This is one of 4 Oscar Madness showdowns running, with this one having films that won multiple Oscars (but not Best Picture) 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] The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939) vs. [16] Jezebel (Wyler, 1938)
[2] Great Expectations (Lean, 1946) vs. [15] A Star is Born (Wellman, 1937)
[3] Seventh Heaven (Borzage, 1927) vs. [14] The Song of Bernadette (King, 1943)
[4] The Philadelphia Story (Cukor, 1940) vs. [13] Lost Horizon (Capra, 1937)
[5] The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940) vs. [12] Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Hall, 1941)
[6] The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz/Keighley, 1938) vs. [11] Fantasia (Disney, 1940)
[7] Sunrise (Murnau, 1927) vs. [10] Sergeant York (Hawks, 1941)
[8] Black Narcissus (Powell/Pressburger, 1947) vs. [9] Miracle on 34th St. (Seaton, 1947)
1948-1967
[1] Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950) vs. [16] Hud (Ritt, 1963)
[2] To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962) vs. [15] The Quiet Man (Ford, 1952)
[3] The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948) vs. [14] Doctor Zhivago (Lean, 1965)
[4] High Noon (Zinnemann , 1952) vs. [13] A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan, 1951)
[5] Judgment at Nuremberg (Kramer, 1961) vs. [12] Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)
[6] 8½ (Fellini, 1963/Italy) vs. [11] Spartacus (Kubrick , 1960)
[7] The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger, 1948) vs. [10] The Heiress (Wyler, 1948)
[8] The Hustler (Rossen, 1961) vs. [9] Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols, 1966)
1968-1987
[1] Star Wars (Lucas, 1977) vs. [16] The Lion in Winter (Harvey, 1968)
[2] The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980) vs. [15] The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971)
[3] Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981) vs. [14] The Killing Fields (Joffe, 1984)
[4] Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979) vs. [13] Network (Lumet, 1976)
[5] Aliens (Cameron, 1986) vs. [12] All the President’s Men (Pakula, 1976)
[6] Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980) vs. [11] Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
[7] Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969) vs. [10] The Exorcist (Friedkin, 1973)
[8] Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969/Algeria) vs. [9] Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982/Sweden)
1988-2007
[1] The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001) vs. [16] The Lion King (Allers/Minkoff, 1994)
[2] The Usual Suspects (Singer, 1995) vs. [15] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, 2000/Taiwan)
[3] The Matrix (Wachowski/Wachowski, 1999) vs. [14] Little Miss Sunshine (Dayton/Faris, 2006)
[4] Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998) vs. [13] The Incredibles (Bird, 2004)
[5] Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro, 2006/Mexico) vs. [12] The Bourne Ultimatum (Greengrass, 2007)
[6] The Pianist (Polanski, 2002) vs. [11] Fargo (Coen, 1996)
[7] Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron, 1991) vs. [10] There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)
[8] L.A. Confidential (Hanson, 1997) vs. [9] Life Is Beautiful (Benigni, 1998/Italy)