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[miekec]

Behind the cut is a meme (thanks, urbpan) listing the Best Picture nominated movies from 1970 on. I have asterisked the ones I've seen.

Here's the reader participation part: Of the ones I haven't seen, which do you think I should. Give me a top x of movies from this list that I should see. Why should I see them? Would I actually like them?



1970 (43rd)
Patton
Airport*
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
MASH*

1971 (44th)
The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange* (definitely not my favorite)
Fiddler on the Roof
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandria

1972 (45th)
The Godfather (parts of it)
Cabaret
Deliverance
Sounder
The Emigrants

1973 (46th)
The Sting
American Graffiti
The Exorcist (hell no)
A Touch of Class
Cries and Whispers

1974 (47th)
The Godfather, Part II (parts of it)
Chinatown
The Conversation
Lenny
The Towering Inferno

1975 (48th)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws*
Nashville

1976 (49th)
Rocky*
All the President's Men*
Bound for Glory
Network
Taxi Driver

1977 (50th)
Annie Hall
The Goodbye Girl
Julia
Star Wars*
The Turning Point

1978 (51st)
The Deer Hunter
Coming Home
Heaven Can Wait*
Midnight Express
An Unmarried Woman

1979 (52nd)
Kramer vs. Kramer*
Apocalypse Now
All That Jazz
Breaking Away
Norma Rae

1980 (53rd)
Ordinary People
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
Tess

1981 (54th)
Chariots of Fire
Atlantic City
On Golden Pond
Raiders of the Lost Ark*
Reds

1982 (55th)
Gandhi*
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*
Missing
Tootsie*
The Verdict

1983 (56th)
Terms of Endearment
The Big Chill
The Dresser
The Right Stuff
Tender Mercies

1984 (57th)
Amadeus*
The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
Places in the Heart
A Soldier's Story

1985 (58th)
Out of Africa*
The Color Purple*
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Prizzi's Honor
Witness

1986 (59th)
Platoon*
Children of a Lesser God
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
A Room with a View

1987 (60th)
The Last Emperor*
Broadcast News
Fatal Attraction
Hope and Glory
Moonstruck*

1988 (61st)
Rain Man*
The Accidental Tourist
Dangerous Liaisons
Mississippi Burning (parts of it)
Working Girl

1989 (62nd)
Driving Miss Daisy
Born on the Fourth of July
Dead Poets Society*
Field of Dreams*
My Left Foot

1990 (63rd)
Dances With Wolves*
Awakenings
Ghost*
The Godfather, Part III
Goodfellas (I think I saw this)

1991 (64th)
The Silence of the Lambs* (never, ever, again)
Beauty and the Beast*
Bugsy*
JFK
The Prince of Tides*

1992 (65th)
Unforgiven
The Crying Game
A Few Good Men*
Howards End
Scent of a Woman*

1993 (66th)
Schindler's List (own it, recently. not seen yet)
The Fugitive*
In the Name of the Father
The Piano
The Remains of the Day

1994 (67th)
Forrest Gump* (never again)
Four Weddings and a Funeral*
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
The Shawshank Redemption*

1995 (68th)
Braveheart*
Apollo 13*
Babe
Il Postino
Sense and Sensibility

1996 (69th)
The English Patient
Fargo
Jerry Maguire
Secrets & Lies
Shine

1997 (70th)
Titanic*
As Good as It Gets*
The Full Monty*
Good Will Hunting*
L.A. Confidential

1998 (71st)
Shakespeare in Love
Elizabeth
Life Is Beautiful
Saving Private Ryan (seen pieces)
The Thin Red Line

1999 (72nd)
American Beauty*
The Sixth Sense
The Cider House Rules
The Green Mile
The Insider

2000 (73rd)
Gladiator
Chocolat
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*
Erin Brockovich
Traffic

2001 (74th)
A Beautiful Mind (want to see still)
Gosford Park
In the Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*
Moulin Rouge

2002 (75th)
Chicago*
Gangs of New York
The Hours
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers*
The Pianist

2003 (76th)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*
Lost in Translation*
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Mystic River
Seabiscuit

2004 (77th)
Million Dollar Baby (want to see still)
The Aviator (want to see still)
Finding Neverland
Ray
Sideways

2005 (78th)
Crash
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich

2006 (79th)
Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen (want to see still)

Comments

[sheilat57.livejournal.com]

Omigod your video store is going to get to know you so well!

Here's my list of must-sees (that you haven't already seen) plus some others I like that are not on the list!

1970 (43rd) Five Easy Pieces
1971 (44th) The French Connection - best car chase ever
1972 (45th) Cabaret - lots of fun
1973 (46th) The Sting - if you like Robert Redford and Paul Newman - and who wouldn't?
1985 (58th) Witness
1989 (62nd) Born on the Fourth of July - best thing Tom Cruise ever did - until Collateral and Minority Report, both of which you should see
1992 (65th) Unforgiven - wonderful!
1994 (67th) Pulp Fiction - MUST see, it's a classic
1996 (69th) The English Patient
1997 (70th) L.A. Confidential
1998 (71st) Shakespeare in Love, and Life Is Beautiful - take your hankie
1999 (72nd) American Beauty* - I know you've seen it but this was the best film of the 90s
2000 (73rd) Chocolat, and Erin Brockovich, and Traffic
2001 (74th) Gosford Park - very British!
2003 (76th) Mystic River - it's Boston, of course you must see it!
2004 (77th) Sideways - yes yes yes
2005 (78th) Brokeback Mountain - gorgeous, and Good Night, and Good Luck - gorgeous George

Others that are great but can't remember the years:
Amelie, Blade Runner (Director's cut), Girl with a Pearl Earring, In the Cut, Mulholland Drive, Whale Riders, Stealing Beauty, Solaris, Syriana, Casino Royale

Enjoy!

[zigamorph.livejournal.com]

It's rather striking how the quality of these has declined over the years. Personally, I think you should go back even further, into the 1960s. Here's the complete list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture

Three of my favorite movies were Best Picture nominees in the 1960s, Lawrence of Arabia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_%28film%29) (which won) in 1962, A Man for All Seasons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_for_All_Seasons_%281966_film%29) (which also won) in 1966, and Z (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_%28film%29) in 1969. The 1960s was a very troubled era for the United States, and as a result most of the best movies explored some of the controversial themes of the era, often in oblique ways that could not be presented squarely. Lenny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_%28film%29) in 1974 could be considered a later example of a more direct treatment.

One of the major themes of the 1960s was the sexual revolution and the role of women: The Apartment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apartment) in 1960, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf%3F) in 1966, Alfie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie) also in 1966, The Graduate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graduate) in 1967, Rachel, Rachel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%2C_Rachel) in 1968, and Midnight Cowboy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Cowboy) in 1969. Touching significantly on these issues, although not quite so emphatically, are some other major movies of the era: Bonnie and Clyde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde_%28film%29) in 1967, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid) in 1969, and McCabe and Mrs. Miller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCabe_&_Mrs._Miller) in 1971 (which was never nominated for an Oscar but should have been).

There was an enormous number of movies about race, but they all seem dated now although many were excellent. On broader issues of social class, Five Easy Pieces (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Easy_Pieces) from 1970 particularly stands out.

I could go on and on about this subject, but it might be better to do that in person.