Comments on: The 5 Greatest Best Picture Oscar Line-Ups Of All Time

By: Niko

Niko — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

1974! Chinatown, Godfather 2, Lenny, The Conversation and, almost perfect but not quite, The Towering Inferno.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

If they had ditched Atonement and Juno, and replaced them with Jesse James and Zodiac, then 2007 would have been the best Oscar line-up since 1975.

By: Helgi

Helgi — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

1975: what a year.

By: Zack

Zack — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

Totally with you on 2007, only I would have included "Gone Baby Gone" in the Could Have Been column.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

Maybe Rocky winning in 1976 was a bit of a letdown. But take a look at all the candidates… we're talking about Lumet, Scorsese, AND Hal Ashby at their best game here. And considering the political atmosphere at the time, personally, I think 1976 IS the 70's.

By: Glass

Glass — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

That lineup for 1975 still blows me away… every single one of those is a 10/10. Every one. '07 was great, even though a lot of movies were better than Clayton and Atonement. The 70s really ruled for movies, though.

By: Alfonso

Alfonso — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

I would add 1997, with Titanic, As Good as It Gets, LA Confidential, Good Will Hunting, and The Full Monty. Not a big fan of The Full Monty, but the other four are top notch, best quality that Hollywood can deliver.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

What about 1967? With the exception of the unbelievably unrealistic nomination of "Doctor Doolittle", the other 4 nominees for Best Picture are some of the single greatest moments in cinema history! Despite the fact that "Bonnie & Clyde" SHOULD have won Best Picture, there was also, "In The Heat Of The Night" (the PC winner), "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?" and "The Graduate"!

By: cory everett

cory everett — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

Funny how everyone acknowledges 1999 to be a banner year for cinema but you wouldn't know it from the 2000 Oscars: American Beauty, Cider House Rules, Green Mile, Insider, Sixth Sense were picked over Magnolia, Eyes Wide Shut, Being John Malkovich, Fight Club, Three Kings, Toy Story 2, The Matrix, Election, etc.

As always, the Oscars are clueless. They get it right only occasionally and only by accident.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

1950 was heavyweight year.

But when I try to list them all, this site blocks my post as suspected spam.

By: IndieMcNulty

IndieMcNulty — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

It's like reading a person trying to be pretentious without the knowledge to support their obvious sophism. Tree of Life is vintage Malik. Beautifully crafted and unrecognized for years before being declared a masterpiece.
Also, 1948 was an awful year. I think you need to rewatch those movies and not just google this information on your own. Most film historians would agree. Your list should be a decade and that decade should be the 1970s. Followed by the 1990s and then maybe the 50s. 40s were dominated by Welles and nobody else.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

The early 90s had some pretty damn impressive line ups:

-1990: The Godfather Part III, Awakenings, Ghost, Dances With Wolves, and Goodfellas

-1991: Beauty And The Beast, Bugsy, The Silence Of The Lambs, and JFK (with The Prince Of Tides striking the only sour note)

-1992: The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Howard's End, and Unforgiven (and Scent Of A Woman, which at least has some Pacino mega-acting…)

-1993: In The Name Of The Father, The Piano, The Remains Of The Day, The Fugitive, Schindler's List.

By: Milton

Milton — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

1994 in my opinion was the best one. Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump alone are three of among the best film I've ever seen. Then throw in the entertaining Quiz Show and you have yourself a really powerful lineup.

By: SoulHonky

SoulHonky — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

Odd, most everyone I know considers 2011 to be a down year for cinema. I don't even think it's the best year of this decade, nevermind recent memory. And how does 1994 (Gump, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, Lion King, Quiz Show, In the Name of the Father, etc.) not even get an honorable mention?

By: Pedro

Pedro — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

I totally agree with this post. 2007 was by far the greatest year for American cinema recently. "Atonement" There will be Blood" and "No Country for Old Men" are undoubtedly masterpieces. I would probably add 1994 (the year of rom-com golden "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Forest Gump", "Pulp Fiction", "Quiz Show" and "The Shawshank Redemption") and 2006 ("The Departed", "Babel", "Little Miss Sunshine", "Letters from Iwo Jima" and "The Queen") was also a good year. Do you agree with me?

By: oogle monster

oogle monster — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:02 +0000

Last year was spot on, too.

By: James

James — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:01 +0000

"Jesse James" will always be the classic film that almost no one saw. Phenomenal on all counts and one of the most beautifully photographed ever.

By: Mel

Mel — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:01 +0000

What about 1994? There was Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, The Lion King, Clerks, Ed Wood, Leon, Three Colors…

By: Edward Copeland

Edward Copeland — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:01 +0000

2007? No Country for Old Men, yes. Juno and Michael Clayton are fine, but there were better. Atonement was a bore and don't get me started about everything wrong with There Will Be Blood. Diving Bell and the Butterfly certainly belonged there and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was better than all but No Country on that list. Zodiac and Into the Wild were worthy contenders. As for runners-up: 1978? Has anyone sat through The Deer Hunter, Coming Home or Midnight Express lately? Egads. Halloween and The Last Waltz were better than all five nominees that year.

By: ColonelFatheart

ColonelFatheart — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:01 +0000

1976 easily trumps 2007. Rocky is no let-down. Come on now. It's a fantastic movie. Is it better than Taxi Driver or Network or All the President's Men? Heck no, but it gets a lot of unfair disrespect.

Replace Juno and Atonement with Zodiac and The Assassination of Jesse James, and we might be talking. (And I'd put Ratatouille in there over Michael Clayton, but that's me.)

By: thaty

thaty — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:01 +0000

In my opinion, 2006 was one of the best years. I would have been happy if any of the five nominees had won. They all deserved it. The Departed, The Queen, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine and Babel.
There were also a lot of other great movies that could have been nominated like Children of Men (my favorite movie that year), Pan's Labyrinth, Volver, Little Children, Notes on a Scandal, The Prestige, The Fountain (I know some people hated it, but I loved it), United 93, The Last king of Scotland

By: rich

rich — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:01 +0000

also, 1994 blows away most of these years. forrest jump is one of the greatest films of all time. pulp fiction.. incredible. both can be viewed over and over…shawshank.. awesome film.. woody allen.. right on target…

By: rich

rich — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:01 +0000

mostly a pretty good take on things except i would disagree about this year.. the help is the best picture by far and as for 2007, no country was a stupid, overly violent movie about a bunch of unlikable people. why anyone would enjoy that film is beyond me. the only best picture winners worse than that were "crash" and "the hurt locker". 1974and 1976 were both stronger than 2007 and this year.. money ball? best picture? please. the natural, field of dreams and the rookie were way better baseball pics.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:01 +0000

Edward Copeland, I agree completely with your assessment of 1978. In my mind, one of the weaker crops of nominees out there. The Deer Hunter is the best, in my opinion, by far, but far too long, one-sided, and self-important to be a true masterpiece. Midnight Express is one of the worst best picture nominees I've ever seen- dated, offensive, boring, and inaccurate.
If you take out Dr. Doolittle, 1967 was pretty great. And I think Rocky is great, and 1976 is an exceptional year. 1979 in my mind has no serious flaws (Norma Rae is a little lackluster, but not terrible). Also 1997, Titanic is not my favorite, but LA Confidential is. As Good As it Gets, The Full Monty, and Good Will Hunting round out a great year. Also, 98 and 99.

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:57:01 +0000

What movie is the Picture next to gone with the wind