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Looking back on the 2011-12 nominees for Best Picture
Posted on 10/8/24 at 8:19 am
Posted on 10/8/24 at 8:19 am
I know most of you couldn't care less about what awards a film wins because they are highly politicized (especially the Academy), but occasionally a year in film warrants a retrospective on how Academy voters perceived movies. As far as 2011 goes, this might be the worst Best Picture line-up in the history of the Academy Awards.
The Artist
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Descendants
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
Other than movies like Moneyball and The Help, these are all very forgettable films and I bet few of you could tell me which of them actually won Best Picture (spoiler: it was The Artist). And speaking of The Artist, talk about another boring film that was campaigned to hell and gone by Harvey Weinstein to Academy voters.
There have been some terrible years in film so far in the 21st Century, but 2011 might have been the worst of them not affected by a global pandemic.
The Artist
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Descendants
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
Other than movies like Moneyball and The Help, these are all very forgettable films and I bet few of you could tell me which of them actually won Best Picture (spoiler: it was The Artist). And speaking of The Artist, talk about another boring film that was campaigned to hell and gone by Harvey Weinstein to Academy voters.
There have been some terrible years in film so far in the 21st Century, but 2011 might have been the worst of them not affected by a global pandemic.
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Posted on 10/8/24 at 8:22 am to RollTide1987
Midnight in Paris was good but yes pretty weak Best Picture field
This post was edited on 10/8/24 at 8:23 am
Posted on 10/8/24 at 8:23 am to RollTide1987
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The Tree of Life
I didn't really understand this film at all. I may just be of low intelligence and/or uncultured.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 8:30 am to 615tider
You're not of low intelligence, people just get a boner for Terrence Malick for some reason. Most of his movies lack any kind of coherent story or plot and feature images of nature punctuated by mindless narration. For whatever reason high browed cinephiles think that makes for great cinema.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 8:49 am to RollTide1987
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Most of his movies lack any kind of coherent story or plot and feature images of nature punctuated by mindless narration. For whatever reason high browed cinephiles think that makes for great cinema.
The Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven, and Badlands were all very good.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 9:04 am to RollTide1987
I thought Hugo was a good movie.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 9:07 am to rebelrouser
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The Thin Red Line
Decent but not very good IMHO. The last hour and a half is an absolute snoozefest. I have not seen Days of Heaven or Badlands so I can't comment on them. I've watched The Thin Red Line, The New World, and The Tree of Life, however, and those movies range from below average to decent as far as I'm concerned.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 9:10 am to RollTide1987
Tree of Life is a masterpiece
Posted on 10/8/24 at 9:25 am to RollTide1987
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You're not of low intelligence, people just get a boner for Terrence Malick for some reason. Most of his movies lack any kind of coherent story or plot and feature images of nature punctuated by mindless narration. For whatever reason high browed cinephiles think that makes for great cinema.
Tree of Life is a brilliant film, and it's the film that changed my mind about Malick. I would have said the same thing before it.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 9:29 am to RollTide1987
The problem was that most of the best films from 2011 were either foreign made (A Separation, Melancholia, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) or just aren't the type of films that get nominated for Oscars (Drive, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Shame, Bridesmaids). So it left the Oscars with a pretty toothless field.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 9:35 am to RollTide1987
The Descendants, Tree of Life, and Midnight in Paris are pretty solid.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:40 am to RollTide1987
2011 was a weak year. My favorites were Killer Joe, Drive and Melancholia
Posted on 10/8/24 at 11:09 am to RollTide1987
Friend,
Tree of Life is arguably the greatest movie ever made.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Tree of Life is arguably the greatest movie ever made.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Posted on 10/8/24 at 11:10 am to Seldom Seen
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I thought Hugo was a good movie.
i like Hugo a whole lot.
Descendents, Help, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, and Hugo are all rewatchable to me.
I get Tree of Life, but don't love it.
War Horse and Extremely Loud weren't bad movies but had no business being nominated.
Artist was just the academy smelling farts.
The next year had a great list. None of them are on any all time list, but all easily accessible to the masses and rewatchable in recent memory.
Argo, Django, Les Mis, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, Silver Linings, and while they weren't nominated for best picture, Flight,Brave, Wreck it Ralph, Moonrise Kingdom, and the Master.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 11:19 am to 3nOut
2012 was a solid year. Lincoln is among the best biopics made in the last 30 years, Zero Dark Thirty was my favorite film from that year, Argo was inaccurate to history but entertaining, Silver Linings Playbook was also entertaining, and so was Django Unchained. Flight is among the the most underrated films of the last 15 years, and Moonrise Kingdom was wholesome fun.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 11:23 am to RollTide1987
Les Miserables gets forgotten about a lot, but I absolutely love that movie as well. I can't watch it too much because it pulls on the hearstrings in the right way. Haven't finished it once without tearing up. Life of Pi less so, but i do like it.
I know there were some misses (Eddie Redmayne, Seifreid, and Gerard Butler singing) but I love it all the same.
I know there were some misses (Eddie Redmayne, Seifreid, and Gerard Butler singing) but I love it all the same.
This post was edited on 10/8/24 at 11:26 am
Posted on 10/8/24 at 11:41 am to RollTide1987
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy should have gotten at least a nom.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 11:53 am to RollTide1987
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Other than movies like Moneyball and The Help, these are all very forgettable films
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The Descendants
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Midnight in Paris
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The Tree of Life
not forgettable.
This post was edited on 10/8/24 at 11:55 am
Posted on 10/8/24 at 12:09 pm to RollTide1987
Shouldve just gave moneyball best picture. I'm not the biggest brad Pitt fan but the movie holds up and is definitely rewatchable.
Also interesting tidbit, the final Harry potter was released the same year.
Also interesting tidbit, the final Harry potter was released the same year.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 12:51 pm to RollTide1987
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Other than movies like Moneyball and The Help, these are all very forgettable films and I bet few of you could tell me which of them actually won Best Picture
Those are the only two I've seen... would have gotten the winner right looking at the list but would have had no chance if asked out of the blue.
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