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02-11-2006, 08:37 AM
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Inspired by this thread, I've decided to try a tourney and see if there's any interest.
The idea is which year did the Academy most get things right. This can be a bit complicated cause the idea of having the 5 best picture nominees from the previous calendar year didn't always work that way. In the early days, there were more than 5 films, and they were often spread out over more than a 1 year period.
However, for most of our lifetimes, it's been the previous year. So, I'm going to call each Academy slate the year prior to the ceremony, even though for the early years that won't always correlate perfectly with the year of the films release.
OK, up first,
1955 vs. 1983
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Marty
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Mister Roberts
Picnic
The Rose Tattoo
1983:
Terms of Endearment
The Big Chill
The Dresser
The Right Stuff
Tender Mercies
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02-11-2006, 09:01 AM
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Marty (a toss-up)
Abstain
Abstain
The Right Stuff
Abstain
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02-11-2006, 10:08 AM
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Both 1955 and 1983 nominees showcase the excellent (Marty, The Right Stuff) and the mediocre/crap (Picnic, Endearment), but I'll go with...
1983
My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: Pulse (2006,Jim Sonzero) 2/5, In the Realm of the Senses (1976,Nagisa Oshima) 4/5, Sing a Song of Sex (1967,Nagisa Oshima) 2/5, The Passionate Friends (1949,David Lean) 3/5, Band of Ninja (1967,Nagisa Oshima) 1/5, Saw V (2008,David Hackl) 3/5, Quantum of Solace (2008,Marc Forster) 2/5, Role Models (2008,David Wain) 3/5, Dorm (2006,Songyos Sugmakanan) 3/5, Candy (2006,Neil Armfield) 3/5, Shutter (2004,Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom) 1/5, Skinwalkers (2006,Jim Isaac) 2/5, Out of Season (1998,Jeanette L. Buck) 2/5, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983,Nagisa Oshima) 5/5, The Catch (1961,Nagisa Oshima) 3/5
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02-11-2006, 11:22 AM
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Steve,
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. You're supposed to vote for a year (I'm just listing the nominees for each year, not pitting them individually against each other).
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk
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02-11-2006, 01:17 PM
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Argh. 
Hmmm, basically this comes down to Marty & Mister Roberts vs. Tender Mercies and The Right Stuff...
1983 by a few hairs.
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02-11-2006, 03:09 PM
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1955
\"You can\'t be the first, and you\'ll never be the last, but baby, you can ALL be next! Woooooooo!!!\"
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02-11-2006, 04:19 PM
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A question...
In a case like this, where I've only seen 1 film from 1955 (which I love) and only 2 from 1983 (both of which I don't like)... would that qualify me enough to pick 1955 as my choice?
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02-11-2006, 08:00 PM
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No one is going to have seen all these oscar nominations. No one has to recuse themself on any vote. I leave it completely up to each person to decide if they haven't seen enough and want to abstain, but I would lean towards not abstaining.
For example, I haven't seen the Dresser. I've never even heard of it, even though I've watched many films on all kinds of top 100 or top 1000 lists. It's on none of those lists. Is it a good film? I don't know, not having seen it, but if it were truly Oscar-worthy (truly one of the best that year), I think I would have at least heard of it, or seen it on some list. So, I'd feel comfortable voting in this case.
Of course, it'll have to be an individual thing each time, but given the breadth of films that most voters here are likely to have seen, I'd expect rather few abstentions.
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk
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02-12-2006, 12:41 AM
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| No one is going to have seen all these oscar nominations. |
Well, I've seen all 10 so far.... 
My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: Pulse (2006,Jim Sonzero) 2/5, In the Realm of the Senses (1976,Nagisa Oshima) 4/5, Sing a Song of Sex (1967,Nagisa Oshima) 2/5, The Passionate Friends (1949,David Lean) 3/5, Band of Ninja (1967,Nagisa Oshima) 1/5, Saw V (2008,David Hackl) 3/5, Quantum of Solace (2008,Marc Forster) 2/5, Role Models (2008,David Wain) 3/5, Dorm (2006,Songyos Sugmakanan) 3/5, Candy (2006,Neil Armfield) 3/5, Shutter (2004,Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom) 1/5, Skinwalkers (2006,Jim Isaac) 2/5, Out of Season (1998,Jeanette L. Buck) 2/5, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983,Nagisa Oshima) 5/5, The Catch (1961,Nagisa Oshima) 3/5
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