Casablanca? The Godfather? Moonlight? Or another contender? Our chief critic picks the greatest of 10 all-time classics to win best picture – and reveals the reader’s championThe best film! Of all the awards, this is the one most drenched in glory – and hubris.
It comes at the end of a long night, and it’s the one most keenly anticipated by the producers themselves who now have their moment of glory as the people for whom this award represents years of agonising work and instances of what Jerry Maguire called the “up-at-dawn pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about”.
For the winner, it is a moment of euphoria and exhaustion, which last year Warren Beatty did his best to make as chaotic as possible, with Faye Dunaway, by accidentally awarding best picture to La La Land, when it should have gone to Moonlight.
It is a measure
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