Best Picture Winners You've Never Seen Before

[Jeffrey Kare Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 123 Posts: 5274 View Predictions]

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Obviously, there are tons of movies that the average person hasn’t seen (including some of the classics).

So far, I’ve seen about 52 out of the 89 Oscar winners for Best Picture. There are four others that I actually started watching, but haven’t finished them yet. Though the question I have for you is what are some Best Picture winners you actually feel most guilty about having never seen (yet)?

There are several I probably could’ve mentioned, but my top two would have to be Ben-Hur and The Deer Hunter.

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[M: The Original Joined: Aug 5th, 2014 Topics: 8 Posts: 1025 View Predictions]

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A movie awarded Best Picture by the Academy is never a motivator for me to see it.

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[BenitoDelicias Joined: Nov 3rd, 2010 Topics: 0 Posts: 533 View Predictions]

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Seems logical for people like us to have at least seen everything from 1970 to 2017, plus a lot of older ones. But from 1970, we should’ve seen it all by now. Having said that, I’ve never seen Patton.

I need to rewatch Chariots of Fire and Braveheart. I can’t remember anything. I recently saw Gladiator too, I felt like I had forgotten a large part of it.

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[AWDubay Joined: Aug 19th, 2011 Topics: 19 Posts: 755 View Predictions]

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I need to watch 26 … feel the most guilty about Gandhi

64. 1982 – “Gandhi”
65. 1971 – “The French Connection”
66. 1970 – “Patton”
67. 1967 “ In the Heat of the Night”
68. 1963 – “Tom Jones”
69. 1959 – “Ben-Hur”
70. 1958 – “Gigi”
71. 1955 – “Marty”-
72. 1953 – “From Here to Eternity”
73. 1952 – “The Greatest Show on Earth”
74. 1951 – “An American in Paris”
75. 1947 – “Gentleman’s Agreement”
76. 1946 – “The Best Years of Our Lives”
77. 1945 – “The Lost Weekend”-
78. 1944 – “Going My Way”
79. 1942 – “Mrs. Miniver”
80. 1938 – “You Can’t Take It with You”
81. 1937 – “The Life of Emile Zola”
82. 1936 – “The Great Ziegfeld”
83. 1935 – “Mutiny on the Bounty”
84. 1934 – “It Happened One Night”
85. 1932/1933 – “Cavalcade”
86. 1930/1931 – “Cimarron”
87. 1929/1930 – “All Quiet on the Western Front”
88. 1928/1929 – “The Broadway Melody”
89. 1927/1928 – “Wings”

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[MHS83 Joined: Oct 7th, 2011 Topics: 0 Posts: 14 View Predictions]

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All of the ones I have missed are recent:

The Artist (Have on DVD, just haven’t watched it yet.)
Argo (Have on DVD, just haven’t watched it yet.)
12 Years a Slave
Birdman
Moonlight (I watched the first 10 minutes on Amazon Prime and didn’t get into it. I’ll return to is sometime.)

It’s amazing what getting married and having a child did to my social life. I used to see all of the nominees before awards night. <sigh>

I try to periodically re-watch old BP winners that I haven’t seen in years. A few years ago I re-watched The Life of Emile Zola and recently saw All the King’s Men again and was surprised that even though they’re not as well known as others, they’re actually quite good.

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[MHS83 Joined: Oct 7th, 2011 Topics: 0 Posts: 14 View Predictions]

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BenitoDelicias wrote:

I need to rewatch Chariots of Fire

I know a lot of people don’t get into Chariots of Fire, but it’s one of my favorite BP wins. I was in high school and saw it in the theater with my two best friends who were both runners. Fond movie-going memory for me.

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[AwardsConnect Joined: Jan 16th, 2016 Topics: 0 Posts: 125 View Predictions]

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I’ve seen them all but barely remember Cimarron, Cavalcade and Mutiny on the Bounty.

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[TheRedBoy Joined: Jan 22nd, 2013 Topics: 0 Posts: 23 View Predictions]

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I’ve seen 27 Best Picture winners, and will probably add 4-5 more by the end of the year.

The oldest 3 winners (and only pre-1975 winners) that I’ve seen are The Apartment, The Sound of Music, and Midnight Cowboy. So I haven’t seen most of the early winners.

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[Awardsfan1990 Joined: Mar 28th, 2015 Topics: 102 Posts: 5401 View Predictions]

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There’s still several Best Picture winners I’ve never seen, but here are three big ones: The French Connection, Terms Of Endearment and Unforgiven. So far I have seen over half of the winners.

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[pacinofan Joined: Nov 28th, 2011 Topics: 0 Posts: 866 View Predictions]

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I have seen them all but watching some was more homework than pleasure. I am looking at you especially “Cavalcade”, “Around the World in 80 Days”, and “The Greatest Show On Earth”.

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[Jeffrey Kare Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 123 Posts: 5274 View Predictions]

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Alex Meyer wrote:

There’s still several Best Picture winners I’ve never seen, but here are three big ones: The French Connection, Terms Of Endearment and Unforgiven. So far I have seen over half of the winners.

Definitely watch Terms of Endearment ASAP. Bring a box of tissues, it’s a real tearjerker. Debra Winger was wonderful.

Yeah, I was not only surprised that Debra Winger didn’t win an Oscar for the film given the gravitas of her character, but the fact that she was in the same category as Shirley MacLaine.

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[Dan Jo Joined: Aug 16th, 2017 Topics: 3 Posts: 381 View Predictions]

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I tried to watch You Can’t Take It with You and Mutiny on the Bounty but I could not finish them. I saw half of them. I have seen the old ones especially Wings.

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[BenitoDelicias Joined: Nov 3rd, 2010 Topics: 0 Posts: 533 View Predictions]

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Awardsfan1990 wrote:

There’s still several Best Picture winners I’ve never seen, but here are three big ones: The French Connection, Terms Of Endearment and Unforgiven. So far I have seen over half of the winners.

You should watch all three right away. None of them feel dated and all have elements you can appreciate today. Great dramas, great action, great tears. None of them are the “I couldn’t finish it” type, like some of other BP winners.

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