Best Picture Elimination Game - Round 16 - An American in Paris and How Green Was My Valley have been eliminated

[u/darth_vader39]

Ranking:

1. The Broadway Melody

2. Crash

3. Cimarron

4. Cavalcade

5. The Greatest Show on Earth

6. The Great Ziegfeld

7. Gigi

8. Around the World in 80 Days

9. Tom Jones

10. Driving Miss Daisy

11. The Life of Emile Zola

12. Green Book

13. Out of Africa

14. Shakespeare in Love

15. Chariots of Fire

16. Going My Way

17. A Man For All Seasons

18. Oliver!

19. Gentleman's Agreement

20. Grand Hotel

21. The Artist

22. CODA

23. Nomadland

24. Braveheart

25. Dances with Wolves

26. Hamlet

27. The English Patient

28. An American in Paris

29. How Green Was My Valley

[u/ProgramusSecretus]

You Can’t Take It With You

[u/KD1030 → u/ProgramusSecretus]

Wait? This won best picture??! That’s wild to me. I enjoyed the schmaltziness as a kid but I wouldn’t have guessed it was considered the best film of its year lol

[u/Toolb0xExtraordinary → u/KD1030]

There's a lot of movies I watched before I realized they won best picture. Forrest Gump, Platoon, Rain Man, Gladiator. I enjoyed them a lot but they didn't feel like Best Picture winners to me. I guess without watching the other nominees that doesn't mean anything though.

[u/sj_vandelay → u/Toolb0xExtraordinary]

But during the years they won, they were the most talked about, the most lauded films. It makes sense if you lived through those years.

[u/Toolb0xExtraordinary → u/sj_vandelay]

You're definitely right.