| "John Harkness" wrote: Some of these are obvious, some debatable (the older you get, the more likely you are to admit that Citizen Kane is not a better movie than How Green Was My Valley) some hilarious: I wouldn't, but How Green Was My Valley is arguably the best best picture winner of the 40s. I'd agree with both those points (that it is arguably the best BP winner of the 40s, but that I wouldn't argue it), but they aren't the points at issue. To me HGWMV was only the 4th best movie of 1941, while Citizen Kane was 3rd best. It is more clear that Citizen Kane was robbed of the best b&w cinematography Oscar, despite the excellence of HGWMV's camera work, and arguably also had the best special effects (but wasn't nominated, because even back then there was the Catch-22 that you wouldn't be recognised for SFX unless it was obvious that you used them). -- Apteryx Treat anger like gold. Spend it wisely or not at all. |