I seem to remember some chirping from the peanut gallery back in the day for my failure to nominate Batman — first dark comic book movie, influential, etc. — thus, the nominations for best picture and director. But I still say it hasn't aged well, and Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson now look as campy to me as Adam West and Cesar Romero. Feel free to disagree in the comments section below.
And still no nomination for Driving Miss Daisy, the Academy's choice for the year's best picture. It's not the worst movie to win for best picture — but it's close. I'm going with the anti-Miss Daisy, Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, but you have many other movies to choose from. I hope you find something to your liking.
My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.
Platonically, I assume, as a colleague and partner in creating one of the greatest television series of all time. Although he did suggest in an episode of The Big Bang Theory that something might have happened in her bungalow.
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
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You’re right about the campiness of Batman though Adam West was more fun. And he did the Batusi!!
Christian Bale couldn’t Batusi I’ll bet...so there
If you can't Batusi, you can't Batman!
Plus, Adam West had Julie Newmar, so there!
Plus, Adam West had Julie Newmar, so there!
Did he ?
Platonically, I assume, as a colleague and partner in creating one of the greatest television series of all time. Although he did suggest in an episode of The Big Bang Theory that something might have happened in her bungalow.
"We played chess."
"You played with her chest?!"
"No, chess. It's a game."
Conversation between Richie Cunningham and Fonzie in an early episode of Happy Days before it literally jumped the shark.
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