# Oscar Best Picture elimination thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924 "2010-03-09T23:29:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/21 "2010-03-10T00:42:55Z")
Like many of you, there’s one I itch to take off the list, but don’t quite dare…yet. Meanwhile: hey, Shakespeare in Love…remember when you won out over Saving Private Ryan? It’s revenge time. So long, sucker. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/22 "2010-03-10T00:45:56Z")
**HoboStew** , I know what you’re saying, but I imagine most people would say it was because there were better movies nominated/the winning picture wasn’t up to “best picture” standards. In my case, that’s basically it - _Titanic_ was an incredibly poorly-written (“I’m just a tumbleweed, Rose, tumblin’ along”) melodrama with an FX spectacle thrown in. Also, the other movie I was hoping for was just eliminated. ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/23 "2010-03-10T01:09:21Z")
Question for the OP - are we allowed to play again? Cause I’ve got another couple I’d like to see off the list! (Off to work now, but I’ll check again later! 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/24 "2010-03-10T01:55:54Z")
> [@maplekiwi](#): > > Since someones already said Titanic - Forrest Gump. Never got its so called appeal. That was my original vote. Gump wasn’t even the SECOND best movie that year. ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/25 "2010-03-10T02:30:49Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > **HoboStew** , I know what you’re saying, but I imagine most people would say it was because there were better movies nominated/the winning picture wasn’t up to “best picture” standards. In my case, that’s basically it - _Titanic_ was an incredibly poorly-written (“I’m just a tumbleweed, Rose, tumblin’ along”) melodrama with an FX spectacle thrown in. Fine, but I still want to hear it. For example, some people might not know that Gump beat out both Pulp Fiction AND Shawshank Redemption, thus making it even worse that it is a mediocre movie. I like these sorts of details. ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/26 "2010-03-10T08:45:57Z")
> [@HoboStew](#): > > Fine, but I still want to hear it. For example, some people might not know that Gump beat out both Pulp Fiction AND Shawshank Redemption, thus making it even worse that it is a mediocre movie. I like these sorts of details. Aha… if you want reasons… contrived satoryline & Hanks & Fields characters were both so annoying. So am I allowed to eliminate anothe rone or not \ **Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/27 "2010-03-10T10:56:23Z") Slumdog Millionaire. Waste of time and space. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/28 "2010-03-10T12:27:08Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Meanwhile: hey, Shakespeare in Love…remember when you won out over Saving Private Ryan? It’s revenge time. So long, sucker. If SPR would have won ,it would get my vote. I’ll vote Titanic. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/29 "2010-03-10T14:41:28Z")
_Cavalcade_. I’ve actually _seen_ it. :: crickets :: 1933, year of _Flying Down to Rio_, _Footlight Parade_, _Dinner at Eight_, _Duck Soup_, _The Invisible Man_, \*Little Women? \*_King Kong?_ Kick it to the curb. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/30 "2010-03-10T14:54:32Z")
Here’s the list minus the eliminations so far: Wings The Broadway Melody All Quiet on the Western Front Cimarron Grand Hotel It Happened One Night Mutiny on the Bounty The Great Ziegfeld You Can’t Take It With You Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind Rebecca How Green Was My Valley Mrs. Miniver Casablanca Going My Way The Lost Weekend The Best Years of Our Lives Hamlet All the King’s Men All about Eve An American in Paris From Here to Eternity On the Waterfront Marty Around the World in 80 Days The Bridge on the River Kwai Gigi Ben-Hur The Apartment West Side Story Lawrence of Arabia Tom Jones My Fair Lady A Man for All Seasons In the Heat of the Night Oliver! Midnight Cowboy Patton The French Connection The Godfather The Sting The Godfather Part II One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Rocky Annie Hall The Deer Hunter Ordinary People Gandhi Terms of Endearment Amadeus Platoon The Last Emperor Rain Man Driving Miss Daisy Dances With Wolves The Silence of the Lambs Unforgiven Schindler’s List Braveheart The English Patient American Beauty The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King Million Dollar Baby The Departed No Country for Old Men The Hurt Locker ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/31 "2010-03-10T15:07:11Z")
Get _ **The English Patient** _ out of here, yesterday! ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/32 "2010-03-10T15:39:10Z")
Dear **Dances With Wolves** , Get out. Sincerely, Terraplane ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/33 "2010-03-10T15:50:49Z")
Let me be the second to give “Dances With Wolves” the ol’ heave-ho! ( Iwas going to be the first, but **Terraplane** beate to it while I was in preview!) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/34 "2010-03-10T15:52:53Z")
**Rocky**? They seriously voted Rocky into the same list with The Bridge on the River Kwai, Ben-Hur, West Side Story, Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons, Oliver! and Midnight Cowboy? Get Stallone out of there. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/35 "2010-03-10T16:00:16Z")
Since Dances with Wolves has already been spoken for, let me be the first to bid Driving Miss Daisy adieu. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/36 "2010-03-10T16:13:15Z")
Cimarroff. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/37 "2010-03-10T16:14:02Z")
Braveheart. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/38 "2010-03-10T16:45:06Z")
Take off _American Beauty_. That movie hasn’t held up well. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/39 "2010-03-10T16:46:57Z")
Oliver!, au revoir. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/40 "2010-03-10T16:52:52Z")
Here’s what’s left (and they sure ain’t all classics): Wings The Broadway Melody All Quiet on the Western Front Grand Hotel It Happened One Night Mutiny on the Bounty The Great Ziegfeld You Can’t Take It With You Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind Rebecca How Green Was My Valley Mrs. Miniver Casablanca Going My Way The Lost Weekend The Best Years of Our Lives Hamlet All the King’s Men All about Eve An American in Paris From Here to Eternity On the Waterfront Marty Around the World in 80 Days The Bridge on the River Kwai Gigi Ben-Hur The Apartment West Side Story Lawrence of Arabia Tom Jones My Fair Lady A Man for All Seasons In the Heat of the Night Midnight Cowboy Patton The French Connection The Godfather The Sting The Godfather Part II One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Annie Hall The Deer Hunter Ordinary People Gandhi Terms of Endearment Amadeus Platoon The Last Emperor Rain Man The Silence of the Lambs Unforgiven Schindler’s List The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King Million Dollar Baby The Departed No Country for Old Men The Hurt Locker Of the ones left, the worst HAS to be\*\*\* The Last Emperor\*\*\*. Off it goes! The OIscars were dominated far too long by long, boring historical epics that had little going for them but fancy costumes and sweeping landscapes. \*\*\*The Last Emperor \*\*\*was the embodiment of that formula. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924.md?page=3)