Best Picture Nominees
I am working on a year-by-year discussion of the Best Picture nominees.
Each year's page will include the following: a discussion of that
year at the Oscars; my comments on each nominee, including a list
of the Oscars each film was nominated for and won; and a list of
my top ten films from that year.
I started this project back when I actually thought that the Oscars
had something to do with actual quality of film. I've continued
it because I like to finish things that I start, and because I'm
so close, but mainly because I think the Oscars are a valuable window
into what mainstream people of a given year thought was good.
Click here
for a list of all of the Best Picture nominees for which I have written
full reviews.
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Best Picture Nominees I haven't seen: All That Jazz (1979), All This, and Heaven Too (1940), Auntie Mame (1958), Becket (1964), Cleopatra (1963), Coming Home (1978), Doctor Dolittle (1967), Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Dresser (1983), East Lynne (1930–lost), Fanny (1961), Funny Girl (1968), Giant (1956), Gone with the Wind (1939–winner), Hold Back the Dawn (1941), Imitation of Life (1934), Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), My Fair Lady (1964–winner), Nashville (1975), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Norma Rae (1979), The Nun's Story (1959), Ordinary People (1980–winner), The Patriot (1928–lost), The Sand Pebbles (1966), Seabiscuit (2003), Seventh Heaven (1927), Skippy (1930), The Song of Bernadette (1943), Sons and Lovers (1960), State Fair (1932), Tess (1980), The White Parade (1934), Zorba the Greek (1964).
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