Best Pictures, Best Directors too!
So we watched the Academy Awards, and they did thist hing on the 80 best picture movies. So I wanted to remember how many I actually have seen.
1927-1928 (1st) Wings
1927-1928 (1st) Sunrise
1928-1929 (2nd) The Broadway Melody
1929-1930 (3rd) All Quiet on the Western Front
1930-1931 (4th) Cimarron
1931-1932 (5th) Grand Hotel
1932-1933 (6th) Cavalcade
1934 (7th) It Happened One Night
1935 (8th) Mutiny on the Bounty
1936 (9th) The Great Ziegfeld
1937 (10th) The Life of Emile Zola
1938 (11th) You Can't Take It with You
1939 (12th) Gone with the Wind
1940 (13th) Rebecca
1941 (14th) How Green Was My Valley
1942 (15th) Mrs. Miniver
1943 (16th) Casablanca
1944 (17th) Going My Way
1945 (18th) The Lost Weekend
1946 (19th) The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 (20th) Gentleman's Agreement
1948 (21st) Hamlet
1949 (22nd) All the King's Men
1950 (23rd) All About Eve
1951 (24th) An American in Paris
1952 (25th) The Greatest Show on Earth
1953 (26th) From Here to Eternity
1954 (27th) On the Waterfront
1955 (28th) Marty
1956 (29th) Around the World in Eighty Days
1957 (30th) The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958 (31st) Gigi
1959 (32nd) Ben-Hur
1960 (33rd) The Apartment
1961 (34th) West Side Story
1962 (35th) Lawrence of Arabia
1963 (36th) Tom Jones
1964 (37th) My Fair Lady
1965 (38th) The Sound of Music
1966 (39th) A Man for All Seasons
1967 (40th) In the Heat of the Night
1968 (41st) Oliver!
1969 (42nd) Midnight Cowboy
1970 (43rd) Patton
1971 (44th) The French Connection
1972 (45th) The Godfather
1973 (46th) The Sting
1974 (47th) The Godfather Part II
1975 (48th) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976 (49th) Rocky
1977 (50th) Annie Hall
1978 (51st) The Deer Hunter
1979 (52nd) Kramer vs. Kramer
1980 (53rd) Ordinary People
1981 (54th) Chariots of Fire
1982 (55th) Gandhi
1983 (56th) Terms of Endearment
1984 (57th) Amadeus
1985 (58th) Out of Africa
1986 (59th) Platoon
1987 (60th) The Last Emperor
1988 (61st) Rain Man
1989 (62nd) Driving Miss Daisy
1990 (63rd) Dances with Wolves
1991 (64th) The Silence of the Lambs
1992 (65th) Unforgiven
1993 (66th) Schindler's List
1994 (67th) Forrest Gump
1995 (68th) Braveheart
1996 (69th) The English Patient
1997 (70th) Titanic
1998 (71st) Shakespeare in Love
1999 (72nd) American Beauty
2000 (73rd) Gladiator
2001 (74th) A Beautiful Mind
2002 (75th) Chicago
2003 (76th) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 (77th) Million Dollar Baby
2005 (78th) Crash
2006 (79th) The Departed
2007 (80th) No Country for Old Men
Not too shabby. 52 out of the 80, including all but 2 in the last 37 years.
I also wanted to find out which movies, if any, won Best Director, but did NOT win Best Picture.
Here is a list I can come up with:
2005: Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain), Crash won Best Picture
2002: Roman Polanksi (The Pianist), Chicago won Best Picture
2000: Stephen Soderberg (Traffic), Gladiator won Best Picture
1998: Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan), Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture
1989: Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July), Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture
1981: Warren Beatty (Reds), Chariots of Fire won Best Picture
1972: Bob Fossy (Cabaret), Godfather won Best Picture
1967: Mike Nichols (The Graduate), In the Heat of th eNight won Best Picture
1956: George Stevens (Giant), Around the World in 80 Days won Best Picture
1952: John Ford (The Quiet Man), The Greatest Show on Earth won Best Picture
1951: George Stevens (A Place in the Sun), An American in Paris won Best Picture
1949: Joseph L. Mankewitz (A Letter to Three Wives), All the King's Men won Best Picture
1948: John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), Hamlet won Best Picture
1940: John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath), Rebecca won Best Picture
1937: Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth), The Life of Emile Zola won Best Picture
1936: Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes To Town), The Great Ziegfeld won Best Picture
1935: John Ford (The Informer), Mutiny on the Bounty won Best Picture
1931-1932: Frank Borzage (Bad Girl), Grand Hotel Won Best Picture
1930-1931: Norman Taurog (Skippy), Cimmaron won Best Picture
1928-1929: Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady), The Broadway Melody won Best Picgture
So out of the 80 movies that won Best Picture, there are twenty cases where another movie won Best Director. In the past 10 years, four films (Saving Private Ryan, Traffic, The Pianist, and Brokeback Mountain) had the best director, but not the best film. Come to think of it, the only one of those four that I have seen is Saving Private Ryan. Traffic I heard was okay, The Pianist I heard was great, but it lost out to Chicago in 2002, and I won't watch BBM.
Anyway, just thought I'd share.
1927-1928 (1st) Wings
1927-1928 (1st) Sunrise
1928-1929 (2nd) The Broadway Melody
1929-1930 (3rd) All Quiet on the Western Front
1930-1931 (4th) Cimarron
1931-1932 (5th) Grand Hotel
1932-1933 (6th) Cavalcade
1934 (7th) It Happened One Night
1935 (8th) Mutiny on the Bounty
1936 (9th) The Great Ziegfeld
1937 (10th) The Life of Emile Zola
1938 (11th) You Can't Take It with You
1939 (12th) Gone with the Wind
1940 (13th) Rebecca
1941 (14th) How Green Was My Valley
1942 (15th) Mrs. Miniver
1943 (16th) Casablanca
1944 (17th) Going My Way
1945 (18th) The Lost Weekend
1946 (19th) The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 (20th) Gentleman's Agreement
1948 (21st) Hamlet
1949 (22nd) All the King's Men
1950 (23rd) All About Eve
1951 (24th) An American in Paris
1952 (25th) The Greatest Show on Earth
1953 (26th) From Here to Eternity
1954 (27th) On the Waterfront
1955 (28th) Marty
1956 (29th) Around the World in Eighty Days
1957 (30th) The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958 (31st) Gigi
1959 (32nd) Ben-Hur
1960 (33rd) The Apartment
1961 (34th) West Side Story
1962 (35th) Lawrence of Arabia
1963 (36th) Tom Jones
1964 (37th) My Fair Lady
1965 (38th) The Sound of Music
1966 (39th) A Man for All Seasons
1967 (40th) In the Heat of the Night
1968 (41st) Oliver!
1969 (42nd) Midnight Cowboy
1970 (43rd) Patton
1971 (44th) The French Connection
1972 (45th) The Godfather
1973 (46th) The Sting
1974 (47th) The Godfather Part II
1975 (48th) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976 (49th) Rocky
1977 (50th) Annie Hall
1978 (51st) The Deer Hunter
1979 (52nd) Kramer vs. Kramer
1980 (53rd) Ordinary People
1981 (54th) Chariots of Fire
1982 (55th) Gandhi
1983 (56th) Terms of Endearment
1984 (57th) Amadeus
1985 (58th) Out of Africa
1986 (59th) Platoon
1987 (60th) The Last Emperor
1988 (61st) Rain Man
1989 (62nd) Driving Miss Daisy
1990 (63rd) Dances with Wolves
1991 (64th) The Silence of the Lambs
1992 (65th) Unforgiven
1993 (66th) Schindler's List
1994 (67th) Forrest Gump
1995 (68th) Braveheart
1996 (69th) The English Patient
1997 (70th) Titanic
1998 (71st) Shakespeare in Love
1999 (72nd) American Beauty
2000 (73rd) Gladiator
2001 (74th) A Beautiful Mind
2002 (75th) Chicago
2003 (76th) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 (77th) Million Dollar Baby
2005 (78th) Crash
2006 (79th) The Departed
2007 (80th) No Country for Old Men
Not too shabby. 52 out of the 80, including all but 2 in the last 37 years.
I also wanted to find out which movies, if any, won Best Director, but did NOT win Best Picture.
Here is a list I can come up with:
2005: Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain), Crash won Best Picture
2002: Roman Polanksi (The Pianist), Chicago won Best Picture
2000: Stephen Soderberg (Traffic), Gladiator won Best Picture
1998: Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan), Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture
1989: Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July), Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture
1981: Warren Beatty (Reds), Chariots of Fire won Best Picture
1972: Bob Fossy (Cabaret), Godfather won Best Picture
1967: Mike Nichols (The Graduate), In the Heat of th eNight won Best Picture
1956: George Stevens (Giant), Around the World in 80 Days won Best Picture
1952: John Ford (The Quiet Man), The Greatest Show on Earth won Best Picture
1951: George Stevens (A Place in the Sun), An American in Paris won Best Picture
1949: Joseph L. Mankewitz (A Letter to Three Wives), All the King's Men won Best Picture
1948: John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), Hamlet won Best Picture
1940: John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath), Rebecca won Best Picture
1937: Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth), The Life of Emile Zola won Best Picture
1936: Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes To Town), The Great Ziegfeld won Best Picture
1935: John Ford (The Informer), Mutiny on the Bounty won Best Picture
1931-1932: Frank Borzage (Bad Girl), Grand Hotel Won Best Picture
1930-1931: Norman Taurog (Skippy), Cimmaron won Best Picture
1928-1929: Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady), The Broadway Melody won Best Picgture
So out of the 80 movies that won Best Picture, there are twenty cases where another movie won Best Director. In the past 10 years, four films (Saving Private Ryan, Traffic, The Pianist, and Brokeback Mountain) had the best director, but not the best film. Come to think of it, the only one of those four that I have seen is Saving Private Ryan. Traffic I heard was okay, The Pianist I heard was great, but it lost out to Chicago in 2002, and I won't watch BBM.
Anyway, just thought I'd share.