When was the last time the Oscars gave Best Picture to a film

>>79899789
Did Silence of the Lambs win?

Gladiator

>>79899789
Moonlight

Argo in 2012? Slumdog Millionaire in 2008? No Country for Old Men in 2007? The Departed in 2006?

>>79899827
yeah, 1991

it beat out beauty and the beast (only time an animated film was nominated for best picture), JFK, Bugsy, and the prince of tides.

>>79899789
The King's Speech

>>79899789
2004

>>79899890
>only time an animated film was nominated for best picture

*first time

>>79899890
Slumdog got big after it won

>>79899970
Slumdog had made 98 million in the US by the time it won.

probably lord of the rings

not anything in the 2010s

Argo, The Hurt Locker, The Departed, Lord of the Rings, Gladiator

>>79900107
Thought I remembered a story about how it made more after the oscars than any other best picture winner. Might be misremembering

>>79899957
when else?

>>79900159
pretty sure that was the hurt locker

Gladiator ( The best movie ever made )

>>79900159
Maybe it did. It made 43 million after winning BP.

>>79900199
muh incest detected

Remember when Shakespeare in Love won? What a bizarrely honest year that was

Remember 2005 when Crash won best picture and the front page of Variety the next day had a quote from the writer of Brokeback Mountain saying "Crash is Trash".

what would you say was the worst best picture decision in oscar history?

I'd have to go with 1964, My Fair Lady over Dr. Strangelove, Becket, Mary Poppins, and Zorba the Greek. All of those other nominees are way better.

>>79900210
>>79900159
Titanic made like 110 mil after it won best picture

>>79900327
Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, and Quiz Show.

>>79899890
>No Country for Old Men in 2007
>Won over There Will be Blood
Was really upset with that and The Assassination of Jesse James not getting a best picture nomination. 2007 had so many good movies.

>>79900355
>Forrest Gump
I think that might be my dad's most hated movie. He went off on a rant about it not long ago about how they portray everyone who fought in Vietnam as a saint and everyone who was against the war as an abusive asshole. And the way it presents the spirit of America as simplicity.

>>79900425
>Was really upset with that and The Assassination of Jesse James not getting a best picture nomination
how else do you expect them to make room for Juno

Also I think No Country was a better movie than There Will be Blood. Don't get me wrong they're both great but I watched Blood not long ago and I had forgotten how extremely ill fitting its soundtrack is. Throughout the entire movie there's this annoying TENSION music even when nothing bad is happening just to make sure you don't forget that THIS IS ALL BAD AND EVIL! I really disliked that. Daniel Day Lewis' acting is quite fantastic in it though.

>>79899846
>>79899851
>>79899890
>Slumdog Millionaire in 2008
>>79900108
>>79900135
>Lord of the Rings, Gladiator
>>79900199

Plebs, get off my board

>>79900568
Reading is hard

>>79900199
t. Ralphie

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>>79900568
you first

>>79900327
Kramer vs. Kramer over Apocalypse Now and All That Jazz
Ordinary People over Raging Bull and The Elephant Man

> 2017

Moonlight

>>79900650
yeah kramer vs. kramer is a pretty crap movie

one that really pisses me off is 1939, gone with the wind over Ninotchka, of mice and men, stagecoach, and wizard of oz. Fucking hate that movie, I can't understand why it was such a sensation. The rest are some of my favorites though, Ninotchka is fantastic.

>>79900508
>TENSION music
It was one of the things I liked. From the opening shot it does lay it on pretty thick though. And Juno/Michael Clayton overall the most forgettable movies that was for whatever reason even looked at for best picture.

>>79900802
they did both have a lot of buzz that year (for whatever reason) while Jesse James was mostly under the radar iirc

I liked James but I remember thinking that it wasn't able to justify its run time, and the opening scene was the best part

>>79900170
Up and Toy Story 3

>>79901279
oh shit you're right, and two overly nostalgic pieces of crap as well what a shame