Top 40 movies of the 90s

[Lydia 3rd Oscar TAR Joined: Sep 22nd, 2011 Topics: 36 Posts: 1503 View Predictions]

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I was bored and came over this list:
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2020/5/1990s

And I could not agree with that list at all, so I made my own. Please feel free to comment and or make your own list 🙂

01. The Thin Red Line
02. The Matrix
03. Breaking the Waves
04. Three Colors: Blue / Red / White
05. Orlando
06. Farewell, My Concubine
07. The Celebration
08. Raise the Red Lantern
09. Funny Games
10. The Double Life of Veronique

11. Princess Mononoke
12. Run Lola Run
13. Se7en
14. The English Patient
15. Delicatessen
16. The Silence of the Lambs
17. Being John Malkovich
18. Ghost in the Shell
19. Todo Sobre Mi Madre
20. Out of Sight

21. Audition
22. Trainspotting
23. Open Your Eyes
24. L.A. Confidential
25. Casino
26. Heat
27. Beau Travail
28. Ringu
29. The Lion King
30. Il Postino

31. The Ice Storm
32. 12 Monkeys
33. Eyes Wide Shut
34. Insomnia
35. The Scent of Green Papaya
36. Once Were Warriors
37. Lost Highway
38. The Usual Suspects
39. Pulp Fiction
40. Elizabeth

2023 Oscar
Best Picture: Holy Spider
Best Director: Decision to Leave
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett
Best Actor: Brendan Fraser
Best Supporting Actress: Olivia de Leon
Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan

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[babypook Joined: Nov 4th, 2010 Topics: 22 Posts: 3624 View Predictions]

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Quite an eclectic collection.
Too much typing for me.

The Sunne in Splendour.
I prefer my roses white

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[ArtIsntEasy Joined: Dec 17th, 2011 Topics: 1 Posts: 563 View Predictions]

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I did a list of my top 10 movies per decade starting in the 30s up to the 2010s.

I didn’t rank my choices below my top 10 but I did list 25 Honorable Mentions.

Those were:

Days of Being Wild
Raise the Red Lantern
Barton Fink
Beauty & The Beast
The Double Life of Veronique
The Silence of the Lambs
Malcolm X
Groundhog Day
The Piano
The Remains of the Day
Schindler’s List
Chungking Express
Clerks
Pulp Fiction
Toy Story
The Usual Suspects
Boogie Nights
Funny Games
Happy Together
The Sweet Hereafter
Gods & Monsters
Rushmore
All About My Mother
Election
Eyes Wide Shut

And then my top 10 was:

10- Central Station
9- Magnolia
8- Secrets & Lies
7- La Haine
6- The Truman Show
5- *tie* Blue/Red of the Three Colors Trilogy
4- Being John Malkovich
3- Goodfellas
2- A Brighter Summer Day
1- Fargo

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[Wanda Joined: Sep 1st, 2021 Topics: 4 Posts: 299 View Predictions]

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I’m in!

1. Green Snake, Tsui Hark
2. New Rose Hotel, Abel Ferrara
3. The Sound of the Shaking Earth, Rita Azavedo Gomes
4. Belfast, Maine, Frederick Wiseman
5. La Belle Noiseuse, Jacques Rivette
6. A Confucian Confusion, Edward Yang
7. Eternity and a Day, Theo Angelopoulos
8. The Last Dive, João César Monteiro
9. The Silences of the Palace, Moufida Tlatli
10. Celine, Jean-Claude Brisseau
11. Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven
12. The Hole, Tsai Ming-liang
13. Flowers of Shanghai, Hou Hsiao-hsien
14. Crash, David Cronenberg
15. Beau Travail, Claire Denis
16. No, or the Vain Glory of Command, Manoel de Oliveira
17. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, David Lynch
18. Vive L’Amour, Tsai Ming-liang
19. Voices Through Time, Franco Piavoli
20. The Thin Red Line, Terrence Malick
21. The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese
22. Porco Rosso, Hayao Miyazaki
23. Suzaku, Naomi Kawase
24. Up, Down, Fragile, Jacques Rivette
25. Before Sunrise, Richard Linklater
26. Life and Nothing More, Abbas Kiarostami
27. A Moment of Innocence, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
28. Exotica, Atom Egoyan
29. Girl 6, Spike Lee
30. La Ceremonie, Claude Chabrol
31. Roses for Africa, Sohrab Shahid Saless
32. Voyage to the Beginning of the World, Manoel de Oliveira
33. Moonlight Whispers, Akihiko Shiota
34. The Wheel, Morshedul Islam
35. Shopping, Paul W.S. Anderson
36. Clueless, Amy Heckerling
37. Divorce Iranian Style, Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini
38. The Blair With Project, Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez
39. Dil Se…, Mani Ratnam
40. Infinity, Marlen Khutsiyev

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[ScottieG Joined: Dec 25th, 2021 Topics: 8 Posts: 324 View Predictions]

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Couldn’t really rank them, but here are my Best Picture line ups for the 90s:

‘90:
Dick Tracy
Ghost
Goodfellas*
Home Alone
Reversal of Fortune

‘91:
Beauty and the Beast*
Bugsy
JFK
Thelma & Louise
The Silence of the Lambs

‘92:
A Few Good Men
Aladdin
Malcolm X
Scent of a Woman
Unforgiven*

‘93:
And the Band Plays On
In the Name of the Father*
The Age of Innocence
The Piano
What’s Love Got to Do with It

‘94:
Bullets Over Broadway
Forrest Gump
Pulp Fiction
The Lion King
The Shawshank Redemption*

‘95:
Apollo 13
Dead Man Walking
Se7en*
The Bridges of Madison County
Toy Story

‘96:
Fargo
Jerry Maguire
Secrets & Lies
The Birdcage
The English Patient*

‘97:
As Good as It Gets
Boogie Nights*
Good Will Hunting
Miss Ever’s Boys
The Fifth Element

‘98:
American History X
Elizabeth
Gia
Gods and Monsters
The Truman Show*

‘99:
American Beauty*
Eyes Wide Shut
Fight Club
Girl, Interrupted
The Green Mile

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[vinny Joined: May 20th, 2011 Topics: 26 Posts: 22831 View Predictions]

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In no particular order:

1. A Few Good Men
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
4. The Addams Family
5. City Slickers
6. Pretty Woman
7. Home Alone
8. Total Recall
9. Dick Tracy
10. JFK
11. Aladdin
12. Sister Act
13. Batman Returns
14. Jurassic Park
15. Addams Family Values
16. Schindler’s List
17. The Firm
18. Philadelphia
19. Forrest Gump
20. True Lies
21. The Mask
22. School Ties
23. Ghost
24. Dances with Wolves
25. The Lion King
26. 12 Monkeys
27. Toy Story
28. Casper
29. Pulp Fiction
30. Jumanji
31. Seven
32. 10 Things I Hate About You
33. The Blair Witch Project
34. The Mummy
35. Titanic
36. Anaconda
37. A Bug’s Life
38. The Matrix
39. Speed
40. American History X

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