I have been watching a number of Oscar winnings movies recently and it seems a very long time since I enjoyed an Oscar winning movie. It's been at least 15 years. What's your favourite Oscar winning movie? Remember it must have won Best Picture at the Oscars.
Here's my thoughts on each decade (I haven't seen all of them):
30s
Favourite: It Happened One Night
Worst: You can't take it with you
40s
Favourite: Casablanca
Worst: How Green was my Valley/Gentleman's Agreement
50s
Favourite: On the Waterfront
Worst: The Greatest Show on Earth
60s
Favourite: The Sound of Music
Worst: Tom Jones (This one I feel is the worst of the lot)
70s
Favourite: The Godfather Part 2 (Too hard to choose, I think there were 5 or 6 ATG movies winning Oscars this decade)
Worst: Patton
80s
Favourite: Rain Man
Worst: Chariots of Fire
90s
Favourite: Braveheart (another tough one)
Worst: Shakespeare in Love
2000s
Favourite: A Beautiful Mind
Worst: Chicago
2010s
Favourite: Birdman
Worst: Argo/Moonlight (many options here)
2020s
Favourite: Everything Everywhere All at Once (best of a bad bunch)
Worst: Nomadland
Favourite overall: The Godfather Part 2
Oscar Winning Movies
posted on 7/1/25
It wasn't a horrendous film, I just don't get how it won an Oscar when it was nothing special. It beat out Brokeback Mountain, Munich, Capote and Walk the Line for example.
Agree about a lot of the most recent ones though. Feels like quite a lot of the winners over the past 15 years have been made for the sole purpose of winning the Oscar's.
posted on 7/1/25
I finally got around to watching Lawrence Of Arabia at the weekend. Probably the best oscar winning film I've seen from the 60's. In fact possibly the only one I have seen!!!
posted on 7/1/25
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 1 hour, 37 minutes ago
It wasn't a horrendous film, I just don't get how it won an Oscar when it was nothing special. It beat out Brokeback Mountain, Munich, Capote and Walk the Line for example.
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Aah fair enough, I haven't seen Capote or Brokeback Mountain, Walk the Line was good though. My favourite movie from 2005 is "V for Vendetta" and I don't think that even got nominated.
posted on 7/1/25
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
Agree about a lot of the most recent ones though. Feels like quite a lot of the winners over the past 15 years have been made for the sole purpose of winning the Oscar's.
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Totally agree, they are not memorable at all, only talked about a lot during Oscar season and then forgotten about.
posted on 7/1/25
comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
I finally got around to watching Lawrence Of Arabia at the weekend. Probably the best oscar winning film I've seen from the 60's. In fact possibly the only one I have seen!!!
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Great movie, great cast.
60s seems to be the decade where a lot of the classic musicals won with West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Sound of Music and Oliver.
Lawrence of Arabia and In the Heat of the Night were 2 of my favourite Oscar winners from the 60s, but chose Sound of Music due to watching and enjoying it every year with the family.
posted on 7/1/25
LOA would have been a great film to see at the cinema.
posted on 7/1/25
comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 53 minutes ago
LOA would have been a great film to see at the cinema.
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The opening scene (at the well, not the motorbike crash) is one of the best of any movie. The desert landscape with the sun rising iirc, and gradually a speck which turns into Shariff appearing on a camel in the horizon and the camera follows him for about two minutes against that backdrop with the occasional cut to Peter O'Toole's face filling the screen. It's just sublime, defo one for the cinema.
posted on 7/1/25
comment by JustTrue (U13155)
posted 8 hours, 41 minutes ago
lol very wrong,
I have English Patient as my 2nd worst of the 90s. Well made, but not nearly as memorable as the winners of the 90s. Just my opinion though.
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I think it's brilliant It's all subjective as you say. Maybe I just like trajedies with some element of tedemption thrown in.
posted on 7/1/25
*redemption
posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Crash (not Cronenberg) was awful. About as subtle as a hammer to the face and nothing new. Had the marketing behind it as well as releasing at the right time. It’s instantly forgettable.