Films which should have won Best Picture Oscar but (mostly) didn't

[Guest]

An entertaining pre-Oscars item from the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/02/06/oscars-what-should-have-won-best-picture/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

[gurnemanz]

Thanks for link. Many striking aberrations: Eg
Kramer v Kramer beats Apocalypse Now.
Forrest Gump preferred to Pulp Fiction

We've seen three current nominations at our multiplex:

Banshees. All Quiet. Living. All good in very different ways. If arm-twisted I might even go for Living, even though not up for Best Picture. We loved Bill Nighty in the main role.

[richardfinegold]

An entertaining pre-Oscars item from the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-...b-global-en-GB

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[gurnemanz]

WP content can't be read unless you have a WP account

I somehow managed to read it OK without an account.

[Bryn]

I somehow managed to read it OK without an account.

No problem reading it here without registering, either.

[smittims]

I expect Radio 3 listeners, used to debate about quality in art, will notice the words 'best' and 'wrong' used here as if they are facts rather than opinions. I tend not to be interested in the sort of film that gets voted 'best' (Annie Hall an exception) and I wouldn't expect to see any of my favourite films among any award ceremony. I wonder if 'cinema' is a more diverse art form than 'classical music', where, I suspect, there are simpler and more widely-accepted criteria of quality .

[LHC]

The main thing I took from that article was the poor quality of all the nominated films in several years and that quite a few of the WP’s chosen alternatives for best film were no better than the Academy’s choice in the given year.

There also seemed a clear preference for sentimental films throughout the period rather than more interesting and challenging films, as exemplified by the Oscars for Kramer v Kramer rather than Apocalypse Now and Ordinary People rather than Raging Bull.

[Nick Armstrong]

I somehow managed to read it OK without an account.

Ditto. (A certain number of ‘free’ reads before the pay shutters clatter down?)

Entertaining article/game - thanks for the reference.

[Serial_Apologist]

I thought this excellent and, I think, timely programme on the Powell and Pressburger creative partnership
on Radio 4 yesterday might tag along appropriately in this particular thread. Well worth a listen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001rgs7

English gentleman from the shires teams up with emigré Hungarian-Jewish refugee to create a gently hard-hitting string of films, beginning in 1943 with The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, containing the ever-salient line "Not all Germans are Nazis".