The winner has to be one of the nominees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_A ... st_Picture

2009: Inglourious Basterds
2010: Toy Story 3 (Sadly can't give it to Inception)
2011: The Artist
2012: Life of Pi (I love the Les Mis soundtrack so much though)
2013: Gravity
2014: Whiplash
2015: Room
2016: La La Land
2017: Call Me By Your Name
2018: The Favourite
2019: Parasite
2020: Didn't see enough of these
2021: The Power of the Dog
2022: Triangle of Sadness
2023: Oppenheimer

Power of the Dog is dog crap

Based on which of the nominees were my favourites:

2009: Inglourious Basterds
2010: The Kids Are All Right
2011: Midnight in Paris
2012: Life of Pi
2013: Philomena
2014: Whiplash
2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
2016: La La Land
2017: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018: BlacKkKlansman
2019: Parasite
2020: The Father
2021: King Richard
2022: Triangle of Sadness
2023: Killers of the Flower Moon

Based on which of the nominees should have been the BP winner (i.e. a film achievement; the movie that looks and feels like a BP winner, and has earned its place in film history since release rather than a short-term fad or trending movie like Moonlight):

2009: Avatar
2010: Inception
2011: The Tree of Life
2012: Les Misérables
2013: The Wolf of Wall Street
2014: Boyhood
2015: The Big Short
2016: La La Land
2017: Dunkirk
2018: Roma
2019: Joker
2020: The Father
2021: West Side Story
2022: All Quiet on the Western Front
2023: Oppenheimer

Moonlight winning Best Picture is the worst decision in Academy Award history.

What should have won based on my perception of their legacies:

2009: The Hurt Locker can stay, its still probably the best Iraq war movie
2010: The Social Network
2011: Tree of Life - I hate this movie but the nominated films are super weak this year. Woody Allen had the best one but that wouldn't age well for obvious reasons and he already won before. Drive and Bridesmaids being snubbed with 10 nominees is the biggest mystery. Might as well give Malick a lifetime award.
2012: Django Unchained- This is where QT should have gotten his win. If the PC movement had kicked in a few years earlier I think he would have.
2013: The Wolf of Wall Street - I dunno, theres a lot of good films here but nothing that seems overly relevant in today's culture.
2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel - again,I don't love this movie, but theres no doubt that many others do and that Wes Anderson is a legend.
2015: Fury Road
2016: Moonlight - I was strongly against this at the time, but it has held up at least in the snobbiest of film circles. No one cares about LLL anymore. I'd pick Arrival but I guess we should be thankful DV even got nominated.
2017: Get Out - Dunkirk is the best movie here, but Get Out was the film of the year and its still extremely relevant today.
2018: The Favourite - feels like this movie took off right after awards season was over.
2019: Parasite - 2019 was an awesome movie year and this was the right pick (unless we wanna add in Endgame????)
2020: Promising Young Woman - Not a single one of these movies matter anymore so Im just going with my favorite. This was the year to finally reward an animated picture with Soul.
2021: Dune - part two is so much better but since the academy are being a bunch of dickheads this year lets just get this out of the way in 2022.
2022: Everything Everywhere All At Once - great pick
2023: Oppenheimer - Nolan is God.




The actual best movies of each year:

Avatar
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Drive
Django Unchained
Sharknado (really Snowpiercer but it only got released internationally in 2013, US in 2014)
The Raid 2
Mad Max Fury Road
Train To Busan
Coco
Mission Impossible Fallout
Avengers Endgame
Soul
The Suicide Squad
The Menu
Oppenheimer
Dune Part Two

+1

Based on which of the nominees were my favourites:
2009: Avatar
2010: Inception
2011: Midnight in Paris
2012: Django Unchained
2013: Gravity
2014: Whiplash
2015: Spotlight
2016: Hell or High Water
2017: Dunkirk
2018: Green Book
2019: 1917
2020: Nomadland
2021: Holy shit, I only saw the both average Dune and Don't Look Up
2022: Top Gun: Maverick
2023: Oppenheimer

Based on which of the nominees should have been the BP winner:
2009: Avatar
2010: Inception
2011: It was a bad year, so The Artist was fine I guess..
2012: Argo
2013: The Wolf of Wall Street
2014: Whiplash
2015: The Big Short or the first dual winner with Spotlight
2016: La La Land
2017: Get Out
2018: A Star Is Born
2019: Parasite
2020: Pretty bad year again, so Nomadland was fine..
2021: CODA
2022: Top Gun: Maverick
2023: Oppenheimer

2009 District 9
2010 The Social Network
2011 The Help
2012 Life of Pi
2013 Gravity
2014 Boyhood
2015 Max Max
2016 Arrival
2017 Get Out
2018 Black Panther
2019 Parasite
2020 Minari
2021 Coda
2022 Top Gun: Maverick
2023 Oppenheimer

2012 is a great year, if the field of 5 was Argo, Lincoln, Les Mis, Silver Linings Playbook and Life of Pi that’s excellent (I like Django more than Argo but it wouldn’t make the 5 nominees.

crash says hello

Nah. That was a negative bandwagon that I did not jump on. I liked Crash. But Moonlight was only lauded because it fell in those years where identity politics were the only thing on people's minds. As a film, it is wholly average.

Moonlight won due to La La Land backlash

La La Land was very overrated but it was still way better than Moonlight.

Yeah Moonlight was a Oscars so white thing, although the La La Land hype probably got too big.

It is quite common with BP winners, though. I don't think people are watching the likes of Moonlight and CODA anymore, whereas Gladiator, Braveheart, Rain Man, Forrest Gump, etc. are still quality movies that are still being watched today.

It goes in phases. People also aren't watching Out of Africa and The Last Emperor these days, so CODA and Moonlight will just be added to the list of forgotten BP winners.

It won for being a black movie, but I don't think black movie people really care about it either. Zootopia was the best film about racism that year. But it has definitely taken its place as one of the top gay movies ever. Like it'll almost definitely make the AFI top 100 list if they ever bother to update it again. La La Land will not. Arrival might, but probably not.

Would Emilia Perez be the worst best picture winner of all time?

I haven't seen the film, but it would be a very close battle between it and Moonlight. And that's even IF it wins, which I doubt it will. Although it could be a reflexive gesture towards a more xenophobic US government.

I’d give it only a very small chance to win. Just considering hypotheticals.

Oh love these types of threads.

My picks (based on the nominees):

2009: Inglourious Basterds
2010: Toy Story 3
2011: Hugo
2012: Zero Dark Thirty
2013: The Wolf of Wall Street (strong year, tough choice)
2014: Boyhood (another tough one)
2015: The Revenant
2016: La La Land
2017: The Post (weak year)
2018: A Star Is Born
2019: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2020: Promising Young Woman
2021: -------DID NOT SEE ANY OF THE NOMINEES LOL
2022: Top Gun: Maverick
2023: Oppenheimer

Only Oppenheimer matches with the Academy.

Oops, I overlooked Belfast when selecting for 2021. I'd actually take that over King Richard. But yeah, 2021 was a poor year. The actual winner is another identity politics joke.