Driving Miss Daisy always falls in the bottom percentile of any Best Picture winners ranking. USA Today ranked it at number 88 of 93, and Rotten Tomatoes more generous ranking…
The Worst of the Best
I’ve looked at some films in this series that are truly bad. But when it comes to writing about the ”worst Best Pictures,” it’s less to do with the quality…
This month on ”The Worst of the Best,” I’m taking a slightly different route than I usually take. 1941’s Best Picture winner How Green Was My Valley doesn’t have a…
The 2021 Oscars have come and gone. The Best Picture of 2020 is apparently Nomadland. There are probably a lot of people who disagree with this decision. There are even…
One of the reasons I launched this series was to try to understand the thought process AMPAS members go through to pick the Best Picture winner of any year. It’s…
There are plenty of films that win Best Picture but are turned on by the public and retroactively labelled as terrible messes. There are other Best Picture winners that are…
The Worst of the Best re-examines the most unpopular Best Picture winners to see if they have any merit and determine why they won the top prize. It’s difficult…
The 2019 Oscar ceremony is upon us and already people are expressing their dissatisfaction with AMPAS. After years, if not decades, of being a white boy’s club, AMPAS finally started…