[Maul of America] And the Winner Isn't
- From: GCCR <robustoman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: maulofamerica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:18:00 -0500 (EST)
Aside from it being a three hour extravaganza/love fest for limousine
driving Liberals (grin), one of the main reasons I don't watch the
Academy Awards is that my favorite movies are not often represented.One
of these days, I'm going to do a study to correlating films which have
won "Best Picture" Oscars and compare that to the list of films which
have "stood the test of time" (whatever that means).For instance, in
1941, Citizen Kane, generally viewed as the "best picture of all time"
on multiple lists, actually LOST to How Green Was My
Valley.Filmsite.org has an interesting list of "Best Pictures Not
Nominated for Best Picture."I culled a quick list of winners from
the "Best Picture" category for the last fifty years along with more
deserving flicks (in my opinion, of course) from the same year.
- 1950: All About Eve WON, The Asphalt Jungle NOT nominated
- 1956: The Searchers WASN'T nominated - Around the World in 80 Days won
- 1957: Vertigo, Touch of Evil NOT nominated - Gigi won
- 1959: Ben Hur BEAT Anatomy of a Murder
- 1964: My Fair Lady beat Dr. Strangelove
- 1976: Rocky beat Taxi Driver (close call)
- 1961: West Side Story beat The Hustler
- 1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey NOT nominated - Oliver! (what's up with
all the musicals winning anyway?)
- 1970: Patton beat MASH, Five Easy Pieces and Love Story (well, okay,
they got it right in that year!)
- 1979: Kramer vs. Kramer beat Apocalypse Now and Breaking Away
- 1980: Ordinary People BEAT Raging Bull
- 1982: ET nominated (didn't win) but Blade Runner wasn't nominated
- 1990: Dances with Wolves (zzzz) won beating GoodFellas AND The
Godfather Part 3 (horrid) was nominated BUT Miller's Crossing WASN'T
- 1997: Titanic won (nuff said)
- 1998: Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan
- 1999: American Beauty (argh) beat The Sixth Sense
- 2001: Gladiator won...Memento NOT nominated
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Posted By GCCR to Maul of America at 2/24/2007 03:19:00 PM
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