TrekBBS Academy Awards #21 PLUS First Big Update!

[Star Treks]

This is the 21st in a series of polls examining how you, the TrekBBS users, would have voted, were you in the Academy. So far I've only asked about the Best Picture nominees, but now I'm going to sprinkle in a few other awards here and there. Up next: Best Actor, 1990 - which nominee most deserved the award?

UPDATE

Here are the results of the polls, up to this point.

Bold = Did Win
Italic = TrekBBS Pick
Both = Both

1980 - Ordinary People / Raging Bull
1981 - Chariots of Fire / Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 - Gandhi
1983 - Terms of Endearment / The Right Stuff
1984 - Amadeus
1985 - Out of Africa / The Color Purple
1986 - Platoon
1987 - The Last Emperor
1988 - Rain Man
1989 - Driving Miss Daisy / Dead Poets Society
1990 - Dances With Wolves / GoodFellas
1991 - The Silenve of the Lambs
1992 - Unforgiven
1993 - Schindler's List
1994 - Forrest Gump / The Shawshank Redemption
1995 - Braveheart / Apollo 13
1996 - The English Patient / Fargo
1997 - Titanic / L.A. Confidential
1998 - Shakespeare in Love / Saving Private Ryan
1999 - American Beauty

A few random facts about the results so far:

The longest streak of agreement between TrekBBS Users and the Academy: 3. It has happened twice ('86-'88 and '91-'93).

The longest streak of disagreement, where TrekBBS users think the Academy got it wrong: 5 ('94-'98).

Close votes included 1988: Rain Man over Mississippi Burning,and 1999: American Beuaty over The Insider.

Blowouts (winning film gets 70+% of the TrekBBS vote) include Amadeus, The Last Emperor, The Right Stuff, and Schindler's List (3 of the 4 won the Oscar; the one that did not is The Right Stuff, which lost to Terms of Endearment). Among other films with a strong showing (60%+ of your votes): Apollo 13, Fargo, Platoon, Raging Bull, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and The Shawshank Redemption (only 1 of the 6 won the Oscar, Platoon).

Among the least popular Oscar winners (less than 20% of the TrekBBS vote) are Chariots of Fire, The English Patient, Forrest Gump, Ordinary People, Out of Africa, Shakespeare in Love, and Terms of Endearment. The only Best Picture winner to receive zero votes is Terms of Endearment.

In total, you agreed with the Academy 9 out of 20 times (45%). It's up to you to decide whether this is a solid agreement or not (after all, there are typically five nominees, not two, so a 50% agreement when choosing out of five certainly shows a lack of arbitrariness - but is it a good record? I'm not so sure).

I hope people will keep participating; I'll update again in another 20 polls (about 2 months).

 

[Temis the Vorta]

1981 - Chariots of Fire / Raiders of the Lost Ark

We're awful!

1990 - Dances With Wolves / GoodFellas

We're great!

1994 - Forrest Gump / The Shawshank Redemption

We're even greater!

1997 - Titanic / L.A. Confidential
1998 - Shakespeare in Love / Saving Private Ryan

...screw it, Oscars, let us do the voting from now on.

 

[Harvey]

re: Temis --

As for the actors, I haven't seen more than some of Dances with Wolves. Can't vote for a performance here.

Will we be doing more Best Picture polls? I was all excited about the 1970s, but it is my favorite decade of American film.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Interesting results.

Although it should be noted that TrekBBS is a fairly limited subset of the population - mostly males, mostly younger people, etc. So I don't think any conclusions can be reached that would extend past the cyber-walls of our little hangout.

Still, interesting.

 

[Star Treks]

Interesting results.

Although it should be noted that TrekBBS is a fairly limited subset of the population - mostly males, mostly younger people, etc. So I don't think any conclusions can be reached that would extend past the cyber-walls of our little hangout.

Still, interesting.

Yes but mostly younger males who like Star Trek and therefore, by definition, of greater discernment than the population as a whole.

 

[Mistral]

Interesting results.

Although it should be noted that TrekBBS is a fairly limited subset of the population - mostly males, mostly younger people, etc. So I don't think any conclusions can be reached that would extend past the cyber-walls of our little hangout.

Still, interesting.

Yes but mostly younger males who like Star Trek and therefore, by definition, of greater discernment than the population as a whole.

Indeed! An enlightened group of voters-at least, in the cases where they'd actually seen the films in question. The age factor both shocked and amused me. Guess that makes me old-I can remember watching most of the acceptance speeches for these Oscar winners.