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Originally Posted by liamenator
^^^^
It just goes to show you how often the Academy gets it completely wrong.
Knee-jerk, crowd-pleasing emotional picks seem to win out every single year... Then 5 years down the road, the gaffs come to light as the best picture winner more often than not fades into forgettable mediocrity while many of the overlooked films display staying power and have retained a presence in cultural consciousness.
Some of the worst oversights, IMO:
- How Green Was My Valley over Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Ordinary People over Raging Bull (1980)
- Driving Miss Daisey over Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society and My Left Foot (1989)
- Dances With Wolves over Goodfellas (1990)
- Forrest Gump over Shawshank and Pulp Fiction (1994) (Apologies to those who love Forrest Gump, but this one was for shame!!!)
- Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan (1998) (This one is probably the worst example, other than Citizen Kane snub)
- Chicago over Gangs of New York, The Pianist, The Hours (2002)
- Crash over Brokeback Mountain and Munich (2005)
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good list, but Dances With Wolves was and continues to be awesome.