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Every year , the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosts the Oscars to celebrate the motion picture that are mean to be the in effect in cinema from a given yr . And while Oscar voter are n’t always right , they certainly pop the question us a elbow room to think about what the best movies from a given yr actually were .
Of naturally , sometimes , the Oscars do know what they ’re doing . If you need evidence , look no further than these three great movies , which are all available to rain buckets onPeacocknow . None of them walked away with Best Picture , but each of them did pretty well with the Academy no matter .
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Shrek (2001)
A famouslyrevolutionary animize filmwhen it was first release , Shrekalso had the honor of being the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature . The film , which narrate the tale of an monster who finds himself fall in love with a princess as he transports her back to her husband - to - be , is a corruption of many of the pouf taradiddle tropes that Disney had become so closely associated with throughout its history .
Thanks to great phonation performance from Mike Meyers , Eddie Murphy , and Cameron Diaz , Shrekwas a howling success upon its release , both financially and with Oscar voters .
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Promising Young Womanwas one of its most utter - about movies of 2020 . The film , which was write and direct by Emerald Fennell ( The Crown ) , tells the story of a young woman who intentionally puts herself in compromising positions so that she can shame the men who seek to take advantage of her .
As the movie unfolds , we watch just why she does this , and follow the twists and turns that come with her relationship with a young , seemingly unproblematic man . Promising Young Womanwas dissentious when it was first discharge , but everyone accord that Carey Mulligan proved , once and for all , why she ’s one of our best working actress .
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
The movie that excellently lost out on Best Picture toCrash , Brokeback Mountainstill take the air away with three awards , including Best Director for Ang Lee . recite the floor of two cowpuncher who fall in sexual love while tending sheep in the remotest parts of Montana , Brokeback Mountainis ultimately a calamity , but before that , it ’s one of the most beautiful love narration you ’ll ever see .
Heath Ledger ( a few years before he played the Joker inThe Dark Knight ) is absolutely magnetic as a subdued , reserved gentleman’s gentleman who is scared of the way he feels , and he ’s equate by a much more volatile Jake Gyllenhaal . Brokeback Mountainmay not have really won Best Picture , but plenty of people would like to sham it did .
