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Added by Michael M on 25 Jul 2011 08:47
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When Does The Academy "Get It Right"?

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Decade: Rating: List Type:
People who added this item 205 Average listal rating (108 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.6
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
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People who added this item 94 Average listal rating (51 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 5.7
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: The Hollywood Revue of 1929
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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.
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People who added this item 79 Average listal rating (42 ratings) 5.7 IMDB Rating 5.9
Cimarron (1931)
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: City Lights
People who added this item 264 Average listal rating (153 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.3
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Trouble in Paradise
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People who added this item 70 Average listal rating (29 ratings) 5.7 IMDB Rating 5.8
Cavalcade (1933)
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Duck Soup
People who added this item 912 Average listal rating (574 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8.1
Did They Get It Right? - Yes
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People who added this item 285 Average listal rating (151 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.6
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
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Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Modern Times
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People who added this item 150 Average listal rating (67 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.2
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Make Way for Tomorrow
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People who added this item 266 Average listal rating (166 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.9
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Bringing Up Baby
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People who added this item 2541 Average listal rating (1546 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 8.1
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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People who added this item 1229 Average listal rating (744 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 8.1
Rebecca (1940)
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Although a very close call.

Should Have Lost To: The Great Dictator
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People who added this item 347 Average listal rating (215 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.7
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Citizen Kane
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People who added this item 194 Average listal rating (109 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.6
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: To Be or Not to Be
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People who added this item 3382 Average listal rating (2069 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.5
Casablanca (1942)
Did They Get It Right? - Yes
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Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Double Indemnity
People who added this item 515 Average listal rating (311 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 7.9
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Brief Encounter
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Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: It's a Wonderful Life
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People who added this item 201 Average listal rating (127 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.2
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Build My Gallows High
People who added this item 260 Average listal rating (143 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.6
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
People who added this item 130 Average listal rating (83 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.5
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: The Third Man
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People who added this item 1141 Average listal rating (688 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.2
All About Eve (1950)
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Sunset Boulevard
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People who added this item 495 Average listal rating (298 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.2
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Strangers on a Train
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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
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People who added this item 535 Average listal rating (318 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.6
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Stalag 17
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People who added this item 1030 Average listal rating (662 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8.1
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Rear Window
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People who added this item 263 Average listal rating (159 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 7.7
Marty (1955)
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: The Night of the Hunter
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Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: The Killing
People who added this item 1133 Average listal rating (721 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8.1
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: 12 Angry Men
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People who added this item 330 Average listal rating (192 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.7
Gigi (1958)
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Vertigo
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People who added this item 1455 Average listal rating (885 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 8.1
Ben-Hur (1959)
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: North by Northwest
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People who added this item 1230 Average listal rating (777 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.3
The Apartment (1960)
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Psycho
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People who added this item 1237 Average listal rating (727 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.5
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Judgement at Nuremberg
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People who added this item 1626 Average listal rating (983 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.3
Did They Get It Right? - Yes
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People who added this item 132 Average listal rating (74 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 6.4
Tom Jones (1963)
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: The Great Escape
People who added this item 1373 Average listal rating (804 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 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
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People who added this item 2303 Average listal rating (1424 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 8.1
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Doctor Zhivago
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People who added this item 265 Average listal rating (147 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.7
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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People who added this item 562 Average listal rating (389 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 7.9
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Cool Hand Luke
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People who added this item 332 Average listal rating (211 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.4
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: Once Upon a Time in the West
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People who added this item 1051 Average listal rating (647 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 7.8
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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People who added this item 710 Average listal rating (458 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.9
Patton (1970)
Did They Get It Right? - Yes
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People who added this item 1109 Average listal rating (704 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 7.7
Did They Get It Right? - No

Should Have Lost To: A Clockwork Orange
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People who added this item 6446 Average listal rating (4413 ratings) 8.8 IMDB Rating 9.2
The Godfather (1972)
Did They Get It Right? - Yes
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People who added this item 1173 Average listal rating (813 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 8.3
The Sting (1973)
Did They Get It Right? - Yes
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People who added this item 4582 Average listal rating (3014 ratings) 8.6 IMDB Rating 9
Did They Get It Right? - Yes
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People who added this item 4484 Average listal rating (2983 ratings) 8.5 IMDB Rating 8.7
Did They Get It Right? - Yes
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People who added this item 3041 Average listal rating (2042 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 8.1
Rocky (1976)
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

Should Have Lost To: Taxi Driver
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People who added this item 2258 Average listal rating (1430 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 8
Annie Hall (1977)
Did They Get It Right? - Close Call

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

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