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When Does The Academy "Get It Right"?

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Decade: Rating: List Type:

201

7.6

Wings (1927)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Michael M's rating:

5.7

The Broadway Melody (1929)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: The Hollywood Revue of 1929

Michael M's rating:

668

8.1

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Did They Get It Right? - Yes

Lewis Milestone's anti war masterpiece marks the first time the Academy gets it right, but not a trend that gets repeated often.

Michael M's rating:

5.7

5.9

Cimarron (1931)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: City Lights

263

7.5

7.3

Grand Hotel

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Trouble in Paradise

Michael M's rating:

5.7

5.8

Cavalcade (1933)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Duck Soup

906

8.1

It Happened One Night

Did They Get It Right? - Yes

Michael M's rating:

281

7.4

7.6

Mutiny on the Bounty

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

1935's 4th highest rated picture, it could be alot worse.

Should Have Lost To: A Night at the Opera

Michael M's rating:

106

6.6

The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Modern Times

Michael M's rating:

148

7.3

7.2

The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Make Way for Tomorrow

Michael M's rating:

264

7.4

7.9

You Can't Take It with You (1938)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Bringing Up Baby

Michael M's rating:

2527

7.9

8.1

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Michael M's rating:

1220

8.1

Rebecca (1940)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Although a very close call.

Should Have Lost To: The Great Dictator

Michael M's rating:

345

7.5

7.7

How Green Was My Valley (1942)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Citizen Kane

Michael M's rating:

192

7.5

7.6

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: To Be or Not to Be

Michael M's rating:

3365

8.2

8.5

Casablanca

Did They Get It Right? - Yes

Michael M's rating:

108

7.3

Going My Way

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Double Indemnity

512

7.9

The Lost Weekend (1945)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Brief Encounter

Michael M's rating:

470

8.1

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: It's a Wonderful Life

Michael M's rating:

198

7.4

7.3

Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Build My Gallows High

255

7.6

Hamlet

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

128

7.5

All the King's Men (1949)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: The Third Man

1129

8.3

8.2

All About Eve (1950)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Sunset Boulevard

Michael M's rating:

492

7.2

An American in Paris (1951)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Strangers on a Train

Michael M's rating:

170

6.4

6.6

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Ha, nowhere near close. One of the award's most questionable winners.

Should Have Lost To: Singin' in the Rain

Michael M's rating:

527

7.6

From Here to Eternity (1953)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Stalag 17

Michael M's rating:

1018

8.1

On the Waterfront (1954)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Rear Window

Michael M's rating:

258

7.8

7.7

Marty (1955)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: The Night of the Hunter

Michael M's rating:

365

6.5

6.7

Around the World in 80 Days

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: The Killing

1124

8.1

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: 12 Angry Men

Michael M's rating:

328

6.8

6.7

Gigi (1958)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Vertigo

Michael M's rating:

1433

7.6

8.1

Ben-Hur (1959)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: North by Northwest

Michael M's rating:

1217

8.3

The Apartment (1960)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Psycho

Michael M's rating:

1229

7.1

7.5

West Side Story (1961)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Judgement at Nuremberg

Michael M's rating:

1609

8.2

8.3

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Did They Get It Right? - Yes

Michael M's rating:

131

6.7

6.5

Tom Jones (1963)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: The Great Escape

1361

7.6

7.8

My Fair Lady (1964)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Michael M's rating:

2287

7.6

The Sound of Music

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Doctor Zhivago

Michael M's rating:

262

7.3

7.7

A Man for All Seasons

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Michael M's rating:

557

7.8

7.9

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Cool Hand Luke

Michael M's rating:

330

7.5

7.4

Oliver!

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Once Upon a Time in the West

Michael M's rating:

1044

7.7

7.8

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Michael M's rating:

706

7.6

7.9

Patton (1970)

Did They Get It Right? - Yes

Michael M's rating:

1091

7.8

7.7

The French Connection (1971)

Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: A Clockwork Orange

Michael M's rating:

6385

8.7

9.2

The Godfather (1972)

Did They Get It Right? - Yes

Michael M's rating:

1156

8.3

The Sting

Did They Get It Right? - Yes

Michael M's rating:

4516

8.6

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Did They Get It Right? - Yes

Michael M's rating:

4460

8.5

8.7

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Did They Get It Right? - Yes

Michael M's rating:

3012

7.5

8.1

Rocky (1976)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Taxi Driver

Michael M's rating:

2243

Annie Hall (1977)

Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Michael M's rating:

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The Academy Award for Best Picture is widely regarded as the highest honor which can be bestowed on a film, but is increasingly attacked for rewarding inferior films which do not stand the test of time or are by defeated worthier efforts.

Using IMDB ratings, let's see which films truly deserved to win Best Picture (however, only with films which where eligible to be nominated).

Note: These are not my personal opinions, but rather those of films fans in general.