The Best Oscar-Winning Movies for Men

February 24, 2012

$The Best Oscar-Winning Movies for Men$

Illustration courtesy of Garth Sundem

The Oscars are half pageantry, half entertainment, half reality TV and half tradition. Yes that’s four halves, but come on – it’s the Oscars! They’re exactly twice as large as life. And it’s the last half – nostalgia – that in every Oscar season makes you want to pick through your DVD library or update your Netflix playlist to revisit the great movies of Oscars past. That said, you can’t watch them all (or, you could, but at an average duration of 117 minutes each it would take you 161.85 hours).

That’s why I wrote this equation for Esquire Magazine, which helps men sort out which past Best Picture winners they should dust off and which they can let sit in that dusty vault of forgetting. In order, the winners of this guy-centered list are “The Godfather,” “Gladiator,” “Forrest Gump,” “Patton,” and “Gandhi.”

And which Oscar-winning movies should send guys screaming from the theater like kindergarteners mistakenly allowed into “Jaws”? According to the numbers, it’s “Oliver,” “Gigi,” “The Broadway Melody,” “An American in Paris,” and (the Worst Guy Picture Oscar goes to!) … “The Sound of Music.”

Garth Sundem is the author of Brain Trust: 93 Top Scientists Dish Lab-Tested Secrets for Surfing, Dating, Dieting, Gambling, Growing Man-Eating Plants and More!

Tags: 2012 Academy Awards, Forrest Gump, Gandhi, Garth Sundem, Gladiator, Jaws, Patton, The Godfather