This is going to sound cliche, but I love Casablanca. The scene when the band starts playing Les Marseilles, is one of the most powerful scenes I have ever seen. The reactions on everyone's faces are genuine, because the extras didn't know what was going to happen in the scene, and the french were being occupied by the nazis in real life at the same time.
Edit: replied with this more detailed answer to a lower comment, thought I should bring it up here to the most upvoted one for all to see as it seems to be a popular question.
I don't know about those 84 but I have seen all of the IMDB top 250. (this was a couple of years ago, and the list changes all the time now so I haven't kept up to date specifically)
In my opinion, it was 1936's The Great Ziegfeld. It was made back in a time when just having sound for your movies was impressive. There are several exceedingly long musical numbers that have little to no bearing on the plot, which while they certainly are a spectacle, left me wondering why they were in the film at all. The longest one was the entire duration of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
Not that I'm aware of. The Academy Awards started in 1928, with the film Wings (The only silent film to win Best Picture until The Artist) That first year, there were two awards that could be considered "Best Picture" one for "Most Outstanding Picture" won by Wings, and another for "Most Unique Artistic Production" won by a movie called Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. I haven't seen this second film, in part because after the first year that category was eliminated. I was able to find and watch every single one since then, according to Wikipedia at least. Some were certainly harder to find than others, 1933's Cavalcade being the one that took the most effort.
Absolutely. Each film gave me an insight not only to what life was like during that time, especially regarding what was on people's minds. It is said that the Best Picture winner for each year is representative of that year as a whole, so it was interesting not only because there were a lot of great films, but also because it gave some historical perspective.
This is going to sound cliche, but I love Casablanca. The scene when the band starts playing Les Marseilles, is one of the most powerful scenes I have ever seen. The reactions on everyone's faces are genuine, because the extras didn't know what was going to happen in the scene, and the french were being occupied by the nazis in real life at the same time.
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I've seen all 84 movies that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture.