Does "The Academy" ever get it right?

[Orrex]

After I hear about the award nominations (or the awards themselves) I always like to come to The Lounge to find out how badly The Academy screwed it up.

In recent years, have you agreed with any of their selections for Best Picture? If so, which ones?

[TZ]

1. Hello...RETURN OF THE KING!!!

Actually I think the Two Towers was the better movie but I guess they decided to kind of wait to the end to give the awards for the LOTR trilogy.

[Orrex]

2. No, no. You're wrong. Totally totaly wrong.

PETER JACKSON SUCKS LOTR IS THE WORST THING EVER FILMED IT'S LIKE 10 HOURS OF VOMIT HOW COULD THEY PISS ON TOLKIEN'S GRAVE WITH THIS AWFUL "ADAPTATION" BLAH BLAH BLAH?!?!?!?!?"


Haven't you heard?

[TZ]

7. LOL.

Nice post, Jobycom!! :hide:

[CBGLuthier]

3. Unforgiven (1992)

The one film out of the last 25 years that is a genuine classic.

Forrest Gump. Braveheart, The English Patient, and Shakespeare in Love, Not really.

I enjoyed The Departed but it isn't even close to the best work of Scorcese.

1967; In the Heat of the Night is another absolute classic they got right.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. That's the first (and only) one I thought of as well.

The Academy has gone the way of the grammys, which seems to prefer to give "Best New Artist" awards to people who are completely gone the year after, Best Albums awards to whatever the biggest seller flash-in-the-pan is, and ignore legitimate musicians (like Neil Young or David Bowie or Yes) for decades.

[nuxvomica]

4. I thought "No Country for Old Men" (2007) was a good choice

But I don't think I would've been unhappy with any of the other nominees that year. That was a tough year too choose:

Atonement
Juno
There Will Be Blood
Michael Clayton

Still, I will never forgive the academy for choosing "How Green Was My Valley" over "Citizen Kane".

[elocs]

12. I saw "No Country" the December it came out.

I can still remember in the theater how some guy got up to go to the bathroom and wasn't he surprised when he got back and found the movie was over because neither he nor anyone else had a clue that it was just going to end. I didn't like it so much then, but have liked it better when seeing it on dvd.

[Beer Snob-50]

5. Porky's never won an academy award..

probably the greatest, most well done film of the 20th century. I think that says it all.

[SoxFan]

16. If only it had been in French

Then it would have been a witty, frothy sex farce.

[TZ]

8. Oh I thought of another: Million Dollar Baby!

Thats one of the best movies I have EVER seen. Clint Eastwood well deserved every bit of praise he got for that movie. He should have even won more..Best Actor SHOULD have gone to him for that role.

[GoCubsGo]

15. Slumdog Millionaire, too.

I thought "Milk" was equally worthy, and wish there could have been co-winners. Didn't see "Frost/Nixon", but I understand that one was also worthy.

[elocs]

9. Like the Nobel Prize, it's their award and they can pick and give to who they want.

There will never be any kind of universal consensus over the films or actors nominated and who wins.

[Blue_Tires]

10. not for a few years...

in fact, most of the decade has been a head-scratcher to me....

[Bertha Venation]

11. Amadeus. Gandhi. Schindler's List. The Silence of the Lambs.

Maybe not too recent, but damn, the Academy got these ones right.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

13. No

[joeybee12]

14. The last time they got it right was "Gone With the Wind" n/t