Jaws, Cuckoos, and the Greatest Film of All Time: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1975
In our last installment, we talked about 1974, possibly the best year a single director has ever had: not just Francis Ford Coppola, who...
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Aaron Keck
Apr 16, 202312 min read
Sisters, Daughters, and Godfathers: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1974
What’s the best year a single director has ever had? Victor Fleming had a pretty good 1939, co-directing Gone With The Wind and The...
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Aaron Keck
Feb 26, 202311 min read
Malice Vs. Malick: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1973
Thus far in this project, one of our most consistent findings has been that the opinions of film critics and ordinary moviegoers don’t...
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Aaron Keck
Feb 18, 202310 min read
A Moonlight You Can't Refuse: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1972
We started this project in 1930, so we’ve now covered more than 40 years of movie history - and one thing’s for sure: some years are...
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Aaron Keck
Jan 31, 202311 min read
Kubrick For Three? Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1971
As we’ve already seen, the late 60s and early 70s are a stark transition period in movie history. The studio system is in decline and...
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Aaron Keck
Jan 16, 20238 min read
Altman Vs. Bertolucci: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1970
We’ve reached the beginning of a new decade, and after all the tumult of the 1960s, the film world in 1970 is experiencing a sort of...
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Aaron Keck
Oct 8, 202212 min read
New Hollywood Triumphant: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1969
When the 1960s began, the French New Wave was only just emerging, Alfred Hitchcock was at his peak, the Hays Code was still very much in...
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Aaron Keck
Jul 17, 202210 min read
A Genre Odyssey: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1968
The late ‘60s were a tumultuous time in world history: the Vietnam War was at its peak, student protests were erupting around the world,...
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Aaron Keck
Jun 28, 202210 min read
Plastics and Prostitutes, Boxes and Banks: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1967
Writing about Jacques Tati's Playtime, Philip Kemp argued that the film was about "how the curve comes to reassert itself over the...
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Aaron Keck
May 1, 202213 min read
Great Movies for Challenging Times: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1966
The year 1966 was a tumultuous one, to say the least. The Cold War was at its peak and nuclear fears pervaded the globe; the war in...
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Aaron Keck
Apr 18, 202210 min read
Fools, Families, Femmes Fatale, and Falstaff: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1965
When you talk about the 1960s in film, a couple trends rise quickly to the forefront. This was the golden age of movie musicals, with...
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Aaron Keck
Jan 23, 202211 min read
Music, Music, and Nuclear War: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1964
Some years, all the top movies all seem to come from the same genre. 1960 was a horror year, with Psycho and Peeping Tom and Eyes Without...
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Aaron Keck
Jan 4, 20228 min read
Hitch vs. Fellini vs. Godard, Again: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1963
In 1960, we saw a three-way battle between a trio of legendary directors: Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the scene with Breathless; Federico...
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Aaron Keck
Dec 15, 20219 min read
Nothing Is Written: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1962
The year is 1962, and the French New Wave is at its zenith. François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard lead the way with Jules et Jim and...
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Aaron Keck
Nov 28, 202110 min read
West or East? Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1961
Through the first three decades of this project, we’ve found that the Oscars have rarely gotten it right when it comes to picking the...
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Aaron Keck
Nov 14, 20217 min read
A Boy's Best Friend is a Moonlight: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1960
Welcome to the swinging ‘60s, a time of revolution, transformation and turmoil - and also an era of great, great films. The decade kicked...
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Aaron Keck
Oct 31, 20219 min read
Nobody's Perfect...But Who's the Best? Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1959
And here we arrive at the end of our third decade, and it’s a revolutionary moment to say the least. The year 1959 brings the full...
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Aaron Keck
Sep 12, 20216 min read
Hitch vs. Welles: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1958
Every year tells a different story. We’ve just come out of 1957, a year with a deep bench of universally acclaimed classics, so many that...
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Aaron Keck
Aug 22, 20219 min read
Best Year Ever? Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1957
What is the best year in movie history? The most common answer to that question is probably 1939, the year of Gone With The Wind and...
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Aaron Keck
Aug 1, 20216 min read
When Genres Ruled the Earth: Here's How We Chose the Best Picture of 1956
So far in our journey through film history, we’ve nominated quite a few “genre” films, but not many have won. 1935’s Bride of...
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