Yeah—I know…

So I was depressed last night about ‘Crash’ winning the best picture award… Not because I didn’t like it—cause I did-but I just felt it was the most uneven of all the films nominated this year.

The acting is certain cases was not that great, the writing overly clever and symbolic, and the direction wasn’t that original. I honestly would have wanted to see anything else win.

Which started me thinking about past years and whether winning does matter. I’m not sure it does when you look down this list of “losers”—especially when the film that won in its year is one you have NEVER heard of.


Little Women

The Thin Man

The Good Earth

A Star Is Born

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The Wizard of Oz

Wuthering Heights

The Grapes of Wrath

The Philadelphia Story

Citizen Kane

The Maltese Falcon

Double Indemnity

It's a Wonderful Life

Miracle on 34th Street

Sunset Blvd

A Place in the Sun

A Streetcar Named Desire

High Noon

Shane

The King and I

The Ten Commandments

12 Angry Men

Auntie Mame

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Diary of Anne Frank

Meredith Willson's The Music Man

To Kill a Mockingbird

How the West Was Won -- Bernard Smith, Producer

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Mary Poppins

Doctor Zhivago

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Bonnie and Clyde

The Graduate

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

M*A*S*H

A Clockwork Orange

The Last Picture Show

Deliverance

Sounder

American Graffiti

The Exorcist -

Chinatown

Jaws

Nashville

All the President's Men

Taxi Driver

Star Wars

Apocalypse Now

Norma Rae

Raging Bull

On Golden Pond

Raiders of the Lost Ark

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

The Big Chill

The Color Purple

Dangerous Liaisons

Field of Dreams

JFK



Howards End -- Ismail Merchant, Producer

Pulp Fiction

The Shawshank Redemption

Sense and Sensibility

Fargo

L.A. Confidential

Saving Private Ryan

The Sixth Sense

Moulin Rouge

The Hours

Brokeback Mountain