Posted by: Steve, on November 15, 2008, at 9:50 pm
Legend tells of a movie blog called Filmicability who deigned to challenge the cinematic judgment of Sarahnomics. Sarahnomics was asked to rewrite history in her own image and create her own results for every Oscar winning Best Picture dating back to time immemorial… deciding that immemorial was just a fancy way of saying “the mid-seventies”, Sarah instead generated a list of movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar to suit the last quarter of the last century… and a little bit of this one.
As joiners in the true sense of the word – The Film Cynics have been more than happy to take the torch from Sarahnomics and come up with their own alternate Oscar Winners lists, and before long will be ready to challenge the next blog to cross our path.
Steve’s List: (Actual winners in parentheses)
1974 – The Godfather Part II (The Godfather Part II)
1975 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
1976 – Taxi Driver (Rocky)
1977 – Star Wars (Annie Hall)
1978 – Superman: The Movie (The Deer Hunter)
1979 – Apocalypse Now (Kramer vs. Kramer)
1980 – Empire Strikes Back (Ordinary People)
1981 – Time Bandits (Chariots of Fire)
1982 – The Wall (Gandhi)
1983 – The Meaning of Life (Terms of Endearment)
1984 – Dune (Amadeus)
1985 – Brazil (Out of Africa)
1986 – The Mission (Platoon)
1987 – Full Metal Jacket (The Last Emperor)
1988 – Dangerous Liaisons (Rain Man)
1989 – Do the Right Thing (Driving Miss Daisy)
1990 – Goodfellas (Dances With Wolves)
1991 – Silence of the Lambs (Silence of the Lambs)
1992 – Last of the Mohicans (Unforgiven)
1993 – True Romance (Schindlers List)
1994 – Pulp Fiction (Forrest Gump)
1995 – Seven (Braveheart)
1996 – Jerry Maguire (The English Patient)
1997 – L.A. Confidential (Titanic)
1998 – Saving Private Ryan (Shakespeare in Love)
1999 – American Beauty (American Beauty)
2000 – Traffic (O Brother Where Art Thou)
2001 – Road to Perdition (A Beautiful Mind)
2002 – The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Chicago)
2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Lord of the Rings)
2004 – Hellboy (Million Dollar Baby)
2005 – Hustle & Flow/Match Point (Crash)
2006 – Pan’s Labyrinth/Children of Men (The Departed)
2007 – Ratatouille/Hot Fuzz (No Country for Old Men)
