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crappy "Best Picture" winners that no one Cares about anymore
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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:33 PM Author: marvelous area The Artist (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025387) |
Date: July 26th, 2026 3:35 PM Author: excitant factory reset button twinkling uncleanness Crash (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025394) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:37 PM Author: marvelous area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025398) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:47 PM Author: Bronze greedy haunted graveyard lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025417) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:18 PM Author: Cobalt elite dragon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025464) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:20 PM Author: Supple Lemon Market Fat Ankles was that the gay anti-racism movie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025467) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:23 PM Author: Arrogant Smoky Therapy ran here. Also wtf happened to Ludacris in general? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025804) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:31 PM Author: scarlet swashbuckling psychic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025830) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:37 PM Author: Seedy slap-happy sanctuary the gay black movie that won a few years ago (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025397) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 5:49 PM Author: umber judgmental principal's office elastic band ran here. don't even remember the name either. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025560) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:23 PM Author: Arrogant Smoky Therapy Need to be more specific (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025806) |
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Date: July 27th, 2026 7:29 AM Author: Buff Diverse Senate Gonna have to narrow it down hoss (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50026428) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:45 PM Author: Sticky church building the vast majority of winners in the 21st century. even solid films like hurt locker and argo. are they really that memorable and withstand the test of time?
i'm not even talking about shit like crash and 12 yrs a slave. the good winners arent even that great. |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:45 PM Author: marvelous area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025413) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:17 PM Author: Supple Lemon Market Fat Ankles argo was stupid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025462) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:19 PM Author: Sticky church building it was very hollywood and cheesy, but any historical, non-shitlib movie deserves praise (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025466) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 5:47 PM Author: Supple Lemon Market Fat Ankles its aged about as badly as shitlibism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025557) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:54 PM Author: jade ticket booth volcanic crater Tbh 12 Years a Slave deserved the award just for the Paul Dano scene which is indelible in my hippocampus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025517) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:21 PM Author: federal histrionic voyeur Hurt Locker sucked at the time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025796) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:48 PM Author: mint lodge Cavalcade
CODA
Going My Way
The Life of Emile Zola
Green Book
The Broadway Melody
Around the World in 80 Days
The Greatest Show on Earth
Cimarron
Crash
The Great Ziegfeld
Gentleman’s Agreement
Gigi
Driving Miss Daisy
Out of Africa
The English Patient
Chicago
Argo
Chariots of Fire
Tom Jones
Oliver!
Mrs. Miniver
Shakespeare in Love
Nomadland
The King’s Speech
Million Dollar Baby
Terms of Endearment
The Sting
Ordinary People
The Last Emperor
Spotlight
Birdman
Slumdog Millionaire
The Shape of Water
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Hamlet
Marty
An American in Paris
How Green Was My Valley
Grand Hotel
The Lost Weekend
Moonlight
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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:53 PM Author: Seedy slap-happy sanctuary An American in Paris was huge and still holds up. You literally couldn’t make a film like that today cause no straight man can dance like Gene Kelly. Nor can Hollywood build physical sets like that anymore. There’s an 18 minute stretch at the end with no dialogue, just dancing and whatnot. A Triumph. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025425) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:16 PM Author: mint lodge Fwiw it paved the way for the superior An American Werewolf in London and an American Werewolf in Paris imo. But it was never Best Picture Caliber imho (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025460) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:01 PM Author: marvelous area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025440) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 5:57 PM Author: Talking macaca 80's james l. brooks movies like terms of endearment and broadcast news are incredible documents of boomerism. the way the characters behave is a bewildering peep at the boomer entitlement of the era. they are up there with The Big Chill as totemic relics of the yuppie age. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025569) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:24 PM Author: marvelous area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025666) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:25 PM Author: Supple Lemon Market Fat Ankles the big chill was apex boomerism imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025667) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:18 PM Author: Jet Incel Space Good list but kings speech was good and should come off. Also birdman even if there were better movies that year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025787) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:23 PM Author: federal histrionic voyeur Apart from The Sting I can't really disagree with any of these (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025803) |
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Date: July 27th, 2026 8:10 AM Author: Blue dog poop bbw The Last Emperor, The Sting, Driving Miss Daisy, and a few others still hold up. They may not be timeless classics but they are still very watchable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50026470) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 3:48 PM Author: mewling dilemma literally all of them in the past 20 years (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025419) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 4:17 PM Author: Supple Lemon Market Fat Ankles lmao titcr. and like half of them from before that. only ones i can think of that count are braveheart, gladiator, titanic, the godfather. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025461) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:18 PM Author: fuchsia personal credit line One of the reasons movies are dying is because the Oscars went from rewarding the best movies to awarding arthouse movies.
If you tell America, "you have to go see Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Titanic, Gladiator" - they're going to go and have a good time at the movies.
If you tell them, "you have to go see The Artist, The Shape of Water, Moonlight, 12 Years A Slave", they're going to realize movies are not for them.
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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:19 PM Author: mewling dilemma it's gonna get worse from here on out because they changed the rules for oscars so that you *have* to have non-whites, women, and shitlib themes in your movies to be eligible for awards
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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:50 PM Author: Sticky church building tbf, forrest gump was sps boomer flame and cringe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025723) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:51 PM Author: excitant factory reset button twinkling uncleanness Forrest Gump was entertaining, fun, and encouraged people to overcome obstacles. Compare that to the garbage studios are putting out now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025727) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 7:53 PM Author: Sticky church building pulp and shawshank were the same year - both better films (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025736) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:33 PM Author: fuchsia personal credit line This is exactly the attitude i'm talking about.
Pulp Fiction is a better film, and in some sense its a better movie because its not as much arthouse bullshit as a lot of the 2000 winners.
Pulp Fiction is a lot of fun so it would've been an okay winner, but Forrest Gump was an entertaining movie that was able to transport large swaths of audiences to another place (whereas 80% of movie goers would be confused or disugsted by Pulp Fiction) |
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Date: July 27th, 2026 7:29 AM Author: Arrogant Smoky Therapy i didn't know that. Shawshank should have won. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50026427) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:34 PM Author: fuchsia personal credit line ^^^Wow hating on Forrest Gump. Have you heard of this site called Reddit? You might like it there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025834) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:40 PM Author: umber judgmental principal's office elastic band ok boomer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025847) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:42 PM Author: Sticky church building never poasted there and i hated at the time -- 20 yrs before reddittt came out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025851) |
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Date: July 27th, 2026 7:58 AM Author: vermilion ceo hairy legs Forest Gump was a marvel. Sure, it was filled with trash, but doctoring real footage and tying a weird retard to so many events felt truly novel and entertaining. In a way, it was an exercise of national masturbation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50026456) |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:32 PM Author: crusty goal in life there are no real "arthouse" movies except ones you haven't heard about. what you're referring to is just the deterioration of mainstream adult drama, which has become so impoverished and irrelevant that it's mistaken for arthouse because mainstream drama can't possibly be so impoverished and irrelevant.
there are still blockbuster movies but they are either juvenile marvel movies designed to satisfy the increasingly juvenile populous, or a sequel, or done in an unserious way like the odyssey. "good will hunting" is "arthouse" in the same way you describe modern drama, the issue with modern drama is that you couldn't make good will hunting today without it being about a race or gender issue or about psychological disorders and past traumas instead of it just being a frank and honest depiction of life. so everything that would ever possibly be considered for an oscar is unmemorable shit. |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:43 PM Author: fuchsia personal credit line It's all an arthouse mentality now.
Good Will Hunting had a bigger budget then most movies "adult" movies do now.
More importantly, Good Will Hunting was a traditional story, with a 3-act structure and character development, conflicts, and resolution meant to appeal to adults.
Now every movie is transgressive, with non-traditional narratives, and open ended plots. Anora is a great example of this. Anora in many ways to me, is the most narratively traditional Oscar winner in recent years - yet the Cinderella story meanders for most of it and then ends with her crying while having sex with a hitman.
We used to live in a world where we'd get 5 movies a week like Anora in the theater, and the plot would be more cohesive, and it would end in a cinematiclaly satisfying way that your grandma would enjoy (rather than her crying having sex in a car recoutning her trauma). |
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Date: July 27th, 2026 7:30 AM Author: Arrogant Smoky Therapy (edgy cool guy) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50026429) |
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Date: July 27th, 2026 9:52 AM Author: appetizing hospital people say this shit but have you ever seen All About Eve (1950) or The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Best Picture winners have always been 50/50 as to whether they have any staying power. hell you can look back at best selling books from 1880 and you've never heard of most of them. nothing new under the sun |
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Date: July 26th, 2026 8:35 PM Author: Amethyst harsh really tough guy french chef The King's Diapers (2008) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5886421&forum_id=2�id.#50025838) |