The Oscars Best Picture Usurpers
These movies won best pcture but other movies that year have gone on to become true classics, or are simply just way better. Exposing Oscars bullshit!
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- DirectorRobert RedfordStarsDonald SutherlandMary Tyler MooreJudd HirschThe accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.This beat other nominees The Elephant Man and Raging Bull. The Shining, not even a nominee, is much more of a classic.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonTony RobertsAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.I'm not saying it's not a good movie. Annie Hall is a great movie. But it didn't change cinema and the world as we know it. Star Wars arguably did.
- DirectorKevin CostnerStarsKevin CostnerMary McDonnellGraham GreeneLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.Beating Goodfellas, which is possibly Scorsese's best movie, something stinks here again. Anothe directorial debut sweeping the Oscars.
- DirectorJohn MaddenStarsGwyneth PaltrowJoseph FiennesGeoffrey RushThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.Beating Saving Private Ryan, a movie to re-define the war movie genre. What were they thinking?
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsJack NicholsonLouise FletcherMichael BerrymanIn the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.A classic but Jaws is a movie that needs little introduction.
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordRobert ShawTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.The Exorcist is, in so many ways better than this above-average comedy drama.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.I guess the world just wasn't ready for Hitchcock's Psycho.