Best Pic Oscar Five Faves
This list of my five favorites focuses on the 81 the Best Picture Academy Award-winners, since the Academy started handing out the awards in 1927. And, as we know, it usually gives the Oscar for the Best Picture to very popular movies, features that made a lot of money for their producers. But that doesn’t […]
This list of my five favorites focuses on the 81 the Best Picture Academy Award-winners, since the Academy started handing out the awards in 1927. And, as we know, it usually gives the Oscar for the Best Picture to very popular movies, features that made a lot of money for their producers. But that doesn’t mean what’s popular is always mediocre, or even predictable. Some rather-off-beat flicks have won the Best Pic Oscar over the years.
My list of five helps to illustrate the point that, at times, the Best Picture award has indeed gone to movies that few observers would have expected to have been contenders when they were being produced. Yet, upon their release, the excellence of these five simply bowled over that year’s competition.
“Casablanca” (1943): Directed by Micheal Curtiz; Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
“Midnight Cowboy” (1969): Directed by John Schlesinger, Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975): Directed by Milos Forman; Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito
“On the Waterfront” (1954): Directed by Elia Kazan; Cast: Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint
“Unforgiven” (1992): Directed by Clint Eastwood; Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
– List by F.T. Rea
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