# How Many of the Best Pictures of the last 25 years have you seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 1, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107 "2011-03-01T21:47:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107/121 "2011-03-03T22:34:17Z")
1. Never got around to seeing _The English Patient_ or _Crash_, but they’re in my Netflix queue. _The King’s Speech_ hasn’t arrived in Panama yet. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107/122 "2011-03-04T01:01:51Z")
All of them. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107/123 "2011-03-04T02:25:10Z")
I’ve seen many from the entire Best Picture list from the 1930’s on, mainly because they were shown on TCM last month for their annual 31 days of Oscar. Which is a dream come true if you’re at all interested in film history. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107/124 "2011-03-04T02:34:56Z")
19 total. Not bad. Haven’t seen Driving Miss Daisy English Patient Chicago The King’s Speech The Lord of the Rings Shakespeare in Love Other than The King’s Speech, I have no desire to see any of the ones I’ve missed. So I’m good. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107/125 "2011-03-04T02:40:14Z")
Only 8. Guess that’s why I never watch the Oscars: they’re awarding movies that they couldn’t get my interest in with a 2 minute trailer. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107/126 "2011-03-04T03:02:17Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I’ve only seen six. I’ve tried to watch about ten others, but found them uninteresting. Others I’ve found unappealing. I mean, c’mon, a Holocaust movie does not have to be all that good to win Best Picture. Don’t know about that. Schindler’s List was a great movie, even if it WAS the academy forcing Spielberg to do a movie about the Holocaust to win his first Best Director Oscar. I mean, for crying out loud, he’s made some of the best films in history, and he has only won two Best Director Oscars, the first being Schindler’s List, and the second being Saving Private Ryan. Thank goodness for WWII and the jews. (He was nominated for Munich, but I guess he didn’t show enough suffering to wow the Acadamy. Also nominated for "Letters from Iwo Jima, but there weren’t any concentration camps on the pacific islands). If the Academy wasn’t making Speilberg shoot a Holocaust epic, how do you explain him not winning for “The Color Purple”?, not to mention ET, or the hundred other block buster movies he’s cranked out since the 70’s? Yes, I think old S.S. has been under appreciated. Down with the Acadamy! ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107/127 "2011-03-04T03:49:40Z")
Clint Eastwood directed _Letters from Iwo Jima_ (and was nominated for the Best Director Award). Spielberg was only co-producer (and thus shared the nomination for Best Picture). > [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > If the Academy wasn’t making Speilberg shoot a Holocaust epic, how do you explain him not winning for “The Color Purple”?, not to mention ET, or the hundred other block buster movies he’s cranked out since the 70’s? There are other ways for movies to succeed besides through the directing, and it’s often hard to separate directing qualities from others. Looking through Spielberg’s filmography, the one that strikes me as having benefited most clearly from directorial choices is _Raiders of the Lost Ark_. _E.T._ would have won except it was matched against freaking _Gandhi_. Beyond that… Spielberg directed exactly eight other pictures between those and _Schindler’s List_; I’m really not seeing where he missed the recognition on those. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107/128 "2011-03-04T10:49:03Z")
I have of course, seen bits and pieces of most of them. But have only sat down and watched 8 of them all the way through. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107/129 "2011-03-04T14:43:25Z")
15, if American Beauty is the right movie for 1999. More than I expected, really. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107/130 "2011-03-05T01:05:36Z")
Nine, all in theaters. I saw neither The Cider House Rules nor American Beauty, so 1999 didn’t prove to be a problem. The movies came in two clumps which correlate to two specific points in my life when I was seeing a lot of films in general. 1988-1991, when I was a teenager with a lot of spending money and no social life, and 1998 to 2002 (excluding 1999), when I was married and movies were an easy way to start a weekend out with the wife. The drought from 1992 to 1997 reflects a period of severe poverty, and from 2003 on reflects the time I’ve been in school. ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107/131 "2011-03-05T08:42:16Z")
1. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107/132 "2011-03-06T16:16:57Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > Also nominated for "Letters from Iwo Jima, but there weren’t any concentration camps on the pacific islands). Clint Eastwood directed “Letters.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-the-best-pictures-of-the-last-25-years-have-you-seen/573107.md?page=6)