Steven Spielberg’s only Academy Award Best Picture winner (and the first of his two Best Director prizes) came for this monumental historical drama that considers World War II and the Holocaust through the story of Oscar Schindler, a German businessman who saved hundreds of Jews’ lives by ke...
Given the sustainability of the first six Best Picture Winners (Wings, The Broadway Melody, All Quiet on the Western Front, Cimarron, Grand Hotel,andCavalcade) we will begin in 1935, at the eighth Academy Awards. 1935 – Winner:Mutiny on the Bounty What we remember:Captain Blood Captain Bloo...
Parasitealso might well be the best Best Picture winner of the 2010s. It's a darkly comedic thriller about one struggling family indoctrinating themselves in the lives of another wealthier family, but soon discovering a dark secret inside the wealthy family's mansion...
Everyone will likely remember whenMoonlightwas award Best Picture and it's for unfortunate reasons. Initially,La La Landwas read as the winner that year, only for things to be corrected andMoonlightwas given its rightful statue. On Letterboxd, it has a big advantage asLa La Landsits at a ...
The movie itself is still a bit clunky, and the love story a bit overheated — it reportedly got Howard Hughes angry just talking about it — though if the fact that it’s the first Best Picture winner ever didn’t secure its place in film lore, the fact that Gary Cooper and Clara ...
Academy Award Best Picture Winners My personal reviews on movies that have grabbed the brass ring – or or at least came close. Menu and widgets Search for: Recent Posts 1944 – Barry Fitzgerald (Winner) 1944 – Barry Fitzgerald 1944 – Bing Crosby (WINNER) ...
1The Godfather (1972) AA Best Picture WinMarlon Brando134.1850.39711 / 03100.0 2On the Waterfront (1954) AA Best Picture WinMarlon Brando12.0281.29212 / 08100.0 3Ben-Hur (1959) AA Best Picture WinCharlton Heston58.81,056.79112 / 11100.0 ...
Social mobility — in this case, ascending from their city’s literal bottom to its top — is impossible unless the poorer clan is willing to lie, betray and even kill, and yet, Bong Joon Ho’s breakthrough best picture winner refuses to make the Kims the villains, when the class ...
The Father (2020) For his second Oscar win, rewarded for Florian Zeller’s dementia drama, Anthony Hopkins became the oldest ever best-actor winner. Considering the possibility of a posthumous win for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom star Chadwick Boseman, Oscar producer Steven Soderbergh made the ...
they also gave a best picture oscar to “marty,” a small-scale project that had originated on tv. for most of the first seven decades, the best pic winner was also the year’s top-earning film. there were greats like “the best years of our lives,”“lawrence of arabia,”“the ...