Which decade had the best "Best Pictures"?

[CrAzYMoFo]

1960: The Apartment
61: West Side Story
62: Lawrence of Arabia
63: Tom Jones
64: My Fair Lady
65: The Sound of Music
66: A Man for All Seasons
67: In the Heart of the Night
68: Oliver!
69: Midnight Cowboy

1970: Patton
71: The French Connection
72: The Godfather
73: The Sting
74: The Godfather, Part II
75: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
76: Rocky
77: Annie Hall
78: The Deer Hunter
79: Kramer vs Kramer

1980: Ordinary People
81: Chariots of Fire
82: Gandhi
83: Terms of Endearment
84: Amadeus
85: Out of Africa
86: Platoon
87: The Last Emperor
88: Rain Man
89: Driving Miss Daisy

1990: Dances with Wolves
91: The Silence of the Lambs
92: Unforgiven
93: Schindler's List
94: Forrest Gump
95: Braveheart
96: The English Patient
97: Titanic
98: Shakespeare In Love
99: American Beauty

2000: Gladiator
01: A Beautiful Mind
02: Chicago
03: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
04: Million Dollar Baby
05: Crash

 

[Speedball]

The nineties overall sucked.
But the best pictures at the oscars are probably some of the best in cinematic history.
Except for English Patient.
Like Elaine in Seinfeld said-It's boring, makes me fall asleep, and is too long.

 

[Leto Atrides]

I'd say 70s. 60s had some great stuff (A Man for all Seasons is pretty much my favorite movie), and I love some of the 90s ones (Silence of the Lambs, Braveheart), but the 70s had no real low point.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

1960: The Apartment
61: West Side Story
62: Lawrence of Arabia
63: Tom Jones
64: My Fair Lady
65: The Sound of Music
66: A Man for All Seasons
67: In the Heart of the Night
68: Oliver!
69: Midnight Cowboy

1970: Patton
71: The French Connection
72: The Godfather
73: The Sting
74: The Godfather, Part II
75: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
76: Rocky
77: Annie Hall
78: The Deer Hunter
79: Kramer vs Kramer

1980: Ordinary People
81: Chariots of Fire
82: Gandhi
83: Terms of Endearment
84: Amadeus
85: Out of Africa
86: Platoon
87: The Last Emperor
88: Rain Man
89: Driving Miss Daisy

1990: Dances with Wolves
91: The Silence of the Lambs
92: Unforgiven
93: Schindler's List
94: Forrest Gump
95: Braveheart
96: The English Patient
97: Titanic
98: Shakespeare In Love
99: American Beauty

2000: Gladiator
01: A Beautiful Mind
02: Chicago
03: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
04: Million Dollar Baby
05: Crash

VERY good question.

2000s aren't quite as solid, Beautiful Mind? Chicago? Crash?

1990's are great.

1980's are great.

1970's are faultless.

1960's are all classics.

So I can't tell you the best, but the worst is the 2000s. So far.

 

[Bat Attack]

1990's. *Cough*ISTILLTHINKPULPFICTIONSHOULDHAVEWONBESTPICTUREIN1995*COUGH!* Uggh, I have to do something about that cough.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

1990's. *Cough*ISTILLTHINKPULPFICTIONSHOULDHAVEWONBESTPICTUREIN1995*COUGH!* Uggh, I have to do something about that cough.

Yeah, and a lot of people say Se7en should have won in 1996.

 

[The Chairman]

The 1970s', which were the best decade for cinema in general.

The 1990s' were flawed as heck. Goodfellas should've won for 1990 and Pulp Fiction or Shawshank should've got the gold for '94.

 

[JLBats]

VERY good question.

2000s aren't quite as solid, Beautiful Mind? Chicago? Crash?

1990's are great.

1980's are great.

1970's are faultless.

1960's are all classics.

So I can't tell you the best, but the worst is the 2000s. So far.

I wouldn't call the '70s faultless. Annie Hall never should have won over Taxi Driver.

 

[Mike059jig]

1970's GodFather
1980's Scarface
1990's 3 great one Goodfellas,Casino,Pulp Fiction
2000's LOTR..

 

[U.S War Machine]

90's

 

[The Chairman]

I wouldn't call the '70s faultless. Annie Hall never should have won over Taxi Driver.

Um, they were released a year apart from each other. Rocky beat out Taxi Driver. Annie Hall beat out Star Wars.

 

[JLBats]

Um, they were released a year apart from each other. Rocky beat out Taxi Driver. Annie Hall beat out Star Wars.

Oh, right, duh, drunk here. Annie Hall never should have beat Star Wars, Rock never should have beat Taxi Driver.

Than it becomes faultless

 

[The Chairman]

Also, in 1991, JFK should've won over Silence. Not that Silence isn't a great film, but JFK was much more relevant and provocative IMO. It's further proof that too many times in the 1990s' did the Academy go with the safe choices rather than the ones that truly deserved to win.

Another example: Shakespeare In Love over Saving Private Ryan.

 

[The Chairman]

Oh, right, duh, drunk here. Annie Hall never should have beat Star Wars, Rock never should have beat Taxi Driver.

Than it becomes faultless

Well, yeah, I agree with you. That's nothing to take away from the credibility of Rocky or Annie Hall, both excellent films in their own right, just not as groundbreaking or thought provoking as Taxi Driver and Star Wars.

 

[Speedball]

Also, in 1991, JFK should've won over Silence. Not that Silence isn't a great film, but JFK was much more relevant and provocative IMO. It's further proof that too many times in the 1990s' did the Academy go with the safe choices rather than the ones that truly deserved to win.

Another example: Shakespeare In Love over Saving Private Ryan.

GOD! that is a joke right?
Saving Private Ryan came out the same year a Shakespeare in Love?
What's SPR about?
Heroes who try to save a young man from dying and sparing his mother immense amounts of grief, and takes place in the most important War we have probably fought.
What's SIL about?
A fake story about a women trying to act during a period when women weren't allowed on stage. I thought Shakespeare was married during the time this film was set. I guess I was wrong, and so were all the History books and the little bios in the his books are wrong as well.

 

[The Chairman]

GOD! that is a joke right?
Saving Private Ryan came out the same year a Shakespeare in Love?
What's SPR about?
Heroes who try to save a young man from dying and sparing his mother immense amounts of grief, and takes place in the most important War we have probably fought.
What's SIL about?
A fake story about a women trying to act during a period when women weren't allowed on stage. I thought Shakespeare was married during the time this film was set. I guess I was wrong, and so were all the History books and the little bios in the his books are wrong as well.

We watched Shakespeare In Love once in school. I remember being completely bored by it.

 

[Speedball]

We watched Shakespeare In Love once in school. I remember being completely bored by it.

It's the most historically inaccurate film ever i think.
He married Anne Hathaway in 1582. The film takes place in the 1890's.
there is no Anne Hathaway listed in the film on IMDB.

 

[JLBats]

We watched Shakespeare In Love once in school. I remember being completely bored by it.

That's because the subject matter was completely uninteresting and unremarkable in every way.

 

[The Chairman]

It's the most historically inaccurate film ever i think.
He married Anne Hathaway in 1582. The film takes place in the 1890's.
there is no Anne Hathaway listed in the film on IMDB.

Well, I wouldn't know that becaue I'm not a huge Shakespeare fan. Forget the biographical aspect, even as film in general it completely sucked.

That's because the subject matter was completely uninteresting and unremarkable in every way.

You speak my language.

 

[CrypticOne]

The 1970s', which were the best decade for cinema in general.

The 1990s' were flawed as heck. Goodfellas should've won for 1990 and Pulp Fiction or Shawshank should've got the gold for '94.

I agree with the Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction parts of this. Goodfellas is a classic.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

The 60's and 70's are home to a lot of classics. The 80's were pretty good, but not as good as the past ones. The 90's sucked because so many good movies were snubbed. Shakespeare in Love over Private Ryan? Titanic? The 2000's aren't much better.

 

[Super Flight]

VERY good question.

2000s aren't quite as solid, Beautiful Mind? Chicago? Crash?

1990's are great.

1980's are great.

1970's are faultless.

1960's are all classics.

So I can't tell you the best, but the worst is the 2000s. So far.

2000s best pictures were great, what the hell are you talking about!?, have you ever seen a beautiful mind, Lord of the rings, a million dollar baby, Gladiator and Crash...chicago on the other hand..lol... well thoase are all great movies...meaning 2000 best winners was a great decade

 

[Spidey-Bat]

2000s best pictures were great, what the hell are you talking about!?, have you ever seen a beautiful mind, Lord of the rings, a million dollar baby, Gladiator and Crash...chicago on the other hand..lol... well thoase are all great movies...meaning 2000 best winners was a great decade

Some of those didn't get it for the right reasons.

 

[Super Flight]

Some of those didn't get it for the right reasons.

what do you mean? those WERE the best pictures in 2000-2006...

 

[reggiebar]

Yeah, and a lot of people say Se7en should have won in 1996.

If by "a lot of people" you mean internet geek fanboys, yes. However, this is not an opinion of people in the film industry or the general movie going public as the Pulp Fiction opinion.