Oscars 2025 • Page 19

I have seen every winner going back to probably the mid-Nineties or so. It was never really on purpose, but usually that film is part of the cultural conversation. I don't watch all the nominees, though. There was something a few years ago about 9/11 and Tom Hanks that I couldn't watch. Lion too maybe?

 

Argo is a perfectly fine movie. Not bad not great. At least it’s entertaining.

 

I liked Lion

 

Thank goodness!! I wanted to watch it at the cinema but the only screenings were at 8:50pm at my local cinema.. no earlier ones unfortunately.

 

Lion is a great film and it reminded me that Dev Petel was the first og Skins cast member to get Oscar nominated in general for his performance in Lion!

 

green book is the only 21st century winner i haven’t seen

 

The Artist is the only best picture winner I have not seen!

 

Green Book is offensive and awful in all the ways you have seen many times before. There is no reason to watch it. However, you kind of have to actually see something like Crash to get how terrible it is.

 

Gladiator is fun

 

I haven’t seen:

A Beautiful Mind
Chicago
Slumdog
King’s Speech
Argo
Spotlight
Shape of Water
Nomadland
CODA

 

21st century winners:

1. Moonlight
2. Parasite
3. No Country for Old Men

Those are the genuinely great films.

4. The Departed
5. Oppenheimer
6. Million Dollar Baby
7. The Hurt Locker
8. Gladiator
9. The Lord of the Rings 3
10. Nomadland

Those are the good ones.

11. Spotlight
12. CODA
13. 12 Years a Slave
14. The Artist

These are okay. They get maligned more than they probably deserve because of the expectations of awards.

15. The Shape of Water
16. Chicago
17. Everything Everywhere All At Once
18. Slumdog Millionaire
19. Birdman
20. Argo

These are pretty bad, but we can go deeper.

21. The King's Speech
22. A Beautiful Mind
23. Green Book
24. Crash

The truly vile, hateful ones. The world would be a better place without them.

 

outside of green book since i haven't seen it:

1. Parasite
2. Moonlight
3. No Country for Old Men
4. The Departed
5. Gladiator
6. Lord of the Rings; Return of the King
7. Oppenheimer
8. Spotlight
9. The Hurt Locker
10. CODA
11. Nomadland
12. Birdman
13. Million Dollar Baby
14. 12 Years a Slave
15. Argo
16. Chicago
17. Everything Everywhere All At Once
18. A Beautiful Mind
19. Slumdog Millionaire
20. The Shape of Water
21. The King's Speech
22. The Artist
23. Crash

 

I love EEAAO but I think it would have been better off if it didn’t sweep that year. Everything got so weird when that was happening

 

Anyone who doesn't have No Country for Old Men/Parasite/Moonlight in their top three will have to answer questions.

 

Moonlight is the best.

 

i could see someone having departed in their top 3 bu that's where my understanding would end

 

Moonlight also had the funniest win

 

The Departed is very good but the last 12 years have proven the retirement award was premature.

 

The King’s Speech is very bad

 

the only reason it isn't at the absolute bottom is some of the acting is occasionally okay

 

The Departed is super rewatchable but it’s not even a top 10 Marty. But if the oscars didn’t recognize him then, idk when they would because his late period masterworks keep going home empty handed

 

The Irishman probably wins everything if the Departed didn't.

 

im not saying its the best Scorsese movie lol I'm just saying I could see someone arguing that they like it more than no country for old men though I stated myself I do not

 

I know it’s not high art and probably has no business being a Best Picture winner, but I genuinely loved CODA. All of the emotionally manipulative aspects of that movie played me like a fiddle. At least 50 percent of this is because of the Joni Mitchell song, which does so much heavy lifting in that movie.

 

if the Academy cared about Scorsese, they would've nominated Silence in more categories than cinematography