Great as Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havilland are in this, it’s not revisionism to point out quite how badly this film treats Black characters – almost as soon as it was released, it was getting slated for it.
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Not actively bad, but not really anything else either. Shakespeare in Love (1998)ĭidn’t think it was possible, but Tom Stoppard finally managed to create a film composed entirely of odourless, flavourless gas.
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So the king’s got a stutter – what are they going to do, not let him be king anymore? Plus, it’s a bit of a cheek implying Bertie’s stuttering helped win the war, when he was one of the few people in the country who didn’t have to actually do anything. Shameless forelock-tugging guff, the only gag of which is a plummy Colin Firth saying “bugger orf”. Only really makes sense as an early example of the Academy’s softness for chucking a sorry-we-missed-you Oscar at elder statesmen who missed out during their golden years, in this case the 70-year-old Silent Era titan Cecille B Demille. Unbearably annoying, and the wedding section’s so long you’ll find yourself praying for a barely competent local band to start parping out ‘Mr Brightside’ so you can sneak off. Cimarron (1930/31)Ī clunking, ponderous Western family saga which reckons white people were the best thing ever to happen to America. So, mostly, it's about whether I like them or not. Obviously, it's completely impossible to objectively weigh 92 films made across the best part of a century, in every conceivable genre and with wildly different intentions. So, we've put every single one of them in order, from worst to best.
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Some, in fact, are outright unwatchable, while others disappeared into the annals of film history but deserve another look. While they've all been equally rewarded by the Academy, some best picture winners are more equal than others. At the time that they won, they were at the forefront of what cinema could do. Leaving aside any palaver over the rights and wrongs of each win, it's the ultimate, historic achievement that any film can notch up. Since the first Academy Awards, back in 1927, the best picture gong has been awarded to 92 different films.