Oscar Best Picture elimination thread

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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.

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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.

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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! :slight_smile: )

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That was my original vote. Gump wasn’t even the SECOND best movie that year.

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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.

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Aha… if you want reasons… contrived satoryline & Hanks & Fields characters were both so annoying.

So am I allowed to eliminate anothe rone or not <tapping foot impatiently! :wink: )

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Slumdog Millionaire. Waste of time and space.

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If SPR would have won ,it would get my vote.

I’ll vote Titanic.

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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.

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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

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Get The English Patient out of here, yesterday!

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Dear Dances With Wolves,

Get out.

Sincerely,
Terraplane

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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!)

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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.

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Since Dances with Wolves has already been spoken for, let me be the first to bid Driving Miss Daisy adieu.

36

Cimarroff.

37

Braveheart. Blech.

38

Take off American Beauty. That movie hasn’t held up well.

39

Oliver!, au revoir.

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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.