Weekly Poll Results: Favourite Best Picture Nominee

Posted by on February 28th, 2013   Filed under: Polls

Now that the Oscars have come and gone, it’s time to see how happy you guys were with the results. For last week’s poll we asked who you were rooting for to win Best Picture, and the winner with almost 40% of the votes was Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. Man, you guys are all just a bunch of Tarantino fanboys! Seriously though, QT’s win for Best Original Screenplay along with Christoph Waltz for Best Supporting Actor did at least offer some consolation. In second place, over 20% of the voters got exactly what they wanted with Argo taking home the top prize. David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook was in third, followed by a very close race between Amour, Zero Dark Thirty and Beasts of the Southern Wild. On the other hand, Film Junk readers clearly turned up their nose at Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables. Are you surprised by these results?

1. Django Unchained — 39%
2. Argo — 21%
3. Silver Linings Playbook — 11%
4. Amour — 6%
5. Zero Dark Thirty — 6%
6. Beasts of the Southern Wild — 6%
7. Life of Pi — 4%
8. Lincoln — 4%
9. Les Miserables — 2%



  • Chopper

    Django was awesome.
    Really liked Silver Lining Playbook and I thought that Life of Pi was great.

  • Les grossman

    Proud to say that iam a self-proclaimed Tarantino fan boy

  • a horse

    can we talk argo for a bit?

    like this.. what makes it better than django?
    and: why the academy preferred it to ANY tarantino?

    it is a loaded question, since i am thoroughly convinced no matter what this guy makes, these other guys will hate, envy, dispise and dismiss – which clearly hapened here.

    on the opposite side, the spoiled youngen got way too much for his ohkay & forgettable work.

  • Andrew

    It is strange that Argo is no. 2 here. The reasons why the Academy have taken such a liking to a good/competent film have been thoroughly gone over by the critics but it is weird that that readers here wouldn’t prefer Zero Dark Thirty or any of the other films for that matter.

    Also, the master should have been on the list to correct the mistake.

  • a horse

    ^ “The reasons why the Academy have taken such a liking to a good/competent film have been thoroughly gone over by the critics”
    yes of course, but that’s a valid reason for them only.

    “but it is weird that that readers here wouldn’t prefer Zero Dark Thirty or any of the other films for that matter.

    Also, the master should have been on the list to correct the mistake.”
    true, and agrred.
    looks like people do like to be ‘helped out’ in their choosing, doesn’t it.
    i love everything about the master except the tone (in lack of a better word) – it’s too much like a dirge, you can’t feel good about it..

  • Andrew

    “yes of course, but that’s a valid reason for them only.”

    I’m not really sure what you mean here, but then-again I’m not to sure what I meant either. Probably just that the explanations about the upbeat/conventional film that flattered Hollywood made sense but I couldn’t be bothered repeating or acting like it was my own opinion.

    That Tarantino won, another, best screenplay Oscar would suggest he is not despised by Hollywood, but it is crazy that he does not get more credit on the directing side of things (or that he and Aflec would be considered in t he same league).

    P.s Probably unlikely that you’d see this comment anyway and I am just talking to myself, maybe some kind of facebook ‘someone has replied to your comment’ type of thing? No idea of the technical side, probably a bit of a pain in the ass I expect.

  • Andrew

    *or even to your email adress.