Thread by @WajahatAli

I want to remind the world that DANCES WITH WOLVES won Best Picture and Best Director over GOODFELLAS and Scorcese and this is why the Oscars are mostly useless.

https://twitter.com/elliotcwilliams/status/1370917143148105730

Some of you have responded to my tweet saying Dances With Wolves is better than Goodfellas. Your opinion is incorrect and may God have mercy on your souls. I will now use this thread to correct some sins of Oscars' recent past...

2010: SOCIAL NETWORK should have won Best Picture & Best Director (Fincher) over KING'S SPEECH/Tom Hooper. You know who watches King's Speech twice? People who fall asleep on the couch while it's on. It's a fine movie. It's FINE. But nobody says, "Hey, let's watch Kings Speech!"

2011: THE SEPARATION should have won Best Picture and Director for Asghar Farhadi. It won Best Foreign Film but should've swept like 2020's PARASITE, which deserved all its wins. THE ARTIST was...nice. But, who ever sees it again? No one. I also love TREE OF LIFE and DRIVE.

2012 - this might be controversial but I love SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK & it should have won over ARGO, which was very entertaining. Affleck should've won Best Director for Lee for LIFE OF PI (a solid flick) but they never give Ben respect! (He was the bomb in PHANTOMS, yo!)

2013 - in hindsight WOLF OF WALL STREET is the one that holds up best and it moves like lightning. Should've won Best Picture and Director over 12 YEARS A SLAVE and Cuaron for GRAVITY. I know people dug LINCOLN (great acting) but it felt twice as long as WOLF to me.

2014 - I actually liked BIRDMAN, and I know many hate it, but was it better than SELMA, GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL and BOYHOOD? Nope. Also, it's a crime that Ava Duvernay was NOT nominated for Best Director this year. Shame, Oscars. Shame!

2015. You might disagree with my opinion but you will be wrong. This year should have been the year of MAD MAX FURY ROAD for Best Picture and George Miller for Best Director. The movie is an action masterpiece and I still don't understand how people didn't die during filming.

2016 - MOONLIGHT beat LA LA LAND and...that was dope. I want to give a shout-out to ARRIVAL which I think is a great, underrated movie. Also, Denzel lost to Casey Affleck for Best Actor and you can tell he was rightfully PISSED. Go back and see his reaction.

2017 - I love Guillermo del Toro and his movies, and I enjoyed SHAPE OF WATER, but GET OUT should have won Best Picture. "Horror" movies never get love. I also think Nolan should've won Best Director for Dunkirk.

2018 - Because we can't have nice things and America's economic anxiety had to be satiated after MOONLIGHT's upset win, we were slapped across the face with GREEN BOOK, which is this generation's DRIVING MISS DAISY. (Sigh). Shoutout to BURNING & ANNIHILATION as underrated gems.

2019 - the year Oscars got it right. PARASITE deservedly won the top awards. It's a brilliant movie and I'm so glad Bong Joon-Ho got his just rewards and respect. 1917 was a technical marvel and superb filmmaking but PARASITE had it all.

Let's what happens in 2020.

Do not encourage me, otherwise, I'm willing to go back all the way to 2000...

Let's take this Delorean to the 1995 Oscars. FORREST GUMP won Best Picture, and we all know that was a mistake.

The question I have for you is the following: what should have won?

PULP FICTION or SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION?

You can't stay neutral on a moving train.