The Best and Worst Oscar Best Picture Winners Ever

The Oscars are the unofficial conclusion to a yr of films. Sure, a calendar yr technically ends on December 31. However for cinephiles, the yr just isn’t completed till the 1000’s of members of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences have their say, and title the winners of their annual awards. Solely then can all of us collectively transfer on to the brand new yr’s crop of films.

However historical past will get the true closing phrase on any and each movie, not the Academy. Simply because a title wins Oscars — even when a title wins the prize for Greatest Image of the yr — doesn’t imply it can graduate to canonical masterpiece standing. In some instances the movie everybody remembers from a sure yr seems to be its Greatest Image winner. In lots of instances, it doesn’t. And generally a movie turns into notorious for profitable Greatest Image over a extra deserving various that winds up changing into a consensus basic despite getting snubbed by the Academy.

As we speak we’re each examples: The very best films to win the Oscar for Greatest Image and the worst films that one way or the other campaigned and cajoled their technique to a doubtful kind of immortality. Maintain them in thoughts earlier than you get too excited or too upset about any of this yr’s Oscar winners or losers. The Academy comes to 1 conclusion, however time can nonetheless come to a unique one.