The Academy Awards Best Picture Checklist & Discussion Thread
 

The postings in the "Acclaimed movies you have no desire to see" thread caught my attention when Abob Teff posted every Best Picture winner and listed the ones he had no interest in seeing or had already viewed. Looking at it, I noticed I had not seen quite a bit on the list and also had no major desire to seek them out. Him doing this has given me a desire to seek them out and view them, thus the life of a movie fan.

So here is the spot to discuss any film on this list that you have seen before, haven't seen or once you finally get around to watching, discuss it and/or give your thoughts on it. Hell, go ahead and discuss the ones that should have won over the one that did.

No order. No pressure. No judgments. Just post whatever you like in regard to the BPs or the nominees.

Here is the list:

2024: Anora — beat The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Wicked, Dune: Part II, Emilia Pérez, Nickel Boys, I’m Still Here, The Substance (Presented by Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal)

2023: Oppenheimer — beat Maestro, American Fiction, Barbie, Poor Things, Past Lives, The Zone of Interest, The Holdovers, Anatomy of a Fall, Killers of the Flower Moon (Presented by Al Pacino)

2022: Everything Everywhere All at Once — beat Top Gun: Maverick, The Fabelmans, The Banshees of Inisherin, All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, Tár, Elvis, Triangle of Sadness, Women Talking (Presented by Harrison Ford)

2021: CODA — beat West Side Story, Drive My Car, Licorice Pizza, Dune, King Richard, Belfast, Don’t Look Up, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog (Presented by Lady Gaga and Liza Minnelli)

2020: Nomadland — beat Minari, Judas and the Black Messiah, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal, Mank, The Father (Presented by Rita Moreno)

2019: Parasite — beat The Irishman, 1917, Joker, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Ford v Ferrari, Marriage Story, Little Women, Jojo Rabbit (Presented by Jane Fonda)

2018: Green Book — beat Roma, The Favourite, Black Panther, A Star Is Born, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Vice (Presented by Julia Roberts)

2017: The Shape of Water — beat Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Dunkirk, Lady Bird, Get Out, The Post, Darkest Hour, Call Me by Your Name, Phantom Thread (Presented by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway)

2016: Moonlight — beat La La Land, Manchester by the Sea, Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped win the Space Race, Fences, Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Lion (Presented by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway)

2015: Spotlight — beat The Revenant, The Big Short, The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Road, Room, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn (Presented by Morgan Freeman)

2014: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) — beat American Sniper, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash (Presented by Sean Penn)

2013: 12 Years a Slave — beat Gravity, American Hustle, Dallas Buyers Club, Her, Philomena, The Wolf of Wall Street, Captain Phillips, Nebraska (Presented by Will Smith)

2012: Argo — beat Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Silver Linings Playbook, Django Unchained, Amour, Beasts of the Southern Wild (Presented by Michelle Obama and Jack Nicholson)

2011: The Artist — beat The Tree of Life, The Help, The Descendants, Hugo, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, War Horse, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Presented by Tom Cruise)

2010: The King’s Speech — beat The Social Network, Inception, 127 Hours, Black Swan, The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter’s Bone (Presented by Steven Spielberg)

2009: The Hurt Locker — beat Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, Inglourious Basterds, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, A Serious Man, Up, Up in the Air (Presented by Tom Hanks)

2008: Slumdog Millionaire — beat Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Reader (Presented by Steven Spielberg)

2007: No Country for Old Men — beat There Will Be Blood, Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton (Presented by Denzel Washington)

2006: The Departed — beat Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen (Presented by Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton)

2005: Crash — beat Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Munich (Presented by Jack Nicholson)

2004: Million Dollar Baby — beat Finding Neverland, Ray, Sideways, The Aviator (Presented by Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand)

2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — beat Lost in Translation, Master and Commander, Mystic River, Seabiscuit (Presented by Steven Spielberg)

2002: Chicago — beat The Pianist, Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Presented by Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas)

2001: A Beautiful Mind — beat The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, Moulin Rouge (Presented by Tom Hanks)

2000: Gladiator — beat Chocolat, Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Presented by Michael Douglas)

1999: American Beauty — beat The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense (Presented by Clint Eastwood)

1998: Shakespeare in Love — beat Elizabeth, Life is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line (Presented by Harrison Ford)

1997: Titanic — beat Good Will Hunting, As Good as It Gets, L.A. Confidential, The Full Monty (Presented by Sean Connery)

1996: The English Patient — beat Fargo, Jerry Maguire, Secrets & Lies, Shine (Presented by Al Pacino)

1995: Braveheart — beat Apollo 13, Babe, The Postman, Sense and Sensibility (Presented by Sidney Poitier)

1994: Forrest Gump — beat Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Quiz Show (Presented by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino)

1993: Schindler's List — beat In the Name of the Father, The Fugitive, The Piano, The Remains of the Day (Presented by Harrison Ford)

1992: Unforgiven — beat A Few Good Men, Howards End, Scent of a Woman, The Crying Game (Presented by Jack Nicholson)

1991: The Silence of the Lambs — beat JFK, Bugsy, Beauty and the Beast, The Prince of Tides (Presented by Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor)

1990: Dances With Wolves — beat The Godfather: Part III, Awakenings, Ghost, Goodfellas (Presented by Barbra Streisand)

1989: Driving Miss Daisy — beat Field of Dreams, Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (Presented by Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty)

1988: Rain Man — beat Mississippi Burning, Dangerous Liaisons, The Accidental Tourist, Working Girl (Presented by Cher)

1987: The Last Emperor — beat Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction, Hope and Glory, Moonstruck (Presented by Eddie Murphy)

1986: Platoon — beat Hannah and Her Sisters, A Room with a View, Children of a Lesser God, The Mission (Presented by Dustin Hoffman)

1985: Out of Africa — beat Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi’s Honor, The Color Purple, Witness (Presented by John Huston, Billy Wilder and Akira Kurosawa)

1984: Amadeus — beat A Passage to India, A Soldier’s Story, Places in the Heart, The Killing Fields (Presented by Laurence Olivier)

1983: Terms of Endearment — beat The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies, The Big Chill, The Dresser (Presented by Frank Capra)

1982: Gandhi — beat E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Missing, The Verdict, Tootsie (Presented by Carol Burnett)

1981: Chariots of Fire — beat Raiders of the Lost Ark, On Golden Pond, Atlantic City, Reds (Presented by Loretta Young)

1980: Ordinary People — beat Raging Bull, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Tess, The Elephant Man (Presented by Lillian Gish)

1979: Kramer vs. Kramer — beat Apocalypse Now, All That Jazz, Breaking Away, Norma Rae (Presented by Charlton Heston)

1978: The Deer Hunter — beat An Unmarried Woman, Coming Home, Heaven Can Wait, Midnight Express (Presented by John Wayne)

1977: Annie Hall — beat Star Wars, Julia, The Goodbye Girl, The Turning Point (Presented by Jack Nicholson)

1976: Rocky — beat Taxi Driver, Network, All the President’s Men, Bound for Glory (Presented by Jack Nicholson)

1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — beat Jaws, Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Nashville (Presented by Audrey Hepburn)

1974: The Godfather, Part II — beat Chinatown, Lenny, The Conversation, The Towering Inferno (Presented by Warren Beatty)

1973: The Sting — beat The Exorcist, A Touch of Class, American Graffiti, Cries and Whispers (Presented by Elizabeth Taylor)

1972: The Godfather — beat Cabaret, Deliverance, Sounder, The Emigrants (Presented by Clint Eastwood)

1971: The French Connection — beat A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler on the Roof, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Last Picture Show (Presented by Jack Nicholson)

1970: Patton — beat Airport, Five Easy Pieces, Love Story, MASH (Presented by Steve McQueen)

1969: Midnight Cowboy — beat Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Anne of the Thousand Days, Hello Dolly!, Z (Presented by Elizabeth Taylor)

1968: Oliver! — beat Funny Girl, Rachel Rachel, Romeo and Juliet, The Lion in Winter (Presented by Sidney Poitier)

1967: In the Heat of the Night — beat The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Doctor Dolittle, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, (Presented by Julie Andrews)

1966: A Man for All Seasons — beat Alfie, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, The Sand Pebbles, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Presented by Audrey Hepburn)

1965: The Sound of Music — beat Doctor Zhivago, A Thousand Clowns, Darling, Ship of Fools (Presented by Jack Lemmon)

1964: My Fair Lady — beat Mary Poppins, Alexis Zorbas, Becket, Dr. Strangelove, (Presented by Gregory Peck)

1963: Tom Jones — beat America America, Cleopatra, How the West Was Won, Lilies of the Field (Presented by Frank Sinatra)

1962: Lawrence of Arabia — beat Mutiny on the Bounty, The Longest Day, The Music Man, To Kill a Mockingbird (Presented by Olivia de Havilland)

1961: West Side Story — beat Fanny, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Guns of Navarone, The Hustler (Presented by Fred Astaire)

1960: The Apartment — beat Elmer Gantry, Sons and Lovers, The Alamo, The Sundowners (Presented by Audrey Hepburn)

1959: Ben-Hur — beat Anatomy of a Murder, Room at the Top, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Nun’s Story (Presented by Gary Cooper)

1958: Gigi — beat Auntie Mame, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Separate Tables, The Defiant Ones (Presented by Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant)

1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai — beat 12 Angry Men, Peyton Place, Sayonara, Witness for the Prosecution (Presented by Gary Cooper)

1956: Around the World in Eighty Days — beat Giant, The Ten Commandments, Friendly Persuasion, The King and I (Presented by Janet Gaynor)

1955: Marty — beat Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Mister Roberts, Picnic, The Rose Tattoo (Presented by Audrey Hepburn)

1954: On the Waterfront — beat The Caine Mutiny, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Country Girl, Three Coins in the Fountain (Presented by Buddy Adler)

1953: From Here to Eternity — beat Shane, Julius Caesar, Roman Holiday, The Robe (Presented by Cecil B. DeMille)

1952: The Greatest Show on Earth — beat High Noon, Ivanhoe, Moulin Rouge, The Quiet Man (Presented by Mary Pickford)

1951: An American in Paris — beat A Place in the Sun, A Streetcar Named Desire, Decision Before Dawn, Quo Vadis (Presented by Jesse L. Lasky)

1950: All About Eve — beat Sunset Blvd., Born Yesterday, Father of the Bride, King Solomon’s Mines (Presented by Ralph Bunche)

1949: All the King’s Men — beat A Letter to Three Wives, Battleground, The Heiress, Twelve O’Clock High (Presented by James Cagney)

1948: Hamlet — beat The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Johnny Belinda, The Red Shoes, The Snake Pit (Presented by Ethel Barrymore)

1947: Gentleman’s Agreement — beat Crossfire, Great Expectations, Miracle on 34th Street, The Bishop’s Wife (Presented by Fredric March)

1946: The Best Years of Our Lives — beat It’s a Wonderful Life, The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with his Battell Fought at Agincourt in France, The Razor’s Edge, The Yearling (Presented by Eric Johnston)

1945: The Lost Weekend — beat Mildred Pierce, Anchors Aweigh, Spellbound, The Bells of St. Mary’s (Presented by Eric Johnston)

1944: Going My Way — beat Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Since You Went Away, Wilson (Presented by Hal B. Wallis)

1943: Casablanca — beat For Whom the Bell Tolls, Heaven Can Wait, In Which We Serve, Madame Curie, The Human Comedy, The More the Merrier, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Song of Bernadette, Watch on the Rhine (Presented by Sidney Franklin)

1942: Mrs. Miniver — beat Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Pride of the Yankees, The Magnificent Ambersons, 49th Parallel, Kings Row, Random Harvest, The Pied Piper, The Talk of the Town, Wake Island (Presented by William Goetz)

1941: How Green Was My Valley — beat Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Suspicion, Sergeant York, Blossoms in the Dust, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Hold Back the Dawn, One Foot in Heaven, The Little Foxes (Presented by David O. Selznick)

1940: Rebecca — beat The Grapes of Wrath, The Philadelphia Story, The Great Dictator, All This and Heaven Too, Foreign Correspondent, Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman, Our Town, The Letter, The Long Voyage Home (Presented by Mervyn LeRoy)

1939: Gone with the Wind — beat The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach, Ninotchka, Dark Victory, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Of Mice and Men, Wuthering Heights (Presented by Y. Frank Freeman)

1938: You Can’t Take it With You — beat La grande illusion, Jezebel, Alexander’s Ragtime Band, Boys Town, Four Daughters, Pygmalion, Test Pilot, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Citadel (Presented by James Roosevelt)

1937: The Life of Emile Zola — beat A Star Is Born, Captains Courageous, Dead End, In Old Chicago, Lost Horizon, One Hundred Men and a Girl, Stage Door, The Awful Truth, The Good Earth (Presented by Frank Capra)

1936: The Great Ziegfeld — beat Dodsworth, A Tale of Two Cities, Anthony Adverse, Libeled Lady, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Romeo and Juliet, San Francisco, The Story of Louis Pasteur, Three Smart Girls (Presented by George Jessel)

1935: Mutiny on the Bounty — beat Captain Blood, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Alice Adams, Broadway Melody of 1936, Les Misérables, Naughty Marietta, Ruggles of Red Gap, The Informer, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Personal History, Adventures, Experience & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger, Top Hat (Presented by Harry Cohn)

1934: It Happened One Night — beat Cleopatra, Flirtation Walk, Here Comes the Navy, Imitation of Life, One Night of Love, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, The Gay Divorcee, The House of Rothschild, The Thin Man, The White Parade, Viva Villa! (Presented by Irvin S. Cobb)

1932-33: Cavalcade — beat 42nd Street, A Farewell to Arms, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Lady for a Day, Little Women, She Done Him Wrong, Smilin’ Through, State Fair, The Private Life of Henry VIII (Presented by Will Rogers)

1931-32: Grand Hotel — beat Arrowsmith, Bad Girl, Five Star Final, One Hour with You, Shanghai Express, The Champ, The Smiling Lieutenant (Presented by William LeBaron)

1930-31: Cimarron — beat East Lynne, Skippy, The Front Page, Trader Horn (Presented by B.P. Schulberg)

1929-30: All Quiet on the Western Front — beat Disraeli, The Divorcee, The Big House, The Love Parade (Presented by Louis B. Mayer)

1928-29: The Broadway Melody — beat* Alibi, In Old Arizona, The Hollywood Revue of 1929, The Patriot (*unofficial nominees deemed by AMPAS) (Presented by William C. DeMille)

1927-28: Wings — (best picture, production) beat 7th Heaven, The Racket (Presented by Douglas Fairbanks)

1927-28: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans — (best picture, unique and artistic production) beat Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness, The Crowd (Presented by Douglas Fairbanks)

‎Oscars - Every Best Picture Nominees (1929-2025) • Letterboxd

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You missed a golden opportunity to include in the list :
'La La Land' "Moonlight"(2016)

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I will get us started off. Due to all the discussion about "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) in the other mentioned thread, I decided to revisit it the other night.

It is as a remembered. A near perfect, touching, well-acted drama about three men returning to civilian life after the end of WWII and all the trappings, troubles, and emotions that encompass that. Yes, it is 3 hours long, but I was never bored and found it to be engrossing despite its age.

Some of the scenes are brutal to watch and the naked honesty of this movie had to hit a lot of people hard walking into it at the time expecting a "Rah, Rah, Yah American War Heroes!!!" stereotypical picture. This is anything but.

The story's characters, mainly the Peggy and Fred love story, can get a little too melodramatic occasionally but the acting and direction is top notch throughout. You can read and feel the pain in every look, head turn, or hand gesture. This is basically WWII's "Born On The Fourth Of July."

I find it to be an excellent that still holds up well today. Highly recommended.

My rating is ****1/2 out of *****

It was up against:
Henry V
It's A Wonderful Life
The Razor's Edge
The Yearling

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I've never made watching Best Picture winners a priority, so I think I've only seen 44 of 97. I'm just finishing up a months long project where I'm watching all of my unwatched Criterion discs, but when I finish that, I'll move on to checking off some Best Picture winners. There are 5 that I own but have never watched. I'll start with those. They are:

The English Patient (1996)
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)*
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Wings (1928)

*purchased this week thanks to that other thread

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Damn, you reminded me that I have THE BROADWAY MELODY (1929) on disc and started watching it a few years ago, liked what I saw but was unable to finish it. I'll have to pull it out and start from scratch.


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I was always pretty good about seeing the BP winners but I’ve fallen off the last few years. Looking at the list I realize I’ve only seen 2 of the last 6 BP winners (Oppenheimer and Everything Everywhere All at Once). Parasite has been on my to-watch list for awhile, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

After that, I’ve seen them all down to The Last Emperor in 1987.

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Robert Redford's passing today has me watching The Sting as I type this. I've not seen it, so this will check one of my list.

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TBYOOL is one of those movies like Shawshank that always sucks me in, no matter where it is in the story when I start watching. Apart from the casting of Russell and not flinching from showing Homer dealing with his disability, and the beautiful score, one of the things I love is how the movie plays with class distinctions.

Yes, there are elements of the movie that are melodramatic, but I would chalk that up to the times and the desire to include story elements that would appeal to female moviegoers.

3 hours long,but worth every minute because the film is confident enough to take its time with the multiple stories. I think the movie has increased in resonance because PTSD and the difficulties of readjustment were not so discussed back then. The image we have of the greatest generation is that they all just came back and got to work getting on with their lives. This movie shows us that in the immediate post-war moment, there was recognition that not everything was peachy for all. It's also an interesting scene when the guy in the drug store tells Homer he was a sucker for fighting. They would not have included that if such sentiments were not real at the time. Again, giving us a different perspective on how all thinking and experiences were not monolithic.

It's hard to find, but in the later seasons of the TV show China Beach, the characters returned from Vietnam, and the stories were very much inspired by TBYOOL. Harold Russell even shows up in an episode as Dana Delany's WW2 vet uncle.

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Starting in 1964 w My Fair Lady, I've seen every winner up to 2019 Parasite. -popcorn-

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No Country for Old Man was the last best picture winner I genuinely wanted to see. I had watched practically every winner up to 2007 and rarely missed the Oscars, and then I totally lost interest. Reading the titles since that movie, there's actually a couple I don't even recognize. (Did I not even know the Oscars was on and never bothered to check who won later?) It's fascinating how little attention I pay to something I used to care so much about.

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Wow, just like a marriage :)

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2000-present: Seen 6 of 25
1990s: 8/10 (Unforgiven and English Patient are keeping me from all 10)

Then it gets real spotty going backwards.

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I've seen them all. Don't forget that Sunrise (1927) counts as a co-Best Picture winner when the categories were separate (At first) Kind of like how Cannes has two prizes: Grand Prix & Palm D'or.

Best Picture Nominees I haven't seen:
The Patriot (1928)-Nobody has. Lost film. But I think some segments survive.
The White Parade (1934)
One Hundred Men and A Girl (1937)

I own 37 Winners on physical media.

Best International Film-winners I haven't seen:
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)
Begin The Beguine (1982)
The Assault (1986)
Mediterraneo (1991)
The Salesman (2016)

As for the Best International Film-nominees I haven't seen, waaay too many to name, but I'm currently 210/352.

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This one seems to always get hate when it comes to "Worst Best Picture Winners". But it's the only Winner (Sans It Happened One Night) that shows reminders of what the Pre-Code World looked like.

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Sunrise is also phenomenal. It's my favorite silent film of all time, it's brilliant.

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Since my birth in 1983, I’ve seen all but 5. Haven’t seen Green Book, Coda, Chicago, English Patient and Shakespeare in Love.

Ill probably see English Patient at some point, but the others didn’t appeal to me.

Since my birth in 1983, I’d rank No Country for Old Men as the best Best Picture.

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I revisited The English Patient the other day. I'd watched it once when it was quite new. I've always been a sceptic towards movies with actors I don't know and back then Willem Dafoe and Jürgen Prochnow were the only actors in the movie I could really place. So it never really resonated with me.
Now the 2nd time around I'm a fan of Ralph Fiennes and of course I know Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Juliette Binoche and Colin Firth, so that wasn't a problem anymore, but still the movie didn't totally get me. The movie was beautifully shot, the acting was good, but I think the story wasn't told very good, although I think it could have been. The reveal at the end isn't that big of a deal and doesn't really have anything to do with Dafoe's character although he was out for revenge.
The whole revenge plot didn't work either because at no point at the movie I thought that Dafoe's character was a threat.
The constant jumping bewteen timelines, didn't allow either timeline to feel for the characters, so neither the love story, nor the Passion of the Fiennes had a real impact.

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I think No Country for Old Men is the greatest movie released so far in the 21st Century but I would think the best BP honor would have to go to Schindler’s List.

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...I'm surprised at how few of those I've seen

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I realized about a yeah and a half ago that I had already seen over half of the winners, and started working my way through seeing the rest of the winners. While I am glad that I did it, there are a couple of them that I have no desire to ever revisit. One in particular is 1985 winner Out of Africa, which beat The Color Purple, Prizzi's Honor, Witness, and Kiss of the Spider Woman. I think that year was a case of the votes between the other better films getting split and the worst movie winning.

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Thanks for letting me know. I have added it. Found this quick interesting article about it as well.

Sunrise Is The Only Best Picture Oscar Winner The Academy Doesn't Recognize

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Reminder that Best Years of Our Lives comes on TCM this Friday night for those who haven't seen it.

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1991 - the last year I saw all five Best Picture nominees.

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'75 looks to be my most favorite year for Nominees:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
Nashville When it comes to Altman-favorites, I've got this in 4th place (Behind 3 Women,McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Short Cuts) but still makes my top 5!