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Worst Best Picture Winner?

posted 10 years ago by tommylawson2
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A lot of people say Crash is the worst but it seriously must be this.

1998 Nominees Best to Worst
Best: Saving Private Ryan
2nd: Life Is Beautiful
3rd: The Thin Red Line
4th: This
5th: Elizabeth

All this film had to offer was some humour and if that is the case then why did anchorman not win best picture

[–] syntinen 10 years ago

Because SiL is dazzlingly witty in a wide variety of ways, from slapstick to lit-crit satire via a massive leg-pull perpetrated on Gwyneth Paltrow, whereas Anchorman is just mildly goofy humour.

[–] tommylawson2 10 years ago

Still, is this film anywhere near Saving Private Ryan or Life Is Beautiful

[–] syntinen 10 years ago

Yes. And it's less sentimental than either of them.

[–] tommylawson2 10 years ago

How are either of SPR or LiB sentimental? Or at least more sentimental than SiL

[–] mark-1589 9 years ago

"How are either of SPR or LiB sentimental?"

Life is Beautiful is nothing but sentimental drivel and was a very UNFUNNY film. I couldn't stand the crap.

[–] Stratego (30581) 4 years ago

"Life is Beautiful is nothing but sentimental drivel and was a very UNFUNNY film. I couldn't stand the crap."

Yes!

[–] tobias_681 10 years ago

If you compare it to those 2 I'd say it's give or take.

Now The Thin Red Line, that could be considered a snub.

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[–] alfa-16 10 years ago

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This film wins Best Picture in 1998 and most of the other years in the last couple of decades.

Funny, confident, original.

Illuminating, staggeringly well-written, directed and acted.

Genre pieces like SPR never stood a chance.

[–] tommylawson2 10 years ago

Any other year?

SPR > SIL
American Beuaty > SIL
Gladiator > SIL
A Beautiful Mind > SIL
Chigago > SIL
LOTR > SIL
Million Dollar Baby > SIL
Crash < SIL but Brokeback Mountain > SIL
The Departed > SIL
No Country For Old Men > SIL
Slumdog Millionaire > SIL
The Hurt Locker > SIL
The Kings Speech < SIL but Inception > SIL
The Artist > SIL
Argo > SIL
12 Years A Slave > SIL

[–] alfa-16 8 years ago

All of those years, against those films, yes.

[–] omalley-10 10 years ago

This was a nice little movie but Saving Private Ryan should have won.

[–] seahawk3133 10 years ago

Solid movie, not a bad choice, but Life Is Beautiful is in a different class than the other 4 nominees

[–] SevernSarge 9 years ago

I have always thought that the film "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1956) met the criteria for Worst Best Picture Winner. I am sure there are a few others more deserving than SIL, but 80 Days is the one that leapt immediately to mind.

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[–] Elizabeth-Darcy 8 years ago

I love this movies and I think it didn't deserve to win the oscar but not the worst for me. Chicago / Birdman are the worst for me !!!

[–] brian-btapple 8 years ago

forrest gump or titanic

I don' know, it's a mystery