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Movie Poll: Which Best Picture Academy Award switch would you make?
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This Academy Award Switch should allow
for at least 3 choices per voter.
Then, maybe there'd be more votes
for "Pulp Fiction", which I would've chosen
along with "High Noon". By the way,
my other alternate Oscar picks would include
(but are by no means limited to)
"Buffalo '66" (1998)
over both "Shakespeare In Love"
& "Saving Private Ryan"
good point. I would have liked to vote for more than one switch. I bet there are a lot of times that the fans do not agree with the Oscar pick.
Saving Private Ryan should have been a lock for Best Picture! I have benn following the Oscars for over 40 years and that was by far the greatest injustice of all time! Shame on the academy voters that year.
whoever created this poll obviously knows little about survey construction. You should have allowed multiple choices here. The implication that there is only one year that would justify an award switch is crazy. Also, add 1980 Raging Bull over Ordinary People as one that I can't figure out how you overlooked. Raging Bull is arguably the picture of the '80's and DeNiro's performance overshadows anything that Redford, Mary, Donald and Mr. Hutton achieved in O.P. Now, I'd also like to see MovieFanfare do the same poll for acting....e.g., Cagney in White Heat (1949) over Broderick Crawford any day of the week; also, Fonda for Grapes of Wrath in '40 over Stewart's weird performance in Philadelphia Story, and Stanwyck in Stella Dallas over Rainer's 2 minute crying scene from Great Ziegfeld
I agree with the others--I would have switched a number of the winners, given the chance. And how about switching the 1932/33 winner CAVALCADE (who has ever seen it?) with 42ND STREET? Or switching 1937's THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA with either LOST HORIZON or THE GOOD EARTH? Or 1942's MRS. MINIVER with either YANKEE DOODLE DANDY or THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS?
Poll should also include ANYTHING over THE STING.
The selection of Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan was a travesty! It was all about Hollywood politics, not merit.
What about my personal bete noir: Without a doubt, the 1958
Oscar for Best picture should have gone to Vertigo, NOT Gigi !!!
I would have liked to vote for more than just one year. African Queen with Bogart and Hepburn was by far a superior film to Ameroican In Paris. And High Noon was so far beyond the movie The Greatest Show On Earth, it is incalcuable. The only thing that bugged me about High Noon was the almost constant singing of the song. I'd like to see it done again, with Costner in the Cooper role.
How about a poll of this type in which foreign films are included? There have been many years in which a great foreign film was not even nominated and a much more ordinary English-language film won.
I would switch BABE with BRAVEHEART
Clarification = I meant REPLACE BRAVEHEART with BABE
I truly disliked the Academy's new procedure of raising the Best Picture nominees from 5 to 10 this year. It was an obvious attempt to increase TV ratings, and unfortunately -- it worked. But it cheapens the nomination, and skews the results by splitting the votes, to say nothing of their mercenary motives.
My suggestion is to have only as many nominees as DESERVE it. A year like 1939 would have had 10 nominees; this year there were only 5 that deserved it; and frankly, I can think of many years when there might only have been 3 in contention. This allows for as many films that are truly great to compete, including documentaries and animated features.
I think Raging bull lost to Rocky not ordinary people. A bigger injustice in my opinion. That has to be the worst choice!
No Raging Bull (1980) didn't lose to Rocky (1976), but Rocky is the worst pick for best picture in the history of the Oscars, and I will spare no chance to repeat that. I don't care how many people love that piece of junk, it is a terrible movie on multiple levels. You might as well have given the Oscar this year to Transformers II or GI Joe, also crowd-pleasing crap. For the record, Rocky beat out four far superior films, including Network and Taxi Driver, movies that were well made, entertaining, and intellectually challenging, which is probably why they lost to Rocky's cartoonish feelgood melodrama. What a joke.
Friends, I probably could have done a poll completely of Scorsese Best Picture snubs (Rocky over Taxi Driver, Ordinary People over Raging Bull, Chicago over Gangs of New York), but I went with what to me was the most egregious, Goodellas' 1990 loss to a merely average Kevin Costner feel-good western. And get this, George Gaspar: in 1958 Vertigo wasn't even nominated for Best Picture (see our previous poll on noimination snubs)! But then, neither were Rear Window, North by Northwest or Psycho.
Goodfellas, of course.
Sense and Sensibility over Braveheart. Apollo 13 over Braveheart. My vote for the worst movie to win Best Picture.
I along with many other voters agree that voting for just one set of pictures is much to limiting. You can see by the many other comments, that people think there were many other injustices when it came time to vote for best picture by the Academy over the years. I would also join others who commented on picking Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan. It was to say the least,one of the most incomprehensible choices of all time! It still angers me to this day!!
Definitely would take Grapes of Wrath over Rebecca
If you are going to list changes for academy awards for specific years, we should be able to vote for every year.
I had to pick "African Queen" over "American in Paris" from THIS list. Actual choice would have been "Streetcar Named Desire" that year; but ANYTHING over "American". I've never gotten that one--lousy acting, dumb story, interminable dance/music sequences...hate that film!
As for you, Alan, totally agree on replacing BRAVEHEART with BABE. Braveheart was the start of Mel Gibson's total descent into sadism, gratuitous violence, and madness.
Realism my Aunt Fanny! Saving Pvt. Ryan was the worse piece of schlock ever committed to film. Has anyone ever figured out why they sent a cler-typist interpreter with the Ranger search party? Was he supposed to ask the French and Germans if any of them had seen Pvt. Ryan? Or maybe he was to type up Ryan's travel orders when they found him. As for the Forest Gump ranger squad that loses men in frontal assaults on machine gun nests and stepping out from behind cover without first peeping around the corner, and setting German prisoners free, how did they survive North Africa long enough to land in Normandy? Whatta load of BS!
GEEZ SAM TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL
Anything over "Titanic". The ship sinks...duh!
Freakin' soap opera.
1 pick is silly, bad thinking on your part.
Can anyone tell me why Crash received an Academy Award. It may be the stupidest story for a picture I have ever seen.
Would suggest you visit this AMC page which lists the worst of the Academy Award winners: http://www.filmsite.org/worstoscars.html
How about anything else in 1958?
Anything over any of the musicals (I loathe them) which won
"The Magnificent Ambersons over "Mrs. Miniver"
"Double Indemnity" over "Going My Way"
All of the others over "The Greatest Show On Earth"
"Giant" (I guess- 1956 was a really bad year) over "Around The World In 80 Days"
Either "The Graduate" or "Bonnie and Clyde" over "In Heat Of The Night"
"M A S H" over "Patton"
"A Clockwood Orange" over "The Grench Connection"
Any of the others over "Rocky"
"Nashville" over "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
"Apocalypse Now" over "Kramer vrs Kramer"
"Traffic" over "Gladiator"
"Gosford Park" or "Mulholland Drive" over "A Beautiful Mind"
"Mystic River" over "Lord Of The Rings ROTK"
I think some people don't realize that "Best Picture" should be for the movie, story, etc. not for the costumes, set, or music as was the case with "Titanic", "An American in Paris", "The Greatest Show on Earth" there are categories for that which they should win but not "Best Picture".