Pulp Fiction is one of the most overrated films ive ever seenEvery decade has it's duds. In the 90's, Forrest Gump should not have beaten "Pulp Fiction" or "Shawshank Redemption" and "Shakespeare in Love" should not have beated "Saving Private Ryan". In the 2000s, "Chicago" shouldn't have won over "The Pianist" or "LOTR: The Two Towers" and "Crash" shouldn't have beaten "Munich"...haven't seen "Broke Back Mountain, so I can't speak to that. And I thought "There Will Be Blood" should've beaten "No Country for Old Men".
So this decade is not different. The last 5 years were all questionable to me.
So it did its jobThree Billboards... insulted me from start to finish,
Never said it wasn't a good film. It was definitely imaginative and unique. But Shawshank is considered one of the 5 greatest movies ever made, and Pulp Fiction was a classic and had the buzz behind it that year. Gump was very good, but it was a bit too whimsical to have beaten those..Forrest Gump slander will not be tolarated....one of my favorite movies of all-time
Hurt Locker is worseCrash is the worst movie listed.
Agreed, and the Artist won 5 Oscars, no one remembers or talks about that shytawful year
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Alwasy important to remember what a film was up against. Some years a lame movie wins because the competition is more lame.2010: The Hurt Locker
Beat: Avatar, Up, Precious, The Blind Side, District 9, Up in The Air, A Serious Man, An Education, Inglourious Basterds
2011: The King's Speech
Beat: 127 Hours, True Grit, The Social Network, The Fighter, Winter's Bone, Inception, Black Swan, The Kids Are All Right, Toy Story 3
2012: The Artist
Beat: The Descendants, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Moneyball, Midnight in Paris, War Horse, The Tree of Life, Hugo, The Help
2013: Argo
Beat: Silver Linings Playbook, Amour, Django Unchained, Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln, Life of Pi, Les Miserables, Beasts of the Southern Wild
2014: 12 Years a Slave
Beat: Philomena, Nebraska, Captain Phillips, The Wolf of Wall Street, Her, Gravity, American Hustle, Dallas Buyers Club
2015: Birdman
Beat: Whiplash, American Sniper, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything, Boyhood
2016: Spotlight
Beat: Bridge of Spies, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, Brooklyn, The Martian, The Big Short, Room
2017: Moonlight
Beat: La La Land, Arrival, Lion, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, Hacksaw Ridge, Manchester by the Sea, Fences
2018: The Shape of Water
Beat: Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Phantom Thread, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Get Out, The Post, Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird
2019: Green Book
Beat: Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Vice, A Star Is Born, Roma
Over the past 10 years Green Book might be the most egregious Best Picture when you compare it to it's competition that year.
That is a tough list tho....cause those are GOAT level movies too...rewatchable as HellNever said it wasn't a good film. It was definitely imaginative and unique. But Shawshank is considered one of the 5 greatest movies ever made, and Pulp Fiction was a classic and had the buzz behind it that year. Gump was very good, but it was a bit too whimsical to have beaten those..
I was pulling for Good Night and Good Luck in 2006, but I "knew" Brokeback Mountain was going to win.