Shakespeare in Love
Every year , movie rooter everywhere are eager to feel out which film will be named Best Picture at the Oscars . While this class in film will look quite dissimilar , there are still a fate of majuscule movies that could compete for the top prize . Of course , the Best Picture winner do n’t always reflectthe picture ’s popularity with fans .
While late winner likeParasiteandGreen Booknow social rank amongIMDb ’s top - rated motion-picture show of all time , there are past Best Picture success whose IMDb score render a much more divided response . Despite being named the best of the year by the Academy Awards , the fans seem to disagree .
Shakespeare In Love (1998) - 7.1
Period dramas have always been pop with the Oscars andShakespeare in Lovetook advantage of that love with this charming love floor . Joseph Fiennes starsas William Shakespeare , who is barrack to writeRomeo & Julietafter falling in love with an challenging youthful woman ( Gwyneth Paltrow ) .
There ’s a lot of fun to be had with this film , especially with its talented hurl . Thing is , the movie is not much more than a basic rom - com with some fancy costumes and language lather on it . To this day , people are still wondering how it managed to beat outSaving Private Ryanfor the top prize .
Going My Way (1944) - 7.0
In the dayswhen drollery musicals were big draws , Going My Wayproved to be a heavy hitting . The picture show asterisk Bing Crosby as a young priest connect a parish under the steering of the aged priest ( Barry Fitzgerald ) who does n’t cerebrate much of his new workfellow .
Around The World In 80 Days (1956) - 6.8
Sometimes , it seems like the spectacle and size of the pic rather than the story is more than enough to impress the Academy . This adaptation of the famed novelAround The World In 80 Dayswas for sure an ambitious moving-picture show of its meter . It follow the adventures of a high society homo who accepts a bet to travel around the globe in just eighty twenty-four hour period .
It ’s not hard to see what the elector like about the moving-picture show , as it is a grand risky venture filled with famous faces . But with a moderately light script and a bunch of slapstick comedy that feel more childish and unintelligent than charming today , Around The World In 80 Dayshas not hold up well asThe Ten Commandments , which it beat out .
Gigi (1958) - 6.7
In the musical comedyGigi , a untested mellow lodge girl live in Paris dismisses common conventionalism and seeks playfulness . She develops a friendly relationship with a fellow fun - loving playboy but the friendly relationship soon begin to develop into something more .
Perhaps because of how familiar the story ofGigiis to modern audiences , there is trivial to get excited about with this stock film . It does n’t help that the songs are not very memorable . That , and the fact that it won the top prize on the same class Alfred Hitchcock’sVertigowas release is just difficult to imagine .
The Great Ziegfeld (1936) - 6.7
The Great Ziegfeldis the form of cautionary show patronage narrative that Hollywood seems to love . The film tells the journeying of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. , famed producer of spendthrift stagecoach shows . As his business grow , audiences start to see his ethical motive slip off with the shows he is willing to put on , as he starts to put profit and ego above all else .
William Powell ’s lead carrying out is a lot of fun , but there ’s not a draw more to transfix New hearing . This is another storey they have see done many time before and after it . With Charlie Chaplin’sModern Timesout the same year , this Best Picture winner seems even less telling . To its credit , The Great Ziegfeldwas a predecessor of plastic film that refined and perfected its conversant normal .
The Greatest Show On Earth (1952) - 6.6
LikeThe Great Ziegfeldbefore it , The Greatest Show on Earthis a story about show business as it follow a the behind the scenes life of performers in a carnival . The clown , trapeze creative person , and animal trainer all work heavily to root for off a spectacular show .
Despite come from the great spectacle filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille , this circus movie has n’t stood the trial of time . The way the activity outweighs the story could have something to do with it , or the simple fact that circuses are no longer as relevant as they once were . The film still managed to vex outHigh noonday , though , which is its only achievement worth observe .
Tom Jones (1963) - 6.5
Tom Jones isyet another period dramatic event , although this one is far more " proper " than some of the flick in the genre to come before it . Albert Finney stars as the titular character , an 18th C Englishman who spends most of his clip chasing char .
Despite winning Best Picture , most of those regard with the film were disgruntled . The director keen that it feels like an incomplete celluloid and it ’s true that the loose , unwieldy story might not work for everyone . The title is also more synonymous with the famous pop singer rather than this chore of a film .
Cimarron (1931) - 5.9
ThoughWestern films are not as much in fashion now , there was a time when they were Hollywood ’s biggest genre . Cimarronseemed to do good from that now bygone popularity , scoring a Best Picture winnings for this escapade about the 19th - 100 land rush .
It ’s well-fixed to see how New audiences could be drill with the family play of this picture show as compared to something like the originalFrankenstein , let go of that same yr . Cimarronis a plain - looking film that just stays with you once the credits roll .
Cavalcade (1933) - 5.8
Cavalcadeis the kind of braggart , wild-eyed state of war film that Hollywood used to fawn over . It is the tale of two separate English kin who struggle in various way duringthe First World War , which in itself is n’t high-risk . unluckily , the film is now an object lesson of how sensibility have changed over the decennium .
What might have been an piquant and heedful history in the 1930 ’s now miss any excitation . Worsening matters is how it draws confutative conclusions about sure hoi polloi and social change ( ex . jazz music , same - sexuality relationships , etc . ) , which are show in the negative . With the masterpiece and ethnic iconKing Kongalso let go of in 1933,Cavalcade ’s live impact is miss .
The Broadway Melody (1929) - 5.7
While it can be heavy for a picture that is nearly a 100 old to resonate with audiences of the 21st century , there are plenty of movies from the 1920 ’s that have stood the trial of time . However , The Broadway Melodyis sure not one of them ,
It ’s hard to say if the film about two feuding sisters trying to make it in showbusiness would have seemed fresh at the time , but now it is beyond dull . Despite a fun opening move sequence , the moving picture is one that has been forget in story despite its award - winning condition . Only film historiographer are even aware ofThe Broadway Melody’sexistence .
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