Comments | actorwoof: Oscar time! (Wait... that picture is of Felix. DOH!)

actorwoof

Oscar time! (Wait... that picture is of Felix. DOH!)

Feb 22, 2008 10:33

Get enough theater people together and invariably the conversation will steer into the subject of film. Make it Oscar season and your odds are greatly increased. That's not to say theater people are any more likely to talk about movies than other folk, but we tend to be a more hyper-critical bunch given our collective understanding of acting from ( Read more... )

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defcon_1 February 22 2008, 17:02:49 UTC

What is most interesting is to go back and look at the previous winners after the handful (or more) years that have passed to see what has kept its hold by critics as the best and most deserving Best Picture films of those years. Many of these films have not aged well and others are only now after years of reconsideration been declared more worthy and worthwhile than they were originally. Looking at the list and hindsight being 20/20 and all that... I think the Best Picture fallout now would be thus ( ... )

actorwoof February 22 2008, 18:25:58 UTC

Almost as scary, take a look at this list of films that Roger Ebert voted his "Best Film" which didn't even warrant an Academy nomination:

1989 - Do The Right Thing
1992 - Malcolm X
1994 - Hoop Dreams
1995 - Leaving Las Vegas
1997 - Eve's Bayou
1998 - Dark City
1999 - Being John Malkovich
2000 - Almost Famous
2001 - Monster's Ball
2002 - Minority Report
2003 - Monster

The last three in particular I would have taken over any other film that was nominated. It kills me about Minority Report that it would never even be considered since it was a sci-fi/action film. It was so well crafted its sick.