Countdown to the Oscars: Top 10 Favourite Best Picture Winners (1970-2015)
Throughout this month, I have decided to do a series of Oscar-related articles in anticipation to the 89th Academy Awards ceremony, which will be held on February 26. On Monday I shared with you my top 10 favourite Best Picture winners from 1929 to 1969 , so today I thought I would do the same, but with the winners from 1970 to 2015. Again, please bear in mind that this is my own personal opinion, which of course is limited to the films I have seen so far. 10. 12 Years a Slave (2013) Directed by Steve McQueen | Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor (Solomon Northup), Michael Fassbender (Edwin Epps), Lupita Nyong'o (Patsey), Paul Dano (John Tibeats) and Benedict Cumberbatch (William Ford) | Fox Searchlight Pictures | 134 minutes Solomon Northup: I don't want to survive. I want to live. 9. The Sting (1973) Directed by George Roy Hill | Starring Paul Newman (Henry «Shaw» Gondorff), Robert Redford (Johnny «Kelly» Hooker), Robert Shaw (Doyle Lonnegan), Robert...