A lot of people say Crash is the worst but it seriously must be this.
1998 Nominees Best to Worst
Best: Saving Private Ryan
2nd: Life Is Beautiful
3rd: The Thin Red Line
4th: This
5th: Elizabeth
All this film had to offer was some humour and if that is the case then why did anchorman not win best picture
The leftist ideological signalling movies of recent years that have won are the worst. Life is Beautiful was the worst nominee of 1998. Saving Private Ryan was a pretty good war movie, but people mistook the over-the-top violence for unprecedented quality. Shakespeare in Love was the best of the lot.
shareIt's definitely up there, also has the stench of Harvey Weinstein all over it and his power play's behind the scenes. Time definitely hasn't been kind to this film. How this won over the great Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line is still shocking today.
Here's a few that come to mind Where the Oscars screwed up for Best Picture imo.
Driving Miss Daisy over Born on the 4th of July
Gandhi over E.T
Chicago over The Pianist
Forrest Gump ( I love the film) over Pulp Fiction or Shawshank Redemption (better films imo)
Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas
Kramer vs Kramer over All That Jazz
The English Patient over Fargo
Rocky over Taxi Driver
Titanic over L.A Confidential
Ordinary People over Raging Bull
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Compared to other nominees: Life is Beautiful is the only other one that should even have had a chance.
shareIt's really funny cause our TV channels (they are biggest rivals among all TV channels) air both movies this weekend. Saturday - Shakespeare in love primetime channel "Nova" tv
Sunday - Saving private Ryan primetime tv channel "prima cool" more people are outside of their homes on Saturday than on Sunday that says a lot people know SPR is just more popular among people no Oscars will change that.
The Thin Red Line should have taken it in a walk but such a cerebral and contemplative film was never going to win, so I was perfectly happy with Shakespeare in Love, which I preferred to Saving Private Ryan. No, SIL wasn't really Oscar worthy, but it was a smart and witty experience, handsomely produced and thoroughly enjoyable to watch. The worst winner ever? Even just picking from the 1990s winners Forrest Gump and - especially - Braveheart are far less worthy.
shareIt certainly didn't deserve all of its Oscars, but Best Movie? Sure, why not, it's better than all the other movies nominated that year.
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