Fifth in a series asking you how the Academy should have voted, given the original nominees. Which of these movies most deserved the Best Picture Oscar in 1992?
TrekBBS Academy Awards: #5 - Best Picture, 1992
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Yep.
Oh Lord.
For comparison, the top-rated English language feature films of 1992 on IMDB are:
Reservoir Dogs (8.4)
Unforgiven (8.3)
Glengarry Glen Ross (7.9)
Aladdin (7.8)
The Last of the Mohicans (7.7)
Malcolm X (7.7)
The Player (7.7)
Scent of a Woman (7.7)
A Few Good Men (7.5)
Of Mice and Men (7.5)
Howards End scores a 7.4 and The Crying Game scores a 7.3.
The Academy made the right choice with Unforgiven in my opinion.
Reservoir Dogs (8.4)
Unforgiven (8.3)
Glengarry Glen Ross (7.9)
Aladdin (7.8)
The Last of the Mohicans (7.7)
Malcolm X (7.7)
The Player (7.7)
Scent of a Woman (7.7)
A Few Good Men (7.5)
Of Mice and Men (7.5)
Howards End scores a 7.4 and The Crying Game scores a 7.3.
The Academy made the right choice with Unforgiven in my opinion.
Norrin Radd
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Unforgiven's great and deserved it. However, I really like A Few Good Men best. It is highly re-watchable, with probably the best courtroom scene ever on film.
Unforgiven.
A Few Good Men. And Rob Reiner should have gotten a Best Director nomination.
Crying Game and Howards End were great too...but Scent of a Woman sucked IMHO. Denzel Washington should have won Best Actor that year for Malcolm X, but it went to Al Pacino for that crappy movie!
Crying Game and Howards End were great too...but Scent of a Woman sucked IMHO. Denzel Washington should have won Best Actor that year for Malcolm X, but it went to Al Pacino for that crappy movie!
Unforgiven was an excellent modern Western. But I can't help but feel that the movie is too much a commentary on previous Westerns' illusions rather than a story in itself. Reservoir Dogs has a tendency to wallow in sensationalism but the execution is marvelous. A Few Good Men did not hold up for me on rewatching on TV last year. Didn't see Malcolm X. But The Player is still sadly underrated, because it's too comedic I guess.
Despite the temptation of Reservoir Dogs's smooth finish, The Crying Game. Genuine novelty deserves credit.
Despite the temptation of Reservoir Dogs's smooth finish, The Crying Game. Genuine novelty deserves credit.
I voted for A Few Good Men. Should have won best picture for Jack Nicholson's performance alone.
Agreed.
Yep. Also, it's one of the better Tom Cruise performances out there.
Agreed on both counts, and it's one of the few films Demi Moore is actually good in, too.
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