gbollard wrote:
ford_prefects_kid wrote:
Maybe you just don't like dialogue/relationship based films. There's a reason Annie Hall is one of the only comedies to ever win best picture.
Believe me, I think Annie Hall is brilliant and I do like dialogue/relationship based films.
I just have a problem with the Oscars deliberately avoiding Genre films.
I'd have hoped that the Best Picture would be the most memorable one.
Case in point....
Oscars 1931... Outstanding Production Winner and Nominees.
Cimarron (RKO Radio) East Lynne (Fox)
The Front Page (Caddo, United Artists)
Skippy (Paramount Publix)
Trader Horn (MGM)
So, how many people have seen any of these films? How many think that they're masterpieces of film, worthy also of best direction?
Then... who has seen Frankenstein 1931. Is there a reason why it isn't on the list? Isn't it a more ground-breaking film than the others.
Is the bride - considered by many to be a much better film - really so unworthy that it didn't even get nominated in 1935? when the best picture went to Mutiny on the Bounty (MGM)?
Well, the first Oscars - 1927 - had
two awards that are analogous to "Best Motion Picture". The first, Most Outstanding Production, was won by the film
Wings, which despite being listing in reference books as the first winner of the award now known as "Best Picture" is otherwise largely forgotten. The winner of the other award, Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production was won by the groundbreaking arthouse drama film
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, which remains well known thanks to its continued critical adoration all these years later, its placement on the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Films list and occasional airings on Turner Classic Movies
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here be dragons
24 Jan 2009, 7:40 pm
