tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8862193417692297175.post586765723025286098..comments2023-12-19T08:35:25.485-08:00Comments on chessart's retirement diaries: Oscar's Ten Worst "Best Picture" Mistakeschessarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05265192960662246841noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8862193417692297175.post-84101742617076986792009-02-16T10:14:00.000-08:002009-02-16T10:14:00.000-08:00Not many arguments from me.Titanic does not hold u...Not many arguments from me.<BR/><BR/>Titanic does not hold up well at all. What were we all thinking?<BR/><BR/>I'd argue The Apartment does not belong on this list, even if it's open to debate whether it was the best picture that year, it's still a great movie. Billy Wilder rarely misstepped.<BR/><BR/>As for The Deer Hunter, it's easy to say anything but that, but they had to pick one. Look at the contenders that year; not much to choose from. Maybe Coming Home, but that's not clearly much better.<BR/><BR/>Kramer vs. Kramer is the one where they could have chosen almost any other contender. Apocalypse Now. Being There. Breaking Away. Even Alien.<BR/><BR/>You've left off two of the real losers in Best Picture history, though.<BR/><BR/>Gladiator (2000) wasn't better than fellow nominees Traffic or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It wasn't even better than non-nominees Cast Away, Almost Famous, O Brother Where Art Thou? or even arguably Wonder Boys.<BR/><BR/>Gladiator is ridiculous when compared to The Dark Knight, which isn't even nominated this year. <BR/><BR/>How Green Was My Valley (1941) isn't a bad film. But better than its contemporaries Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Sergeant York and Suspicion? Hardly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com