your Top 10 Best Picture Oscar winners

[RRA]

Simple really: whether you rank them or not (your choice), pick your 10 favorite movies that won the Oscar for Best Picture. Let me work on mine and I'll post mine later.

[Gregory]

In alphabetical order:

All About Eve
All Quiet on the Western Front
Annie Hall
Ben-Hur
Casablanca
Godfather Part II, The
Lawrence of Arabia
Lord of the Rings, The: The Return of the King
No Country for Old Men
Schindler's List

[Elliott?]

01. Annie Hall (1977)
02. Amadeus (1984)
03. No Country for Old Men (2007)
04. The Godfather (1972)
05. The Apartment (1960)
06. Gone with the Wind (1939)
07. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
08. All About Eve (1950)
09. On the Waterfront (1954)
10. It Happened One Night (1934)

With Godfather Part II, Unforgiven, Casablanca, English Patient, and All Quiet just waiting in the wings.

[guany]

1. All About Eve
2. Rebecca
3. Annie Hall
4. The Apartment
5. The Silence of the Lambs
6. The Godfather
7. The Departed
8. The Sound of Music
9. Casablanca
10. Titanic

HM: The Godfather Part II (it's been ages since I've seen it), Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai, Grand Hotel, You Can't Take it With You.

I'm probably going to get a lot of shit for Sound of Music and Titanic, but I don't care.

[dlong5665]

1. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
2. The Godfather/The Godfather Part II
3. Annie Hall
4. Silence of the Lambs
5. The Last Emperor
6. No Country For Old Men
7. The Arpartment
8. The Departed
9. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
10. Casablanca

[BBKing44]

Of 39 seen:

All About Eve
Amadeus
Annie Hall
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Gone with the Wind
The Last Emperor
Lawrence of Arabia
Midnight Cowboy
No Country for Old Men

[Blasty]

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. All About Eve
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. The Sound of Music
5. Ordinary People
6. West Side Story
7. Gone with the Wind
8. The Godfather
9. The Deer Hunter
10. Out of Africa

[filmy]

It Happened One Night (1934)
Rebecca (1940)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
All About Eve (1950)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Annie Hall (1977)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Unforgiven (1992)
Titanic (1997)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)

The worst from what I've seen (I don't know if I can sit through something like Around the World in 80 Days) are The Silence of the Lambs, A Beautiful Mind, and West Side Story, and basically anything they chose in the 80's probably isn't good, except for Ordinary People and Amadeus.

[Blasty]

It Happened One Night (1934)
Rebecca (1940)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
All About Eve (1950)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Annie Hall (1977)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Unforgiven (1992)
Titanic (1997)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)

The worst from what I've seen (I don't know if I can sit through something like Around the World in 80 Days) are The Silence of the Lambs, A Beautiful Mind, and West Side Story, and basically anything they chose in the 80's probably isn't good, except for Ordinary People and Amadeus.

Couldn't resist, huh? Especially since we've already seen Silence picked on the majority of lists posted so far. AD can never resist an opportunity to turn a smile upside down. How about we focus this thread on our BEST list since that is the purpose of the thread after all and save the pans for the likely flip side thread which I'm sure will be created later.

[filmy]

Couldn't resist, huh? Especially since we've already seen Silence picked on the majority of lists posted so far. AD can never resist an opportunity to turn a smile upside down. How about we focus this thread on our BEST list since that is the purpose of the thread after all and save the pans for the likely flip side thread which I'm sure will be created later.

Let's ban those who listed more than ten films while we're at it!

[haqyunus]

I have seen about 65 of them and I my best 10 (not ranked and alphabetically) are below. Actually here are some really good movies, in general, in there.

All About Eve
Amadeus
Annie Hall
The Deer Hunter
The Departed
Godfather Part II
Lawrence Of Arabia
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Schindler's List
Terms of Endearment

There are quite a few that I don't like so let us not go there (yet )

[Blasty]

Let's ban those who listed more than ten films while we're at it!

Not the same thing at all. One is an elaboration - the other takes the thread off topic in the opposite direction. I just found it annoying you HAD to add that to your list, it just seems unnecessary and divalicious because of course people will focus in on what you picked as your worst, especially considering what you picked.

[Bean]

Chronological:

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Casablanca
The Apartment
Lawrence of Arabia
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II
Annie Hall
Amadeus
No Country for Old Men
The Hurt Locker

[lazarus]

The worst from what I've seen (I don't know if I can sit through something like Around the World in 80 Days) are The Silence of the Lambs

Arguably the most overrated movie, like, ever.


1. The English Patient
2. The Last Emperor
3. Annie Hall
4. No Country For Old Men
5. The Godfather, Part II
6. The Sting
7. My Fair Lady
8. Lawrence of Arabia
9. Out Of Africa
10. An American In Paris


I should probably watch my Blu-ray of Gigi before making this list, but whatever.

[Elliott?]

Are we counting Sunrise in this? Because if so, it's easily, like, at least #3 for me.

[Jeff Beachnau]

I don't think Sunrise conuts. The Academy doesn't count it.

[lazarus]

Would have been on my list too.

But sadly, it shouldn't count.

[affy18]

I don't care for Silence of the Lambs either.

[Pingy]

1) The Godfather Part II
2) All About Eve
3) Lawrence of Arabia
4) Midnight Cowboy
5) The Apartment
6) The Last Emperor
7) Annie Hall
8) Casablanca
9) Unforgiven
10) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

I'll also vouch for the Silence of the Lambs is overrated notion.

[Bean]

We counted it for the epic Best Picture tournament on here way back in the day, so I still count it.