Alternate Best Picture Winners (based on IMDB scores)

[DaKardii Joined: Jan 12th, 2018 Topics: 34 Posts: 682 View Predictions]

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Hey, guys. I just took the time to look through the IMDB scores of every single Best Picture nominee ever. If IMDB retroactively scores determined Best Picture winners, this is what the lineup would look like.

NOTE: Ties are broken by the number of votes cast on the site.

1927/28- The Circus
1928/29- The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929/30- All Quiet on the Western Front

1930/31- The Front Page
1931/32- Grand Hotel
1932/1933- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1934- It Happened One Night
1935- Top Hat
1936- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1937- Captains Courageous
1938- La Grande Illusion
1939- Gone with the Wind

1940- The Great Dictator
1941- Citizen Kane
1942- Random Harvest
1943- Casablanca
1944- Double Indemnity
1945- Mildred Pierce
1946- It’s a Wonderful Life
1947- Miracle on 34th Street
1948- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949- The Heiress

1950- Sunset Boulevard
1951- A Streetcar Named Desire
1952- High Noon
1953- Roman Holiday
1954- On the Waterfront
1955- Marty
1956- The Ten Commandments
1957- 12 Angry Men
1958- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1959- Ben-Hur

1960- The Apartment
1961- Judgment at Nuremberg
1962- Lawrence of Arabia
1963- America America
1964- Dr. Strangelove
1965- The Sound of Music
1966- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967- The Graduate
1968- The Lion in Winter
1969- Z

1970- Patton
1971- A Clockwork Orange
1972- The Godfather
1973- The Sting
1974- The Godfather: Part II
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1976- Taxi Driver
1977- Star Wars
1978- The Deer Hunter
1979- Apocalypse Now

1980- Raging Bull
1981- Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982- Gandhi
1983- The Right Stuff
1984- Amadeus
1985- The Color Purple
1986- Platoon
1987- The Last Emperor
1988- Rain Man
1989- Dead Poets Society

1990- Goodfellas
1991- The Silence of the Lambs
1992- Unforgiven
1993- Schindler’s List
1994- The Shawshank Redemption
1995- Braveheart
1996- Fargo
1997- Life is Beautiful
1998- Saving Private Ryan
1999- The Green Mile

2000- Gladiator
2001- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004- Million Dollar Baby
2005- Crash
2006- The Departed
2007- There Will Be Blood
2008- Slumdog Millionaire
2009- Inglorious Basterds

2010- Inception
2011- The Help
2012- Django Unchained
2013- The Wolf of Wall Street
2014- Whiplash
2015- Mad Max: Fury Road
2016- Hacksaw Ridge
2017- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018- Green Book
2019- Parasite

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[JayDF Joined: Sep 18th, 2011 Topics: 2 Posts: 8610 View Predictions]

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Some of these are spot on, others although not my opinion make sense in terms of film history and more recently general popularity. A few of them are head scratchers though. “Captains Courageous”, “Random Harvest”, “Crash”??? LOL Those scores are done by ratings by users right? If so I might have to get on there and add my two cents!

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[AMG Joined: Sep 20th, 2012 Topics: 11 Posts: 1169 View Predictions]

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Particularly for recent films, any film that isn’t about straight white males largely (not always) get under-scored on IMDB.

Case in point: Hacksaw Ridge over Moonlight, La La Land and Arrival.

Check out more of my thoughts on Twitter (@AMG_Review) and Instagram (amg_reviews)

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[BICTH Joined: Nov 3rd, 2016 Topics: 0 Posts: 735 View Predictions]

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DaKardii wrote:

2016- Hacksaw Ridge 2017- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2018- Green Book

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[The2ndAvenger Joined: Dec 5th, 2018 Topics: 4 Posts: 308 View Predictions]

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Pretty solid to me. Keeps most of the good wins, adds LOTR 1&2, Inception, and 12 Angry Men.

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument." - William Gibbs McAdoo

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[loudtoilet Joined: Feb 19th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 1824 View Predictions]

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21st century is much better than what we got

 

2000- Gladiator YES!
2001- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring YES!
2002- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers YES!
2003- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King YES!
2004- Million Dollar Baby whatever
2005- Crash lmao, brokebackers on suicide watch. and this is from someone who thought Broekback should have won.
2006- The Departed YES!
2007- There Will Be Blood YES!
2008- Slumdog Millionaire VOMIT. TDK would have won this had it been nominated
2009- Inglorious Basterds YES!

2010- Inception YES!
2011- The Help whatever
2012- Django Unchained YES!
2013- The Wolf of Wall Street YES!
2014- Whiplash YES!
2015- Mad Max: Fury Road YES!
2016- Hacksaw Ridge YES! take that overrated unwatchable LLL and Moonlight!
2017- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri VOMIT though all nominees were bad
2018- Green Book lmao! even that overrated Marvel capes*** couldn’t beat it on IMDB. bravo IMDB!
2019- Parasite Korean bots took the page from Russian bots I see, beefed up this, downvoted Joker

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[braydenfitzsimmons Joined: May 3rd, 2015 Topics: 98 Posts: 8920 View Predictions]

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loudtoilet wrote:

2018- Green Book lmao! even that overrated Marvel capes*** couldn’t beat it on IMDB. bravo IMDB!

It’s a marvel film with a majority black cast that was the subject to an online hate campaign from trolls & racists, of course the FilmBros of IMDB weren’t go vote well on it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/02/02/an-alt-right-group-threatened-to-attack-black-panther-on-rotten-tomatoes-but-the-site-is-fighting-back/

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[loudtoilet Joined: Feb 19th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 1824 View Predictions]

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LOL, the movie was overrated with a shockingly charisma-free boring lead (unusual for Marvel)  but of course that anyone who dared say that was labeled troll and racist. Stop being so patronizing. Giving average movies higher rating just because they are made by minorities is patronizing. I remember that article from THR or Variety in the wake of very deserving A Wrinkle In Time bashing. It said that it was OK to go easy on movies made by women of color. That was not going to help anyone.

Likewise, that trash Terminator Dark Fate got better reviews than Joker because “future is not only female but also diverse”. Not a single positive thing about the craft behind that turd, it was all “well, it has badass women so lets give it a pass”.. This kind of thinking does not improve cinema.

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[JayDF Joined: Sep 18th, 2011 Topics: 2 Posts: 8610 View Predictions]

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I will agree that a film should not be judged for behind the scenes political reasoning when talking about merit. However, in the case of “Green Book” vs. “Black Panther” I would gladly watch “Black Panther” over “Green Book” any day based on my opinion of merit.

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[The2ndAvenger Joined: Dec 5th, 2018 Topics: 4 Posts: 308 View Predictions]

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I liked Green Book (which was my favorite movie of 2018) better than Black Panther. BP was excellent but no better or worse than really any other Marvel movie. If it got a Best Picture nom… so should have other Marvel movies.

Hacksaw Ridge was great but I think I prefer Arrival.

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument." - William Gibbs McAdoo

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[loudtoilet Joined: Feb 19th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 1824 View Predictions]

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As far as MCU goes, Infinity War was actually awards worthy. Direction was insenly good.

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[DaKardii Joined: Jan 12th, 2018 Topics: 34 Posts: 682 View Predictions]

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Guys, I made a mistake. I thought Life is Beautiful contended in the 1997 Oscars. It actually contended in the 1998 Oscars.

The actual winner for 1997 is Good Will Hunting.

Saving Private Ryan is still the winner for 1998.

I apologize.

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[RealLyre852 Joined: Aug 31st, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 102 View Predictions]

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IMDB is too basic, Letterboxd ratings is where we’re at

 

 

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[m844 Joined: Jan 4th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 156 View Predictions]

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It’s very interesting that Crash and Green Book, two of the more controversial Best Picture winners for Film Twitter, have the highest IMDB scores of the nominees for their years. I recently rewatched Crash a few days ago before it dropped off Netflix, and it hasn’t aged well. The script seems too exaggerated, and relies too heavily on shock factor, stereotypes, and contrived moments that seem unresolved.

Speaking about the difference between ratings on various websites, I know most people don’t go to Amazon to “rate” movies/shows, so it’s a selective sampling, but I’m always intrigued by the ratings on that website. For example, how much many people dislike Birdman (3.1 out of 5 stars) and love Green Book (4.8 out of 5 stars).

Also, my favorite film out of all those on the list is “Sunset Boulevard,” ironically which lost to my favorite Best Picture winner, “All About Eve.”

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