You're talking about the Oscar "Best Picture" winner? (There are other awards that are better indicators of quality, you know.) Unfortunately, the AMPAS has lost the last shred of credibility it might once have had, because they routinely "award" overblown garbage that shows how hollow and vapid Hollowood really is.
I didn't like ANYTHING on your list -- and if you look at the long list of forgettable crap they've awarded, year after year, over timeless classics that will live forever, that says it all.
As for what "wins" the Oscar for "Best Picture", it's been very clear for a long time now that their "Best Picture" is rarely the best quality. If you look over the long list of stupid populist shlock that "wins", even as timeless classics are ignored, is there anybody left who still thinks an Oscar means anything?? Some horrible mistakes:
Citizen Kane -- lost to How Green Was My Valley.
High Noon -- lost to The Greatest Show on Earth.
A Streetcar Named Desire -- lost to An American in Paris.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -- lost to Gigi.
Room At the Top -- lost to Ben-Hur.
The Rose Tattoo -- lost to Marty
Taxi Driver -- lost to Rocky.
The Last Picture Show -- lost to The French Connection.
The Conversation -- lost to The Godfather Part II.
Raging Bull -- lost to Ordinary People
Pulp Fiction -- lost to Forrest Gump
Saving Private Ryan -- lost to Shakespeare In Love
Brokeback Mountain -- lost to Crash
Milk -- lost to Slumdog Millionaire
Lincoln, The Life of Pi, and Django Unchained -- ALL lost to Argo, which was a ridiculous piece of hokum that was at least 85 percent insulting lies and b.s.
When you look at a list like that, you have to ask yourself if they even recognize quality when they see it. Evidently not.....
I stopped watching their boring excuse for a women's fashion show YEARS ago, when I realized I could predict with almost total accuracy what would "win", just based on who was popular in Hollywood society at the time.
And the year that 12 Years A Slave supposedly was their choice, I would have bet a million dollars that it would "win", because there was no way in hell all those rich white guys would NOT vote for that stomach-churning wallow in completely unnecessary displays of sadism. Their "white guilt" would never have allowed it.
The nadir was reached when Crap + Trash = Crash was chosen over Brokeback Mountain, which had won just about every film award on the planet, while Crash wasn't even nominated on most lists. But there were old dinosaurs in the AMPAS who admitted they had refused to even SEE it, while they voted for something else. How was that even fair? And seriously, if people in the business can't manage to see all the major nominees, even with free showings and screeners, they should just cancel their membership and go sell used cars or something.
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