Once again, with the Oscars mere weeks away, I’ve come up with a list of previous winners of the Best Picture Oscar that have some sort of affinity, even if it’s very slender, with one of the current Best Picture nominees. And once again, I welcome you to choose my fate, by selecting which two of those eight films I’ll be reviewing come Oscar weekend. The poll closes next Monday!
NOMINEE: Black Panther
Anti-colonialism = Gandhi (1982)
NOMINEE: BlackkKlansman
1970s cop movies = The French Connection (1971)
NOMINEE: Bohemian Rhapsody
Awful biopics that lies about its subject (with a side of homophobia) = A Beautiful Mind (2001)
NOMINEE: The Favourite
English monarchs with bad interpersonal relationship skills = A Man for All Seasons (1966)
NOMINEE: Green Book
Solving racism by driving through the American South = Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
NOMINEE: Roma
Gorgeous domestic dramas based in childhood memories = How Green Was My Valley (1941)
NOMINEE: A Star Is Born
Musical backstage melodramas = The Broadway Melody (1928/29)
NOMINEE: Vice
Biopics about the filthy business of politics = All the King’s Men (1949)