I, Joel, wanted to rundown the best and the worst of the first 40 years of Oscar Best Picture winners. It has been a lot of fun to see movies evolve from year to year and to see what people were watching in that time in history.
Top 5 movies so far:
1. The Sound Of Music
2. My Fair Lady
3. Ben-Hur
4. Casablanca
5. It Happened One Night
Worst movies so far:
1. Tom Jones
2. Cavalcade
3. How Green Was My Valley
4. Hamlet
5. Cimarron
Biggest surprising movies that we liked: Rebecca and the Life Of Emile Zola.
Movies that were all hype but failed to deliver: Gone With The Wind and From Here To Eternity
Best decade so far: The 1950s
The worst decade so far: The 1940s
The best performance by an actor: Sidney Poitier in In The Heat Of The Night
The best performance by an actress: Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady
Best Director: Alfred Hitchcock in Rebecca
Best Quote: "They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!" from In The Heat Of The Night
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