As a way to gear you up for this weekend’s Academy Awards, Albert Gomez, aka Room 237, has created a supercut of the last scenes from every Best Picture winner from 1970 to present. It’s an interesting, very short video that actually took me a few views to name all of the films being shown (I, frankly, blanked on a lot of the films from the ’80s).
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If you haven’t actually seen the films in question, I don’t know how much meaning will come from only a few seconds (sorry, “Terms Of Endearment” and “Driving Miss Daisy,” I’ll get around to you soon). Yet some of the shots really do sum up the entire film and remind one of the sticking power that a final image can have. Some especially powerful final images come from “Kramer Vs. Kramer,” “Schindler’s List,” “Braveheart,” “The Hurt Locker,” and “Birdman.”
How many films can you name? Check out the video below.