Achievement in Popular Film

They might be better than Gladiator's opening, but the fights in the arena in Gladiator are way better than anything in Braveheart.

Let’s just agree that Last Samurai is better than both of them.

I loved Last Samurai when it came out, I ain't afraid to say it. As you probably guessed it doesn't hold up at all.

The United States is one giant piece of anti-English propaganda.

The 1980's

1980
9 to 5
Airplane!
The Blues Brothers
The Empire Strikes Back
The Shining

The 1980, like 1990, is one of the most infamous Academy Awards. Martin Scorsese got fucked over! More outrageous than that, Star Wars wasn't nominated. Whhhaaat???


1981
An American Werewolf in London
Arthur
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Stripes
Superman II

Raiders' consolation price


1982
An Officer and a Gentleman
E.T.
Poltergeist
Rocky III
Tootsie

E.T.'s consolation price


1983
Flashdance
National Lampoon's Vacation
Return of the Jedi
Risky Business
Trading Places

Scarface got snubbed! People gonna find a reason to bitch about the Oscars.


1984
Beverly Hills Cop
Ghostbusters
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Karate Kid
The Terminator

Doomsday, did you hear? They're remaking the Academy Award Winning Ghostbusters with an all-female cast!


1985
Back to the Future
Cocoon
Mask
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rocky IV

If the Oscars can change, and you can change, the whole awards season can change.

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1986
Aliens
Crocodile Dundee
The Fly
Stand By Me
Top Gun




1987
Fatal Attraction
Good Morning, Vietnam
Lethal Weapon
Moonstruck
The Untouchables

People's reaction:




After snubbing Robocop (and Predator), the Academy Awards are forced to expand the Popular Film category to 10 nominations

1988
Beetlejuice
Big
Coming to America
Die Hard
A Fish Called Wanda
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad
Rain Man
Twins
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Working Girl

Rain Man wins Popular Film and Best Picture




1989
Batman
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Lethal Weapon 2
The Little Mermaid
When Harry Met Sally

When Spike Lee gets snubbed in TWO categories:

Bitch at the Oscars. They didn't even nominate Blade Runner or The Thing. Bastards don't know what popular means.

This is just Neverending's weird way of listing his top 100.

Mac & Me transcends normal film.

Probably will have Omega Man winning over French Connection.

1970
Aiport
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
M*A*S*H
Patton

Take the Jack Nicholson movie out and you have the 4 highest grossing movies of the year. The Oscars... once upon a time... were populists. What was the 5th highest grosser? The documentary about Woodstock. Damn hippies got snubbed. Oh wait. It WON Best Documentary.




1971
Clockwork Orange
Diamonds Are Forever
Dirty Harry
Fiddler on the Roof
French Connection

`71 is a bit rough cause movies like Willy Wonka became popular later on. But considering that French Connection won Best Picture, I can see the mindset of voters that year and MAYBE they could have snuck Dirty Harry in there. It was the "controversial" one that year but it was a top-grosser nonetheless. Give best film to Gene Hackman and popular film to Clint Eastwood. Perfectly balanced as all things should be.




1972
Cabaret
Deep Throat
Deliverance
Godfather
Poseidon Adventure

Did you know Cabaret won more Oscars than The Godfather? Popular Oscar goes to Poseidon Adventure.




1973
American Graffiti
Enter the Dragon
Exorcist
Sting
Papillon

The Oscars suck cock in hell.


1974
Blazing Saddles
Godfather II
Longest Yard
Towering Inferno
Young Frankenstein

Doomsday have you seen the Adam Sandler remake of the Oscar winning Burt Reynolds movie?


1975
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Shampoo

The Oscars notoriously snubbed Steven Spielberg for Best Director. Now they add salt to the wound by giving Popular Oscar to someone else.




1976
Carrie
Omen
Rocky
Silent Movie
Silver Streak

Rocky wins Popular Film, Taxi Driver wins Best Picture. Rocky wins Popular Film, Network wins Best Picture. Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Popular Film goes to... The Omen. Rocky wins Best Picture.





1977
Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars

The winner is... Annie Hall.




1978
Animal House
Every Which Way but Loose
Grease
Halloween
Superman

These weren't the Best Picture nominees. You don't wanna know what they nominated.


1979

Kramer vs Kramer was the highest grossing movie of the year and also the Best Picture winner

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www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/oscars-twitter-2022-1235092124/

Oscars: Twitter’s Top Fan-Voted Film Will Be Recognized During Broadcast (Exclusive)

Members of the Academy won’t be the only ones voting for their favorite films ahead of the 94th Academy Awards.

Beginning this Monday, Twitter users will get to vote on their favorite films that were released in 2021 — regardless of if the film was nominated for an Oscar — using the hashtag #OscarsFanFavorite. The film that receives the most fan votes by March 3 will be recognized during the awards broadcast on March 27.

The Twitter love won’t end there, either. Three Twitter users who cast their votes during the Feb. 14 to March 3 period will be selected — along with their guests — to have an all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles to present an Oscar award at the following ceremony in 2023

“We’re thrilled to partner with Twitter to help build an engaged and excited digital audience leading up to this year’s ceremony,” Meryl Johnson, vp digital marketing at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “Through these activations, social media users around the world now have more opportunities to engage with the show in real time, find a community and be a part of the experience in ways they’ve never been able to before.”

The Academy originally toyed with creating a most popular film category during the 91st Academy Awards in 2019 as a means to encourage more mainstream moviegoers to watch the ceremony and boost ratings. But after significant pushback from critics and Academy members, the plan was ultimately scrapped and has not yet been reintroduced since then.

Though the fan-favorite film selected by Twitter users won’t be a formal Oscars category, it will give eager fans the opportunity to weigh in with their opinions of 2021’s best films, especially if they didn’t receive a nomination by the Academy, paving the way for a snubbed hit like Spider-Man: No Way Home to potentially find its way into the ceremony.

As part of the partnership between the Academy and Twitter, Twitter users will also be able to tweet about their favorite scene from a 2021 film using #OscarsCheerMoment. The winning scenes will be shown at the Oscars ceremony, alongside the fans tweets, and five users who participated in the campaign will receive a hefty prize pack that includes a full year of free movie tickets at the theater of their choice, subscriptions to streaming services and exclusive items from the Academy Museum store.

For both the fan-favorite film and cheer moment campaigns, Twitter users will be able to tweet out their submissions up to 20 times a day.

“Twitter is the place to be during award shows and the Oscars is one of the biggest conversation drivers every year,” said Sarah Rosen, Twitter’s head of U.S. entertainment and news partnerships. “The idea that a movie fan might see their tweet during the Oscars broadcast is pretty epic, and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with the Academy to bring this to life.”

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