# Movie of the Year **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 23, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780 "2016-11-23T01:02:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/162 "2017-01-24T20:10:47Z")
1972: Cabaret ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/163 "2017-01-25T07:24:43Z")
1973: The Exorcist ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/164 "2017-01-29T01:50:43Z")
1974: Murder on the Orient Express ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/165 "2017-01-29T04:07:28Z")
1975: Jaws The first “summer blockbuster”. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/166 "2017-01-29T10:04:37Z")
1976: Carrie ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/167 "2017-01-30T00:23:16Z")
1977: _Audrey Rose_, a horrible movie in every possible way. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/168 "2017-01-30T00:26:10Z")
1978: The Deer Hunter ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/169 "2017-01-30T10:48:12Z")
1979: Apocalypse Now ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/170 "2017-01-30T13:20:20Z")
1980: Ordinary People It won four Oscars: Best Picture, director (Robert Redford, his debut), Lead Actress (Mary Tyler Moore) and adapted screenplay. I just watched it yesterday. Seemed a little, um, ordinary. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/171 "2017-01-31T07:20:24Z")
1981: On Golden Pond ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/172 "2017-02-01T04:26:11Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > 1980: Ordinary People > > It won four Oscars: Best Picture, director (Robert Redford, his debut), Lead Actress (Mary Tyler Moore) and adapted screenplay. > > I just watched it yesterday. Seemed a little, um, ordinary. Some movies were really daring for their time. A movie about the ordinary family life of someone who had been in a mental hospital and then psychotherapy was a new idea at the time. Movies about people in mental hospitals were movies from _The Snake Pit_ (a great movie in its own time) to _One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest_ (a movie that presented a 1950s facility existing in the 1970s, and on a side note was the first R-rated movie I ever saw). My favorite “Oh my gawd it’s dated” film is _Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner_. It’s almost as laughable as _Reefer Madness_ now. I’ll bet if you showed it to an auditorium full of millennials, they’d laugh all the way through it. **SPOILER:** It’s two hours of people having extreme angst doing soul-searching over a mixed-race relationship. Yeah. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/173 "2017-02-01T07:39:42Z")
1982: E.T. a ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/174 "2017-02-07T23:47:02Z")
1982: Gandhi [E.T. was already used] 1983: WarGames ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/175 "2017-02-08T00:04:43Z")
1984: Repo Man ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/176 "2017-02-08T00:39:15Z")
1985: Police Story ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/177 "2017-02-08T03:20:28Z")
1986: Children of a Lesser god ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/178 "2017-02-08T08:26:00Z")
1987: Moonstruck ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/179 "2017-02-08T13:49:06Z")
1988: A Fish Called Wanda ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/180 "2017-02-09T00:43:31Z")
1989: Do The Right Thing ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-of-the-year/772780/181 "2017-02-09T09:34:39Z")
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