This is something I actually did a few years ago for fun. I know– I have a strange idea of fun. Still, it’s such an interesting “nerd” idea I decided to do it again: an “All-Time” Oscar ballot.<\/p>\n
The premise is simple enough: taking into account the entire breadth of my movie-watching history, from the silent era through to the present day, I basically compiled a list of the best of every category the Academy hands out awards for in feature filmmaking, and what I would consider the greatest accomplishments in each. Of course, such lists are completely subjective. My choices for the greatest performances or visual effects are likely not going to match another’s, sometimes due to personal opinion, sometimes because I just haven’t seen the film cited yet.<\/p>\n
I hope you enjoy what I’ve chosen here. It’s a pretty widespread list if I say so myself, with some pretty peculiar choices to go with the “obvious ones.”<\/p>\n
Viva La Resistance!<\/p>\n
Brian Skutle To read my thoughts on the current Oscar nominations, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Best Picture<\/b> Best Director<\/b> Best Actor<\/b> Best Actress<\/b> Best Supporting Actor<\/b> Best Supporting Actress<\/b> Best Original Screenplay<\/b> Best Adapted Screenplay<\/b> Best Original Score<\/b> Best Original Song<\/b> Best Animated Feature<\/b> Best Foreign Language Film<\/b> Best Documentary Feature<\/b> Best Visual Effects<\/b> Best Sound<\/b> Best Sound Editing<\/b> Best Film Editing<\/b> Best Cinematography<\/b> Best Art Direction<\/b> Best Makeup<\/b>
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\n“Vertigo”<\/a>
\n“2001: A Space Odyssey”
\n“Schindler’s List”
\n“Pulp Fiction”
\n“Andrei Rublev”
\n“Sherlock Jr.”<\/a>
\n“Fantasia” & “Fantasia\/2000”<\/a>
\n“Gone With the Wind”
\n“GoodFellas”<\/a>
\n“Ran”<\/p>\n
\nStanley Kubrick, “2001: A Space Odyssey”<\/a>
\nAlfred Hitchcock, “Vertigo”
\nSteven Spielberg, “Schindler’s List”<\/a>
\nAndrei Tarkovsky, “Andrei Rublev”
\nMartin Scorsese, “GoodFellas”<\/p>\n
\nJames Stewart, “Vertigo”
\nHumphrey Bogart, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”
\nAnthony Perkins, “Psycho”
\nPeter Sellers, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”<\/a>
\nMarcello Mastroianni, “8 1\/2”<\/a><\/p>\n
\nVivian Leigh, “Gone With the Wind”
\nKim Novak, “Vertigo”
\nJoan Fontaine, “Rebecca”<\/a>
\nFrances McDormond, “Fargo”
\nGloria Swanson, “Sunset Boulevard”<\/p>\n
\nSamuel L. Jackson, “Pulp Fiction”<\/a>
\nAl Pacino, “The Godfather”
\nOrson Welles, “Touch of Evil”<\/a>
\nMarlon Brando, “Apocalypse Now”
\nJoe Pesci, “GoodFellas”<\/p>\n
\nAngela Lansbury, “The Manchurian Candidate”
\nMieko Harada, “Ran”<\/a>
\nMarilyn Monroe, “Some Like It Hot”
\nJodie Foster, “Taxi Driver”
\nLilian Gish, “The Night of the Hunter”<\/p>\n
\n“Pulp Fiction” (Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avery)
\n“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”<\/a> (Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth)
\n“2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke)
\n“8 1\/2” (Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi)
\n“Andrei Rublev” (Andrei Tarkovsky & Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky)<\/p>\n
\n“Vertigo” (Alec Coppel & Samuel Taylor)
\n“The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo)
\n“Gone With the Wind” (Sidney Howard)
\n“The Lord of the Rings”<\/a> (Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair)
\n“Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George)<\/p>\n
\n“Vertigo” (Bernard Herrmann)
\n“Star Wars: Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back” (John Williams)
\n“The Good, the Bad & the Ugly” (Ennio Morricone)
\n“The Godfather” (Nina Rota & Carmine Coppola)
\n“The Crow”<\/a> (Graeme Revell)<\/p>\n
\n“Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz” (Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg)
\n“Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (Burt Bacharach and Hal David)
\n“When You Wish Upon a Star” from “Pinocchio” (Leigh Harline & Ned Washington)
\n“Somewhere Out There” from “An American Tail”<\/a> (James Horner & Cynthia Weil)
\n“That’s What Friends Are For” from “Night Shift” (Burt Bacharach & Carole Bayer Sager)<\/p>\n
\n“Fantasia” & “Fantasia\/2000”
\n“Wall-E”<\/a>
\n“Spirited Away”<\/a>
\n“Toy Story 2”
\n“Ghost in the Shell”<\/a><\/p>\n
\n“Andrei Rublev”<\/a>
\n“Ran”
\n“Nosferatu”
\n“8 1\/2”
\n“Metropolis”<\/p>\n
\n“Roger & Me”
\n“F for Fake”<\/a>
\n“Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages”
\n“Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Red Robin Hills” & “Paradise Lost 2: Revelations”
\n“Man on Wire”<\/p>\n
\n“2001: A Space Odyssey”
\n“The Lord of the Rings”
\n“Star Wars: Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back”<\/a><\/p>\n
\n“2001: A Space Odyssey”
\n“Touch of Evil”
\n“Amadeus”
\n“Pink Floyd: The Wall”<\/a>
\n“The Crow”<\/p>\n
\n“Wall-E”
\n“Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope”<\/a>
\n“2001: A Space Odyssey”
\n“Stalker”<\/a>
\n“THX-1138”<\/a><\/p>\n
\n“Intolerance”
\n“Pulp Fiction”
\n“Inception”<\/a>
\n“The Godfather: Part II”
\n“Andrei Rublev”<\/p>\n
\n“Apocalypse Now”<\/a>
\n“Vertigo”
\n“Andrei Rublev”
\n“JFK”<\/a>
\n“The Shining”<\/a><\/p>\n
\n“Metropolis”
\n“Dark City”<\/a>
\n“Nosferatu”
\n“Schindler’s List”
\n“Gone With the Wind”<\/p>\n
\n“Nosferatu”<\/a>
\n“Citizen Kane”
\n“The Lord of the Rings”<\/p>\n