Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

For me, it's all about context. For the past five years or so, I'll use the American release date because that's more likely when I would've gotten to see the film. I saw The Piano Teacher in context, not of the films of 2001, but of 2002 films, for example. The older a film gets, though - the chan...

1. Casablanca
2. Children of Paradise
3. Black Narcissus
4. The Bicycle Thief
5. The Grapes of Wrath
6. Double Indemnity
7. Brief Encounter
8. Fantasia
9. Citizen Kane
10. Shoeshine

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc 2. Sherlock Jr. 3. Battleship Potemkin 4. The General 5. Our Hospitality 6. The Wind 7. Gold Rush 8. Sunrise 9. The Crowd 10. The Man with the Movie Camera I recently watched Un Chien Andalou in a film studies class. Even being aware of the slashing of the eye before ha...

While I don't think they're real, the majority of them (at least the recent ones) are picks that I would have thought to be the runners up as well.



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Dodsworth was one of the first 'classic' films I saw, and it's still one of my favourites. Magilla and Reza, thanks for doing these old oscar faves. I haven't seen a majority of these films, so they're great additions on the "To see" list (which, as usual is getting longer instead of shor...