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Best Picture Oscar Winners with Happy Endings

  • 21-01-2009 9:36pm
    #1
    Blisterman
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    I was just looking at the list of previous winners and nominees of the Best Picture Oscar, and I realised that in the past 20 years or so, very few of them have had traditional happy endings, where everything works out alright.
    The majority of the ones I've seen (which I'll admit is only about half of them) have either sad, or at best bittersweet endings. Whereas, if you were to look at all the movies released, the vast majority would have happy endings.

    Here's the last 20 winners:
    1989--Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford)
    1990--Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
    1991--Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
    1992--Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
    1993--Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
    1994--Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
    1995--Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
    1996--The English Patient (Anthony Minghalla)
    1997--Titanic (James Cameron)
    1998--Shakespeare in Love (John Madden)
    1999--American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
    2000--Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
    2001--A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
    2002--Chicago (Rob Marshall)
    2003--Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
    2004--Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
    2005--Crash (Paul Haggis)
    2006--The Departed (Martin Scorsese)

    So, does the Academy have a thing against movies with happy endings, or is it just that award winning films are more realistic, and therefore, like in real life, things don't always work out well?


Comments

  • #2
    robby^5
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    The Return of the King had a happy ending... but then the film kept going...and going.


  • #3
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,201 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    robby^5 wrote: »
    The Return of the King had a happy ending... but then the film kept going...and going.
    It actually had 7 happy endings!

    ;)


  • #4
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    The Academy (posh name for an industry club) thinks it reflects better on thier asthetic judgment not to award the big gong to a happy film - thats why comedies and musicals have, in the last 40 years, had a hard time of it.

    Just make a Holocaust movie and you're in with a 2/1 shout.


  • #5
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    robby^5 wrote: »
    The Return of the King had a happy ending... but then the film kept going...and going.
    The book had more


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