True Best Pictures that should have won

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2004: Sideways (it was better... and Paul Giamatti got snubbed)
2003: Mystic River (I liked RotK better, but this was more deserving)
2002: The Pianist
2001: LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring (better than everything else)
2000: Traffic (I saw Gladiator already when it was called Spartacus)
1999: American Beauty (best movie in a long long time)
1998: Saving Private Ryan (WTF? Shakespeare in Love sucked.)
1997: Good Will Hunting (I dunno... I liked it the best outta the nominees.)
1996: The English Patient
1995: Braveheart
1994: The Shawshank Redemption (I liked Pulp Fiction better, but i say Shawshank because Pulp got alot of attention anyway. Shawshank deserves to be #2 on the top 250.)
1993: Schindler's List
1992: Unforgiven
1991: Anything other than Silence of the Lambs (Silence of the Lambs was overrated.)
1990: Goodfellas (Martin Scorcese > Kevin Costner)
1989: Born on the 4th of July (Driving Miss Daisy? Are you *beep* kidding me?)
1988: Rain Man
1987: Anything other than The Last Emperor (boring, boring, boring film.)
1986: Platoon
1985: Back to the Future (it wasn't nominated, but who cares?)
1984: Amadeus
1983: The Right Stuff (Tearms of Endearment? Come on, now)
1982: E.T The Extra-Terrestrial (yeah. That's right.)
1981: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (mmhmm..)
1980: Raging Bull (biggest. robbery. ever. I will kill the academy for this misjustice.)
1979: Apocalypse Now (what, academy? you can't handle two Vietnam movies in two years? CALL IN THE NAPALM!!)
1978: The Deer Hunter
1977: Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope (I liked ESB better, but this robbery joins Raging Bull and SPR as the biggest oscar robberies ever.)
1976: Taxi Driver (what? you talkin to me?)
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974: The Godfather Part II (my #2)
1973: Serpico (wasn't nominated, but screw the academy)
1972: The Godfather (tied for #1)
1971: A Clockwork Orange (way better than The French Connection)
1970: Patton
1969: Midnight Cowboy
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey (one for Stanley.... and it wasn't nominated.)
1967: Bonnie and Clyde (stupid academy)
1966: Il Brutto, il Buono, il Cattivo (stupid stupid academy.)
1965: Doctor Zhivago (The Sound of Music is a film for sallys)
1964: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (...My Fair Lady beat this out? instant phailure for the academy)
1963: Anything other than Tom Jones
1962: Lawrence of Arabia (tied for #1)
1960: Psycho

"You Americans, you are fighting for the biggest... *nothing*.. in history."
-Apocalypse Now

1927/28: Sunrise*
1929: ?
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
1931: Cimarron
1932: Grand Hotel
1933: 42nd Street*
1934: It Happened One Night
1935: Mutiny on the Bounty
1936: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town*
1937: Life of Emile Zola
1938: Grand Illusion*
1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington*
1940: Grapes of Wrath*
1941: Citizen Kane*
1942: Magnificent Ambersons*
1943: Casablanca
1944: Double Indemnity*
1945: Spellbound*
1946: It's a Wonderful Life*
1947: Gentleman's Agreement*
1948: Treasure of the Sierra Madre*
1949: ?
1950: Sunset Blvd.*
1951: A Streetcar Named Desire*
1952: High Noon*
1953: From Here to Etenity
1954: On the Waterfront
1955: Night of the Hunter*
1956: The Searchers*
1957: Bridge on the River Kwai
1958: Touch of Evil*
1959: Ben-Hur
1960: The Apartment
1961: ?
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1963: ?
1964: Dr. Strangelove*
1965: Sound of Music
1966: A Man for All Seasons
1967: Bonnie and Clyde*
1968: Romeo and Juliet*
1969: Z*
1970: Patton
1971: The French Connection
1972: Godfather
1973: Cries and Whispers*
1974: Chinatown*
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
1976: Taxi Driver*
1977: Annie Hall
1978: Deer Hunter
1979: Apocalypse Now*
1980: Raging Bull*
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark*
1982: Gandhi
1983: ?
1984: ? don't really like Amadeus, but haven't seen much else that year
1985: Ran*
1986: Platoon
1987: Last Emporer
1988: Rain Man
1989: Field of Dreams
1990: Goodfellas*
1991: JFK*
1992: Unforgiven
1993: Schindler's List
1994: Shawshank Redemption*
1995: Twelve Monkeys*
1996: Fargo*
1997: L.A. Confidential*
1998: Life is Beautiful*
1999: The Insider*
2000: Traffic*
2001: A Beautiful Mind
2002: The Pianist*
2003: Mystic River*
2004: Sideways*

*where I disagree with the result
? where I haven't seen enough that year to comment

1985: “The Colour Purple” (my # 2)
1986: “Children of a Lesser God”
1987: “Fatal Attraction”
1988: “Rain Man”
1989: “My Left Foot”
1990: “Misery” (my # 4)
1991: “The Silence of the Lambs”
1992: “Scent of a Woman”
1993: “Schindler’s List”
1994: “The Shawshank Redemption”
1995: “Braveheart”
1996: “The English Patient”
1997: “Titanik” and “Good Will Hunting” (TIE)
1998: “Shakespeare in Love”
1999: “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (my #4) and “American Beauty” (TIE)
2000: “Erin Brockovich”
2001: “A Beautiful Mind”
2002: “The Hours” and “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” (TIE)
2003: “House of Sand and Fog” (my #3) and “Kill Bill (Vol. 1)” (my #3) (TIE)
2004: “ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND” (my #1)

1997:L.A. Confidential
1998:Saving Private Ryan
1999:The Green Mile
2000:Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001:LOTR:FOTR
2002:The Pianist
2003:Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004:Million Dollar Baby

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Your eyes can be so cruel, just as I can be so cruel.-Labyrinth

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Thats not right. The winners should have been...

1997: Fargo
1998: Saving Private Ryan
1999: American History X
2000: The Green Mile
2001: Traffic
2002: I am Sam
2003: Gangs of New York.
2004: 21 grams
2005: Finding Nevverland
2006: Walk the Line
2007: The Departed (I wrote in here even thought it did win)

1997: Titanic
1998: Saving Private Ryan
1999: American Beauty
2000: Gladiator/Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001: A Beautiful Mind/LOTR
2002: Chicago
2003: LOTR
2004: The Aviator
2005: Munich
2006: Babel
2007: Juno/NCOM/Atonement