Your Top 10 Best Picture Winners

[nagysaudio]

Here are mine by year:

Ben-Hur
The Godfather
Rocky
Terms of Endearment
Amadeus
Dances With Wolves
Schindler's List
Forrest Gump
Braveheart
Titanic

[jscoggins]

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=166714

[nagysaudio]

Originally Posted by jscoggins

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=166714

Well darn.

[Blu-Velvet]

Here are mine in general order of preference (and all but one on Blu-ray)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Casablanca (1943)
Wings / Sunrise (1927-28)*
* -- (a tie for Best Production and Best Artistic Quality of Production, like that year's split award itself)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Artist (2011)
Chicago (2002)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Ben-Hur (1959)
You Can't Take it With You (1938)

[Hucksta G]

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. American Beauty (1999)
3. The Godfather Part II (1974)
4. Schindler's List (1993)
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
6. The Departed (2006)
7. The Return of the King (2003)
8. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
9. Gladiator (2000)
10. Amadeus (1984)

[hasslein]

French Connection
Lawrence of Arabia
Godfather
Amadeus
Rocky
Platoon
Unforgiven
Mutiny on the Bounty
Casablanca
Ben Hur

I've seen all but 10 winners.

[lukemo22]

1. The Departed
2. American Beauty
3. A Beautiful Mind
4. The Silence of the Lambs
5. Rocky
6. No Country for Old Men
7. Forrest Gump
8. The Godfather
9. Gladiator
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

[Scottie]

I have not seen every single Best Picture winner, but here are my top 10 choices from the ones I have seen (in no particular order).

01. Casablanca
02. All About Eve
03. On The Waterfront
04. The Godfather
05. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
06. Annie Hall
07. The Deer Hunter
08. The Silence Of The Lambs
09. American Beauty
10. No Country For Old Men

It Happened One Night and The Lost Weekend are also great winners.

[Astro Zombie]

I've barely seen a third of the winners, but I'll give it a shot:

01. On the Waterfront (1954)
02. Ben-Hur (1959)
03. The Godfather (1972)
04. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
05. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
06. Unforgiven (1992)
07. Titanic (1997)
08. Chicago (2002)
09. The Departed (2006)
10. The Artist (2011)

[nagysaudio]

Maybe the mods can join this with the other original thread. It's only fair to that poster. I didn't see that thread when I posted this. Thanks!

[Jasonic]

In no order

Casablanca
Bridge On the River Kwai
Out of Africa
Silence of the Lambs
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
Titanic
A Beautiful Mind
The Return of the King
Slumdog Millionare

[Kevin Holly]

The Deer Hunter
The French Connection
The Godfather
Ordinary People
The Sting
The Silence of the Lambs
The Departed
12 Years A Slave
In The Heat Of The Night
No Country For Old Men

That was tough, the four that could, on a given day, have a good shot at cracking the top 10 are, Hamlet, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Braveheart. Deer Hunter at #1 is undisputed, though.


For the record, I would say the worst film to get the award is Forrest Gump, and it's not even close.

[hasslein]

Originally Posted by nagysaudio

Maybe the mods can join this with the other original thread. It's only fair to that poster. I didn't see that thread when I posted this. Thanks!

That one is 20, this one is 10, so I don't think you should sweat it.

[donaheyzhen]

It's only fair to that poster. I didn't see that thread when I posted this.

[KubrickKurasawa]

MY LISTO!

1. The Deer Hunter
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Forrest Gump
4. The Bridge on the River Kwai
5. The Sound of Music
6. The Departed
7. The Silence of the Lambs
8. Braveheart
9. Million Dollar Baby
10. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

[KubrickKurasawa]

Originally Posted by Kevin Holly

The Deer Hunter
That was tough, the four that could, on a given day, have a good shot at cracking the top 10 are, Hamlet, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Braveheart. Deer Hunter at #1 is undisputed, though.


For the record, I would say the worst film to get the award is Forrest Gump, and it's not even close.

Forrest Gump is entertaining as hell, it has near flawless pacing, awesome effects for it's time (Zemekis who's flipping earned that), Tom Hanks showing that he is maybe the greatest actor ever as well, comedy, drama, war, meaning of life, being respectful and yourself tons of great stuff in there, sacrifice, optimism. Perfect soundtrack. Who else could pull that role off? Yeah, no one else.

Oh man the bridge on the river kwai is great it shows us what really happens to POW's you become a a total slave, and thousands become murdered for the regime baby. And hell all you got to show for it is a bridge! Or if filmed today an oil field.

Not gonna argue over deer hunter

[Todd Tomorrow]

1. All About Eve
2. The Godfather Part II
3. The Godfather
4. Annie Hall
5. The Apartment
6. Rebecca
7. It Happened One Night
8. The Sound of Music
9. No Country for Old Men
10. The French Connection

[dallywhitty]

The Godfather Part II
Gone with the Wind
Midnight Cowboy
The Godfather
American Beauty
The Deer Hunter
The Lost Weekend
The Silence of the Lambs
Casablanca
Platoon

[JavaJulien]

1. The Godfather
2. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
3. The Godfather Part 2
4. Ben-Hur
5. Casablanca
6. Amadeus
7. No Country for Old Men
8. Scindler's List
9. Forrest Gump
10. The Artist

[Visco.]

1. American Beauty
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. On the Waterfront
5. The Godfather Part 1
6. How Green Was My Valley
7. 12 Years A Slave
8. Platoon
9. Return of the King
10. The Hurt Locker