These Oscar Best Picture winners wouldn’t get the award in 2023
nypost.comHollywood Reporter survey found that a majority would like to go back and change their 1977 votes for “Rocky” to “All the President’s Men.” And looking back at 1999, if they had to do it all over again, they’d give the gold to war epic “Saving Private Ryan” instead of the largely-forgotten “Shakespeare in Love.” But there have been a lot more recipients of Hollywood’s highest honor that have fallen out of favor — and sometimes in epic fashion.
Here are 11 examples of Best Picture winners that probably wouldn’t win the award in 2023 — that is, if they were even green-lighted in the first place.
And yes, “Crash” is on the list.“Green Book” arrived at the awards ceremony with a mixed reputation at best. Director Peter Farrelly adapted the true story of black jazz pianist Frank Shirley (Mahershala Ali) touring the Deep South with a white bodyguard (Viggo Mortensen) who’s changed by the racism he witnesses being directed toward Shirley.
But many viewers weren’t convinced, calling it merely Hollywood’s latest “white savior” narrative; Seth Meyers sent up the film in a sketch (“White Savior: The Movie”).
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