r/Oscars • u/darth_vader39 • 1d ago
Fun Best Picture Elimination Game - Round 15 - Hamlet and The English Patient have been eliminated
Ranking:
The Broadway Melody
Crash
Cimarron
Cavalcade
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Great Ziegfeld
Gigi
Around the World in 80 Days
Tom Jones
Driving Miss Daisy
The Life of Emile Zola
Green Book
Out of Africa
Shakespeare in Love
Chariots of Fire
Going My Way
A Man For All Seasons
Oliver!
Gentleman's Agreement
Grand Hotel
The Artist
CODA
Nomadland
Braveheart
Dances with Wolves
Hamlet
The English Patient
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u/anotherdirtyword 1d ago
It's Gandhi's time to go
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u/Slashman78 22h ago
I love it.. a little over long for a biopic but well made. You can tell Attenborough's passion shined through.
Was it the best of 82? Heck no. IMO ET, Tootsie, and Officer and a Gentleman were better. My vote woulda been for the latter in a modern sized field.
I won't be upset if Gandhi goes in a round or two.
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u/loba_pachorrenta 1d ago
Argo
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u/karmagod13000 1d ago
how this wasn't one of the first five to go is insane
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u/213846 1d ago
Because it's great and deserved its wins aside from Adapted Screenplay
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u/therocketandstones 15h ago
tbh that would have been a consolation prize for Affleck not getting director nom (which I have no idea how that happened still)- I think if Affleck was nominated for director, it would have been Film, Director, Editing and Silver Linings Playbook win best adapted screenplay
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u/darth_vader39 1d ago
An American in Paris
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u/capncrunch94 1d ago
Insane that this is leading this early. I know musicals aren’t everyone’s jam but it’s a great film
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u/amazonfan1972 1d ago
I love The English Patient, I think it finished far too low. Still voting for The Shape of Water
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u/JGCities 1d ago
It's Reddit, wonder how many people have actually seen the older movies being voted off at this point.
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u/Sufficient_Pizza7186 1d ago
The Seinfeld effect imo
Not my favorite BP but definitely better several of the films left standing
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u/TimeMarionberry755 1d ago
Rain Man
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u/lunahighwind 1d ago
I get that the film was problematic in some ways and contributed to savant stereotypes through the 'single story' view of autism with a lack of input from people with Autism,
But it's important to not completely look at it in today's context and also to try and understand its role culturally at the time;
It was groundbreaking for a film like this to be released in 1988 and Raymond, as a character, was treated with dignity and had emotional complexity, and the film raised awareness. It may have even started early advocacy and conversations about neurodiversity.3
u/CommissionJunior4283 1d ago
Really surprised other people get the issues with Green Book, Driving Miss Daisy and the like and fail to see them with this one
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u/TimeMarionberry755 1d ago
Agree! I work with autistic young people and everyone I work with shudders at the name of this film
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u/certifiedcheddaphile 1d ago
Can we please get rid of Rocky. How is it still here
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u/SoFarSoGood1995 1d ago
Because it's a pretty good movie
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u/Ozzy3711 1d ago
Wasnt even the best that year. Network was wayyy better.
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u/SoFarSoGood1995 1d ago
Haven't seen Network yet but I believe you. I love Lumett
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u/Ozzy3711 1d ago
12 Angry Men, The Pawnbroker, Dog Day Afternoon, Before the Devil knows youre Dead also really great Lumet films.
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u/Senior_Combination73 1d ago
Yes, Taxi Driver and Network are FAR superior, but I think we are comparing it to other winners, not the other nominees of the year. And in that sense there are several that should go before it.
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u/Ozzy3711 1d ago
Yeh I know we are comparing it to other winners but just wanted to make that comment anyway. Imo I think Rocky shouldve been gone now looking at what other films have been voted out already
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u/ImStoryForRambling 1d ago
Everything Everywhere All At Once
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u/ProgramusSecretus 1d ago
The French Connection is surprisingly dated
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u/Beautiful_Bag6707 1d ago
This is an awesome movie. Do not delete it.
Are you seriously saying Marty, Annie, and Terms of Endearment are better?
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u/LTPRWSG420 1d ago edited 1d ago
Y’all are overrating Anora so much, recency bias I guess.
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u/cmholde2 1d ago
I fully agree. I watched it recently and it was so forgettable. Nothing about it stood out to me. It seemed like an average random movie released in 2024 and I can’t believe it was that years best picture.
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u/LTPRWSG420 1d ago edited 1d ago
It feels like I’m taking crazy pills, this is suppose to be an Oscars sub, so I assume people here know movies. But, there’s comments in here saying Titanic, Gladiator, Rain Man, Birdman, Forrest Gump and American Beauty.
In no world is Anora better than any of these films. This list is laughable if Anora has made it this far without being eliminated.
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u/Temulo 1d ago
Just because we're in an oscars sub, doesn't mean people know movies, hell they have 0 media literacy after outvoting the Artist before a lot of shit films
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u/Beautiful_Bag6707 1d ago
I was surprised to see Gentleman's Agreement gone.
I think people need to see films in the context of when they were released. The Best Years of Our Lives matters specifically because of when it was released. Ordinary People is small but extraordinary because there hadn't been a film like that before. Midnight Cowboy was X rated; it's so passive now. Gone With The Wind was epic, yet it's a little cringe now.
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u/cmholde2 1d ago
Yea honestly I was not only shocked it won, but by this insane defense of the film. Like I honestly thought Coda was better and that was eliminated a while ago.
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u/Trollerz462 1d ago
American Beauty is good, but Kevin Spacey's uncanny similarity to Lester and the main plotline in general have just really lowered my opinion of it sadly.
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u/Professional-Law-207 1d ago
Chicago has served its time. Release it and let it go about its day.
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u/goatgoatirishboy123 1d ago
The Apartment
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u/darth_vader39 1d ago
It's one of the best BP winners. I don't think it's going to be eliminated so fast. I a 100% sure it's going to make into top 10.
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u/lunahighwind 1d ago
How Green Was My Valley
It's not a bad film by any means, but it shows its age and a dated approach to acting as a craft. It has less of a 'timeless' status than many of the other classic films here and wasn't as culturally impactful.