This is one of 4 Oscar Madness showdowns running, with this one having Best Picture winners square off against each other in four different time periods. All seeds and line-ups determined by the user poll data from the IMDB. Only feature-length fiction films were under consideration, and a director is limited to one film in each era.
Please make your answers legible. The deadline is Wed. July 2 at 9am PST.
1928-1947
[1] Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942) vs. [16] The Broadway Melody (Beaumont, 1929)
[2] Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940) vs. [15] The Great Ziegfeld (Leonard, 1936)
[3] It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934) vs. [14] Gentleman’s Agreement (Kazan, 1947)
[4] The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946) vs. [13] The Life of Emile Zola (Dieterle, 1937)
[5] The Lost Weekend (Wilder, 1945) vs. [12] Going My Way (McCarey, 1944)
[6] Gone With the Wind (Fleming, 1939) vs. [11] Grand Hotel (Goulding, 1932)
[7] All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930) vs. [10] Wings (Wellman, 1927)
[8] Mutiny on the Bounty (Lloyd, 1935) vs. [9] How Green Was My Valley (Ford, 1941)
1948-1967
[1] Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962) vs. [16] The Greatest Show on Earth(DeMille, 1952)
[2] On the Waterfront (Kazan ,1954) vs. [15] Around the World in 80 Days (Anderson, 1958)
[3] All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950) vs. [14] Tom Jones (Richardson, 1963)
[4] The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) vs. [13] An American in Paris (Minnelli, 1951)
[5] Ben-Hur (Wyler, 1959) vs. [12] All the King’s Men (Rossen, 1949)
[6] In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967) vs. [11] Marty (Mann, 1955)
[7] A Man for All Seasons (Zinnemann, 1966) vs. [10] My Fair Lady (Cukor, 1964)
[8] Hamlet (Olivier, 1948) vs. [9] The Sound of Music (Wise, 1965)
1968-1987
[1] The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) vs. [16] Chariots of Fire (Hudson, 1981)
[2] One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975) vs. [15] Oliver! (Reed, 1968)
[3] The Sting (Hill, 1973) vs. [14] Kramer vs. Kramer (Benton, 1979)
[4] Platoon (Stone, 1986) vs. [13] Ordinary People (Redford, 1980)
[5] The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978) vs. [12] The Last Emperor (Bertolucci, 1987)
[6] Annie Hall (Allen, 1977) vs. [11] The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971)
[7] Gandhi (Attenborough, 1982) vs. [10] Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger, 1969)
[8] Patton (Schaffner, 1970) vs. [9] Rocky (Avildsen, 1976)
1988-2007
[1] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson, 2003) vs. [16] Shakespeare in Love (Maddin, 1998)
[2] Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993) vs. [15] Driving Miss Daisy (Beresford, 1989)
[3] American Beauty (Mendes, 1999) vs. [14] Dances with Wolves (Costner, 1990)
[4] The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991) vs. [13] Rain Man (Levinson, 1988)
[5] Forrest Gump (Zemeckis, 1994) vs. [12] A Beautiful Mind (Howard, 2001)
[6] The Departed (Scorsese, 2006) vs. [11] Crash (Haggis, 2005)
[7] No Country for Old Men (Coen/Coen, 2007) vs. [10] Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)
[8] Gladiator (Scott, 2000) vs. [9] Braveheart (Gibson, 1995)
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