The Top 15 Best Picture Winners Available On Netflix Instant
The Oscars are scheduled to take place on February 22nd. In order to help prepare yourself for the festivities, here’s the top 15 previous Best Picture winners – as ranked on Flickchart – that are currently streaming to watch on Netflix.
The Silence of the Lambs
The Apartment
Forrest Gump
Annie Hall
All About Eve
The French Connection
American Beauty
Rain Man
Patton
Marty
Ordinary People
Terms of Endearment
Shakespeare in Love
Gentleman’s Agreement
The English Patient
[Ahhh…The English Patient](http://davethenovelist.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/seinfeld-the-english-patient.jpg)
“Just die already!”
“Elaine, do you not like the movie?”
“I HATE it!”
“Well then…you’re fired.”
“Great, see you outside.”
I’m more of a Sack Lunch guy myself.
Now do you think they shrunk them down? Or are they just in a really large bag?
I actually put off watching the movie for a long time specifically because of Seinfeld. Then I watched it and ended up really liking it a lot.
It’s so sad. Great movie.
Brilliant novel, too.
The fact that The English Patient and Shakespeare In Love are on that list tells me that Netflix needs to step it’s game up.
Netflix didn’t make the list.
No, but if those made the list, it’s because they need better classic movies online.
They kind of got screwed after the Hulu/Criterion deal.
But they’re both excellent movies?
No?
They are both excellent, but Fargo should have won over English Patient and everything else should have beaten Shakespeare in Love. Elizabeth, Saving Private Ryan, Thin Red Line AND Life is Beautiful are all WAY better than Shakespeare in Love. That year was a total waste.
I disagree actually that “Saving Private Ryan” is better than “Shakespeare in Love,” actually. But regardless, these films shouldn’t be discredited just because some people prefer some of the other nominees. I agree that “Fargo” is a better movie, but “The English Patient” is pretty great, as you said.
In fairness, SPR and SiL are my two least favs of those options. SiL isn’t horrid, but it definitely isn’t Best Pic caliber, if you ask me. But hey, I’m just one dude!
Personally, I’d go for The Big Lebowski for 98. Also just one dude.
I was trying to watch the French Connection on Netflix instant. There are long French-speaking scenes and there is no subtitle for them. Is this how really the movie is?
Watched it today on Amazon, there were subtitles for the French scenes
If you turn off English subtitles, the translation for the French will show. I had the same problem.
Some good movies here.
By the way, regardless of the fact that it beat a masterpiece like *Raging Bull*, *Ordinary People* is no slouch of a film.
Agreed, but fuck *The Engish Patient* for beating *Fargo*.
I actually think *Secrets & Lies* should have been the winner.
The Greatest Show on Earth is on Netflix and that is hands down the worst best picture winner. 2 and a half hours of Charlton Heston’s manly unibrow.
It’s near the bottom, but I would definitely rather watch it again rather than “Cavalcade” or “The Great Ziegfeld” (this one is close, though)
Happened to watch “Marty” this morning. It’s absolutely fantastic. Had me almost in tears at parts, laughing, great performance from Borgnine. I haven’t stopped thinking about it for hours now.
Annie Hall was amazing.
How Shakespeare In Love won out in 1999 ahead of pictures like Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line will remain exceptionally curious for a very long time.
can’t wait to see de top 5 of the top 10 of the top 15 of the Best Picture Winners.
I just saw American Beauty for the first time yesterday. I really liked how it turned all the perceptions of a typical 90s family on its head. One thing I didn’t get was the bag scene. Wtf
What it meant to me was that this simple bag, an ordinary thing, as he said, had this entire life behind it. It wasn’t just a bag but a series of meaningful experiences. I think the intention was that, by capturing this bag on video, he wasn’t just filming the bag but in a sense everything that got it there, every meaningful thing that happened to it. I believe the intention was that we should apply this kind of thinking to people and realize that we are all beautiful because of the lives we’ve experienced. We’re not so simple and everything we do is the result of something else. At the end of the movie, as Lester looks back on his life and realizes how happy he used to be and how his family loved each other, and suddenly sees this beauty in it and reminisces.