Oscar Best Picture Winners

Which decade has the best "Best Picture" winners and what's objectively the best film from this list?

2016 - "Moonlight"
2015 - "Spotlight"
2014 - "Birdman"
2013 - "12 Years a Slave"
2012 - "Argo"
2011 - "The Artist"
2010 - "The King's Speech"

2009 - "The Hurt Locker"
2008 - "Slumdog Millionaire"
2007 - "No Country for Old Men"
2006 - "The Departed"
2005 - "Crash"
2004 - "Million Dollar Baby"
2003 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
2002 - "Chicago"
2001 - "A Beautiful Mind"
2000 - "Gladiator"

1999 - "American Beauty"
1998 - "Shakespeare in Love"
1997 - "Titanic"
1996 - "The English Patient"
1995 - "Braveheart"
1994 - "Forrest Gump"
1993 - "Schindler’s List"
1992 - "Unforgiven"
1991 - "The Silence of the Lambs"
1990 - "Dances With Wolves"

1989 - "Driving Miss Daisy"
1988 - "Rain Man"
1987 - "The Last Emperor"
1986 - "Platoon"
1985 - "Out of Africa"
1984 - "Amadeus"
1983 - "Terms of Endearment"
1982 - "Gandhi"
1981 - "Chariots of Fire"
1980 - "Ordinary People"

It's embarrassing to see how the quality of films on the list seems to drop the more recent you go

For me it's The Last Emperor, pure kinographique.

Best decade would be 2000's, it has the overall highest average standard, with Gladiator, LOTR, No Country for Old Men.

Everything after 2010 is basically Oscar bait 'look at me I'm acting'.

Man, 00s and 10s are fucking garbage. Even 90s had at least Silence of the Lambs, while not the best movie to come out that year it's still good enough to give the award some sense of integrity.

Actually I think 90's was best, as long as you take out Titanic and Shakespeare in Love.

And Braveheart, cucked Scots don't deserve it

>1995 - "Braveheart"
>1994 - "Forrest Gump"
>1993 - "Schindler’s List"
>1992 - "Unforgiven"
>1991 - "The Silence of the Lambs"
>1990 - "Dances With Wolves"

muy bueno

i have not seen any of '10s

'00s are ruined by Crash

'80s are decent

>old stuff is good
>new stuff is bad

What a smart, original opinion!

>I don't like objective facts

> Last seven years
> Moonlight, Spotlight, Birdman, 12 Years a Slave, Argo, The Artist, The King's Speech, The Hurt Locker.

Give me one good reason why any of these films won't be entirely forgotten in ten years.

00s. Gladiator The Departed Million Dollar Baby LOTRTROTK NCFOM A Beautiful Mind. All films I've rewatched multiple times and loved. It's just a shame it has the worst film on the list there too, Crash.

10s is by far the worst. None of those films are worth rewatching.

That Silence won best picture shows how the Oscars have 0 sense of integrity. And they never had. It was always bullshit for 7/10 Hollywood schlock.

Best Picture Decade Power Ranking

1. 1990's
2. 1980's
3. 2000's
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POWER GAP
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9001. 2010's

Well, Birdman is at least a properly beautiful film.

Because they're entirely forgotten now

> 00's ruined by Crash
> Not Chicago
> Not A Beautiful Mind

90's wins hands down. Aside from Shakespeare in Love, all the films are classics in their genre.

>The Hurt Locker.
>The Artist
>Spotlight

You could argue that these are all forgotten about now.

Every film in the 90's list is a household name. The same can't said for the other decades.

I suppose if you're into self-indulgent faux artistry, Birdman is a state-of-the-art, so that one I can somewhat understand.

It's the Academy.
"self-indulgent faux artistry" is literally the best you'll get.

Not to mention Argo. Who even likes that movie? What redeemable qualities does it have?

Seems to me it was just blatant propaganda for the Iran nuclear deal

Goodness the 10s have been awful. Not a single classic movie on that list. They're just out of touch though because stuff like Wolf of Wall Street, Django Unchained, and Hell or High Water have been dope af.

I don't know which is the best, but thus decade is definitely the worst. Moonlight was complete trash, 12 years a slave and Spotlight were forgettable oscar bait, and even the good movies like Argo would be above average in a weak decade like the 90s.

2000s had some top tier movies like No Country for Old Men and The Departed, but then you have Crash to fuck it up.

90s had overrated trash like Titanic and The English Patient. Feels leek they just picked whichever movie was the most popular.

Best: Amadeus
Worst: Crash
Most Overrated: Forrest Gump
Most Underrated: Shakespeare in Love

Moonlight - 8
Spotlight - 7
Birdman -10 fight me
12 Years a Slave - 9
Argo -
The Artist - 5/10
The King's Speech - 6

The Hurt Locker - 6
Slumdog Millionaire - 10 i'll cut you're throat
No Country for Old Men - 9
The Departed - 9
Crash - 10 you don't want to fuck with this
Million Dollar Baby - 8
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - 8
A Beautiful Mind - 6
Gladiator - 10

American Beauty - 10
Shakespeare in Love - 5
Braveheart - 8
Forrest Gum - 8
Schindler's List - 9
Unforgiven - 9
The Silence of the Lambs - 8

Rain Man - 7
Platoon - 8
Amadeus - 10

> Overrated: Forrest Gump

I disagree, it's nostalgia bait for baby boomers, which it does impeccably well.

So many good movies this decsde and they chose shit like Moonlight and 12 years a slave.

>Titanic and The English Patient.

Looking at the nominees for those two years, there's only one other movie that more deserves the prize (Fargo and L.A. Confidential). The rest are mediocrities like The Full Monty and Jerry Maguire.

Meant for

> The Full Monty
> Mediocre

Bitch I'll fight you

Bertolucci is the man, too bad he's never talked about in here

Both of those would've been better choices.

>Jerry Maguire was oscar nominated

Wtf were they thinking?

Best: The Last Emperor
Worst: Chicago
Most Overrated: Titanic
Most Underrated: Unforgiven

>2003 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"

>Most Overrated: Forrest Gump
>Most Underrated: Shakespeare in Love
HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU LIKE A FUCKING STUPID FLICK LIKE SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE THAT IS NOT ONLY A RAPE TO SHAKESPEARE'S MEMORY BUT ALSO A PERFECTLY AWFUL FLICK WHOSE ONLY QUALITIES ARE WOMEN NAILING SHIT ROLES BUT SAY SHIT ABOUT A DECENT FILM LIKE FORREST GUMP!? GO FUCKING DIE, FAGGOT!

12 Years a Slave and Birdman will stand the test of time

Yeah, strange. The Last Emperor has some beautiful shots and is really comfy, yet almost brings me to tears at some points.

>Bring me the butter.
Wow so deep

>the english patient
>overrated
>

>i'm racist

From what I've seen:

Moonlight - 8
Spotlight - 8
Birdman - 6
12 Years a Slave - 8
Argo - 8
Artist - 9 (fight me)

No Country for Old Men - 10
Departed - 7.5
Crash - 7
Million Dollar Baby - 8 (and I'm a Clintfag)
Lord of the rings - 8
Gladiator - 7

American Beauty - 8.5
Shakespeare in Love - 2
Braveheart - 7.5
Forrest Gump - 9
Schindler's List -9
Unforgiven -10
Silence of Lambs - 9.5
Dances with Wolves - 9
Platoon - 9.5
Amadeus - 10
Gandhi - 8.5

>the king's speech got best picture
i don't pay attention to awards at all but holy fuck, this is kind of a shock. i thought it was good, but not that good. was everything else really that bad?

Poo in it!

>moonlight
>spotlight
>12 years a slave
>argo
such horse shit the last few years

(you)

Personally, that and Little Buddha are among my favourite films, while my GF is absolutely in love with The Sheltering Sky and Last Tango. Bonus points to Bertolucci for his continuos collab with Sakamoto, which I adore.
Talking about why he isn't talked about here, see

I thought it was excellent

the prime contenders were The Social Network, Inception and The Black Swan. So yeah, pretty mediocre year.

You can tell where it all went downhill. 1998. That's the year Weinstein pretty much bought an oscar for Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan and a Thin Red Line and changed the awards to a late run award season rush

Nominees:

THE KING'S SPEECH
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right

I'd rank it 4th or 5th in this list.

2010s would have been the best of they picked correctly.

2016 - "Hell or High Water" (Strong)
2015 - "Room"
2014 - "Whiplash"
2013 - "Dallas Buyers Club"
2012 - "Argo" (Weak)
2011 - "The Artist" (Weak)
2010 - "The Social Network"

iBoy (2017) has the best chance of winning.

Wow I never knew Sup Forums hated 12 Years a Slave so much. Why? It's a great film

The Black Swan should've won easily

The 70s.

10 nominees not 5

I can agree with you. We have similar tastes, although Whiplas is not really of my liking

Great jerk off material.

2016 - "Moonlight"
>Oscar bait
2015 - "Spotlight"
>"There was nothing better but we had to give it to someone"
2014 - "Birdman"
>Pretentious crap
2013 - "12 Years a Slave"
>They didn't even try to hide the fact it was Oscar bait
2012 - "Argo"
>Gabrage
2011 - "The Artist"
>forgettable
2010 - "The King's Speech"
>Oscar bait

2009 - "The Hurt Locker"
>Oscar bait
2008 - "Slumdog Millionaire"
>Oscar bait
2007 - "No Country for Old Men"
>Boring
2006 - "The Departed"
>Boring/forgettable
2005 - "Crash"
>Crap
2004 - "Million Dollar Baby"
>Million dollar bribe
2003 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
>Horrible in retrospect
2002 - "Chicago"
>garbage
2001 - "A Beautiful Mind"
>Oscar bait/melodramatic
2000 - "Gladiator"
>Really forgettable

1999 - "American Beauty"
>Forgettable
1998 - "Shakespeare in Love"
>Shitty Oscar bait
1997 - "Titanic"
>James Cameron wankfest
1996 - "The English Patient"
>Forgettable
1995 - "Braveheart"
>Really forgettable
1994 - "Forrest Gump"
>Acceptable
1993 - "Schindler’s List"
>Oscar bait
1992 - "Unforgiven"
>Forgettable
1991 - "The Silence of the Lambs"
>Over praised horror flick
1990 - "Dances With Wolves"
>Good movie

1989 - "Driving Miss Daisy"
>Garbage
1988 - "Rain Man"
>Was there really nothing better that year?
1987 - "The Last Emperor"
>Forgettable
1986 - "Platoon"
>Meh movie
1985 - "Out of Africa"
>Oscar bait
1984 - "Amadeus"
>Forgettable
1983 - "Terms of Endearment"
>Pretesion garbage
1982 - "Gandhi"
>Oscar bait
1981 - "Chariots of Fire"
>Forgettable
1980 - "Ordinary People"
>Forgettable

What kind of meds are you on to find "Dances with Wolves", out of all the movies on that list, to be the only good one?

t. Indian savage
The only good comanche is a dead one

80's takes it, everything is either mediocre and unpretentious or unironically good
best are The Last Emperor, Platoon, Amadeus

Idk why you stopped at the 80's though, earlier decades would have been more kino

>thinks dances with wolves is good
>unforgiven and amadeus is forgettable
the mind of an autistic pleb

Sup Forums hates black people how is it surprising

I dont understand how it won. Just patriotism propaganda

>Wow I never knew Sup Forums hated 12 Years a Slave so much. Why? It's a great film
lol have a guess

it was a hollywood wank fest as well

Any chance BR2049 getting a nom?

I'm not shitposting but Wonder Woman and Get Out has better chances of getting a BP nom

I'm dead serious

About as much chance as Kevin spacey not being a nonce

The most recent ones are mostly virtue signaling tweets turned into flicks. Just read the plot description on wikipedia.

millenials are cringeworty.

I think the best movie I've seen this year is Only The Brave

It seems all you need to do to win best picture in the past 10 years is to either make a movie that homages to a bygone era (the artist, birdman, and I'll add in La la land just because it was close to winning it), Some crappy drama inspired by a real event (king's speech, Spotlight, Argo, Hurt Locker), or a movie that fills the diversity category (Moonlight, 12 years a slave, Slumdog millionaire)

is this just what Hollywood cares about now? These 3 specific things? There are so many more iconic films for the past decade than the crap we have on here.

Far from impossible.

How it should have been:

>2016 - "Hell or High Water"
>2015 - "The Big Short (because there wasn't anything better)"
>2014 - "American Sniper (.|.)"
>2013 - "Dallas Buyers Club (but I haven't seen Nebraska yet)"
>2012 - "Argo (haven't seen many films of 2012)"
>2011 - "The Artist (.!.)"
>2010 - dunno
>2009 - Anything but Avatar
>2008 - "Gran Torino"
>2007 - "No Country for Old Men"
>2006 - "Letters from iwo Jima"
>2005 - "Munich"
>2004 - dunno
>2003 - "Mystic River (.|,)"
>2002 - "The Pianist"
>2001 - "Fellowship of the ring"
>2000 - "Traffic"
>1999 - "American Beauty"
>1998 - Literally anything but Shakespeare in love. Need to see The Thin Red Line
>1997 - "La Confidential"
>1996 - "Fargo"
>1995 - dunno, but Bravejeart was weak
>1994 - "Forrest Gump"
>1993 - "Schindler’s List"
>1992 - "Unforgiven"
>1991 - "The Silence of the Lambs" or "Barton Fink"
>1990 - "Dances With Wolves(.|.)"
>1989 - dunno
>1988 - dunno
>1987 - dunno
>1986 - "Platoon"
>1985 - dunno
>1984 - "Amadeus"
>1983 - dunno
>1982 - "Blade Runner"
>1981 - dunno
>1980 - "Raging Bull"

I think so. Best Picture has more nomination spots it should manage to get in. It will get plenty of other nominations besides Best Picture tho. BR2049 will get nominatations in similar categories as Mad Max did. Production Deisng, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Costume Deisign and Cinematography.
Roger Deakins still hasn't won an Oscar for cinematography, it's probably going to be 'his turn' to win it.

This.
They made movies with purpose.
Gandhi movie. Worldwide respected leader. Everyone cares. Perfectly timed after his death. Wins the award. Perfect.

Nowadays they think people wanna see some movie about magic black gays fucking. hollywood has gotten senile. desu im glad its almost over

The best year of the 2000s was 2007. No Country and There Will Be Blood vying for all the spots. Both great films.

fucking Argo, jesus christ

I like the Hurt Locker.

Good:
2014 - "Birdman"


2007 - "No Country for Old Men"
2003 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"

1994 - "Forrest Gump"
1993 - "Schindler’s List"
1991 - "The Silence of the Lambs"

1988 - "Rain Man"
1986 - "Platoon"
1984 - "Amadeus"
1982 - "Gandhi"

So 80's win, but birdman has better film aspects, the rest are better stories.

>muh le ebil capitalism
Sorry bro but you cucked

>this much of a eastwood fanboy
>haven't seen films from how many years
>haven't seen thin red line

I'm guessing Sup Forumstard trump voter who just turned 18

American Pedo and Unforgiven are good

Are you serious? Only amerilards like that shit.

you're retarded

The future of the world is homogeneous.
There's a scene where a black man is breeding his white lady owner and that represented the absolute proper position intermixed couples should utilize for a more efficient impregnation

My rating: 10 out of 10, culturally enriched

Not my fault Clint has been nailing film after film like no one else

2003

I get that 2015 was a weak year, but jesus Spotlight is one of the most boring pieces of shit I've ever seen.

Like fucking nothing happens. There's no stakes, no tension just a bunch of people doing their job. Mark Ruffalo's "acting" is fucking cringe worthy aswell.

>MUH GAY NEGROES WON OSCAR!
>WE WAS OSCARS AND SHIET!
>FUCK WHYPIPO

This was a really strong year. Realistically, any of Selma, Imitation Game and Theory of Everything could EASILY have picked up the gong, as they are typical oscar bait ("inspiring historical drama with an important social message, focusing on the contributions of overlooked minorities"), GBH, Whiplash and Boyhood were also really strong. It's good they actually picked Birdman which is easily the most offbeat winner of a Best Picture in years, maybe ever.
American Sniper shouldn't be there though, fuck off.

2016 was stronger and they picked the worst film.

>make movies criticizing pedos in the church
>award it to beat other movies and expose it to the world so all can see
>years later turns out hollywood is full of pedos
I dont believe in coincidences. this is literally "dont judge lest be judged" put into action.

Times like these makes me glad i walk with a bible every day in my pocket.

The 90's had some real bangers. I'd say it's definitely one from there. Maybe Schindlers List, Forrest Gump or Silence of the Lambs. I's be for Forrest Gump.