Posted on 02/05/2017 12:02:40 PM PST by EveningStar
Winning the best picture Oscar doesn't just signal that a movie is regarded by Hollywood as the top achievement in the medium for the year; it can help cement a movie's status, with past winners that have gone on to become classics like "The Godfather," "Lawrence of Arabia," and "On the Waterfront."
But the Academy voters don't always get it right. Tucked away in the 88 years of Oscar ceremonies are best picture winners that quickly vanished from the zeitgeist, never to be heard from again. That's often because they weren't as good as originally thought.
It's probably too early to say which of the nine best picture nominees in 2017 -- including critical favorites "La La Land," "Moonlight," and "Manchester by the Sea" -- will live on in our memories, but here's hoping the Academy doesn't screw this one up when the Oscars air February 26.
Here we look back on the 10 most disappointing best picture winners and choose the nominees that should have won:
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1984
What did win: Terms of Endearment
What should have won: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
And who's gotten something for the dues they paid also matters. Hollywood doesn't mind giving out acting Oscars multiple times to Katharine Hepburn or Meryl Streep, but they are stingy with giving away Best Picture or Best Director Oscars to somebody who's already won them.
The political angle also matters. If The Hurt Locker has already won, don't look to Zero Dark Thirty to win a couple of years down the road: Hollywood doesn't want to appear too pro-American.
Brokeback mountain. Isn’t that the movie where one cowboy sais to the other...”Corn? When did you eat corn?”
#BoycottOscars
Titanic” (1997)
SHOULD HAVE WON: “L.A. Confidential
Rollo Tomasi approves this one.
Titanic: I think I ticked off a few folks who heard me say “Jeez, just SINK already!”
Including the missus. :)
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Well, I agree about The Ten Commandments and Goodfellas. But some of his picks are pretty stupid, and Brokeback Mountain took the whole country down the drain with it.
“And “Pollack” was unforgettable while the winner “Gladiator “ was not.”
Blasphemy.
Never saw Broke Butt Mountain and never will. The homonazis use Hollyweird to influence children into believing being gay is themes norm probably with the end goal to make pedophilia legal.
The redhead chick was at the DC “vagina hat” nonsense a week or so ago...
Saw and enjoyed “La La Land”
....didn’t expect to, but we rotate turns at movie picking and it was her turn...and it was entertaining and enjoyable
Absolutely adore LA Confidential.
There are so many layers to it, so many things going on.. I think I saw the movie 3 times before I caught onto the significance of Rollo Tomasi, which made the movie even more memorable!!
And btw, love your screen name!!!
2005 Crash won, should have been Brokeback Mountain?
Wrong. It should have been Cinderella Man which wasn’t even nominated.
Really? I saw it as just the opposite of that. The final scene was powerful showing the Nazis in the audience in soft out of focus was brilliant. If you did not see evil in that scene then you were not paying attention.
Denzel Washington for Training Day instead of Russell Crowe for A Beautiful Mind.
How about Robert Donat winning best actor (Goodby Mr Chips) instead of Clark Gable as Rett Butler in Gone With the Wind? At least Hattie McDaniel won for best supporting actress (Gone With the Wind) that year becoming the first Black American to win an Oscar.
Baseball-reference.com says it's Vair-SY-yez.
I used to say Ver-sall-ez.
Someone close to the team told me his downfall was greenies.
I happened to stop on it yesterday, and it didn't grab me. Specifically, the $50 border scene, and I kept moving on.
And I'm a history buff.
Probably too reminiscent of having to read "Grapes of Wrath" in HS. (The movie adaptation featured Carradine's father among its cast).
They forgot the disgrace of the dismal “Kramer vs. Kramer” besting the flawless Bob Fosse masterpiece “All That Jazz” in 1979.
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