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The Academy Awards have an unfair reputation among the public for being out of touch with the public’s interest in movies. When you look back at its nearly 100-year history, most of its winners for Best Picture were solid financial hits that connected with a mainstream audience. In some cases, like Gone With the Wind, The Godfather, Titanic, and recently Oppenheimer, Best Picture winners were already cultural sensations before earning the coveted award. If anything, Academy voters are perhaps too keen on the zeitgeist, as many of their winners in the last 30 years have aged as poorly as expired milk. Between Dances With Wolves and American Beauty, many Best Picture winners of the 1990s were profound at the moment but have quickly fallen out of fashion. With Forrest Gump, the crime is not just that this maudlin and simplistic 1994 drama won Best Picture, but it also defeated one of the most beloved films in recent history, Pulp Fiction.
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