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I promised I would get to this and now the time has come. A while ago and this request has been on-going, some fans of DeOscarize.com have stated themselves to be no fans of the movie chosen by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be the Best Picture of 1997.
WINNER Best Picture 1997
TITANIC
I refer to Titanic, the blockbuster presentation by James Cameron.
WINNER Best Director 1997
JAMES CAMERON
Born: 1954
KAPUSKASING, ONTARIO, CANADA
TITANIC
Now I once said and I still mean it somewhat that I can see their point about Titanic.
JAMES CAMERON PITCHED THE FILM AS “ROMEO AND JULIET ON THE TITANIC”
Effects were great,
WINNER BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 1997
TITANIC
WINNERS BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 1997
Mark A. Lasoff, Robet Legato and Thomas L. Fisher
the story predictable but effective, the performances believable if not artistically demanding.
NOMINEE BEST ACTRESS 1997
KATE WINSLET
BORN: 1975
TITANIC
NOMINEE BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 1997
GLORIA STUART
1910-2010
TITANIC
GLORIA STUART 1936
IN
JOHN FORD’S THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND
And it had a great song, which always helps.
WINNER BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“MY HEART WILL GO ON”
COMPOSED BY JAMES HORNER, LYRICS BY WILL JENNINGS
PERFORMED BY CELINE DION,
BORN: 1968
CHARLAMAGNE, QUEBEC, CANADA
But better than some of these other nominees? Mmmm, I dunno.
NOMINEE BEST PICTURE 1997
NOMINEE BEST PICTURE 1997
NOMINEE BEST PICTURE 1997
NOMINEE BEST PICTURE 1997
And the Academy snubbed some great films in 1997 that still have the juice to this day.
SNUBBED BY THE ACADEMY
BEST PICTURE 1997
SNUBBED BY THE ACADEMY
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 1997
AL PACINO
BEST ACTOR 1997
JOHNNY DEPP
SNUBBED BY THE ACADEMY
BEST PICTURE 1997
Here’s the thing though, sometimes the Academy has gone with the fans rather than peers and critics because that’s where the money is. However if box office returns were to be the sole criteria for being chosen Best Picture by the Academy then look at some of the films of the 1990’s that would have had that ticket to immortality as opposed to an exit on to Easy Street.
#1 AT THE BOX OFFICE 1991
TERMINATOR 2
JUDGMENT DAY
$519.8 MILLION
WINNER BEST PICTURE 1991
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
BOX OFFICE: $272.7 MILLION
#1 AT THE BOX OFFICE 1995
DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE
$366.2 MILLION
WINNER BEST PICTURE 1995
BOX OFFICE: $210.4 MILLION
#1 AT THE BOX OFFICE 1992
$504 MILLION
WINNER BEST PICTURE 1992
BOX OFFICE: $159 MILLION
I truly believe there are a lot of reasons to DeOscarize Unforgiven, mainly because of some of the movies that got snubbed by the Academy that year.
SNUBBED BY THE ACADEMY
BEST PICTURE 1992
SNUBBED BY THE ACADEMY
BEST PICTURE 1992
SNUBBED BY THE ACADEMY
BEST PICTURE 1992
SNUBBED BY THE ACADEMY
BEST PICTURE 1992
Food for future thought, though.
Whereas Independence Day and Armageddon.
#1 AT THE BOX OFFICE 1996
INDEPENDENCE DAY
$817.4 MILLION
#1 AT THE BOX OFFICE 1998
ARMAGEDDON
$553.7 MILLION
Definintely guilty pleasures. Frankly I’d watch Independence Day
JEFF GOLDBLUM (LEFT)
BORN: 1952
WILL SMITH (RIGHT)
BORN: 1968
over The English Patient but point taken. Independence Day would not a good Best Picture 1996 make.
So, let us get to the nub of the question. With the other Best Picture 1997 nominees in mind as well as those, unfairly snubbed by the Academy, does Titanic deserve to be Best Picture 1997? The answer is yes. The reason is that every once in a very long while, a movie will have made so much more money than any other picture in history, the sheer popularity that created those box office returns should and does seem to take priority over the conventional Academy criteria. Titanic made over two billion dollars in 1997. That’s two billion There are less than a handful of movies that are so, so, so successful that they just have to be the Best Picture, no arguments, no if’s, and’s or but’s.
WINNER BEST PICTURE 1997
TITANIC
#1 AT THE BOX OFFICE
$2.81 BILLION
So welcome to DeOscarize.com. Here, you may affirm or deny my decision not to DeOscarize Titanic despite these other worthy films, nominated and not. Titanic is just too popular to deny and will remain Best Picture in the hearts of a whole generation of movie fans who will watch this movie whenever the opportunity presents itself for sixty years to come. Find me a better reason than that to change my decision. Well, you can try, anyway.
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Of course I can see where folks might think I’m wrong. I’m prepared to make my case for not DeOscarizing Titanic Best Picture 1997. Can you make the case to DeOscarize it? It shouldn’t be too hard considering the other nominees and the movies that got sunbbed that year. Is there a movie that you would DeOscarize Titanic for? Let’s discuss it.
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