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This won the BAFTA award for Best Picture, over Amadeus.

posted 16 years ago by macgeek2004
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Please tell me this is a typo on the part of IMDB?

Ross Kemp has a BAFTA. The BAFTAs are a joke.
It was certainly a weak year if you look at the Oscars as well. My favourite film released that year is probably Brazil and I'm a fan of Ran and Back to the Future.

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[–] sadie_beth_1124 16 years ago

It was well deserved!
I maintain that if somebody doesn't like "The Purple Rose of Cairo", they just don't get it.

"There's no such thing as an original sin."

[–] macgeek2004 16 years ago

I like The Purple Rose of Cairo. I really like it. It's a great film. It had the most creative plot idea i've ever witnessed in a film.

And yet, giving a "best film" award to it over Amadeus is completely and utterly preposterous.

[–] snorlax3111984 16 years ago

Amadeus is my candidate for greatest film ever made, so naturally I concur with the original poster.

That said, Purple Rose of Cairo is a great film. I consider it Allen's 3rd best after Bananas & Hanna and her Sisters

[–] marvelass 12 years ago

Yes, Purple Rose won the Best Film BAFTA over Amadeus. Incidentally, Back to the Future was also nominated that year, which I found more interesting.

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[–] hafabee 11 years ago

Any one of those movies could have won Best Picture and they wouldn't be wrong.

[–] franzkabuki 11 years ago

What is this? Amadeus is a 1984 film while Purple Rose came out in 1985...?

Either way, if we look at the movies that came out in 1984, Amadeus has serious difficulty even making the top 10 as far as I`m concerned. Bit of a bloated, populist piece of film, that - and somewhat overrated as most Forman`s films tend to be.

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