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.

3/16 Added recent nominee Tree of Life and winner The Artist

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  1. 1.
    12 Angry Men
    by Sidney Lumet

  2. 3.
    All That Jazz
    by Bob Fosse

  3. 4.
    Amadeus

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

  5. 7.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen

  6. 8.
    The Artist
    by Michel Hazanavicius

  7. 9.
    The Apartment (Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  8. 11.
    Apollo 13 (Single-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Ron Howard

  9. 12.
    As Good As It Gets
    by James L. Brooks

  10. 13.
    The Aviator (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  11. 14.
    Barry Lyndon
    by Stanley Kubrick

  12. 15.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

  13. 16.
    Black Swan
    by Darren Aronofsky

  14. 17.
    Born on the Fourth of July (Special Edition)
    by Oliver Stone

  15. 18.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz

  16. 19.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  17. 21.
    Crash (Widescreen Edition)
    by Paul Haggis

  18. 22.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    by Ang Lee

  19. 23.
    Cries & Whispers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ingmar Bergman

  20. 24.
    The Crying Game (Collector's Edition)
    by Neil Jordan

  21. 25.

  22. 26.
    Dangerous Liaisons
    by Stephen Frears

  23. 27.
    The Deer Hunter
    by Michael Cimino

  24. 28.
    Deliverance (Deluxe Edition)
    by John Boorman

  25. 29.
    The Departed (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  26. 30.
    The Diary of Anne Frank
    by Frankie Glass

  27. 31.
    Dog Day Afternoon

  28. 32.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

  29. 34.
    Elizabeth (Spotlight Series)
    by Shekhar Kapur

  30. 35.
    E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  31. 36.
    The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen)
    by William Friedkin

  32. 37.
    Fargo (Special Edition)
    by Ethan Coen

  33. 38.
    Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition)
    by Phil Alden Robinson

  34. 40.
    Four Weddings and a Funeral (Deluxe Edition)
    by Mike Newell

  35. 41.
    The French Connection
    by William Friedkin

  36. 42.
    The Godfather (1972)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  37. 43.
    The Godfather: Part II (1974)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  38. 44.
    Gone with the Wind
    by George Cukor

  39. 45.
    GoodFellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  40. 46.
    Gosford Park
    by Robert Altman

  41. 47.
    The Graduate (Special Edition)
    by Mike Nichols

  42. 48.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Ford

  43. 49.
    The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  44. 50.
    Hamlet (The Criterion Collection)

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Created by wokelstein on Oct 10, 2009.
 

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