r/Oscars • u/Accomplished_Egg6239 • 19d ago
Fun The All-Time Oscars. Pick the nominees for Best Picture
I’ve seen similar games on other subs. Let’s decide the All-Time Oscars in each category. Starting with Best Picture. Then after nominees are decided we can pick winners for each.
Rules:
Nominate a feature film released during years the Oscars have been active (between 1927 and 2024)
The film does NOT have to be a former nominee or winner
The 10 films with the most upvotes will be our Best Picture nominees
Narrative features (At least 60 minutes) only. No documentaries or short films.
Foreign (non-English) and animated are eligible.
No 2025 movies
You can submit multiple nominees but please make them their own individual comment for vote tabulation.
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u/Maleficent-Part-610 19d ago
Parasite
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u/coffee-and-machines 18d ago
Parasite may be the best film ever made, or at least the best film of the 21st century.
It utilizes an accessible narrative for wider audiences while being rich in artistic quality, successfully merging the two in perfect symbiosis.
P.S. Insane rewatch value.
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u/CantaloupeInside1303 17d ago
I rewatched it again not long ago and wow. Does it ever hold up and I truly think it may be the best film ever made with the dark comedy, the drama, the subtext, message about society, hope, despair…what doesn’t it have?????
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u/tkh0812 18d ago
Ok. We’ve reached a new peak internet obsession with Parasite at this point.
It’s a great film but we are putting it above The Godfather, Schindlers List, Pulp Fiction, Casablanca, etc.?
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u/iterationnull 18d ago
It’s absolutely worth of consideration of doing so. But it’s a hard call to make.
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u/tkh0812 18d ago
I think it’s recency bias. Great movies need to stand the test of time.
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u/Key-Jello1867 18d ago
Silence of the Lambs—one of the most entertaining. Still commands the audience attention after all these years. The best acting in a genre film ever. The ending is still some of the most suspenseful stuff I’ve ever seen
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u/falthnation206 19d ago
There Will Be Blood
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u/theananthak 18d ago
am i the only person who didn’t like this movie. i just think its lesser than the sum of its parts. the acting? fantastic. the cinematography? it’s great. the scenes? very well written. but the movie as a whole just didn’t connect with me. by the end i was like… that’s it? i was waiting for that ‘oscar moment’ and it just never came.
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u/hales_mcgales 18d ago
I had the same reaction, or lack thereof, I guess. I think I felt that the character didn’t really seem to change in any fundamental way despite the length of his life the movie covers. Felt like a perfectly crafted movie about a character I just didn’t find interesting by the end. Evil man remains evil. I found I was interested in his relationship w his son, but not Paul dano, which also seems to not be the prevailing feeling.
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u/Acceptable_Candy1538 18d ago
I love the movie. Probably a top 10 all time but I totally understand what you mean. I haven’t watched it with my fiancé and probably never will because I know she won’t like it.
It’s cinematic art, it’s subjective
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u/The_Improvisor 18d ago
Not the only one at all. I watched it a year ago and was so let down considering the hype. Whole thing just felt like it was built around the concept of jerking off to a PERFORMANCE™️ by DDL. But to be honest I've never seen the hype around Daniel day Lewis either, i feel like he just overacts and every frame all i can see is a pretentious method actor who thinks he's better than everyone else because he refuses to shower and makes everyone address him as his character. And honestly, for all the reputation method actors get, what i don't think people understand is that it's actually harder to do what most actors do, and switch in and out of character every take and reset. It's much easier to stay in character the entire time, i think it shows less ability.
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u/Telepathy-Sandwich 19d ago
Titanic
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u/DigitalBritt 18d ago
Thank you. It’s almost funny how underrated Titanic has become as a cinematic achievement.
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u/Western-Captain8115 18d ago
My personal all-time Best Picture nominee shortlist [From the Original Five Nominee Structure]
The Godfather Part 2 (1974) Goodfellas (1990) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) The Lord of the Rings Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) No Country For Old Men (2007)
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u/Bli-munda 19d ago
The Zone of Interest 🌸 by Jonathan Glazer. A haunting and thought-provoking exploration of the human condition that will stand the test of time. A masterpiece film!
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u/oddtoddlr 18d ago
Next week im going to a concert of joe hisashi who’s doing the music from spirited away with an orchestra, im not going to a concert of any other movie music producers
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u/Bigcat561 18d ago
Spirited Away; already loved anime as a kid but after my mom rented this at the library one day in 2nd grade it just confirmed it.
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u/Key-Jello1867 18d ago
Chinatown—it has one of the best scripts ever. The cinematography is brilliant. It has the best performance from one of our greatest actors of all time.
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u/Due-Abbreviations180 19d ago
2001: A Space Odissey