Alternate Universe Oscars #39: CLOSED

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Alternate Universe Oscars #39: CLOSED Jul 21, 2024 17:19:05 GMT

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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 21, 2024 17:19:05 GMT

The idea of this poll is to take the BP winner of each year and reimagine them with the best director nominees of that year, and ask which director would make the best version of that film. If the BP winner was nominated in directing, that option will not be listed.

Kurosawa predictably wins Out of Africa

So our choices for Amadeus are...

Woody Allen
Robert Benton
Roland Joffé
David Lean

Previous winners:
2022: Ruben Östlund's Everything Everywhere All at Once
2021: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's CODA
2020: Lee Isaac Chung's Nomadland
2019: Martin Scorsese's Parasite
2018: Spike Lee's Green Book
2017: Jordan Peele's The Shape of Water
2016: Kenneth Lonergan's Moonlight
2015: Lenny Abrahamson's Spotlight
2014: Wes Anderson's Birdman
2013: Martin Scorsese's 12 Years a Slave
2012: Steven Spielberg's Argo
2011: Woody Allen's The Artist
2010: Joel and Ethan Coen's The King's Speech
2009: James Cameron's The Hurt Locker
2008: David Fincher's Slumdog Millionaire
2007: Paul Thomas Anderson's No Country for Old Men
2006: Paul Greengrass's The Departed
2005: Bennett Miller's Crash
2004: Martin Scorsese's Million Dollar Baby
2003: Peter Weir's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002: Pedro Almodóvar's Chicago
2001: David Lynch's A Beautiful Mind
2000: Ang Lee's Gladiator
1999: Spike Jonze's American Beauty
1998: Steven Spielberg's Shakespeare in Love
1997: Curtis Hanson's Titanic
1996: Miloš Forman's The English Patient
1995: Chris Noonan's Braveheart
1994: Krzysztof Kieślowski's Forrest Gump
1993: Jim Sheridan's Schindler's List
1992: Robert Altman's Unforgiven
1991: Ridley Scott's The Silence of the Lambs
1990: Francis Ford Coppola's Dances with Wolves
1989: Peter Weir's Driving Miss Daisy
1988: Mike Nichols' Rain Man
1987: John Boorman's The Last Emperor
1986: David Lynch's Platoon
1985: Akira Kurosawa's Out of Africa

Last Edit: Jul 24, 2024 15:56:50 GMT by Martin Stett

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Martin Stett Legend "Stett is weirder than New York" - Urbanpatrician Posts: 11,821 Likes: 7,827	Alternate Universe Oscars #39: CLOSED Jul 21, 2024 17:20:09 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Martin Stett on Jul 21, 2024 17:20:09 GMT Hear me out: Woody Allen in Interiors mode making a movie on God and Man
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Archie Based Eraserhead son or Inland Empire daughter? Posts: 4,014 Likes: 4,688 Member is Online	Alternate Universe Oscars #39: CLOSED Jul 21, 2024 17:20:59 GMT via mobile countjohn likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Archie on Jul 21, 2024 17:20:59 GMT David Lean's Amadeus would fuck so hard.

stephen Legend "Not my remains, Al." Posts: 25,538 Likes: 25,641 Member is Online	Alternate Universe Oscars #39: CLOSED Jul 21, 2024 17:40:09 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stephen on Jul 21, 2024 17:40:09 GMT I can definitely see Roland Joffé doing a good job with it, but come on -- David Lean's Amadeus sounds like the greatest unmade movie of all time.
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Alternate Universe Oscars #39: CLOSED Jul 21, 2024 17:46:41 GMT Martin Stett likes this

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Post by finniussnrub on Jul 21, 2024 17:46:41 GMT

I mean Allen actually isn't that ridiculous given there is a lot of comedy in Amadeus, even if the scale and dramatic moments may suffer a bit. However if you want to maintain the grandiose scope, you need Lean, who could do comedy even if it wasn't his focus often. Benton could potentially do the comedy, but not the scale. Joffe could do the scale but not the comedy. So Lean it is.

ibbi God Tier "Batman's a scientist" Posts: 5,830 Likes: 5,120	Alternate Universe Oscars #39: CLOSED Jul 21, 2024 18:48:41 GMT countjohn likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ibbi on Jul 21, 2024 18:48:41 GMT Tony Robers as Mozart and Woody Allen as Salieri. I am THERE!

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Alternate Universe Oscars #39: CLOSED Jul 22, 2024 1:58:20 GMT

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Post by sophiefox on Jul 22, 2024 1:58:20 GMT

honestly, i'd like to see a more restrained, realistic version of Amadeus, after Forman's pompous fantasy film and neither Allen nor Joffé nor Lean are known for their restraint, so i'll definitely have to go with...

Robert Benton

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Alternate Universe Oscars #39: CLOSED Jul 22, 2024 3:26:31 GMT Martin Stett likes this

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Post by countjohn on Jul 22, 2024 3:26:31 GMT

Lean's Amadeus would be better than regular Amadeus. Maybe do it in the 60's with Peter O'Toole as Mozart and Guinness as Salieri?

Admittedly a comedy version with Woody Allen as Salieri sounds great too :laugh: