Thread: Best Picture winners that ACTUALLY deserved to win

I don't need you to tell me what problems I have in my argument...there are very few times in which I actually take a know it all, like you, seriously. This is not one of them. One thing you clearly mess stems in the Best Picture analsysis-we are not going on and on regarding the acting but on the MOVIE. You know, the costumes, the acting, the directing, the cinematography, etc. Brokeback Mountain beat Crash in all of these by spades,...

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I liked The Squid and the Whale the best of all the movies that year. So we agree on something. Hmmmm.

The problem with your argument is that that Acadmey has a penchant for choosing films that portray gay men in stereotypical roles, either as someone with AIDS who sings opera in his living-room, while strapped to an I.V. drip, as in Philadelphia (love the chaste buss on the cheek between Tom Hanks and Antonio Banderas), or a heterosexual man -chasing drag queen in prison for trouble concerning young boys, as in Kiss of the Spieder Woman, or as...

It did not deserve to be nominated. Half the performances were shoddy and the script was a mess. And I liked "Crash" better when John Sayles directed it and it was called "Lone Star."

I think he was referring to the fact that ALL the films that won had won Best Picture.

Err... You want to see Spielberg vilify Jews? Let's see... Wiktionary: vilify - (transitive) To say defamatory things about someone or something. Your political views (as simplistic and populism-based as they seem to be) seem to be interfering with your ability to interpret, understand, an ultimately - enjoy good cinema. I'd suggest you rethink your approach to life. :) --------------------------- Matrix Reloaded? A disgrace....

The Pianist and L.A. Confidential should have both taken a BP Oscar.

"It did not deserve to be nominated." Sorry but I just don't agree with this. I do however respect the fact that you praise Lone Star which I think is a tremendous film. I'd be interested to read your opinion as to what films should have been contending the Oscar in 2005.

I didn't originally intend for my rhetorical question to be answered, but you answered it well. :P I just think that while some good movies are represented in the Oscars, a lot aren't and that will be a continuous problem. If only there was a way that the Oscars could be more... I guess accurate would be a good word to describe it, although this is obviously a very big if. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.