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

[Ilov80s]

1946/7 because I know how much ilov80s lovs The Best Years of Our Lives

1947

You are corect that I lov The Best Years of Our Lives. It is one of the best movies ever made. Anyone not familiar, it's about 3 WW2 veterans returning home and dealing with the emotional, social and physical damage. It just so happens that another movie I lov is also among the best ever made and was nominated for best picture in 1947. It's one of the most beloved cultural treasures we have.

The 1947 Academy Award should have gone to It's a Wonderful Life

 

[mr. furley]

Pulp Fiction and Do The Right Thing are very overrated.
Wow, I'm starting to think that the Oscars got more right than you...

you're wrong and you should feel bad

 

[Ilov80s]

1935 awards - It Happened One Night year

It Happened One Night has 2 glamorous leads, sparkling dialogue, zany jokes and a feisty love affair but... what if we added a couple dozen martinis, guns and a murder mystery? Plus an adorably mischievious dog. Oh and let's set it over the holidays. How can that not be better? It's definitely better.

1935's Best Picture should have been The Thin Man

 

[Eephus]

The 1947 Academy Award should have gone to It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life would have won the People's Choice Award.

I'd go with Notorious. Only one Hitchcock film ever won Best Picture, Rebecca in 1941 but Notorious is a much better movie. It also turned out to be more indicative of where the post WWII world was headed than Best Years or Wonderful Life.

 

[Don Quixote]

Alright, I know you love Amadeus. Tell me why it did not deserve to win.

 

[Ilov80s]

2017 Films.

Edit: been day drinking

Actual Winner: The Shape of Water

Baffling choice by the Academy here. Especially in such a strong movie year. Lady Bird, Dunkirk, The Florida Project, Call Me By Your Name, Phantom Thread, Get Out. Take your pick.

And the Oscar should have gone to Dunkirk

 

[Eephus]

And the Oscar should have gone to Dunkirk

The People's Choice Awards went to Finding Dory (favorite movie), Deadpool (action), Me Before You (drama), The Girl on the Train (Thriller) and Bad Moms (comedy).

 

[Dan Lambskin]

2017 Films.

Edit: been day drinking

Actual Winner: The Shape of Water

Baffling choice by the Academy here. Especially in such a strong movie year. Lady Bird, Dunkirk, The Florida Project, Call Me By Your Name, Phantom Thread, Get Out. Take your pick.

And the Oscar should have gone to Dunkirk

 

[Ilov80s]

Would love to hear the argument for 1972

Actual Winner: The French Connection

There is actually a different gritty bleak violent movie I prefer for 1972. Leonard Cohen soundtrack. Warren Beatty' in the most amazing fur coat I've ever seen. Julie Christie (is there a single woman in all of The French Connection?). Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller should have won. The Oscars really have had a blindspot for westerns and this helps fix that. And it's so genius the way the actual set is being built as the movie is being filmed with all the workers in period costumes to give the ultimate sense of realism to a new frontier town going up.

And the 1972 winner should have been McCabe and Mrs. Miller

 

[opensourcebeer]

2017 Films.

Edit: been day drinking

Actual Winner: The Shape of Water

Baffling choice by the Academy here. Especially in such a strong movie year. Lady Bird, Dunkirk, The Florida Project, Call Me By Your Name, Phantom Thread, Get Out. Take your pick.

And the Oscar should have gone to Dunkirk

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,, Missouri is my pick here.

It's a masterfully told story with an ending open to interpretation. Acting is top notch.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

Would love to hear the argument for 1972

Actual Winner: The French Connection

There is actually a different gritty bleak violent movie I prefer for 1972. Leonard Cohen soundtrack. Warren Beatty' in the most amazing fur coat I've ever seen. Julie Christie (is there a single woman in all of The French Connection?). Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller should have won. The Oscars really have had a blindspot for westerns and this helps fix that. And it's so genius the way the actual set is being built as the movie is being filmed with all the workers in period costumes to give the ultimate sense of realism to a new frontier town going up.

And the 1972 winner should have been McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Ok. You and Wiki arent on the same page here
If You have French Connection as 1972

Can we do 1973 (The Godfather) and 1992 (Silence of the Lambs)?
They look like ones the Academy got right.
Cant see a decent argument for any of the others in 1992
Bugsy, Prince of Tide Pods, JFKFC and Beauty and the Beast cant hold a candle to Lambs

 

[Eephus]

And the 1972 winner should have been McCabe and Mrs. Miller

This was before the People's Choice Awards but the box office leaders were The Summer of '42, Fiddler on the Roof and Billy Jack (depending on which source you use)

 

[Ilov80s]

2017 Films.

Edit: been day drinking

Actual Winner: The Shape of Water

Baffling choice by the Academy here. Especially in such a strong movie year. Lady Bird, Dunkirk, The Florida Project, Call Me By Your Name, Phantom Thread, Get Out. Take your pick.

And the Oscar should have gone to Dunkirk

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,, Missouri is my pick here.

It's a masterfully told story with an ending open to interpretation. Acting is top notch.

I say this with all love because we’re just talking about movies so it’s not important but I can’t stand that movie.

 

[Ilov80s]

Would love to hear the argument for 1972

Actual Winner: The French Connection

There is actually a different gritty bleak violent movie I prefer for 1972. Leonard Cohen soundtrack. Warren Beatty' in the most amazing fur coat I've ever seen. Julie Christie (is there a single woman in all of The French Connection?). Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller should have won. The Oscars really have had a blindspot for westerns and this helps fix that. And it's so genius the way the actual set is being built as the movie is being filmed with all the workers in period costumes to give the ultimate sense of realism to a new frontier town going up.

And the 1972 winner should have been McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Ok. You and Wiki arent on the same page here
If You have French Connection as 1972

Can we do 1973 (The Godfather) and 1992 (Silence of the Lambs)?
They look like ones the Academy got right.
Cant see a decent argument for any of the others in 1992
Bugsy, Prince of Tide Pods, JFKFC and Beauty and the Beast cant hold a candle to Lambs

French Connection came out in 1971 but it won the 1972 award. It’s always a year off like that. However I’m using the Oscar Ceremony year because there’s a few times where the awarded time period actually stretches over a longer period of the than just the year before. For example during COVID they changed some of the deadline dates.

 

[Ilov80s]

But me hating a movie doesn’t mean it’s undeserving. Like I said with Do the Right Thing, having people strongly hate a movie is probably more of a sign of value than everyone thinking something was pretty good.

 

[AAABatteries]

1974

Sounds like they got it right. I win!

 

[whoknew]

Pulp Fiction and Do The Right Thing are very overrated.
Wow, I'm starting to think that the Oscars got more right than you...

I think folks don’t appreciate how funny Forrest Gump is.

Bubba - “You ever been on a real shrimp boat?”

Forrest - “No. Been on a real big boat, though.”

 

[Ilov80s]

1974

Actual Winner: The Sting

Oh this is a tough one for me to choose. I like The Sting a lot, it's just so much fun. It does have the slight flaw of just being a magic trick. All of the entertainment of the movie is in it's tricks and manipulations. Watching Redford and Newman pull them off with that juanty score is great fun but maybe not worthy of being the best. Day for Night won Best Foreign Film that year and I certainly have that in consideration. I love American Graffiti and think that was a groundbreaking movie. I am even tempted to say there was another depression era movie that was better than The Sting: Paper Moon. That has more charm and heart than The Sting and the 2 leads are every bit as great. However, I think the Oscars have treated horror movies quite horribly. The horror genre has never gotten the respect it deserves. A top level horror movie brings all the entertainment, emotional release and social commentary that a period piece or crime thriller can. Maybe even more. There is no doubt The Exorcist is scary, disturbing, perfectly made. It's one of the peaks of one of the most popular genres and deserves the highest honor.

1974 Best Picture should have been The Exorcist

 

[Andy Dufresne]

2017 Films.

Edit: been day drinking

Actual Winner: The Shape of Water

Baffling choice by the Academy here. Especially in such a strong movie year. Lady Bird, Dunkirk, The Florida Project, Call Me By Your Name, Phantom Thread, Get Out. Take your pick.

And the Oscar should have gone to Dunkirk

It's not baffling at all. The Academy loves to think they speak truth to power.

It's why The Brutalist is a so a shoo in this year. (Although unlike the recent past, this actually sounds like a decent movie.)

 

[Ilov80s]

1936

Actual Winner: Mutiny on the Bounty

Wikipedia says this is the first year the Aacdemy Awards were called The Oscars. Mutiny on the Bounty rocks, I would put it on a shortlist of 1930s movies I would suggest to someone who hasn't seen many old movies. However, I am going to give the nod to Top Hat. It's without a doubt the best Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie- a truly great screwball comedy on top of being a musical featuring two of the best dancers to ever make movies. The Academy has a very mixed track record on which musicals to award and a history of negelcting comedies. A win for Top Hat helps fix both those issues.

And the 1936 Oscar goes to Top Hat

 

[Ilov80s]

2017 Films.

Edit: been day drinking

Actual Winner: The Shape of Water

Baffling choice by the Academy here. Especially in such a strong movie year. Lady Bird, Dunkirk, The Florida Project, Call Me By Your Name, Phantom Thread, Get Out. Take your pick.

And the Oscar should have gone to Dunkirk

It's not baffling at all. The Academy loves to think they speak truth to power.

It's why The Brutalist is a so a shoo in this year. (Although unlike the recent past, this actually sounds like a decent movie.)

They do as long as it's not too radical. They do have a window of tolerance (though that moves generation to generation as I guess we all do). It just seems like Get Out or Call Me By Your Name could have delivered big social messages with better movies. And when you see The Brutalist, I dont think you will consider it a speaking truth to power kind of movie. It's actually a pretty difficult movie to figure out (message wise, not plot wise).

 

[Mr. Mojo]

OK, I was probably overly critical so I'll play along.
Which 2014 film year awarded in 2015 should have won.

 

[Ilov80s]

2020 winner should have been Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

over Joker and JoJo Rabbit? I liked all 3 films but I feel like Joker was really good. I think some might argue the irishman.

Jojo Rabbit was really funny. I know that it's a controversial movie or others don't like it because it's too cute. I was a big fan, thought it was one of the funnier movies in awhile. It is definitely in the conversation. I thought The Joker was quite bad. I didn't like anything about it.

 

[Ilov80s]

OK, I was probably overly critical so I'll play along.
Which 2014 film year awarded in 2015 should have won.

2015

Actual WInner: Birdman

I thought it was ok but it's the kind of pretentious industry obsessed oddity that turns people off from the awards. Yeah it's a cool experiment making it look like it was almost all 1 take but is that enough to make if the best movie? Nope. The other favorite that year Boyhood which was an incredible experiment but I don't think that experiment came togehter to make the best movie. Whiplash is excellent but I think 2015 was the time to honor one of the most interesting and idiosyncratic auteuers of a generation. If the Academy wanted to pay tribute to movies as art at least do it with an artist who can also entertain an audience. The Grand Budapest Hotel is Wes Anderson's most complete movie because it channels his specific aestethic into a vehicle with mass appeal.

2015 Best Picture should gone to The Grand Budapest Hotel

 

[the moops]

What shiould have won instead of Silence of the Lambs?

 

[Alex P Keaton]

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

This was the first year I was old enough to truly hate the Academy for making such horrible decisions

 

[Alex P Keaton]

1935 awards - It Happened One Night year

It Happened One Night has 2 glamorous leads, sparkling dialogue, zany jokes and a feisty love love affair but... what if we added a couple dozen martinis, guns and a murder mystery? Plus an adorably mischievious dog. Oh and let's set it over the holidays. How can that not be better? It's definitely better.

1935's Best Picture should have been The Thin Man

Two great films. It Happened One Night is a great rom com, probably the earliest one I’m aware of enjoying.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

2017 Films.

Edit: been day drinking

Actual Winner: The Shape of Water

Baffling choice by the Academy here. Especially in such a strong movie year. Lady Bird, Dunkirk, The Florida Project, Call Me By Your Name, Phantom Thread, Get Out. Take your pick.

And the Oscar should have gone to Dunkirk

Should have been Get Out. Easy choice.

 

[Scoresman]

What shiould have won instead of Silence of the Lambs?

This is what I want to know. As long as I've been alive I don't feel like there was a clearer Best Picture in a given year than this.

 

[Ilov80s]

What shiould have won instead of Silence of the Lambs?

1992

Silence of the Lambs winning is a bizarre outlier. It's a graphic serial killer horror movie. The lead actor who wins the award is barely in it. It was basically a February dump release, nobody thought it had big award potential. It received a lot of protest for it's portrayal of a transexual killer. So the fact it did win so big is a strange occurence. Bugsy was the movie that historically it seems like the Oscars would have rewarded- it won at the Golden Globes. So the Oscars at least avoided that horrible mistake as Bugsy is such an average movie. T2 has a lot going for it but the story and themes don't quite hold up to the first. And the lead kid is kind of annoying. So that leaves me with a movie that's entertaining, progressive and rich: Boyz n the Hood. Silence of the Lambs is a perfect movie and one that will live forever untethered to any time. Boyz n the Hood is the movie for 1991-92. March 3rd 1991, Rodney King was beated by LAPD. July 2 1991, Boyz n the Hood is released. March 29, 1992 the 64th Academy Awards air. April 29, 1992 the LAPD officers are found not guilty and the city erupts in violence. Boyz was a movie written and directed by a 24 year old who was putting the camera and microphones onto the pulse of American cities for all to see.

The 1992 winner should for Best Picture should have been Boyz n the Hood

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

What shiould have won instead of Silence of the Lambs?

For me, the only other possible choice is Boyz N the Hood. It's a close call for me.

 

[Ilov80s]

Alright, I know you love Amadeus. Tell me why it did not deserve to win.

1985

Funny Amadeus and A Passage to India both got 11 nominations. The Academy sure does love a period drama. But what about comedy? Not so much. 1984 gave us the movie that changed comedy forever with the mockumentry send up of England's loudest bamd, This is Spinal Tap. The genius of it is that if you didn't know what you were watching, you very well may have never realized it was about a fake band. They said Ozzy saw it and had no idea Spinal Tap wasn't real. He didn't get the joke and hated the movie. This is the perfect send up of rock's first 20 years. Great songs, tons of awesome guest appearances and some of the most memorable bits of any comedy. The Oscars handling of comedies has been a joke but an award for Spinal Tap would have helped fix that record. It's pretty much a flawless comedy and has held up perfectly. That's almost impossible to do.

and the 1985 Oscar should have gone to This is Spinal Tap

 

[Mister CIA]

1974

Actual Winner: The Sting

Oh this is a tough one for me to choose. I like The Sting a lot, it's just so much fun. It does have the slight flaw of just being a magic triick. All of the entertainment of the movie is in it's tricks and manipulations. Watching Redford and Newman pull them off with that juanty score is great fun but maybe not worthy of being the best. Day for Night won Best Foreign Film that year and I certainly have that in consideration. I love American Graffiti and think that was a groundbreaking movie. I am even tempted to say there was another depression era movie that was better than The Sting: Paper Moon. That has more charm and heart than The Sting and the 2 leads are every bit as great. However, I think the Oscars have treated horror movies quite horribly. The horror genre has never gotten the respect it deserves. A top level horror movie brings all the entertainment, emotional release and social commentary that a period piece or crime thriller can. Maybe even more. There is no doubt The Exorcist is scary, disturbing, perfectly made. It's one of the peaks of one of the most popular genres and deserves the highest honor.

1974 Best Picture should have been The Exorcist

Tubular!

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

We havent done the Godfather yet

 

[MAC_32]

What shiould have won instead of Silence of the Lambs?

1992

Silence of the Lambs winning is a bizarre outlier. It's a graphic serial killer horror movie. The lead actor who wins the award is barely in it. It was basically a February dump release, nobody thought it had big award potential. It received a lot of protest for it's portrayal of a transexual killer. So the fact it did win so big is a strange occurence. Bugsy was the movie that historically it seems like the Oscars would have rewarded- it won at the Golden Globes. So the Oscars at least avoided that horrible mistake as Bugsy is such an average movie. T2 has a lot going for it but the story and themes don't quite hold up to the first. And the lead kid is kind of annoying. So that leaves me with a movie that's entertaining, progressive and rich: Boyz n the Hood. Silence of the Lambs is a perfect movie and one that will live forever untethered to any time. Boyz n the Hood is the movie for 1991-92. March 3rd 1991, Rodney King was beated by LAPD. July 2 1991, Boyz n the Hood is released. March 29, 1992 the 64th Academy Awards air. April 29, 1992 the LAPD officers are found not guilty and the city erupts in violence. Boyz was a movie written and directed by a 24 year old who was putting the camera and microphones onto the pulse of American cities for all to see.

The 1992 winner should for Best Picture shoyld have been Boyz n the Hood

This is the first one I'm veering against you.

 

[Ilov80s]

We havent done the Godfather yet

1973

This is a pretty easy one for me though probably not a big crowd pleasing answer here. You don't have to look too hard. The Godfather didn't win the most awards at the 1973 show. There is a movie that won best director, actress, supporting actor, music, sound, art direction, cinematography and editing. It is the only movie to ever win 8 awards and not get Best Picture. So it was kind of an anomaly that Bob Fosse's Cabaret didn't win Best Picture in the actual show. This is the musical I recommend to people who don't think they like musicals. It's got a kind of messy 70s independent drama going on about young somewhat wayward people trying to find their way through life and relationships- lots of sex, drugs and bad decisions. All but 1 one of the musical numbers are set inside the club so this isn't a movie where people at the grocery store just start singing and dancing. Then the final and key element is that this all takes place in early 1930s Germany as the Weimar Republic is crumbling and the NAZIs are taking control of the country. This movie will entertain you but it will also terrify you. It is a dark dark movie and one that has unfortunately aged all too well.

Sorry Godfather, I love you but the 1973 Best Picture was Cabaret.

 

[Ilov80s]

2009 - curious to see if you get the right answer

Actual Winner: Slumdog Millionaire

For me the 2000s are maybe the worst era. Slumdog was entertaining. Everyone got very excited about it when it was released but it fell out of consciousness pretty quickly. It's not a movie anyone really talks about today. I personally like Frost/Nixon, Revolutionary Road and In Bruges the most. But I think Best Picture should ultimately be an award that highlights all that movies have to offer and be about movies that people love- not just movies that have deep statements or are pretentious (though there is a place for that too). There is no doubt comic book moves are a key part of modern Hollywood so it would have made sense for The Dark Knight to be the comic book movie that received the high honor from the Academy. I that was the most entertaining movie of the year. Though, if I had been in charge all a long and rewarded Nolan here, I would have chosen Lady Bird or Get Out for 2018 instead.

2009 Oscar should have gone to The Dark Knight

 

[Mr. Mojo]

OK, I was probably overly critical so I'll play along.
Which 2014 film year awarded in 2015 should have won.

2015

Actual WInner: Birdman

I thought it was ok but it's the kind of pretentious industry obsessed oddity that turns people off from the awards. Yeah it's a cool experiment making it look like it was almost all 1 take but is that enough to make if the best movie? Nope. The other favorite that year Boyhood which was an incredible experiment but I don't think that experiment came togehter to make the best movie. Whiplash is excellent but I think 2015 was the time to honor one of the most interesting and idiosyncratic auteuers of a generation. If the Academy wanted to pay tribute to movies as art at least do it with an artist who can also entertain an audience. The Grand Budapest Hotel is Wes Anderson's most complete movie because it channels his specific aestethic into a vehicle with mass appeal.

2015 Best Picture should gone to The Grand Budapest Hotel

I didn't like Birdman at all and think it might be the weakest film to ever get Best Picture. Even weaker than Around The World in 80 Days and Out Of Africa.
I really did enjoy Grand Budapest so I'm good with your pick.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

OK, I was probably overly critical so I'll play along.
Which 2014 film year awarded in 2015 should have won.

2015

Actual WInner: Birdman

I thought it was ok but it's the kind of pretentious industry obsessed oddity that turns people off from the awards. Yeah it's a cool experiment making it look like it was almost all 1 take but is that enough to make if the best movie? Nope. The other favorite that year Boyhood which was an incredible experiment but I don't think that experiment came togehter to make the best movie. Whiplash is excellent but I think 2015 was the time to honor one of the most interesting and idiosyncratic auteuers of a generation. If the Academy wanted to pay tribute to movies as art at least do it with an artist who can also entertain an audience. The Grand Budapest Hotel is Wes Anderson's most complete movie because it channels his specific aestethic into a vehicle with mass appeal.

2015 Best Picture should gone to The Grand Budapest Hotel

I didn't like Birdman at all and think it might be the weakest film to ever get Best Picture. Even weaker than Around The World in 80 Days and Out Of Africa.
I really did enjoy Grand Budapest so I'm good with your pick.

Weaker than Crash? Or Driving Miss Daisy? In fairness all of the aforementioned were appalling instances of the Academy getting it massively wrong.

 

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[Todem]

1994 should have been The Shawshank Redemption.

Tell me you don't always watch it when it's on tv vs Forrest Gump which I never watch over and over and over.

They blew this badly.

 

[Ilov80s]

1994 should have been The Shawshank Redemption.

Tell me you don't always watch it when it's on tv vs Forrest Gump which I never watch over and over and over.

They blew this badly.

Was an interesting lineup. Pulp Fiction was obviously the cool kid movie. It changed movies going forward and that poster ended up in every dorm room wall for 25 years. Inventive, cool, iconic. Shawshank was beloved by everyone who saw it but that wasn’t many people. It was an absolute bomb at the box office. It was 95 at the box office that year just ahead of Richie Rich and behind Monkey Trouble which was about a pet monkey becoming a trained pick pocket. Meanwhile Forrest Gump was a phenomenon making 20x the amount of money as Shawshank. We as a country were watching Gump and saying all the lines in our dumb voices (sorry to all the Jennies of the world) and listening to the soundtrack and that wasn’t enough so they started opening Forrest Gump themed restaurants.

 

[Todem]

1994 should have been The Shawshank Redemption.

Tell me you don't always watch it when it's on tv vs Forrest Gump which I never watch over and over and over.

They blew this badly.

Was an interesting lineup. Pulp Fiction was obviously the cool kid movie. It changed movies going forward and that poster ended up in every dorm room wall for 25 years. Inventive, cool, iconic. Shawshank was beloved by everyone who saw it but that wasn’t many people. It was an absolute bomb at the box office. It was 95 at the box office that year just ahead of Richie Rich and behind Monkey Trouble which was about a pet monkey becoming a trained pick pocket. Meanwhile Forrest Gump was a phenomenon making 20x the amount of money as Shawshank. We as a country were watching Gump and saying all the lines in our dumb voices (sorry to all the Jennies of the world) and listening to the soundtrack and that wasn’t enough so they started opening Forrest Gump themed restaurants.

The Oscars are a joke to begin with to me…..but so many more obscure films have been winning and this was an obscure film that to this day has outlived the others (Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump) in the pantheon of great movies.

Don’t get me wrong…..I really like Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction

Shawshank just slays them IMO.

 

[Don Quixote]

Since you fixed the first Academy Awards, let’s go with the 2nd (ceremony held in 1930). (I have a couple of foreign films in mind myself, but unsure how they qualify.)

 

[Ilov80s]

Since you fixed the first Academy Awards, let’s go with the 2nd (ceremony held in 1930). (I have a couple of foreign films in mind myself, but unsure how they qualify.)

I am wondering if I should just do a general countdown or list now. I was just bored and winging it when I posted this. I see the one little issue going out of order is if I have Pulp Fiction the Oscar then I don’t think with that new alternate history, I would also give Once Upon a Time the award. Should this just be a vacuum look at each year or a total reimagining of the entire timeline.

 

[Joey Wright]

1994 should have been The Shawshank Redemption.

Tell me you don't always watch it when it's on tv vs Forrest Gump which I never watch over and over and over.

They blew this badly.

I will agree with you on Gump should have lost... Shawshank would have been my second choice. Pulp Fiction set a course for cinema for the next three decade. EIther of those would have been the better choice... heck I'd pick Quiz Show over Gump.

 

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I'll just say... you are all LUCKY I am hosting this because I'd mop the floor! Haha. Just kidding.

Should be a fun show tonight. Oscars knowledge with a slight slant to this year's nominees but knowing the past will come in handy as well!!! See you at 9 PM/ET!

 

[Don Quixote]

Since you fixed the first Academy Awards, let’s go with the 2nd (ceremony held in 1930). (I have a couple of foreign films in mind myself, but unsure how they qualify.)

I am wondering if I should just do a general countdown or list now. I was just bored and winging it when I posted this. I see the one little issue going out of order is if I have Pulp Fiction the Oscar then I don’t think with that new alternate history, I would also give Once Upon a Time the award. Should this just be a vacuum look at each year or a total reimagining of the entire timeline.

Do whatever you want to do.

I found some file I started about five years ago where I started doing the same in some time waster before lost interest. I apparently had La Passion de Joanne d’Arc with Sunrise my runner-up for the first Academy Awards. I’ve got no idea what the Academy rules in place would have been on qualification for Passion though, as it looks like first released in Denmark and then France several months later (Denmark release puts it in the timeframe of the 1st Academy Awards, and France release date in the timeframe for the 2nd).

 

[Ilov80s]

Since you fixed the first Academy Awards, let’s go with the 2nd (ceremony held in 1930). (I have a couple of foreign films in mind myself, but unsure how they qualify.)

I am wondering if I should just do a general countdown or list now. I was just bored and winging it when I posted this. I see the one little issue going out of order is if I have Pulp Fiction the Oscar then I don’t think with that new alternate history, I would also give Once Upon a Time the award. Should this just be a vacuum look at each year or a total reimagining of the entire timeline.

Do whatever you want to do.

I found some file I started about five years ago where I started doing the same in some time waster before lost interest. I apparently had La Passion de Joanne d’Arc with Sunrise my runner-up for the first Academy Awards. I’ve got no idea what the Academy rules in place would have been on qualification for Passion though, as it looks like first released in Denmark and then France several months later (Denmark release puts it in the timeframe of the 1st Academy Awards, and France release date in the timeframe for the 2nd).

part of the reason I didn’t just jump into it full steam was not sure anyone cared much for my opinion on decades pre 70s but I do like the overall idea and maybe will tool around with that. If doing so, I already have 1 or 2 choices I made here I would adjust.

I like your pick of Passion of Joan of Arc. It’s better than Sunrise or Wings or just about any movie ever made. The Oscars were a Hollywood invention intended to promote Hollywood. So makes sense to honor Hollywood studio movies, especially early on. But I’ll look at the 2nd award show and see.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

Since you fixed the first Academy Awards, let’s go with the 2nd (ceremony held in 1930). (I have a couple of foreign films in mind myself, but unsure how they qualify.)

I am wondering if I should just do a general countdown or list now. I was just bored and winging it when I posted this. I see the one little issue going out of order is if I have Pulp Fiction the Oscar then I don’t think with that new alternate history, I would also give Once Upon a Time the award. Should this just be a vacuum look at each year or a total reimagining of the entire timeline.

I am wondering if most agreeable to least agreeable might work as a rundown?
Cant start the other way round.
But if you have too many pre 1960 movies, its gonna be fairly quiet.

It was a good idea though.