|
Title |
Year |
Director |
Writing |
Comments |
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Amadeus |
1984 |
Milos Forman |
|
Great flick except the chick was a val. |
|
American Beauty |
1999 |
Sam Mendes |
|
A solid, solid ten. |
|
Chicago |
2002 |
Rob Marshall |
|
Without seeing the rest of the field, this
picture, clearly, will win Best Picture for 2002. 2/4/2003 |
|
Annie Hall |
1977 |
Woody Allen |
|
|
|
Back To the Future |
1985 |
Robert Zemeckis |
|
A perfect picture except for one tiny and
forgivable flaw. Dogs don't live to be 30 years old. |
|
Dances With Wolves |
1990 |
Kevin Costner |
|
|
|
Gladiator |
2000 |
Ridley Scott |
|
|
|
Life is Beautiful |
1997 |
Roberto Benigni |
|
Linda and I saw it on Christmas day and were
totally blown away. |
Million Dollar Baby |
2004 |
Clint Eastwood |
F.X.
Toole (stories)
Paul Haggis (screenplay) |
|
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
1981 |
Steven Spielberg |
|
|
|
Schindler's List |
|
Steven Spielberg |
|
|
|
West Side Story |
1961 |
Jerome Robbins
Robert Wise (I) |
|
A timeless classic |
|
Reds |
1981 |
Warren Beatty |
|
|
|
Star Wars |
1977 |
George Lucas |
George Lucas |
|
|
The Matrix |
1999 |
Andy Wachowski
Larry Wachowski |
Andy Wachowski
Larry Wachowski |
The best sequels ever were the Bond series - second
better tna first and third better than first 2 (8, 9, 10). This series
started at 10 then went down to 4 then up to 5. Worship the first but
turn away from 2 and 3. |
|
Seabiscuit |
2003 |
Gary Ross |
Laura Hillenbrand (book)
Gary Ross (screenplay) |
It's a list with only so many names. So
every once and a while a movie comes along that deserves to be on the list.
Seabiscuit is one of those pictures that, as soon as you see
it, you know immediately that it will win best picture. |
|
2001: A Space Odyssey |
1968 |
Stanley Kubrick |
Stanley
Kubrick (screenplay) &
Arthur C. Clarke
(more) |
|
|
Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
1977 |
Steven Spielberg |
Steven Spielberg |
|
|
Fargo |
1996 |
Joel Coen
Ethan Coen |
Joel Coen
Ethan Coen |
|
|
Gone With the Wind |
1939 |
Victor
Fleming
George Cukor
(more) |
Margaret
Mitchell (novel)
Sidney Howard
(more)
|
|
|
Indochine |
1992 |
Régis Wargnier |
Erik
Orsenna &
Louis Gardel ...
(more) |
|
|
Singin' in the Rain |
1952 |
Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly |
Betty
Comden
Adolph Green |
|
|
Citizen Kane |
1941 |
Orson
Welles |
Herman J.
Mankiewicz and
Orson Welles
(more)
|
|
|
High Noon |
1952 |
Fred Zinnemann |
John W.
Cunningham (story)
Carl Foreman (screenplay) |
|
|
Lawrence of Arabia |
1962 |
David Lean |
T.E.
Lawrence (writings)
Robert Bolt (screenplay)
(more) |
|
|
North by Northwest |
1959 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Ernest
Lehman |
|
|
Sophie's Choice |
1982 |
Alan J.
Pakula |
Alan J.
Pakula
William Styron (novel)
|
|
|
The Godfather |
1972 |
Francis Ford
Coppola |
Francis
Ford Coppola
Mario Puzo (also novel) |
|
|
The Manchurian Candidate |
1962 |
John
Frankenheimer |
Richard
Condon (novel)
George Axelrod (screenplay)
(more) |
|
|
ET |
1982 |
Steven Spielberg |
Melissa
Mathison |
|
|
Network |
1976 |
Sidney
Lumet
|
Paddy
Chayefsky |
Wow. Superb flick. Quality AND quantity. |
|
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
1975 |
Milos
Forman |
Bo Goldman
Lawrence Hauben
(more) |
|
|
Some Like It Hot |
1959 |
Billy Wilder |
Robert
Thoeren (story) and
M. Logan (story) ...
(more) |
|
|
The Godfather, Part II |
1974 |
Francis Ford
Coppola |
Mario Puzo
(novel)
Francis Ford Coppola
(screenplay) ...
(more) |
This flick in in the sequel Hall of Fame. Since
II was really 1 and 3 and I was 2, NBC aired an interesting version when
they cut it chronologically. |
|
The Notebook |
2004 |
Nick
Cassavetes |
Nicholas Sparks (novel)
Jan Sardi (adaptation) |
Spectacular story weave. |
|
Flashdance |
1983 |
Adrian
Lyne |
Thomas
Hedley Jr. (story)
Thomas Hedley Jr.
(screenplay) ...
(more) |
|
|
On the Waterfront |
1954 |
Elia Kazan |
Malcolm
Johnson (articles)
Budd Schulberg (also story) |
|
|
Terminator |
1984 |
James Cameron |
James
Cameron &
Gale Anne Hurd ...
(more) |
Governor |
|
It's a Wonderful Life |
1946 |
Frank Capra |
Philip Van
Doren Stern (story)
Frances Goodrich ...
(more)
|
|
|
Nashville |
1975 |
Robert Altman |
Joan
Tewkesbury |
|
|
The French Connection |
1971 |
William
Friedkin |
Robin
Moore (novel)
Ernest Tidyman (screenplay)
(more)
|
|
|
The Graduate |
1967 |
Mike Nichols |
Charles
Webb (novel)
Calder Willingham
(screenplay) ...
(more) |
|
|
The Third Man |
1949 |
Carol Reed |
Graham
Greene (story) and
Alexander Korda (story) ...
(more) |
Great speech about democracy and cuckoo clocks. |
|
Hud |
1963 |
Martin Ritt |
Larry
McMurtry (novel)
Irving Ravetch ...
(more) |
|
|
Jaws |
1975 |
Steven Spielberg |
Peter
Benchley (also novel)
Carl Gottlieb
(more) |
|
|
Patton |
1970 |
Franklin J.
Schaffner |
Ladislas
Farago (book)
Omar N. Bradley (book)
(more) |
|
|
Taxi Driver |
1976 |
Martin Scorsese |
Paul
Schrader
|
|
|
The Sting |
1973 |
George Roy Hill |
David S.
Ward |
|
|
The Wild Bunch |
1969 |
Sam
Peckinpah
|
Walon
Green (story) and
Roy N. Sickner (story) ...
(more) |
|
|
The Wizard of Oz |
1939 |
Victor Fleming |
L. Frank
Baum (novel)
Noel Langley ...
(more) |
|
|
Blade Runner |
1982 |
Ridley Scott |
Philip K.
Dick (novel)
Hampton Fancher ...
(more) |
|
|
Easy Rider |
1969 |
Dennis Hopper |
Peter
Fonda &
Dennis Hopper ...
(more)
|
|
|
Forbidden Planet |
1956 |
Fred M. Wilcox |
|
|
|
Rebel Without A Cause |
1955 |
Nicholas Ray |
|
|
|
Tootsie |
1982 |
Sydney Pollack |
|
|
|
A Clockwork Orange |
1971 |
Stanley Kubrick |
|
|
|
A Fish Called Wanda |
1988 |
Charles Crichton
John Cleese |
|
|
|
An American in Paris |
1951 |
Vincente Minnelli |
|
|
|
Apocalypse Now |
1979 |
Francis Ford
Coppola |
|
|
|
Bonnie and Clyde |
1967 |
Arthur Penn |
|
|
|
Casablanca |
1942 |
Michael Curtiz |
|
|
|
Chinatown |
1974 |
Roman Polanski |
|
|
|
Liberty Heights |
1999 |
Barry Levinson |
|
|
|
The End of the Affair |
1999 |
Neil Jordan |
|
|
|
Repo Man |
1984 |
Alex Cox |
|
|
|
Bound |
1996 |
Andy Wachowski
Larry Wachowski |
|
|
|
Titanic |
1997 |
James Cameron |
|
|
|
Road to Perdition |
2002 |
Sam Mendes |
|
|
|
Home Alone |
1990 |
Chris Columbus |
|
|
|
Ghostbusters |
1984 |
Ivan Reitman |
|
|
|
Beverly Hills Cop |
1984 |
Martin Brest |
|
|
|
Terminator 2 |
1991 |
James Cameron |
|
|
|
Top Gun |
1986 |
Tony Scott |
|
|
|
There's Something About Mary |
1998 |
Bobby Farrelly
Peter Farrelly |
|
I didn't tell my wife until we sat down in the theater that this movie was
made by the same folks that brought you Dumb and Dumber |
|
As Good As It Gets |
1997 |
James L. Brooks |
|
|
|
True Lies |
1994 |
James Cameron |
|
This is the only full action picture to have
the courage to be funny and have a decent love story all in one. |
|
Superman |
1978 |
Richard Donner |
|
|
|
Erin Brockovich |
2000 |
Steven Soderbergh |
|
|
|
Speed |
1994 |
Jan de Bont |
|
|
|
On Golden Pond |
1981 |
Mark Rydell |
|
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