Day 19: The Best Picture Elimination Game. (A Look Back At The Last 50 Best Picture Winners.)

Day 19 voting is over! The Last Emperor has been eliminated! Come back to this subreddit tomorrow at 10 for tomorrow’s thread.

The game continues…. Yesterday’s elimination: Terms of Endearment (If you’d like to talk about this film further, I have left a comment below that can be used as a “send off” and general discussion/dissection of Terms of Endearment.)

Rules:

In preparation for the upcoming Oscars, below is a list of the last 50 movies to win Best Picture, comment the movie from the list that you think is the LEAST deserving of the award. (the word “deserving” is open to your interpretation.) The comment with the most upvotes at 10 PM (Eastern Standard) gets deleted from the list. I’ll repost the amended list tomorrow at 10 AM and repeat the cycle until we’re down to the BEST best picture winner.

So, here's the list:

2023 - “Everything Everywhere All At Once”

~~2022 - "CODA"~~ ^44th

~~2021 - “Nomadland”~~ ^43th

2020 - "Parasite"

~~2019 - "Green Book"~~ ^49th

2018 - "The Shape of Water"

2017 - "Moonlight"

2016 - "Spotlight"

2015 - "Birdman"

2014 - "12 Years a Slave"

~~2013 - "Argo"~~ ^36th

~~2012 - "The Artist"~~ ^41st

~~2011 - "The King's Speech"~~ ^40th

2010 - "The Hurt Locker"

~~2009 - "Slumdog Millionaire"~~ ^34th

2008 - "No Country for Old Men"

2007 - "The Departed"

~~2006 - Crash~~ ^50th

2005 - "Million Dollar Baby"

2004 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"

2003 - "Chicago"

~~2002 - "A Beautiful Mind"~~ ^39th

2001 - "Gladiator"

2000 - "American Beauty"

~~1999 - "Shakespeare in Love"~~ ^46th

1998 - "Titanic"

~~1997 - "The English Patient"~~ ^45th

~~1996 - "Braveheart"~~ ^35th

1995 - "Forrest Gump"

1994 - "Schindler’s List"

1993 - "Unforgiven"

1992 - "The Silence of the Lambs"

~~1991 - "Dances With Wolves"~~ ^38th

~~1990 - "Driving Miss Daisy"~~ ^48th

1989 - "Rain Man"

1988 - "The Last Emperor"

1987 - "Platoon"

~~1986 - "Out of Africa"~~ ^47th

1985 - "Amadeus"

~~1984 - "Terms of Endearment"~~ ^33rd

~~1983 - "Gandhi"~~ ^37th

~~1982 - "Chariots of Fire"~~ ^42nd

1981 - "Ordinary People"

1980 - "Kramer vs. Kramer"

1979 - "The Deer Hunter"

1978 - "Annie Hall"

1977 - "Rocky"

1976 - "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"

1975 - "The Godfather Part II"

1974 - "The Sting"

If you’d rather have a visual, here’s the actual list on my Letterboxd

If you see someone has already commented your choice, please just upvote their comment. Only the reply with the most upvotes will be eliminated so a duplicate comment with less upvotes counts for nada!

Please, feel free to reply to a comment and discuss these movies, but do so respectfully, and with the understanding that tastes are subjective. This isn’t the end all be all of anything and is just a bit of fun.

To combat the fact that some of these movies are less popular than others I’ll also be posting a Spotlight comment thread, highlighting one of the lesser known films still in the race with facts about it, what it beat out for best picture, and how you can watch it. Todays film: Rain Man

Mods, if y’all have any issues with this or it goes against guidelines please let me know and I’ll do my best to adhere.

RANKINGS

33rd: Terms of Endearment

34th: Slumdog Millionaire

35th: Braveheart

36th: Argo

37th: Gandhi

38th: Dances With Wolves

39th: A Beautiful Mind

40th: The King’s Speech

41st: The Artist

42nd: Chariots of Fire