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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

  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)

  45. 51.
    The Hurt Locker
    by Kathryn Bigelow

  46. 52.
    In the Bedroom

  47. 54.
    It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
    by Frank Capra

  48. 56.
    Kramer vs. Kramer
    by Robert Benton

  49. 57.
    L.A. Confidential (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Curtis Hanson

  50. 58.
    The Last Emperor
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

  51. 59.
    Lawrence of Arabia (Single-Disc Edition)
    by David Lean

  52. 60.
    Letters from Iwo Jima

  53. 64.
    Lost in Translation
    by Sofia Coppola

  54. 65.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles

  55. 66.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

  56. 68.
    Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector's Edition)
    by John Schlesinger

  57. 69.
    The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Roland Joffe

  58. 70.
    Mutiny on the Bounty
    by Frank Lloyd

  59. 71.
    Munich (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  60. 72.
    Network
    by Sidney Lumet

  61. 73.
    No Country for Old Men
    by Ethan Coen

  62. 74.
    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan

  63. 75.
    One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
    by Milos Forman

  64. 76.
    Ordinary People
    by Robert Redford

  65. 77.
    Patton (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Franklin J. Schaffner

  66. 78.
    The Pianist

  67. 79.
    The Piano
    by Jane Campion

  68. 80.
    Platoon (Special Edition)

  69. 81.

  70. 82.
    Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Quentin Tarantino

  71. 83.
    Quiz Show

  72. 84.
    Raging Bull (Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  73. 85.
    Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Special Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  74. 86.
    Rain Man (Special Edition)

  75. 87.
    Romeo & Juliet
    by Franco Zeffirelli

  76. 88.
    Saving Private Ryan (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  77. 89.
    Schindler's List

  78. 90.
    A Serious Man

  79. 93.
    The Silence of the Lambs (Full Screen Edition)
    by Jonathan Demme

  80. 94.
    The Social Network (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by David Fincher

  81. 95.
    Stagecoach
    by John Ford

  82. 96.
    Star Wars (1977)
    by George Lucas

  83. 97.
    A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan

  84. 99.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  85. 101.
    The Ten Commandments (Three-Disc 50th Anniversary Collection)
    by Cecil B. DeMille

  86. 102.
    Terms of Endearment
    by James L. Brooks

  87. 103.
    There Will Be Blood
    by Paul Thomas Anderson

  88. 104.
    The Thin Red Line
    by Terrence Malick

  89. 105.
    Titanic
    by James Cameron

  90. 106.
    To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition)
    by Robert Mulligan

  91. 107.
    Toy Story 3
    by Lee Unkrich

  92. 108.
    Traffic
    by Steven Soderbergh

  93. 109.

  94. 110.
    The Tree Of Life
    by Terrence Malick

  95. 111.
    True Grit
    by Joel Coen

  96. 112.
    Unforgiven (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Clint Eastwood

  97. 113.
    UP (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition + Digital Copy)
    by Bob Peterson

  98. 114.
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    by Mike Nichols

  99. 115.
    The Wizard of Oz
    by King Vidor

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Created by wokelstein on Oct 10, 2009.
 

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