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Alternate Universe Oscars #40: CLOSED Jul 24, 2024 16:00:35 GMT

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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 24, 2024 16:00:35 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.

Lean's Amadeus easily wins

So our choices for Terms of Endearment are...

Bruce Beresford
Ingmar Bergman
Mike Nichols
Peter Yates

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
1984: David Lean's Amadeus

Last Edit: Jul 28, 2024 17:40:34 GMT by Martin Stett

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mikediastavrone96 Global Moderator "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Posts: 5,388 Likes: 5,891	Alternate Universe Oscars #40: CLOSED Jul 24, 2024 16:04:19 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jul 24, 2024 16:04:19 GMT I wanna see Ingmar Bergman's version of anything. I'd watch his Independence Day.
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stephen Legend "Not my remains, Al." Posts: 25,538 Likes: 25,641 Member is Online	Alternate Universe Oscars #40: CLOSED Jul 24, 2024 16:12:23 GMT ibbi likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stephen on Jul 24, 2024 16:12:23 GMT Jul 24, 2024 16:04:19 GMT mikediastavrone96 said: I wanna see Ingmar Bergman's version of anything. I'd watch his Independence Day. Only if we get Emmerich's The Seventh Seal.
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ibbi God Tier "Batman's a scientist" Posts: 5,830 Likes: 5,120	Alternate Universe Oscars #40: CLOSED Jul 24, 2024 16:37:23 GMT Martin Stett likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ibbi on Jul 24, 2024 16:37:23 GMT Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in the two central roles. What could possibly go wrong?

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Alternate Universe Oscars #40: CLOSED Jul 24, 2024 16:50:04 GMT Martin Stett, ibbi, and 1 more like this

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Jul 24, 2024 16:37:23 GMT ibbi said:

Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in the two central roles. What could possibly go wrong?

The fact that Ingrid would likely have died before or during filming?

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Alternate Universe Oscars #40: CLOSED Jul 24, 2024 16:59:02 GMT Martin Stett and stephen like this

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Post by ibbi on Jul 24, 2024 16:59:02 GMT

Jul 24, 2024 16:50:04 GMT stephen said:

Jul 24, 2024 16:37:23 GMT ibbi said:

Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in the two central roles. What could possibly go wrong?

The fact that Ingrid would likely have died before or during filming?

Yeah, acting in that movie would have killed me too.

stephen Legend "Not my remains, Al." Posts: 25,538 Likes: 25,641 Member is Online	Alternate Universe Oscars #40: CLOSED Jul 24, 2024 17:11:03 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stephen on Jul 24, 2024 17:11:03 GMT Jul 24, 2024 16:59:02 GMT ibbi said: Jul 24, 2024 16:50:04 GMT stephen said: The fact that Ingrid would likely have died before or during filming? Yeah, acting in that movie would have killed me too.
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finniussnrub God Tier Posts: 6,190 Likes: 3,377	Alternate Universe Oscars #40: CLOSED Jul 24, 2024 17:41:29 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by finniussnrub on Jul 24, 2024 17:41:29 GMT Prime material for Bergman. I feel Nichols, Beresford and maybe even Yates would've made very similar films to Brooks.

taranofprydain Badass Posts: 1,418 Likes: 388	Alternate Universe Oscars #40: CLOSED Jul 24, 2024 17:48:51 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by taranofprydain on Jul 24, 2024 17:48:51 GMT Ingmar Bergman, of course.

Tommen_Saperstein Legend you don't understand the essence of brat summer Posts: 17,633 Likes: 11,737	Alternate Universe Oscars #40: CLOSED Jul 24, 2024 20:35:31 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 24, 2024 20:35:31 GMT I think any of these guys could've made a better movie than Brooks but Bergman is such an obvious choice.