That was the year Chicago won which is a f*cking travesty because it had no business winning that award. Thing is, Twin Towers shouldn't have won either. The Pianist was the superior film that year. Hands down.

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I think the academy feels like Holocaust movies are played out and didn't choose it for that reason. It's a ****ty reason but I think that was their logic.

How many Holocaust movies do you want to win that award though? I feel like they are right in their logic.
I would have preferred if Gangs of New York won that year over Chicago. As much as I do love Chicago I don't think it should have gotten Best Picture.

Dude....i remember seeing In the Bedroom in the theater...that film fucking floored me....i knew nothing about it except that Sissy Spacek was int it....actually someone on IMDB really wrote a review that is exactly how i feel about this film

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So simple. So honest. So heartbreaking. I dare you to see this movie and not go through a self-invasive, heartfelt understanding for the familial and emotional conflicts these characters go through. one of the best films shown at Sundance, hands down. Not a movie for the emotionally squeamish...brutally powerful... Violent, excruciating truth and beauty...the raw emotional power imbued into the scenes with Wilkinson and Spacek are Oscar-worthy. Marisa Tomei finally gets a role worthy of her talent since My Cousin Vinny. Utterly unforgettable, and a slam-dunk certainty for some kind of oscar, whether screenplay, acting, or directorial.

Wow.

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not a film i would say is a favorite.....but rather a film i will never forget

I think the best films should win regardless of topic but that's just me.

I also haven't seen In The Bedroom yet.

I can't believe the year 2009 hasn't been discussed yet.

I'm getting there calm yo tits.

Also do you mean the Oscars that were held in 2009 or the one in 2010 that was about the films from 2009?

I'm going to assume you mean the latter.


2009's Best Picture Nominations.(bolded was the best picture winner that year)
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

This was the year that they opened up Best Picture by adding more nominations. They were trying to draw in more viewers by adding in movies that the average movie goer would have seen as opposed to just Oscar bait related movies.

I would have loved to seen District 9 get the win but Precious truly deserved the win for Best Picture that year with Hurt Locker being a close second.

God, I hated Precious with a passion. There isn't really a movie that jumps out to me as deserving the award. I found A Serious Man to be a let down by the Coen Brothers' standards, if I'm being honest. The Blind Side was obviously Oscar bait, and while Avatar was pretty good, it was more so for the spectacle than the film itself. I guess I'd take Inglorious Basterds, since it's in my top 3 Tarantino flicks and the first movie I'd pick to re watch from this list.

Thoughts on District 9 or did you not see it?

Oh, yeah. Forgot about that! It was a great film, not sure it's worthy of the award though. It would probably be my second pick. I didn't mention Hurt Locker because it was boring as **** and I honestly can't even remember anything about it. I liked Up, but it was a little overrated. The first 30 or so minutes were amazing, but it went downhill a bit from there.