Still one of the best openings ever. Oh, and still the best film ever made and by default, the #1 film on the Best Picture list.
Back in 2009, I did a long series of histories of all the Academy Awards categories (you can find a full list here). The final thing I did was a ranked list of all 468 Best Picture nominees. When I revised all those posts in 2010 I only added in the 2009 Best Picture nominees to the ranked list rather than redo the list. There was a reason for that – for a long time, that one post was by far the most popular thing I had ever put up. There were stretches where it accounted for almost 20% of the hits on the entire site. But that changed drastically with Google’s changing of how images come up. But still I didn’t revise it, because by then, I was in the middle of a project that began on 9 March 2010 and only finished on 6 March 2013 – a year by year look at Best Picture in every year. So I wanted to wait until the project was done. (more…)
