Best Picture Oscar Winners on Blu-ray

[Vw Driver]

Great list, have lots of these already. English Patient and King's Speech seem to be the worst here so I'll be skipping those for years.

[HD Canuck]

Picked-up Annie Hall today.

Not sure what will win this year. I've only seen Lincoln and Life of Pi. Hoping to catch Django on Friday and to see Argo, gonna have to go to a 2nd run theater here. also hoping to maybe catch Zero Dark Thirty this weekend.

[Kevin Holly]

Originally Posted by Vw Driver

Great list, have lots of these already. English Patient and King's Speech seem to be the worst here so I'll be skipping those for years.

I'd say Forrest Gump is the worst film ever to win Best Picture. By a long, long shot.

[Rizor]

Personally, I love The English Patient. The King's Speech is a solid movie, but The Social Network deserved it that year. I really like Forrest Gump but 1994 was a strong year and I can think of 4 movies I prefer from that year.

From the past decade, I feel these are the least worthy Best Picture winners:

1. Crash
2. Chicago
3. The Artist
4. The Hurt Locker
5. A Beautiful Mind

[bookcase]

The English Patient is one of my all-time favorite movies. I don't get the hatred toward it. Crash is the worst Best Picture winner in (my) recent memory. I hated it the first time; gave it a second chance and hated it more. How that won over Brokeback Mountain I'll never understand.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Vw Driver

Great list, have lots of these already. English Patient and King's Speech seem to be the worst here so I'll be skipping those for years.

King's Speech is a really excellent film. I haven't seen The English Patient.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by bookcase

The English Patient is one of my all-time favorite movies. I don't get the hatred toward it. Crash is the worst Best Picture winner in (my) recent memory. I hated it the first time; gave it a second chance and hated it more. How that won over Brokeback Mountain I'll never understand.

How Brokeback Mountain was even nominated is what I'll never understand.

[tama]

Originally Posted by bookcase

The English Patient is one of my all-time favorite movies. I don't get the hatred toward it. Crash is the worst Best Picture winner in (my) recent memory. I hated it the first time; gave it a second chance and hated it more. How that won over Brokeback Mountain I'll never understand.

I felt both crash and brokeback were decent films at best. Overall that year was average at best and was a cointoss for a BP winner.

[Rizor]

I think Brokeback is a great movie and deeply affecting. My personal preference for the year would've been Spielberg's Munich. But between Crash and Brokeback, I'd go with Brokeback every time.

I have no idea how The Artist won all those awards last year. Having seen all 9 of last year's nominees, it's easily among the bottom two with Extemely Loud.

[tama]

Originally Posted by Rizor

I think Brokeback is a great movie and deeply affecting. My personal preference for the year would've been Spielberg's Munich. But between Crash and Brokeback, I'd go with Brokeback every time.

I have no idea how The Artist won all those awards last year. Having seen all 9 of last year's nominees, it's easily among the bottom two with Extemely Loud.

I completely forgot about Munich.

[5th Of November]

Originally Posted by Kevin Holly

I'd say Forrest Gump is the worst film ever to win Best Picture. By a long, long shot.

Not even close.

Many of the winners of the last 10 years are debatable though.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by bookcase

How that won over Brokeback Mountain I'll never understand.

I've said this in other threads but Nicholson's 'whoa' really did say it all.

It's not just that Brokeback Mountain was so good...Crash was just so vapid and shallow. I could have lived with Munich but Crash was just ridiculous.

[captveg]

Having seen all but two of the Best Picture winners (Cavalcade and Tom Jones), the worst, IMO, is easily Cimarron.

[tama]

The crowd was shocked and displeased if I remember correctly when Shakespeare in Love won.

[Kevin Holly]

Originally Posted by 5th Of November

Not even close.

Many of the winners of the last 10 years are debatable though.

You're forgetting, I'm a Gump-hater. Any of the other winners I would rather watch.

[5th Of November]

Originally Posted by Kevin Holly

You're forgetting, I'm a Gump-hater. Any of the other winners I would rather watch.

As long as you know you're in the minority.

[COLD_COBRA_]

Coming home in a body bag? Great god damn movie.

[technique]

Great list and bookmarked.

[Whirlygig]

The only released (US) titles I don't have any interest in buying are Braveheart, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, and Chicago.

Other than that I have almost everything except Driving Miss Daisy, Gandhi, and 5 from 1960 and earlier.

For me it would seem that the year 2000 was when Best Picture became meaningless. I can't even get behind No Country as a winner, despite being a Coen fan -- IMO There Will Be Blood should have taken the 2007 prize (and the Coens should have won 2 years later for A Serious Man).

[captveg]

Originally Posted by Whirlygig

For me it would seem that the year 2000 was when Best Picture became meaningless. I can't even get behind No Country as a winner, despite being a Coen fan -- IMO There Will Be Blood should have taken the 2007 prize (and the Coens should have won 2 years later for A Serious Man).

As much as I like There Will Be Blood, I feel that No Country for Old Men is the most "correct" choice for Best Picture aside from Schindler's List in the history of the awards. It's a film that will absolutely pass the time test.