wokelstein's "Best of Oscar"

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These are, in my opinion, the best films to be nominated for or win the Best Picture Oscar. All can be found in my four star and alternate lists. In alphabetical order.

List is complete as of the moment. I haven’t seen every film nominated for Best Picture ever (I’m certainly fairly ignorant of those before the late eighties), but as I do and when I find some I think are deserving of "Best Of" status, I’ll update this list. Putting in these titles, I’ve realized that these are my picks for "100 (+) Films That Everybody Should Be Expected to See". This is my spin on what stuff is actually important and what should be emphasized within the canon of American film classics.

Can’t respect a list with Crash, Apollo 13, and Rain Man but without Chinatown, The Conversation, or Bonnie and Clyde? Make your own damn list!

Honestly, I would seriously love to see other people’s versions of this one.

1/30 Oscar nods! Added Black Swan, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, and True Grit (10)

11/20 Added Terms of Endearment

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  1. 1.
    12 Angry Men
    by Sidney Lumet

  2. 3.
    All That Jazz

  3. 4.
    Amadeus

  4. 5.
    American Beauty (Widescreen Edition)
    by Sam Mendes

  5. 7.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen

  6. 8.
    The Apartment (Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  7. 10.
    Apollo 13 (Single-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Ron Howard

  8. 11.
    As Good As It Gets
    by James L. Brooks

  9. 12.
    The Aviator (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  10. 13.
    Barry Lyndon

  11. 14.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

  12. 15.
    Black Swan
    by Darren Aronofsky

  13. 17.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz

  14. 18.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  15. 20.
    Crash (Widescreen Edition)
    by Paul Haggis

  16. 21.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    by Ang Lee

  17. 23.
    The Crying Game (Collector's Edition)
    by Neil Jordan

  18. 24.

  19. 25.
    Dangerous Liaisons
    by Stephen Frears

  20. 26.
    The Deer Hunter
    by Michael Cimino

  21. 27.
    Deliverance (Deluxe Edition)
    by John Boorman

  22. 28.
    The Departed (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  23. 29.
    The Diary of Anne Frank
    by Frankie Glass

  24. 30.
    Dog Day Afternoon

  25. 31.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

  26. 33.
    Elizabeth (Spotlight Series)
    by Shekhar Kapur

  27. 34.
    E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  28. 35.
    The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen)
    by William Friedkin

  29. 36.
    Fargo (Special Edition)

  30. 37.
    Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition)
    by Phil Alden Robinson

  31. 39.
    Four Weddings and a Funeral (Deluxe Edition)
    by Mike Newell

  32. 40.
    The French Connection
    by William Friedkin

  33. 41.
    The Godfather (1972)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  34. 42.
    The Godfather: Part II (1974)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  35. 43.
    Gone with the Wind

  36. 44.
    GoodFellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  37. 45.
    Gosford Park
    by Robert Altman

  38. 46.
    The Graduate (Special Edition)
    by Mike Nichols

  39. 47.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

  40. 48.
    The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  41. 49.
    Hamlet (The Criterion Collection)

  42. 50.
    The Hurt Locker
    by Kathryn Bigelow

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Created by wokelstein on Oct 10, 2009.
 

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