it is long but it's beautiful, tells a story not typically told and is a classy well made movie. That said Goodfellas is like being on drugs, it's insanely good. Totally untouchable.

1991 Oscar should have gone to Goodfellas.
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That was 1990
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I am pretty sure Dances with Wolves won the 1991 Award for Best Picture. But I did take an edible. I'll do 1990 since you posted that before I made my clarification.
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Yea I'm an idiot.

Do 1992 though
 
1990

Actual Winner: Driving Miss Daisy
A milquetoast movie. It's pleasant but stale. It is a good message though so that's nice and the Tandy/Freeman combo is impossible not to like. Dan Aykroyd is poorly cast. No way this should have a little gold man. There was another movie making more interesting points about race in America and that was Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. It said something about life in America. It had edge and excitement. A lot of people hate this movie but not because it's poorly made or boring. To me that is really a sign of someting significant- when it has passionate people on both ends of it. It's much better than a bland movie like Driving Miss Daisy.

1990 winner should have been Do the Right Thing
 
Eephus said:
Ilov80s said:
Don Quixote said:
I would not oppose a slow burn thread starting in 1929 and going on.
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Actual Winner: Wings

This was the first award show and wasn't much of a big deal. Just a way to create some extra press about the movie studios. They awarded Wings, the Top Gun of it's time, the best picture and it is a worhty winner. If you've never seen it, you wont't believe the flying stunts they pull off. No CGI, heck the planes didn't even have roofs. Real good war movie. There is a plane crash in it and I am pretty sure they did that just by literally having one of the pilots crash their plane. In 1929, they also gave the movie Sunrise a special artistic award that year. It's just a notch better than Wings. It has a better story, innovative special effects and much better acting. This is a close race but...

1929 Oscar should have gone to Sunrise
Click to expand...

Sunrise won an Oscar that year for "Best Unique and Artistic Picture".

It's an incredible movie and in many ways it's the apotheosis of silent cinema.
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Murnau’s cinematography was ahead of its time. I remember being a “judge” for the greatest movie draft a few years back and I gave Sunrise a pretty high score then.
 
2009 - curious to see if you get the right answer

Couple I think got it right (at least out of the nominees would have to dig deeper into films not nominated ). Note: I stopped at 1990

1991
1992
1993
1995
1999
2000
2003
2005
2006
2008
2017
 
I don't have time to research every movie released in a given year so I am only going to list years that I thought there was at least one other movie nominated for best picture that was better than the winner. I'm also limiting my list to years in which I saw every nominated movie, which I've made a point of doing since the late 80's. There are many years where I thought other contenders were comparable but not better enough than the winner to quibble.

But in these years (year of the Oscar show, not the movie's release) there was at least one other nominated movie that I thought was definitely better than the winner. So, yeah, they get it wrong a lot.

1990
1995
1997
1998
1999
2003
2004
2005
2006
2010
2011
2014
2015
2016
2018
2024
 
rockaction said:
1994/5

Please, please tell me why and you don't even need to knock the movie that won. I changed the date to the release and award year.
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1995 Oscars

Actual Winner: Forrest Gump
Following his wishes, I won't knock FG. Ive done that before and been very clear how I don't care for that movie. This is one of the best collections of actual nominees: Quiz Show, Shawshank Redemption, Four Weddings and a Funeral and my choice, Pulp Fiction. I've got Quiz Show surprisingly close in this race but Pulp is the pinnacle of the Sundance-indie movie movement of the early 90s. It's only right that a movie from that movement wins the top prize at some point in the 90s. This would have kept the Oscars more relevant with a younger, hipper crowd As for Shawshank, it was just too much of a bomb at the box office. In it's opening weekend, it barely outgrossed Quiz Show which had already been out for 6 weeks. It just didn't have the cache. It needed Blockbuster and cable to earn it's reputation.

1995 Oscar winner should have been Pulp Fiction
 
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I think a MLB all star game system would solve a lot of the wrong movie syndrome. Have public on line voting instead of a bunch of unknown stuffed shirts deciding the winners. And then Oscar night introduce the winners with their favorite walk up music.
 
-fish- said:
2020 what should have beaten out Parasite?
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I love Parasite. But in 2019 Tarantino still had not won direcctor or best picture despite being maybe the most critically, commercially and industry loved and respected film maker of his time. Here we are 6 years later and he hasn't made anything since Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and has nothing really in the works. He's given some recent interviews making it sound like he might be done or at least done for awhile. This should have been his time. I get it, earlier he was too young or too brash or whatever but this should have finally been his year he was crowned and perhaps sent off into the sunset as a king. Once Upon a Time looks fantastic, has a killer soundtrack and has more heart than any QT movie. I didn't think he had that kind of sentimentality in him. Masterwork IMO, one of the best hangout movies ever made. So much fun and the swerve at the end after building so much dread makes the final release so thrilling. Leo and Brad, Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth. Margot. It's my favorite movie of the last 10 years I think.

2020 winner should have been Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
 
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Eephus said:
Ilov80s said:
1990 winner should have been Do the Right Thing
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The People's Choice Awards went to Steel Magnolias (drama) and Look Who's Talking (comedy)

The awards for Favorite All-Around Entertainers went to Bill Cosby (male) and Roseanne Barr (female) :bag:
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The people probably did pick worse than the academy though they were right about Steel Magnolias, better movie than Driving Miss Daisy.
 
Ilov80s said:
Mister CIA said:
1977

I was a dumb 11 year-old kid who thought Rocky was a lock to win best picture; was not happy when Network won (because I was 11).

Have yet to watch Network.
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I have good news and bad news for you.

Good News- Rocky did win Best Picture.
Bad News- Network should have won.

Or All The President's Men. Or Taxi Driver. Loaded year and Rocky is almost a perfect movie but I think Network is an actual perfect movie. For our bicentennial, it sure was an interesting line-up. Taxi Driver told us our cities had become rotten, All the President's Men told us our politics had become criminal and Network told us the news media had become nothing more than cheap corporate entertainment. Rocky told us any dream can come true in America. That's a nice sentiment for the time to counter all the **** going on in the world but for me Network saw so far into the future and did it with a laugh. It's a fantasy that became our reality.

1977 Oscar goes to Network
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I really like Rocky, but Network was better. Great year for movies.
 
Pulp Fiction and Do The Right Thing are very overrated.
Wow, I'm starting to think that the Oscars got more right than you... :shrug:
 
Something that might help, instead of listing the year, you could just ask who should have won at the 31st oscars or the 92nd etc.
 
Ilov80s said:
rockaction said:
1994/5

Please, please tell me why and you don't even need to knock the movie that won. I changed the date to the release and award year.
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1995 Oscars

Actual Winner: Forrest Gump
Following his wishes, I won't knock FG. Ive done that before and been very clear how I don't care for that movie. This is one of the best collections of actual nominees: Quiz Show, Shawshank Redemption, Four Weddings and a Funeral and my choice, Pulp Fiction. I've got Quiz Show surprisingly close in this race but Pulp is the pinnacle of the Sundance-indie movie movement of the early 90s. It's only right that a movie from that movement wins the top prize at some point in the 90s. This would have kept the Oscars more relevant with a younger, hipper crowd As for Shawshank, it was just too much of a bomb at the box office. In it's opening weekend, it barely outgrossed Quiz Show which had already been out for 6 weeks. It just didn't have the cache. It needed Blockbuster and cable to earn it's reputation.

1995 Oscar winner should have been Pulp Fiction
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Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption fall into the category of "yeah, I'll watch that if its on". Forrest Gump does not fall into that category for me.
 
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