Worst Film To Win A Bafta

[zettel45]

OK, here's the list. Any dogs that make you howl?



1948: The Best Years of Our Lives

1949: Hamlet

1950: Bicycle Thieves

1951: All About Eve

1952: La Ronde

1953: The Sound Barrier

1954: Forbidden Games

1955: The Wages of Fear

1956: Richard III

1957: Gervaise

1958: The Bridge on the River Kwai

1959: Room at the Top

1960: Ben-Hur

1961: The Apartment

1962: Ballad of a Soldier and The Hustler (joint winners)

1963: Lawrence of Arabia

1964: Tom Jones

1965: Three Hats for Lisa

1966: My Fair Lady

1967: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1968: A Man for all Seasons

1969: The Graduate

1970: Midnight Cowboy

1971: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1972: Sunday Bloody Sunday

1973: Caberet

1974: Day for Night

1975: Lacombe Lucien

1976: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

1977: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1978: The Stud

1979: Julia

1980: Manhatten

1981: The Elephant Man

1982: Chariots of Fire

1983: Gandhi

1984: Educating Rita

1985: The Killing Fields

1986: The Purple Rose of Cairo

1987: A Room With A View

1988: Jean de Florette

1989: The Last Emperor

1990: Dead Poets Society

1991: Goodfellas

1992: The Commitments

1993: Howards End

1994: Schindler's List

1995: Four Weddings and a Funeral

1996: Sense and Sensibility

1997: The English Patient

1998: The Full Monty

1999: Shakespeare in Love

2000: American Beauty

2001: Gladiator

2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2003: The Pianist

2004: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2005: The Aviator

2006: Brokeback Mountain

2007: Transformers

2008: Atonement

2009: Slumdog Millionaire

[dremble wedge]

name='zettel45' date='30 June 2010 - 11:52 AM' timestamp='1277895134' post='446151']

OK, here's the list. Any dogs that make you howl?



1978: The Stud

Although it was better than The Deerhunter...

[zettel45]

name='dremble wedge' date='30 June 2010 - 12:02 PM' timestamp='1277895727' post='446155']

Although it was better than The Deerhunter...

Ahem. Yes. Must admit, like sixpences in a Christmas pudding, I did include 3 red herrings. The Stud is one (real winner that year: Annie Hall). The other two are about as hard to spot.

[dpgmel]

Well IMHO Three Hats For Lisa should have won one for Joe Brown alone

[bruiser15]

Tranformers, what it didn't win, dat is bogus man, it's well good, much better than sum filum bout da Queen, innit.

[zettel45]

name='bruiser15' date='30 June 2010 - 12:19 PM' timestamp='1277896772' post='446169']

Tranformers, what it didn't win, dat is bogus man, it's well good, much better than sum filum bout da Queen, innit.

da Queen? Dry, innit.



Actually, if you forced me right now to watch one of those two it would be a pretty close call.

[Mr Sloane]

name='zettel45' date='30 June 2010 - 12:25 PM' timestamp='1277897101' post='446171']

da Queen? Dry, innit.



Actually, if you forced me right now to watch one of those two it would be a pretty close call.

Well, The Full Monty winning over LA Confidential is as silly as any of those three.

[jaycad]

I didn't like 'the commitments' - it is a singy songy pile of nonsense! 'sense and sensiblity' was crap,'four weddings and a stereotypical english accent' was "fack and bagger" as is most of the list from FWAAF onwards!

[batman]

There's a few films in there that I don't like and a few that I think are very over-rated, but there's only a couple that really stick out as being rather odd choices ... The Stud and Transformers. The former has no redeeming qualities whatsoever IMHO and the latter, even though I enjoyed it, is hardly a 'classic' by any stretch of the imagination.

[CaptainWaggett]

name='zettel45' date='30 June 2010 - 11:52 AM' timestamp='1277895134' post='446151']

OK, here's the list. Any dogs that make you howl?



1957: Gervaise

[GRAEME]

name='batman' date='30 June 2010 - 02:42 PM' timestamp='1277905326' post='446210']

There's a few films in there that I don't like and a few that I think are very over-rated, but there's only a couple that really stick out as being rather odd choices ... The Stud and Transformers. The former has no redeeming qualities whatsoever IMHO and the latter, even though I enjoyed it, is hardly a 'classic' by any stretch of the imagination.

Those two are my mate, Phil, havin' a laugh, Bats!

[batman]

name='GRAEME' date='30 June 2010 - 03:35 PM' timestamp='1277908545' post='446231']

Those two are my mate, Phil, havin' a laugh, Bats!

Shows how much notice I take of awards .... and what excellent judgement skills I have!

[zettel45]

name='GRAEME' date='30 June 2010 - 03:35 PM' timestamp='1277908545' post='446231']Those two are my mate, Phil, havin' a laugh, Bats!

Sorry Bats couldn't resist (and I did come clean in the third post down). The real winners were:





1965: Dr Strangelove (not Three Hats for Lisa)

1978: Annie Hall (not The Stud)

1997: Norbit (not Transformers)



Okay, okay, it wasn't Norbit. It was The Queen.



Over all, I think the BAFTA list holds up reasonably well. Not many obvious duffers in there. Mind you, in the 40s and 50s it definitely helped your chances if your film was directed by David Lean or starred Olivier.



I should also mention that the BAFTAs have had a more complex development than the Oscars. From 1948-1968 there was a "Best British Film" sub-category to go with the "Best Film From Any Source" award. Some years a Brit-flick won both and in 1949 "The Fallen Idol" beat "Hamlet" in the best British category, but the best film from any source was, er, Hamlet. Work that one out!



"Any source" included non-English language films from 1948-1982. A "best foreign-language film" category was introduced in '83. And in '93 the "Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film" was introduced so that Ken Loach and Mike Leigh could be snubbed not once but twice a year.

[batman]

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Sorry Bats couldn't resist (and I did come clean in the third post down).

Taken!

In my defence .... it's hot, I have only just finished work, I'm tired, I have to go to the park with TBW in a minute ............. and all I really wanna do-oo-oo is maybe be friends with a long, cool drink and the sofa.

[SirOllyBolly]

Why 2001: Gladiator?



Great movie!



If not that, then what should have won?

[zettel45]

name='SirOllyBolly' date='30 June 2010 - 07:28 PM' timestamp='1277922535' post='446298']

Why 2001: Gladiator?



Great movie!



If not that, then what should have won?

Er, the list is simply a list of the winners. The question is, do you think any of the winners are poor?



I wouldn't say Gladiator was poor, though I certainly didn't love it as much as many.

[will.15]

The Stud winning for Best Picture anywhere may be a hoax, but Pia Zedora did win Most Promising Newcomer at the Golden Globe Awards for this notoriously bad movie.



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[Toscana]

Four weddings and a funeral. Poor film in my view. It did keep Forrest Gump at bay. We dont fall so easly as our American friends do for "the faverite stars turn to win an Oscar playing a retard". Must admit to not really liking anything Huge whatshisname dose. Except campaigning for Macmillan Nurses, I really admire him for that.

[Moor Larkin]

Four weddings and a funeral. Poor film in my view. It did keep Forrest Gump at bay.

Something that had previously passed me by was that Norman Wisdom's prat-fall character was known as The Gump. I came across a brief snippet with him referring to his "gump suit" - too small for him. He said he'd had over 40 made for him that way, in his career; this quote was in 1961. Anyhow, that's the most interesting thing about Forrest Gump I can think of, aside from the performance of Gary Sinise, which in any other movie would have been worthwhile.



Nice to see the old threads still work.........

[m35541]

One very strange BAFTA award, not for best film, was the best actor award to Philippe Noiret for Cinema Paridiso. What the BAFTA lot didn't realise was that Noiret's voice was dubbed for the Italian version (he is French) so it was impossible for members to assess the quality of his performance. I guess 50% of the award should have gone to his dubber.