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The results thus far as voted by the members:

Best of 2000's: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – 45 votes
Runner Up: No Country for Old Men – 39 votes

Worst of 2000's: Crash - 69 votes!!!
Runner Up: Chicago - 39 votes

Best of 1990's: The Silence of the Lambs – 21 votes
Runner Up: Unforgiven – 19 votes

Worst of 1990's: Shakespeare in Love – 37 votes
Runner Up: A tie between Forrest Gump & The English Patient with 17 votes each

Best of 1980's: Platoon – 24 votes
Runner Up: Amadeus – 23 votes

Worst of 1980's: Driving Miss Daisy – 14 votes
Runner Up: Chariots of Fire – 8 votes

Best of 1970's: The Godfather – 32 votes
Runner Up: The Godfather, Part II – 28 votes

Worst of 1970's: Kramer vs. Kramer – 35 votes
Runner Up: Annie Hall – 17 votes

Best of 1960's: Lawrence of Arabia – 41 votes
Runner Up: The Apartment – 17 votes

Worst of 1960's: Oliver! – 20 votes
Runner Up: The Sound of Music – 15 votes

Best of 1950's: The Bridge on the River Kwai – 20 votes
Runner Up: Ben-Hur – 13 votes

Worst of 1950’s: The Greatest Show on Earth – 14 votes
Runner Up: Around the World in Eighty Days – 7 votes

Best of 1940's: Casablanca - 38 Votes
Runner Up: Rebecca - 10 Votes


Now vote for what you consider to be the worst best picture winner of the 1940's.

Neeb

Going with How Green Was My Valley. Because it beat Citizen Kane.

dhmac

It also beat The Maltese Falcon. But even though it's not nearly as good as those two classics, when looked at just on its own merits, How Green Was My Valley is a very good film.

So I voted for Gentleman's Agreement which is a preachy and heavy-handed bore.

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chris_sc77

The Lost Weekend easily of the ones I have seen. Gentlemans agreement isnt that great either but it was better than Lost Weekend which despite having some good scenes the film is terribly dated.

The Bus

I've seen 0 of these.

Trevor

I just watched all ten of those (for our challenge).

Not sure how to vote just yet, but the best one was How Green Was My Valley.

NoirFan

Gentleman's Agreement, though I haven't seen Going My Way. A musical with Barry Fitzgerald? Ugh.

Falc04

How Green Was My Valley is one of John Ford's best pictures...and as such, one of the best pictures ever made.

I agree completely...

MoviePage

A great decade for film, and for Oscar choices (mostly). Some real masterpieces in this group. None of them are awful films, like several Best Picture winners in later decades, but Gentleman's Agreement and Going My Way are the weakest.

Trivia note: Barry Fitzgerald was nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for his role in Going My Way (in the final vote, they gave him Supporting and went with Bing Crosby for Best Actor). This prompted an Academy rule change to prevent it from happening again.

Gerry P.

Those are 10 still relevant films. I'm piling on Gentleman's Ageement with my vote, but The Lost Weekend is one of Wilder's weekest.

Rockmjd23

Gentleman's Agreement is the only one I remember not making it the whole way through.

darkhawk

Gentleman's Agreement

Ash Ketchum

I've seen all of them. Seven of them are masterpieces. Two of them, GOING MY WAY and ALL THE KING'S MEN, are not masterpieces, but are still really interesting movies. MRS. MINIVER is absolutely terrible and by far the worst Best Picture winner of the 1940s.