Best Picture Oscar winners
Chris: So, Best Picture Oscar-winners. The best place to start is with an incontrovertible statement: these are the best pictures of the years in which they were eligible.
Olly: No question. The best movies ever. That’s how it works.
Dan: That’s why Citizen Kane’s not on this list. Or Pulp Fiction.
Chris: Or The Shawshank Redemption. Or Paddington 2. Or Ant-Man And The Wasp.
Olly: Are any of those as good as Green Book? No. No, they’re not.
Chris: They do get it wrong. And sometimes for an entire decade at a time.
Helen: Hello, the ’80s.
Chris: Forrest Gump is a fine film, well-made…
Dan: If Forrest Gump were a person, I’d kick it in the balls.
Chris: Forrest Gump is a person, Dan. Yes, Forrest Gump won Best Picture that year. Yet Shawshank and Pulp Fiction are the all-time classics from that category and they didn’t win.
Dan: In 2002, The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring was up.
Helen: Should have won.
Dan: A Beautiful Mind won. In 2003, The Two Towers was up. Chicago won.
Olly: Its musical numbers were better.
Dan: But in 2004, The Return Of The King got everything.
Which is great, but it’s not the best of the three. So in retrospect, you would have, and then freed up [to win in 2004]. And then we might have had more movies, and the world would be a better place.
