Posted on 02/27/2011 12:41:24 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Every year since 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has crowned the year’s finest film. But which is the greatest Best Picture winner of all time? We entered the past 72 title-holders — beginning with 1938’s “You Can’t Take It With You” and ending with 2009’s “The Hurt Locker” — into a March Madness-style tournament, adjudicated by Post film critics Lou Lumenick and Kyle Smith.
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1. “Dude where’s my car.”
2. “Dude where’s my car, the sequel.”
Seriously, as good as half the crap on that list.
Casablanca is winning 53-47% at this post.
Of the two, I’d vote for “The Godfather”, although I think the best film of all time is “Citizen Kane” if you include all the cinematic inventions Welles packed into the film that are now taken for granted. Welles also had the nerve/foolishness to take on William Randolph Hearst at perhaps the peak of the Hearst empire which, I’m sure, had a lot to do with it not winning Best Picture.
In the last 30 years, Best Picture tends to be the award for whatever Hollyweird thought was the best way to get their perversions before a mass audience so I wouldn’t even watch half of the Best Picture winners that come out today. Politics trump art.
They've ~got~ to be kidding. Yeah, good movies perhaps, but not 'great' imho. I thought Godfather so poor, I shut the tape off one third the way through and returned it to the rental joint.
And don’t forget about all the Tyler Perry movies.
John Wayne turned down the Part of the sheriff in High Noon, saying that the story was ridiculous. The town would have gotten together and blown the crooks away in about 15 seconds. Coop did a good job, but I agree with Duke.
John Wayne turned down the part of the sheriff in High Noon, saying that the story was ridiculous. The town would have gotten together and blown the crooks away in about 15 seconds. Coop did a good job, but I agree with Duke.
I recorded Ben Hur a couple days ago when it was shown in the whole 1959 original format on TCM. The critics’ main problem is the film’s unashamed basis in Christianity. But on every level it is a masterpiece and Heston’s best performance bar none.
Well, it did get him on “The Colbys”...
Rocky beat out All About Eve? BS!
I agree 100%> High Noon is a great movie - more under-rated than it is 'overrated.'
When I first view it, it sure kept me on the edge of my seat.
Starring none other than Charlton Heston.
Heston was a real man.
John was probably right about most of the people in that era, but there were more than a few towns that were just like what that movie portrayed - as can be found when reading history.
The first winner of the Best PIcture award was "Wings", a silent film about World War I aviators. TCM showed it a few weeks ago, and it's a magnificent film. Gary Cooper has a brief walk-on part, but his short scenes steal the movie.
"Oh Moses, Moses, Moses..."
Unfortunately, John Wayne didn’t realize that the story was not about the old west but about contemporary attitudes. General Douglas MacArthur had just been told that he could not pursue victory in Korea.
As do I, especially in the light of the historic outlaw raid on Northfield MN by the James-Younger band(s) in 1876. When they tried to rob the bank there, the local population took up arms and pursuit that basically ended the these family gangs. Yes, High Noon is a good-to-great film but it was more a film about the zeitgeist of the 1950s disguised as a Western. My pick of a Western is still Shane!
He was (other than being one of Hollywood's greatest,) passionately American, passionately Republican, and passionately Christian. Yet he treated everyone with the greatest respect, even though he knew that they despised him.
I think The Bishop’s Wife (Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven) should have won an award.
You have great taste, Mary! One of my favorites.
Have you seen "Mr. Hulot's Holiday"? That's a real gem, too.
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