Daffy Stardust ranks Oscar's Best Picture winners based on his own preference (with just a dash of historical importance and received opinion thrown in ).
"The King's Speech," "Shakespeare in Love," and "Terms of Endearment" rank higher than "Lawrence of Arabia? Really? While the three films are good, David Lean's masterpiece outshines all of them combined. Enjoyed watching your montage.
Once you accept the idea that a large number of Best Picture winners weren’t even the best picture of their respective years, then you understand how subjective rankings can be. I disagree with a lot of the specific placements in this list, but so what? There are a lot of films here that I love, admire, and view repeatedly for a variety of different reasons; there are also some that I positively can’t stand. Again, so what? This ranking is as valid as any other. It is also extremely well done with an excellent selection of representative shots and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.
It’s not highly ranked among BP winners but I absolutely loved “You Can’t Take It With You.” Good movie, good story/characters + a good lesson learned.
Eight Mile was in the running against Shakespeare in Love and I thought Eight Mile was better, and Citizen Kane not even selected for Best Picture, can't even remember which picture won that year
Your opinions are...well, what can one say?...Thanks for sharing them. Nice presentation. No point in saying how much I disagree. Your lovely montage makes up for all that.
I would be interested in know what the criteria was for determining the list. The Godfather at #3 and The Godfather Part 2 at #33? Part 2 was as good (if not better) than the original.
I think the only criteria is which movie he liked more.. Putting LOTR so low only shows me that he doesn't like fantasy movies, which is ok.And putting most musicas very high just shows that he is a fan of the genre.. which is also ok.
I personally would have put the Godfather, Casablanca, and Gone With The Wind as my top 3. They are generally amongst the top 10 films on the AFI list of the top 100 movies of all time. But, everyone has different tastes.
I'm in agreement. This list does not take historical context into account. The scene in the Godfather when Michael takes out his enemies while he's in church is still mimicked today by movie and TV directors.
@@scottodonnell7121 I feel ya ,I look at some list om UT and I'm like NO WAY ,but then I'm like we'll if you don't like it ,make ur own ,and I'm like "yeah I'm gud bitchin about somebody else's " 🤣🤣🤣,but for sure I agree with ya ,this was wack lol
12 Angry Men in particular is one of my very favorite movies of all time. It was nominated for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay, but lost each time to the more ‘epic’ Bridge on the River Kwai.”
@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 12 Angry Men is my favorite movie ever. I do understand why the Academy erred towards The Bridge On The River Kwai though. It’s a bigger production that did better at the box office, and hey it’s really good in its own right.
Hello- people have to realize what was judged Best Picture decades ago was based said film's appreciation then. perception of quality changes over time. for instance The Greatest Show on Earth the 1952 winner is a corny hokey film but its also diamond grade corn and hokey. no one could make a blockbuster film like DeMille.
Gone With The Wind should have been at number one. That movie has retained it spot for a reason. No matter how much it's been maligned and it's been fashionable to hate it. The majority the world over in audience terms, it's beloved. More so now in the USA then ever before. That motion picture will outlive us. While others will be forgotten.
You are right that Gone with the Wind holds a significant place in the history of popular American filmmaking. It has enthusiastic fans and is still the number one box office hit of all time when adjusted for inflation. It doesn’t need my esteem to hold onto that legacy.
The first (and last) time I saw GWTW was at a matinee in 1968. That evening I saw The Graduate. What a rush. A true time-wrap. I was 22 then. Of course, 67/68 were pivotal moments in movie making.
I would put The Godfather at number 1 pretty easily, but The Apartment and On the Waterfront are brilliant. Still don't agree with The Godfather Part 2 being so low, tho
very interesting list. Some real surprises from other lists I've seen. I imagine that the very high placement of Shakespeare in Love is probably the most unexpected. I haven't seen it since it came out. Its hard to separate it from all the baggage around it
That is one that I thought I might get some pushback on. When it comes down to it, I watch Shakespeare in Love often and always enjoy it. That's something that can't be said for most of the movies on this list. My top 20 or so are all films I have found to have rewatch value. Thanks for coming by!
Yeah, I kept watching the video thinking I'd missed Shakespeare in Love. Then when I hit the top 10 I *knew* I'd missed it...guess not, lol. To each their own. I haven't even seen most of these.
You choose the right word: simple. But I think that’s what makes it amazing. It’s a simple story, but is it really? There was so much emotion behind some of the facial expression and words. Emotions most of us have experienced, so it’s relatable
@@kellyrhoads1067 That's the hallmark of great acting ... their emotions are believable and their love relatable. In the scene where she is crying on the balcony and he asks her to dance ... incredible emotion and understanding from both of them. In the scene where he smacks the bus sign and instead takes a cab ... you can see and feel his joy. Or where she is sitting by the phone, watching The Ed Sullivan Show, drawn into herself and completely devastated. No words, just sadness, and heartbreak. And then Marty's wonderful realization of their chance for love and happiness, and her picking up the phone on the first ring ... a perfect ending. Those are scenes of joy and heartbreak that you never forget. They become a part of your romantic life.
I've always enjoyed it. It's a fun watch. Needs a big screen. But I would have to say it's not particularly emotionally involving -it's a slick Hollywood product. I would say any of the other nominated films from that year would have been more deserving, but that doesn't take away from its entertainment value.
you know what fascinates me? That someone else's assessment and ranking qualifies to another as having no taste or lack of understanding of the subject. I have seen EVERY Best Picture and my own rankings may be a little different. But I found this list to be quiet refreshing. There are NO wrong opinions.
No wrong opinions? So if I say that Casablanca should be #90 because it’s a poorly acted film, alllegorically showing how the struggle against totalitarianism is doomed to failure, that’s not wrong?
@@cardboardbelt C'mon Daffy. Ralph Fiennes' less talented brother? That wilted script? The strained feminism? The pretensions? Ugh. Nice video though. Cheers!
I just remember your #94 on the list, "Cavalcade" (1933), and when I saw it as as part of a college film program in the early 1970's. Yes, it was old and "veddy British," but there was no denying the sweep of early 20th-century history that it depicted. Highly affecting: the mother Jane, just having learned of the death of her son Joe, wanders the streets full of revelers celebrating the end of WW1. She raises her noisemaker with the rest of them, but only for a moment before her grief crowds in on her again. I've never forgotten the heartbreak of that scene. Perhaps "Cavalcade" is at the bottom of this list, but there is still a lot to recommend it.
I'm watching all the best picture winners with a group of friends but we're only up to 1965. Cimarron is in the bottom 3 for me but I quite liked Cavalcade. It's about in the middle for me. Gigi is my lowest ranked movie because I just didn't enjoy the grooming of a young girl aspect.
While I wildly disagree with your opinions...film rating wise...it was enormously entertaining and professionally designed. PS Fashionable or not, I loathed The English Patient when I paid to see it, and that was BEFORE it was fashionable
The Best Years of our Lives and How Green was my Valley are in a top 10 because of the humanity contained in them . They both deal with what life is all about. As for cinematic achievement David Leans Lawrence of Arabia is hard to top ; with a few answers to world problems. Just saying as an older man these days .
Seems rather random. But that is what movie viewing is all about. Thought the presentation very well edited, however. The short little clips really captured each selection well. There were so many best pictures, some way better than others.
Not a bad list, other than, "Shakespeare In Love". Notice Shirley MacLaine in at least three of the top winners. Most talented actor actress entertainer ever. Did I mention beautiful?
You had me...until you got to No. 1. Alternate top ten: 10. It Happened One Night 9. The French Connection 8. Annie Hall 7. Unforgiven 6. Midnight Cowboy 5. The Bridge on the River Kwai 4. Schindler's List 3. Moonlight 2. The Godfather, Part II AND...AT NUMBER ONE... 1.The Godfather
It’s good to see The Apartment in its rightful place at the top of your rankings. Also glad you are not a Shakespeare in Love hater, though I think it is a little high on the list.
This was well done and well put together. Thank you for making it. I'll be honest. There was some big name movies that I was surprised were so low on your list, (Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Gladiator, Million Dollar Baby, Dances with Wolves) to name a few. Totally your opinion and your channel, so no arguing from me. I was just surprised such big name, blockbuster films were as low as they were. Thanks again for putting this together. It is appreciated.
You did a great job choosing the exact right clips for each movie. As for your opinions...groan. Shakespeare in Love at #7? Of all the great movies on this list? Dude, it wasn't even the best picture of the year. We all know what should have won.
I appreciate the compliment on the making of the video. I have to disagree that 'everyone' believes Shakespeare in Love shouldn't have won Best Picture. The crowded Oscars party I was at here in North Carolina erupted in cheers when the win was announced. My co-workers were generally enthusiastic about it as well. Not to mention that large number of professional artists and craftspeople who actively voted for it. The movie not only took home Best Picture, but also wins in 6 other categories. It wasn't until I got home from work the next day and logged into the internet that I encountered a bunch of bellyaching. Nevertheless, Shakespeare in Love continues to be one of a couple handfuls of Best Picture winners that I sit down and enjoy on roughly a yearly basis. On the other hand, while I have no problem with the wins it did take home, Saving Private Ryan pretty much gathers dust on my shelf. Anyway, I generally think everyone should enjoy whatever movies make them happy. That's what popular art is about.
To be fair, I haven't seen all these movies. But I like the fact that you were able to rate these movies especially with the genres and cinematography being so different. My #1 movie would've been Marty but I loved your choice at #1.
I enjoyed seeing this list play out. I would be interested to see what a top 100 list would be based on the number of lowest to highest number of academy member votes, or margins of votes, or percentage of the overall votes during their respective years. That numerical vote calculation would take away any single individual's biases and preferences and be another interesting way to tally the top 100 of all time.
Was psyched that the top 20 had selections that are older than 20 (or 30 or 40) years old. #1 surprised me. But it's a personal fave (out of many). In fact a great many of my faves made the list. And the most surprising? I truly had no idea that so many of my faves had won the award.
I like character, story, and dialogue, which Brooks has a habit of providing in abundance. Lawrence of Arabia is gorgeously photographed and I really appreciate that, but I'm much less likely to return to it because the story simply doesn't grab me. As I mentioned, this is just my personal preference. I would really enjoy seeing lists from other people!
@@cardboardbelt Thanks for the support. I think that fixed it by breaking it into two posts, It was just too gosh darn long then. Sorry abuot that. (Other clutter on this subject now eliminated.)
I suppose the only way to save oneself from that is,when finding a post becoming long and elaborate,to save it to the Copy text clipboard before trying to post it!
I haven't watched the Academy Awards Show for decades now. It lost legitimacy for me when Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" wasn't nominated for Best Picture.
The Oscars look to the past and are always 10-15 years out of date. They can't reward what they can't understand. True greatness just goes over their heads.
Very interesting list indeed , It's always intriguing to see others opinions even if they're the complete opposite of your own. The top 5 is hard to argue against though
1928 basically had two best picture winners, because of the ill-defined “unique and artistic picture” category. I’m curious where you would place Sunrise on this list.?
"American Beauty" should be #94. Definitely the dumbest movie to ever win an Oscar for Best Picture. And in the first place it had to be "Forrest Gump".
What I didn't understand from this list is that they ranked Chicago higher then return of the king. I think what also surprised me is how godfather part 2 wasn't higher on the list as well
And you won't be alone in that decision. It was not a bad movie, a movie one could hate, but it should have been nominated at best and only in a bad year with nothing better to choose from. But best picture? give me a break. Almighty Harvey Weinstein made it possible with his sheer influence at that time.
What is AMAZING to me: In my opinion, most of these "Best Picture" winners are REALLY BAD Movies. I've seen many of them, and have no desire to see those I have not.
Your list reflects the opinion who sees the world a little differently than most of us, sorry. Shakespeare in Love beats Lawrence of Arabia? The Apartment beats The Godfather? Sorry, your list shows a Gen-X bias and a lack of appreciation for the craft of movie making. Your top 20 definitely is mis-ordered and you have some of the best buried in the middle. But as you said this is a personal lost and not reflective of reality.
If you think The Apartment lacks high quality cinematic craft, then I don’t know what to tell you. Meanwhile, the beautiful cinematography and editing of Lawrence of Arabia definitely earned its spot in the top half of my list. Its less than moving story and script and use of inappropriate casting pushes it out of my top 20. The reality is that all of these movies won Best Picture and some of them aren’t very good. So much for quality by group fiat.
It's not just one of my favorite Best Picture winners, but one of my favorite films overall. Great screenplay, wonderful lead performances, excellent design and photography. Something I return to over and over.
Just wondering what criteria you used when deciding on your rankings. I tried to find a common thread across your best movies, your worst ones, and the ones in the middle, but came up empty. Personally, I found most of your choices bewildering -- so many way too high or too low (especially "Shakespeare in Love"), but I would probably feel that way about anyone else's list as well. I give you credit for having the conviction to rank them, giving us a glimpse of so many the average fan has never seen, and a beautiful presentation.
Here's the thing about cinema. It smashes together so many different crafts/art forms/tech that the result is going to naturally be very subjective in overall quality. Sometimes a film has such amazing cinematography or such great design elements or such a great set of performances that it overwhelms any of its small shortcomings. At the same time, a movie can be strong throughout without ever being genius in any way. All this is to say that making a list like this is unavoidably going to be based on the individual's experience of the films in question. I will tell you that one of the things I keep in mind is rewatch value. While I have seen lots of people say that they never want to watch Schindler's List or Spotlight again, I have found great value in seeing each of them several times. I am engrossed in them each time. Other movies on this list I have tried to watch multiple times only to find that my first negative impulse was pretty spot on (for me). Tom Jones will likely never get a third watch attempt from me.
@@cardboardbelt I kinda agree with you on Schindler's List, I have watched it several times and not because of morbid, but because with each view there's something new I appreciate, photography, acting, setting, soundtrack, etc... peple saying they don't want to watch it again are just saying that it was too hard for them, I kinda understand, since the films wants to make you feel bad about the victims, and that's human compasion, there's nothing wrong with that, makes you better understand the nature of the situation since it's actually based on a real story and those victims existed, I'm glad they showed the real Schindler's jews accompanied by their actors at the end of the movie, something that most people seems to forget.
Okay, I have to say THANK YOU for not shitting on Titanic like everyone else loves to do for whatever reason, but all that goodwill was destroyed when I saw Shakespeare in Love at #7.
My opinion on Shakespeare in Love hasn’t changed since prior to it winning Best Picture. On the other hand it seems like the negative response to it went from 1 to 100 overnight.
It was clearly in the top 2 going into the night of the awards. It won several other awards. Critical response was pretty uniformly strong and everyone I knew loved it coming out of the movie theater. None of us had a single idea who Weinstein was. Wagner was a terrible human being, but his Ring Cycle is genius. Him being awful has no bearing on my opinion of his music. And he actually wrote it while Weinstein was just a producer on SiL.
My thoughts: Tom Jones and English Patient are way too low (it's become fashionable to dump on EP but I still find it compelling and moving). Oliver, Chicago, King's Speech and Shakespeare in Love are too high for me (Oliver should be in the bottom 10 - I find it annoying beyond belief).
The winners are awarded as a result of various circumstances of the period in question, and not by their artistic merits on most of cases. In the 20s and 30s it was the big espectacle, in the 40s the war theme, in the 50s social-realism, in the 60s the big superproductions, in the 70s there was a return to social melodrama, and in the 80s Hollywood was becoming too politically correct, and it got worse up to this day. Many of the films of the last forty years are easily forgettable, and we wonder how they got the prize in the first place: Diving Miss Daisy, Out of Africa, Ghandi, Slumdog Millionaire, Twelve Years a Slave, to name a few. The Academy has always been too soppy and too sugary.
In recent years the voting format is a sort of ranked choice style that is meant to build a concensus so that a deeply divisive film is less likely to win. The idea is fair, but it hasn’t always really worked out that way. Of course, the moment a film wins Best Picture (and indeed, often the moment it’s nominated) the knives come out.
What was wrong with Driving Miss Daisy? I thought it was believable as hell. I've known people much like Morgan Freeman's character, he should've at least been nominated.
Not particularly bad. Just not something of the level that I would consider Best Picture. At about Million Dollar Baby is where the movies on my list are generally decent.
Yes the Best Picture is awarded to the producer. So when you look at a film like “Around the World in 80 Days” you have an enormous job as producer. Likewise with “Gone With the Wind”, “Oliver”, “Wings” etc.
Hello- another thought. the reasoning behind the rankings would be interesting. for instance I find it fascinating Daffy Stardust ranks An American in Paris over Oliver, My Fair Lady or The Sound of Music.
I really enjoyed your list! Hypothetical for you (based on what I wanted way back when): If Beauty and the Beast (the Disney cartoon) had won Best Picture over The Silence of the Lambs (your #17) in 1991, where would you have ranked it?
Interesting question, because I do love Beauty & the Beast and it's in my personal top 100 without even considering Best Picture status. My first impulse is that I would have it at #12 just behind Annie Hall and just ahead of Spotlight.
Bewildered by the entire ranking - The Apartment far superior to Lawrence of Arabia and Gandhi and Forrest Gump at the bottom of the barrel - but I’m simply grateful #1 was NOT Gone With the Wind or Schindler’s List. Hey, at least Apartment and On the Waterfront aren’t overrated and tediously worshipped by anyone and everyone. And they’re actually very entertaining. Again, bewildered by the rankings, but gotta grudgingly respect it.
@@cardboardbelt You’re welcome. I’d place Cavalcade or the Broadway Melody at the very bottom of the barrel and Forrest Gump at #2 and Silence of the Lambs at #1. Again, god bless you for just not dutifully and tediously idolizing GWTW and Schindler’s List - oh, and Casablanca. Gotta seriously respect your #1 pick, as much as I disagree.
I agree. (But only for Lawrence.) But, it's difficult to 'rank' movies from a 2022 viewpoint to those in '29, early 30s. Just as 'best films' today in the last 22 years will be seen 'differently' in the latter part of this century.Very difficult to do. Too many historical/cultural/'mindset' variables to take into account. I remember movies from the 50s but really only began to 'critically' view them starting in the mid/late 60s. I'm sure that someone born at turn of this century and then compare take all of them into account from, say, early 80s and have us three 'rank' them would come into different conclusions as to what which were awful and which awesome.
Wonderful assessment, Daffy! Being a seventy year old cinephile, I think it depends on the viewer's knowledge of what constitutes the " best. " For my part, it's the writing, acting, cinematography and direction combining to realize a perfect picture. Most importantly, the story must involve the interest of the viewer.
Pardon me, Daffy. But I see my list posts up there now, but I wonder if I'm the only one who can. It's embarrassing to ask, but have I been "stealth censored" or "shadow banned" so it only appears to me that my post is visible? Really troubling that that can be done to anyone.
Just to let you know, Daffy, I think this thread can be eliminated as extraneous, if you wanted to remove your response before I bump off this comment and the original one?
I haven't limited anyone in whether they can post or not. I do know that sometimes sites don't handle long comments well. Hope I get to see everything you have to share.
I’m actually pretty happy to see Moonlight being ranked pretty high with a respective #41. After the whole La La Land fiasco, I was a bit worried that Moonlight would be considered a “token” win after the whole #Oscarsowhite campaign the year before. 6 years after its Best Picture win, it’s great that many people still agree that Moonlight was a good choice for Best Picture.
Moonlight was the clear number 2 going into the show that night, so even though it was an upset, people clearly really liked it. The fact that La La Land was slightly divisive helped.
I can’t help but wonder how close were the votes between La La Land and Moonlight. It was probably a very tight race with Moonlight winning by a small margin but who knows for certain!
That’s the mystery of the voting system they use for Best Picture. La La Land very well might have received the most top ranks in the first round, but clearly it wasn’t ranked highly enough im following rounds to bring home the win. My guess is that it was pretty close.
@Bombo Dolido-I definitely agree with you that Moonlight deserved to win Best Picture and I’m glad that Moonlight is still considered a great choice for Best Picture today by cinephiles everywhere and not apart of the group of undeserving Best Picture winners like Crash and Shakespeare in Love!
#1 The Apartment is my all-time favorite movie. But still surprised that Daffy Stardust also found this gem to be their favorite. I was disappointed that Marty and The Lost Weekend came in so poorly, and shocked the The Best Years of Our Lives was not in the top five.
Thank you for sharing your list. Interesting choices. Here is my top ten: 1. The Godfather 2. Schindler’s List 3. Gone with the Wind 4. The Godfather II 5. Casablanca 6. Lawrence of Arabia 7. The Sound of Music 8. Spotlight 9. Moonlight 10. The Bridge on the River Kwai My least favorites were: Cimarron Cavalcade Nomadland
Chicago is a good film? It has no plot and the songs are almost all forgettable. To me Sound of Music is what musical movies should be, enough plot to work with and songs that stick in your head for days.
Interesting. Loved your #1. Grest movie! Shirley should have won that year. My #1 would have been All About Eve. The only one I completely disagree with is Shakespeare in Love. I would have placed it in the bottom 10, much as I adore Dame Judi.
That’s a good question. Based on a quick scan of my list I would probably put it at about #40. I liked it a good bit, but I don’t imagine I will watch it repeatedly in the coming years.
I agreed with very little on this list but it was well put together. Thanks for sharing! My personal top 5 would probably be 1. LOTR: The Return of the King 2. Gladiator 3. Schindler's List 4. The Silence of the Lambs 5. Rocky
By the way, for the first year of the Academy Awards, the award category for which "Wings" won in 1927 was called "Outstanding Picture" (becoming "Outstanding Production" two years later until the 14th awards when it would be called "Outstanding Motion Picture" and that until the 17th when it would become "Best Motion Picture"). Another award that evening of the 1st awards was "Best Unique and Artistic Picture" (for the only time) for which the winner was "Sunrise." For this reason, some say that "Sunrise" was actually a second Best Picture winner that year, since it can be argued that both categories combined to eventually become the Best Picture category.
A refreshing list for sure! I also have The Departed lower on my list, as I know for a fact there are several Best Picture Winners I enjoyed more. The Apartment is one of the best films I have ever seen, and seeing it your number 1 is refreshing! It’s all about taste and experience at the end of the day. Not everyone is going to see said film the same way, and that’s what makes it interesting. Great ranking! 👍
Thanks so much for dropping by and commenting! I always enjoy seeing lists like this when they break a little from the 'agreed upon' favorites, even if I disagree. For sure we should know what that standard homogenized list looks like, because then we get the pleasure of moving away from it.
My personal favorite Scorsese film is 1982's The King of Comedy. The ones that appear to have been runners up on the nights of their respective Oscars ceremony were 1980's Raging Bull, 1976's Taxi Driver, and 1990's Goodfellas. To my mind, it's too bad that one of those didn't grab him his first big Academy win instead of The Departed.
It’s more important and technically advanced than those films, but I really only truly admire the 40 minutes or so that involve the chariot race. I can’t imagine wanting to watch the whole thing a third time.
So maybe it's early, but where would you now rank Everything Everywhere All at Once? And may you get through all the people who's gonna ask the same thing.
Great list! We have a lot in common. I could try and come off as a cinema connoisseur, but that would be lying. I appreciate your honesty (just disregard comments that get personal opinion mixed up with what gets you brownie points). Contrary to popular opinion, I found Out Of Africa, Gandhi and The English Patient unbearably boring and Forrest Gump completely overrated, since it's ridiculously far fetched and a cliche fest. I think The Deer Hunter is too low in your rating, I love that movie even though the pacing is very uneven. #1 is an excellent choice! Some of the lesser known Oscar winners I haven't watched yet, so I can't comment on these. Many of my all time favorites didn't win the Award anyway.
Thanks so much for your kind words and for dropping by to watch. There’s a lot to like about the Deer Hunter, but I found myself wishing it had stayed focused on their home town prior to and after being at war. Some of the elements broke my suspension of disbelief. But that’s why art is great. We all get to experience it through our own lens.
@@cardboardbelt Yeah, The Deer Hunter. The Russian roulette scenes (and others) relied way too much on coincidence, even though I get the basic idea. These are Smith&Wesson revolvers, where the cylinder runs counterclockwise (as opposed to the Colt revolvers). So I conclude that it's all rather a metaphor, comparing rituals, but a metaphor for what? Film "experts" continue discussing this to this day. The sequence where the Rober DeNiro character returns to VietNam is rushed. At least two cuts are extremely abrupt (the first reunion scene in VietNam cuts abruptly to a hut by a river, when the DeNiro character runs after Chris Walken's and misses him, it cuts back abruptly to Pennsylvania).
Wonderfully constructed montage of Best Picture winners. I appreciated that "How Green Was My Valley", the picture that beat out "Citizen Kane" for Best Picture, was ranked fairly low, and I appreciate the uniqueness of your choices in the rankings. You showed a love for some underrated films, which I liked very much. Good job!
I agree that the context of the era should be taken into account. At the same time, I have no choice but to respond to what is actually in front of me, especially when there are other great films from the same year that are both really well made and have remained engaging to this day. 1931: Chaplin's City Lights is better than Cimarron in the key elements of script, editing, and performance. Hugely so. 1963: 8 1/2 is considered an all-time great that hasn't aged poorly to the degree that Tom Jones has. 1952: Both High Noon and Singin' in the Rain are hallmarks of their genres that continue to delight new audiences, while the Greatest Show on Earth has flaws that are just impossible to ignore. I have found things to admire about even the lowest ranked movies here, but it would be dishonest if I were to pretend to like any of them better than I do. After all, I'm never going to find myself in a position where I'm recommending movies to people who currently live in 1931.
@@cardboardbelt ohh yeah, that's right, my bad. Might make a good list; "best movies that didn't win" There had to have been something better than The Greatest Show on Earth that year.
"The King's Speech," "Shakespeare in Love," and "Terms of Endearment" rank higher than "Lawrence of Arabia? Really? While the three films are good, David Lean's masterpiece outshines all of them combined. Enjoyed watching your montage.
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Shakespeare is usually considered the worst winner - won over Saving Private Ryan.
For sure. No offense but Shakespeare in Love is cold piss
Also higher than Dances with Wolves. Ridiculous.
You are so right. Also higher than The Bridge Over the River Kwai? Nonsensical.
Once you accept the idea that a large number of Best Picture winners weren’t even the best picture of their respective years, then you understand how subjective rankings can be. I disagree with a lot of the specific placements in this list, but so what? There are a lot of films here that I love, admire, and view repeatedly for a variety of different reasons; there are also some that I positively can’t stand. Again, so what? This ranking is as valid as any other. It is also extremely well done with an excellent selection of representative shots and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.
Exactly the same for me. I love watching others' opinions. I don't care if I disagree. It was a really well made video.
It’s not highly ranked among BP winners but I absolutely loved “You Can’t Take It With You.” Good movie, good story/characters + a good lesson learned.
Who waited for Shakespeare of Love at number 7 to really question this list I didn't understand any of the rankings
Eight Mile was in the running against Shakespeare in Love and I thought Eight Mile was better, and Citizen Kane not even selected for Best Picture, can't even remember which picture won that year
@@Cougelly1999yes - and wasn’t that Saving Private Ryan’s year also? So #7 on the list was (at best) #3 of its year!
Your opinions are...well, what can one say?...Thanks for sharing them. Nice presentation. No point in saying how much I disagree. Your lovely montage makes up for all that.
Nicely put. Agreed.
Me too!
I would be interested in know what the criteria was for determining the list. The Godfather at #3 and The Godfather Part 2 at #33? Part 2 was as good (if not better) than the original.
I think the only criteria is which movie he liked more.. Putting LOTR so low only shows me that he doesn't like fantasy movies, which is ok.And putting most musicas very high just shows that he is a fan of the genre.. which is also ok.
I read recently that Godfather Part 2 is a critic's and scholar's film while Godfather is more of an audience's film. It may be true. I love 'em both.
I personally would have put the Godfather, Casablanca, and Gone With The Wind as my top 3. They are generally amongst the top 10 films on the AFI list of the top 100 movies of all time. But, everyone has different tastes.
I'm in agreement. This list does not take historical context into account. The scene in the Godfather when Michael takes out his enemies while he's in church is still mimicked today by movie and TV directors.
Agree those should have been in top 3
@@danacarter4793 Godfather Part II should have been ranked much higher.
@@scottodonnell7121 I feel ya ,I look at some list om UT and I'm like NO WAY ,but then I'm like we'll if you don't like it ,make ur own ,and I'm like "yeah I'm gud bitchin about somebody else's " 🤣🤣🤣,but for sure I agree with ya ,this was wack lol
Great job putting this together!! Thank you 😊
Thank you for dropping by!
If given enough time, I could make an amazing list of films that should have won best picture 🎉
The godfather part 2 in 33, are you kiding me?
Anyone with Amadeus in the top 5 gets my vote!
Made me smile.
I LOVED Amadeus, but I should, 'cuz I'm a music guy.
Thanks for sharing your list, I truly enjoyed the montage!
fantastic video editing. I enjoyed your presentation, onions and iconic scene from numerous all time great movies.
Thanks so much for watching and for the kind words!
I cant believe 12 Angry Men and Shawshank Redemption didn't win Oscars.
12 Angry Men in particular is one of my very favorite movies of all time. It was nominated for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay, but lost each time to the more ‘epic’ Bridge on the River Kwai.”
@@cardboardbelt I agree. twelve angry men is great.
@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 12 Angry Men is my favorite movie ever. I do understand why the Academy erred towards The Bridge On The River Kwai though. It’s a bigger production that did better at the box office, and hey it’s really good in its own right.
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people have to realize what was judged Best Picture decades ago was based said film's appreciation then. perception of quality
changes over time. for instance The Greatest Show on Earth the 1952 winner is a corny hokey film but its also diamond grade
corn and hokey. no one could make a blockbuster film like DeMille.
The Deer Hunter at #58 but Spotlight #12? Dude....
Both films are dreadful bores
@@BL-mf3jp lol
Gone With The Wind should have been at number one. That movie has retained it spot for a reason. No matter how much it's been maligned and it's been fashionable to hate it. The majority the world over in audience terms, it's beloved. More so now in the USA then ever before. That motion picture will outlive us. While others will be forgotten.
You are right that Gone with the Wind holds a significant place in the history of popular American filmmaking. It has enthusiastic fans and is still the number one box office hit of all time when adjusted for inflation. It doesn’t need my esteem to hold onto that legacy.
Agreed, it's the #1 ticket seller of all time, the best American story ever told, with the best female character EVER. Absolutely timeless.
The first (and last) time I saw GWTW was at a matinee in 1968. That evening I saw The Graduate. What a rush. A true time-wrap. I was 22 then. Of course, 67/68 were pivotal moments in movie making.
Yet Oliver won the best picture in 1968 😆😆😆
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I would put The Godfather at number 1 pretty easily, but The Apartment and On the Waterfront are brilliant. Still don't agree with The Godfather Part 2 being so low, tho
You surprised me with the #1 spot for The Apartment. Refreshing.
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It gives one something to think about. Good compilation. Interesting. Keep'em coming!
That was fun and very well done. My list would have been totally different. :)
Thanks!
Hey, variety is the spice of life, right?
very interesting list. Some real surprises from other lists I've seen. I imagine that the very high placement of Shakespeare in Love is probably the most unexpected. I haven't seen it since it came out. Its hard to separate it from all the baggage around it
That is one that I thought I might get some pushback on. When it comes down to it, I watch Shakespeare in Love often and always enjoy it. That's something that can't be said for most of the movies on this list. My top 20 or so are all films I have found to have rewatch value.
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@@cardboardbelt Are you just watching it to simp for Gwenyth Paltrow?
Ha!
Nooooooo
I detest what Paltrow has turned out to be with her scamming anti-science opportunism.
@@cardboardbelt ah, a genuine fan of the movie then. As others said, this would not be my order, but you do you! 😉
Yeah, I kept watching the video thinking I'd missed Shakespeare in Love. Then when I hit the top 10 I *knew* I'd missed it...guess not, lol.
To each their own. I haven't even seen most of these.
My personal favorite ... Marty. A simple unabashed love story.
Marty is a little gem that doesn’t get enough attention. A very different sort of choice than what the Academy usually honors.
You choose the right word: simple. But I think that’s what makes it amazing. It’s a simple story, but is it really? There was so much emotion behind some of the facial expression and words. Emotions most of us have experienced, so it’s relatable
@@kellyrhoads1067 That's the hallmark of great acting ... their emotions are believable and their love relatable.
In the scene where she is crying on the balcony and he asks her to dance ... incredible emotion and understanding from both of them.
In the scene where he smacks the bus sign and instead takes a cab ... you can see and feel his joy.
Or where she is sitting by the phone, watching The Ed Sullivan Show, drawn into herself and completely devastated. No words, just sadness, and heartbreak.
And then Marty's wonderful realization of their chance for love and happiness, and her picking up the phone on the first ring ... a perfect ending.
Those are scenes of joy and heartbreak that you never forget. They become a part of your romantic life.
So true. Her devastation is burned in my brain
So true. Her devastation is burned in my brain
Daffy, your BGM for the video is amazing! It has several mood swings. Well composed. Thanks.
Thanks for watching...and listening! 🙂
I don't know why some people bash "Around the World in 80 Days". I think it's a wonderful film; it's a personal favorite.
And that's okay. These are just my preferences.
Thanks for watching!
I've always enjoyed it. It's a fun watch. Needs a big screen. But I would have to say it's not particularly emotionally involving -it's a slick Hollywood product. I would say any of the other nominated films from that year would have been more deserving, but that doesn't take away from its entertainment value.
I agree.
you know what fascinates me? That someone else's assessment and ranking qualifies to another as having no taste or lack of understanding of the subject. I have seen EVERY Best Picture and my own rankings may be a little different. But I found this list to be quiet refreshing. There are NO wrong opinions.
I too have seen EVERY best picture winner
No wrong opinions? So if I say that Casablanca should be #90 because it’s a poorly acted film, alllegorically showing how the struggle against totalitarianism is doomed to failure, that’s not wrong?
There's actually a wrong opinion in this very video, "Shakespeare in Love" at SEVENTH!??
@@gnosis6656 Actually it's not. It might be a strange or unpopular opinion but it's not wrong.
it's quite refreshing, not quiet refreshing.
Shakespeare in Love ahead of Casablanca? No.
Yyyyyyeeeeeeessssss! 🙂
@@cardboardbelt C'mon Daffy. Ralph Fiennes' less talented brother? That wilted script? The strained feminism? The pretensions? Ugh. Nice video though. Cheers!
I am not understanding this, are the higher numbers better or the lower ones 🤔?
Number one is the one considered the best--in every list ever created.
This was a fantastic montage. You picked really good music. Really. Oscar ceremony caliber.
I just remember your #94 on the list, "Cavalcade" (1933), and when I saw it as as part of a college film program in the early 1970's. Yes, it was old and "veddy British," but there was no denying the sweep of early 20th-century history that it depicted. Highly affecting: the mother Jane, just having learned of the death of her son Joe, wanders the streets full of revelers celebrating the end of WW1. She raises her noisemaker with the rest of them, but only for a moment before her grief crowds in on her again. I've never forgotten the heartbreak of that scene. Perhaps "Cavalcade" is at the bottom of this list, but there is still a lot to recommend it.
I'd rather see "Cavalcade" or "Cimarron" than be tortured again by "Titanic" any day of the week.
Cavalcade and Cimarron are like the hardest best picture winners to find, any suggestions on the best way to find them (legally) for a cheap price?
@@saltheirishgit Cavalcade is on CZcams either for free, rent or buy. Cimarron is available also for rent or buy.
@@flitebiscuit1592 Cheers, just would have been so cool to own physical copies of both of them due to how old they are
I'm watching all the best picture winners with a group of friends but we're only up to 1965. Cimarron is in the bottom 3 for me but I quite liked Cavalcade. It's about in the middle for me. Gigi is my lowest ranked movie because I just didn't enjoy the grooming of a young girl aspect.
While I wildly disagree with your opinions...film rating wise...it was enormously entertaining and professionally designed.
PS Fashionable or not, I loathed The English Patient when I paid to see it, and that was BEFORE it was fashionable
An excellent presentation!😍
The Best Years of our Lives and How Green was my Valley are in a top 10 because of the humanity contained in them . They both deal with what life is all about. As for cinematic achievement David Leans Lawrence of Arabia is hard to top ; with a few answers to world problems.
Just saying as an older man these days .
Seems rather random. But that is what movie viewing is all about. Thought the presentation very well edited, however. The short little clips really captured each selection well. There were so many best pictures, some way better than others.
Variety is the spice of life!
Thanks so much for watching!
Not a bad list, other than, "Shakespeare In Love". Notice Shirley MacLaine in at least three of the top winners. Most talented actor actress entertainer ever. Did I mention beautiful?
Watching Shakespeare in Love soo high and Godfather part 2 so low gave me chills.
Thank you!!
You had me...until you got to No. 1.
Alternate top ten:
10. It Happened One Night
9. The French Connection
8. Annie Hall
7. Unforgiven
6. Midnight Cowboy
5. The Bridge on the River Kwai
4. Schindler's List
3. Moonlight
2. The Godfather, Part II
AND...AT NUMBER ONE...
1.The Godfather
It’s good to see The Apartment in its rightful place at the top of your rankings. Also glad you are not a Shakespeare in Love hater, though I think it is a little high on the list.
I was looking for Shakespeare in Love since after Cavalcade.
That year it beat out Saving Private Ryan. I don’t know how.
This was well done and well put together. Thank you for making it.
I'll be honest. There was some big name movies that I was surprised were so low on your list, (Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Gladiator, Million Dollar Baby, Dances with Wolves) to name a few.
Totally your opinion and your channel, so no arguing from me. I was just surprised such big name, blockbuster films were as low as they were.
Thanks again for putting this together. It is appreciated.
Thanks for the kind words and for dropping by to watch!
@@cardboardbelt My pleasure.
@@cardboardbeltI would have had GF II much higher. Top 5 at least.
Godfather 2 is really well made, but I can’t shake the feeling that it doesn’t say anything that the original didn’t cover pretty well.
You did a great job choosing the exact right clips for each movie. As for your opinions...groan. Shakespeare in Love at #7? Of all the great movies on this list? Dude, it wasn't even the best picture of the year. We all know what should have won.
I appreciate the compliment on the making of the video.
I have to disagree that 'everyone' believes Shakespeare in Love shouldn't have won Best Picture. The crowded Oscars party I was at here in North Carolina erupted in cheers when the win was announced. My co-workers were generally enthusiastic about it as well. Not to mention that large number of professional artists and craftspeople who actively voted for it. The movie not only took home Best Picture, but also wins in 6 other categories. It wasn't until I got home from work the next day and logged into the internet that I encountered a bunch of bellyaching.
Nevertheless, Shakespeare in Love continues to be one of a couple handfuls of Best Picture winners that I sit down and enjoy on roughly a yearly basis. On the other hand, while I have no problem with the wins it did take home, Saving Private Ryan pretty much gathers dust on my shelf.
Anyway, I generally think everyone should enjoy whatever movies make them happy. That's what popular art is about.
To be fair, I haven't seen all these movies. But I like the fact that you were able to rate these movies especially with the genres and cinematography being so different. My #1 movie would've been Marty but I loved your choice at #1.
Ok... Shakespeare in Love in 7th can only mean trolling....
I enjoyed seeing this list play out. I would be interested to see what a top 100 list would be based on the number of lowest to highest number of academy member votes, or margins of votes, or percentage of the overall votes during their respective years. That numerical vote calculation would take away any single individual's biases and preferences and be another interesting way to tally the top 100 of all time.
Was psyched that the top 20 had selections that are older than 20 (or 30 or 40) years old.
#1 surprised me. But it's a personal fave (out of many). In fact a great many of my faves made the list.
And the most surprising? I truly had no idea that so many of my faves had won the award.
No recency bias here 🙂
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for dropping by and watching!
Ranking The Apartment number one is a bold move. I like it!
This List is DooDoo! Terms of Endearment is a better film than Lawrence of Arabia..... Seriously?
I like character, story, and dialogue, which Brooks has a habit of providing in abundance. Lawrence of Arabia is gorgeously photographed and I really appreciate that, but I'm much less likely to return to it because the story simply doesn't grab me.
As I mentioned, this is just my personal preference. I would really enjoy seeing lists from other people!
"Marty" and "The Lost Weekend" were ranked way too low. "Oliver" and "The Apartment" were ranked way too high.
I agree Marty and Lost Weekend too low. But 'the Apart,ment,' for me, was just right.
I typed an elaborate post here that was eliminated with the message "returned error."
Shoot I hate that! I’m sorry I don’t know what happened.
@@cardboardbelt Thanks for the support. I think that fixed it by breaking it into two posts, It was just too gosh darn long then. Sorry abuot that. (Other clutter on this subject now eliminated.)
I suppose the only way to save oneself from that is,when finding a post becoming long and elaborate,to save it to the Copy text clipboard before trying to post it!
I haven't watched the Academy Awards Show for decades now. It lost legitimacy for me when Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" wasn't nominated for Best Picture.
It’s hard to get 8,000 people pointed in the right direction sometimes.
The Oscars look to the past and are always 10-15 years out of date. They can't reward what they can't understand. True greatness just goes over their heads.
Very interesting list indeed , It's always intriguing to see others opinions even if they're the complete opposite of your own. The top 5 is hard to argue against though
“Shakespeare In Love” over “Rocky “ or The Godfather Part 2? No way.
1928 basically had two best picture winners, because of the ill-defined “unique and artistic picture” category. I’m curious where you would place Sunrise on this list.?
"American Beauty" should be #94. Definitely the dumbest movie to ever win an Oscar for Best Picture. And in the first place it had to be "Forrest Gump".
Shakespeare in love ranked above Casablanca???
What I didn't understand from this list is that they ranked Chicago higher then return of the king. I think what also surprised me is how godfather part 2 wasn't higher on the list as well
I agree with you.. also Chicago better than Titanic, Ben Hur, Gandhi, etc..? Well, not for me.
I may never forgive Shakespeare in Love in number 7
And you won't be alone in that decision. It was not a bad movie, a movie one could hate, but it should have been nominated at best and only in a bad year with nothing better to choose from. But best picture? give me a break. Almighty Harvey Weinstein made it possible with his sheer influence at that time.
You know, I actually loved the movie, but number 7 is too high.
What is AMAZING to me: In my opinion, most of these "Best Picture" winners are REALLY BAD Movies. I've seen many of them, and have no desire to see those I have not.
Your list reflects the opinion who sees the world a little differently than most of us, sorry. Shakespeare in Love beats Lawrence of Arabia? The Apartment beats The Godfather? Sorry, your list shows a Gen-X bias and a lack of appreciation for the craft of movie making. Your top 20 definitely is mis-ordered and you have some of the best buried in the middle. But as you said this is a personal lost and not reflective of reality.
If you think The Apartment lacks high quality cinematic craft, then I don’t know what to tell you.
Meanwhile, the beautiful cinematography and editing of Lawrence of Arabia definitely earned its spot in the top half of my list. Its less than moving story and script and use of inappropriate casting pushes it out of my top 20.
The reality is that all of these movies won Best Picture and some of them aren’t very good. So much for quality by group fiat.
Wouldn’t picking The Godfather show “Generation X bias?”
@@cardboardbelt Interesting. In your opinion give examples who were inappropriate in Lawrence and who would have been better cast?
Well, as much as I love him as an actor, Alec Guiness really shouldn't have been playing an arab character.
@@cardboardbelt You're probably too young to really understand "Lawrence of Arabia" it's not kid friendly.
THE APARTMENT #1? No way.
It's not just one of my favorite Best Picture winners, but one of my favorite films overall. Great screenplay, wonderful lead performances, excellent design and photography. Something I return to over and over.
@@cardboardbelt But no way it's #1.
The thing is that since this is my list, it's 100% number one.
I'd love to see your own ranking. It's fun to see how movies strike people differently.
Psycho was THE film of 1960!
@@cardboardbelt I need to see it again. I saw it when it came out. At 14 I probably wasn't 'ready' for it.
Just wondering what criteria you used when deciding on your rankings. I tried to find a common thread across your best movies, your worst ones, and the ones in the middle, but came up empty.
Personally, I found most of your choices bewildering -- so many way too high or too low (especially "Shakespeare in Love"), but I would probably feel that way about anyone else's list as well. I give you credit for having the conviction to rank them, giving us a glimpse of so many the average fan has never seen, and a beautiful presentation.
Here's the thing about cinema. It smashes together so many different crafts/art forms/tech that the result is going to naturally be very subjective in overall quality.
Sometimes a film has such amazing cinematography or such great design elements or such a great set of performances that it overwhelms any of its small shortcomings. At the same time, a movie can be strong throughout without ever being genius in any way. All this is to say that making a list like this is unavoidably going to be based on the individual's experience of the films in question.
I will tell you that one of the things I keep in mind is rewatch value. While I have seen lots of people say that they never want to watch Schindler's List or Spotlight again, I have found great value in seeing each of them several times. I am engrossed in them each time. Other movies on this list I have tried to watch multiple times only to find that my first negative impulse was pretty spot on (for me). Tom Jones will likely never get a third watch attempt from me.
@@cardboardbelt I kinda agree with you on Schindler's List, I have watched it several times and not because of morbid, but because with each view there's something new I appreciate, photography, acting, setting, soundtrack, etc... peple saying they don't want to watch it again are just saying that it was too hard for them, I kinda understand, since the films wants to make you feel bad about the victims, and that's human compasion, there's nothing wrong with that, makes you better understand the nature of the situation since it's actually based on a real story and those victims existed, I'm glad they showed the real Schindler's jews accompanied by their actors at the end of the movie, something that most people seems to forget.
I find I have to be in a certain mood to watch a film like Schindler's List. A kind of dark mood,like the one I've been in lately.
Okay, I have to say THANK YOU for not shitting on Titanic like everyone else loves to do for whatever reason, but all that goodwill was destroyed when I saw Shakespeare in Love at #7.
My opinion on Shakespeare in Love hasn’t changed since prior to it winning Best Picture. On the other hand it seems like the negative response to it went from 1 to 100 overnight.
@@cardboardbelt the only reason it won is because of Harvey Weinstein.
It was clearly in the top 2 going into the night of the awards. It won several other awards. Critical response was pretty uniformly strong and everyone I knew loved it coming out of the movie theater.
None of us had a single idea who Weinstein was.
Wagner was a terrible human being, but his Ring Cycle is genius. Him being awful has no bearing on my opinion of his music. And he actually wrote it while Weinstein was just a producer on SiL.
Godfather II’s placement invalidates the integrity of this entire list
My thoughts: Tom Jones and English Patient are way too low (it's become fashionable to dump on EP but I still find it compelling and moving). Oliver, Chicago, King's Speech and Shakespeare in Love are too high for me (Oliver should be in the bottom 10 - I find it annoying beyond belief).
Thanks for watching and for sharing your thoughts!
You got that right about Oliver!
Oliver and Sound of Music are my favorite best picture winners.
@@doloreswallin4381 Goodnesss.
All the musicals, with the possible exception of West Side Story are too high.
The winners are awarded as a result of various circumstances of the period in question, and not by their artistic merits on most of cases. In the 20s and 30s it was the big espectacle, in the 40s the war theme, in the 50s social-realism, in the 60s the big superproductions, in the 70s there was a return to social melodrama, and in the 80s Hollywood was becoming too politically correct, and it got worse up to this day. Many of the films of the last forty years are easily forgettable, and we wonder how they got the prize in the first place: Diving Miss Daisy, Out of Africa, Ghandi, Slumdog Millionaire, Twelve Years a Slave, to name a few. The Academy has always been too soppy and too sugary.
In recent years the voting format is a sort of ranked choice style that is meant to build a concensus so that a deeply divisive film is less likely to win. The idea is fair, but it hasn’t always really worked out that way. Of course, the moment a film wins Best Picture (and indeed, often the moment it’s nominated) the knives come out.
Excellent observation.
What was wrong with Driving Miss Daisy? I thought it was believable as hell. I've known people much like Morgan Freeman's character, he should've at least been nominated.
Not particularly bad. Just not something of the level that I would consider Best Picture.
At about Million Dollar Baby is where the movies on my list are generally decent.
Yes the Best Picture is awarded to the producer. So when you look at a film like “Around the World in 80 Days” you have an enormous job as producer. Likewise with “Gone With the Wind”, “Oliver”, “Wings” etc.
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another thought. the reasoning behind the rankings would be interesting. for instance I find it fascinating Daffy Stardust ranks An
American in Paris over Oliver, My Fair Lady or The Sound of Music.
It is interesting to me also, and I think Gigi is a much better musical film than the 4 you listed.
I really enjoyed your list! Hypothetical for you (based on what I wanted way back when): If Beauty and the Beast (the Disney cartoon) had won Best Picture over The Silence of the Lambs (your #17) in 1991, where would you have ranked it?
Interesting question, because I do love Beauty & the Beast and it's in my personal top 100 without even considering Best Picture status. My first impulse is that I would have it at #12 just behind Annie Hall and just ahead of Spotlight.
@@cardboardbelt Thank you so much for answering me! :) I'd rank it pretty high too (though I haven't made a list of my own).
This is a great list! My personal top 5 are
#1. Annie Hall
#2. Schindler's List
#3. Casablanca
#4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#5. Marty
All really good choices!
Out of these winners, The Apartment is easily my favorite!
I disagree with so many of your choices ha but that’s why it’s fun to watch and discuss films! Thanks for the video!
Fascinating video. Don’t always agree but well made montage well presented. ❤
Thanks so much for dropping by and watching!
Bewildered by the entire ranking - The Apartment far superior to Lawrence of Arabia and Gandhi and Forrest Gump at the bottom of the barrel - but I’m simply grateful #1 was NOT Gone With the Wind or Schindler’s List. Hey, at least Apartment and On the Waterfront aren’t overrated and tediously worshipped by anyone and everyone. And they’re actually very entertaining. Again, bewildered by the rankings, but gotta grudgingly respect it.
Thanks for dropping by and watching! I love to hear about what other people love!
@@cardboardbelt You’re welcome. I’d place Cavalcade or the Broadway Melody at the very bottom of the barrel and Forrest Gump at #2 and Silence of the Lambs at #1. Again, god bless you for just not dutifully and tediously idolizing GWTW and Schindler’s List - oh, and Casablanca. Gotta seriously respect your #1 pick, as much as I disagree.
I agree. (But only for Lawrence.) But, it's difficult to 'rank' movies from a 2022 viewpoint to those in '29, early 30s. Just as 'best films' today in the last 22 years will be seen 'differently' in the latter part of this century.Very difficult to do. Too many historical/cultural/'mindset' variables to take into account. I remember movies from the 50s but really only began to 'critically' view them starting in the mid/late 60s. I'm sure that someone born at turn of this century and then compare take all of them into account from, say, early 80s and have us three 'rank' them would come into different conclusions as to what which were awful and which awesome.
Wonderful assessment, Daffy! Being a seventy year old cinephile, I think it depends on the viewer's knowledge of what constitutes the " best. " For my part, it's the writing, acting, cinematography and direction combining to realize a perfect picture. Most importantly, the story must involve the interest of the viewer.
Pardon me, Daffy. But I see my list posts up there now, but I wonder if I'm the only one who can. It's embarrassing to ask, but have I been "stealth censored" or "shadow banned" so it only appears to me that my post is visible? Really troubling that that can be done to anyone.
Just to let you know, Daffy, I think this thread can be eliminated as extraneous, if you wanted to remove your response before I bump off this comment and the original one?
I haven't limited anyone in whether they can post or not.
I do know that sometimes sites don't handle long comments well.
Hope I get to see everything you have to share.
Perhaps adding 3 o 4 points on how you score them (cinematography, script, historical value, etc.) Would help to understand your choices.
I’m actually pretty happy to see Moonlight being ranked pretty high with a respective #41. After the whole La La Land fiasco, I was a bit worried that Moonlight would be considered a “token” win after the whole #Oscarsowhite campaign the year before. 6 years after its Best Picture win, it’s great that many people still agree that Moonlight was a good choice for Best Picture.
Moonlight was the clear number 2 going into the show that night, so even though it was an upset, people clearly really liked it. The fact that La La Land was slightly divisive helped.
I can’t help but wonder how close were the votes between La La Land and Moonlight. It was probably a very tight race with Moonlight winning by a small margin but who knows for certain!
That’s the mystery of the voting system they use for Best Picture. La La Land very well might have received the most top ranks in the first round, but clearly it wasn’t ranked highly enough im following rounds to bring home the win. My guess is that it was pretty close.
I love La La Land but Moonlight was the Best Picture that year for me. It was artistic, academic, and innovative. A well deserved win.
@Bombo Dolido-I definitely agree with you that Moonlight deserved to win Best Picture and I’m glad that Moonlight is still considered a great choice for Best Picture today by cinephiles everywhere and not apart of the group of undeserving Best Picture winners like Crash and Shakespeare in Love!
#1 The Apartment is my all-time favorite movie. But still surprised that Daffy Stardust also found this gem to be their favorite. I was disappointed that Marty and The Lost Weekend came in so poorly, and shocked the The Best Years of Our Lives was not in the top five.
The Best Years of Our Lives would have been my number One.
Best Years of Our Lives should have ranked higher in my assessment but it was not my video!😁
Thank you for the most hilarious video on the internet!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Happy to entertain! Thanks for boosting my numbers by commenting!
Thank you for sharing your list. Interesting choices.
Here is my top ten:
1. The Godfather
2. Schindler’s List
3. Gone with the Wind
4. The Godfather II
5. Casablanca
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. The Sound of Music
8. Spotlight
9. Moonlight
10. The Bridge on the River Kwai
My least favorites were:
Cimarron
Cavalcade
Nomadland
I smell a Generation ABYSS coming up. (And before we proceed we should recall that the Latin "abyssos" means "a bottomless gulf."
I love the fact that Chicago & The King's Speech were highly ranked - great films that are far too often are the bottom of these lists.
Chicago was definitely not the best Nominee the year it won so how could it be ranked that high?
Chicago is a good film? It has no plot and the songs are almost all forgettable. To me Sound of Music is what musical movies should be, enough plot to work with and songs that stick in your head for days.
Shakespeare in Love was the very first movie I thought of when I saw the title…I however thought it’d be 97, not 7! Goodness.
Three more years and you can put it at 97 🙂
"Gladiator" and "Rain Man" should be lower than "Out of Africa" and "Million Dollar Baby". I LOVE Rain Man but it is not even on that tier.
Marty was a fantastic film. I would rank it among the most deserving.
Agree 100 percent. 74 is way too low.
I've gotta see it! I've been hearing about it ever since my Dad told me about it about 50 years ago!
Interesting. Loved your #1. Grest movie! Shirley should have won that year. My #1 would have been All About Eve. The only one I completely disagree with is Shakespeare in Love. I would have placed it in the bottom 10, much as I adore Dame Judi.
Where would you put Oppenheimer?
That’s a good question. Based on a quick scan of my list I would probably put it at about #40. I liked it a good bit, but I don’t imagine I will watch it repeatedly in the coming years.
Gone With The Wind should have been #1, and Ben-Hur should have been #2. The rest, I could care less about.
Well Shakespeare in Love should be in the 50’s or 60’s somewhere. Maybe trade with Dances with Wolves.
HaHaha! No thanks!
I'd love to see your top several choices though.
I agreed with very little on this list but it was well put together. Thanks for sharing!
My personal top 5 would probably be
1. LOTR: The Return of the King
2. Gladiator
3. Schindler's List
4. The Silence of the Lambs
5. Rocky
While I may not agree with the ranking, I must say that the editing of this video was fantastic.
Thanks so much for the kind words and for coming by to watch!
Shakespeare in Love #7?? That movie shouldn't even be on this list but since it is, it deserves last place. The best movie doesn't always win.
By the way, for the first year of the Academy Awards, the award category for which "Wings" won in 1927 was called "Outstanding Picture" (becoming "Outstanding Production" two years later until the 14th awards when it would be called "Outstanding Motion Picture" and that until the 17th when it would become "Best Motion Picture"). Another award that evening of the 1st awards was "Best Unique and Artistic Picture" (for the only time) for which the winner was "Sunrise." For this reason, some say that "Sunrise" was actually a second Best Picture winner that year, since it can be argued that both categories combined to eventually become the Best Picture category.
That's right somebody knows her Oscar history
A refreshing list for sure! I also have The Departed lower on my list, as I know for a fact there are several Best Picture Winners I enjoyed more.
The Apartment is one of the best films I have ever seen, and seeing it your number 1 is refreshing!
It’s all about taste and experience at the end of the day. Not everyone is going to see said film the same way, and that’s what makes it interesting.
Great ranking! 👍
Thanks so much for dropping by and commenting!
I always enjoy seeing lists like this when they break a little from the 'agreed upon' favorites, even if I disagree. For sure we should know what that standard homogenized list looks like, because then we get the pleasure of moving away from it.
I believe there may be a couple of more non winning Scorsese movies better than The Departed. Can you guess which ones?
My personal favorite Scorsese film is 1982's The King of Comedy. The ones that appear to have been runners up on the nights of their respective Oscars ceremony were 1980's Raging Bull, 1976's Taxi Driver, and 1990's Goodfellas. To my mind, it's too bad that one of those didn't grab him his first big Academy win instead of The Departed.
You placed Ben-Hur between Driving Miss Daisy and Marty?
It’s more important and technically advanced than those films, but I really only truly admire the 40 minutes or so that involve the chariot race. I can’t imagine wanting to watch the whole thing a third time.
So maybe it's early, but where would you now rank Everything Everywhere All at Once?
And may you get through all the people who's gonna ask the same thing.
My first impulse is to place Everything Everywhere All At Once in the #11 slot, right after Casablanca and right before Annie Hall.
No
Hell No !!!
Great list! We have a lot in common. I could try and come off as a cinema connoisseur, but that would be lying. I appreciate your honesty (just disregard comments that get personal opinion mixed up with what gets you brownie points). Contrary to popular opinion, I found Out Of Africa, Gandhi and The English Patient unbearably boring and Forrest Gump completely overrated, since it's ridiculously far fetched and a cliche fest. I think The Deer Hunter is too low in your rating, I love that movie even though the pacing is very uneven. #1 is an excellent choice! Some of the lesser known Oscar winners I haven't watched yet, so I can't comment on these. Many of my all time favorites didn't win the Award anyway.
Thanks so much for your kind words and for dropping by to watch. There’s a lot to like about the Deer Hunter, but I found myself wishing it had stayed focused on their home town prior to and after being at war. Some of the elements broke my suspension of disbelief.
But that’s why art is great. We all get to experience it through our own lens.
@@cardboardbelt Yeah, The Deer Hunter. The Russian roulette scenes (and others) relied way too much on coincidence, even though I get the basic idea. These are Smith&Wesson revolvers, where the cylinder runs counterclockwise (as opposed to the Colt revolvers). So I conclude that it's all rather a metaphor, comparing rituals, but a metaphor for what? Film "experts" continue discussing this to this day. The sequence where the Rober DeNiro character returns to VietNam is rushed. At least two cuts are extremely abrupt (the first reunion scene in VietNam cuts abruptly to a hut by a river, when the DeNiro character runs after Chris Walken's and misses him, it cuts back abruptly to Pennsylvania).
Wonderfully constructed montage of Best Picture winners. I appreciated that "How Green Was My Valley", the picture that beat out "Citizen Kane" for Best Picture, was ranked fairly low, and I appreciate the uniqueness of your choices in the rankings. You showed a love for some underrated films, which I liked very much. Good job!
How Green Was My Valley was a brilliant film.
Some of these films that ranked low were products of their time and were the best picture of that time.
I agree that the context of the era should be taken into account. At the same time, I have no choice but to respond to what is actually in front of me, especially when there are other great films from the same year that are both really well made and have remained engaging to this day.
1931: Chaplin's City Lights is better than Cimarron in the key elements of script, editing, and performance. Hugely so.
1963: 8 1/2 is considered an all-time great that hasn't aged poorly to the degree that Tom Jones has.
1952: Both High Noon and Singin' in the Rain are hallmarks of their genres that continue to delight new audiences, while the Greatest Show on Earth has flaws that are just impossible to ignore.
I have found things to admire about even the lowest ranked movies here, but it would be dishonest if I were to pretend to like any of them better than I do. After all, I'm never going to find myself in a position where I'm recommending movies to people who currently live in 1931.
I actually thought Crash was a great film but Brokeback Mountain should have won. It’s truly a legendary film.
Would the film have been received differently had it been two women instead of two men?
Crash is better.
I have a problem with a lot of the rankings, but #1 The Apartment, Bravo.
Of course I dont agree with your picks, but thats to be expected. Thanks for the compilation anyway!
I didn't see Chinatown on there, did I miss it?
It didn’t win Best Picture, so it wasn’t qualified for this list.
@@cardboardbelt ohh yeah, that's right, my bad. Might make a good list; "best movies that didn't win" There had to have been something better than The Greatest Show on Earth that year.