Retroactive Oscars

Retroactive Oscars

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Riley Lachance

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发布日期: 2023年3月11日
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The Academy Awards rarely get it right… if ever. They continually award the wrong awards to the wrong films.

While I have no formal qualifications, I’ve decided to help the Academy out and issue some retroactive Oscars of my own. Here are my personal Best Picture winners from 1990-Present.


1991 Winner: Dances With Wolves (1990)

Should’ve Won: GoodFellas (1990)

Dances With Wolves isn’t that good. For as far back as I can remember, I’ve always wondered how GoodFellas was snubbed.


1992 Winner: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Should’ve Won: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The voters got one right! It’s The Silence of the Lambs… need I say more? Inject it into my veins!


1993 Winner: Unforgiven (1992)

Should’ve Won: Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Unforgiven is a great film and a worthy winner, but I’d edge Tarantino’s directorial debut ever-so-slightly.


1994 Winner: Schindler’s List (1993)

Should’ve Won: Schindler’s List (1993)

Will I ever watch it again? No. But it remains a masterpiece. Shoutout to Steven Spielberg for directing Schindler’s List AND Jurassic Park in the same year. Legend.


1995 Winner: Forrest Gump (1994)

Should’ve Won: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Forrest Gump is overhyped. There, I said it. It’s not even in my top two films of 1994. But that’s not difficult with a year that includes The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction.


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