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Top 10 Academy Awards Best Picture Winners

With the Oscars set to air on Sunday, the Super Bowl for movie geeks is obviously on my mind at the moment. However maddening, controversial, and self-serving as the Oscars may be at times, at the end of the day, it is still a celebration of cinema that inspires intelligent conversations and debates about the art of motion pictures.

Now, it’s no secret that the Best Picture winners are sometimes anything but. A lot of winners have faded from the public eye (“Tom Jones” and “A Beautiful Mind” come to mind), some winners are truly baffling (“Crash”??), a few films were robbed of the award (“Pulp Fiction,” “Star Wars,” and “Citizen Kane”), and there are many instances in which the best films didn’t even get nominated for Best Picture (1933’s “King Kong,” “The Dark Knight,” and much more). With all of that said, sometimes the Academy gets it right and that’s what this top 10 list is about. Continue reading →

February 23, 2016 Posted by nicklyons1 | News | Academy Awards, Best Picture Winners, Casablanca, Oscars, Rocky, Silence of the Lambs, The Apartment, The Best Years Of Our Lives, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Godfather, The Godfather 2, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Top 10 Academy Awards Best Picture Winners, Unforgiven | Leave a comment