If you’re suggesting It Happened One Night has now surpassed Wizard Of Oz and Gone With The Wind ,then that really speaks to Political Correctness ruining GWTW’s reputation (I’ve only been moderately bothered by any racism in GWTW because I don’t think it’s about slavery, though Butterfly McQueen getting slapped is very embarrassing), but I don’t think the joke “Friends of Dorothy” used to refer to gay celebrities is enough to ruin TWOZ.

Is The Greatest Show On Earth a “fun” movie? I wouldn’t know. Return Of The King is so long that calling it “fun” seems weird now. Chicago? I wasn’t really into it that much.

I always made it a point to watch whatever wins Best Picture, but I’ve missed CODA, Green Book and Everything Everywhere All At Once, and haven’t been great about catching up on them. I know I said The Artist was the most lightweight BP winner, but CODA has got to be the least discussed/watched Best Picture winner ever; after it won, I checked moviechat.org, and there were only two pages of discussion. I don’t even know if it was theatrically released, and if we’re getting into an era where the BP winner is only available on streaming, then that’s really weird and alienating to me (and I don’t like going to movie theaters much anymore, but that’s another story.)
The BP winners from 2014 onwards have admittedly not been terribly commercial for the most part, and there have been some amusingly weird/gusty choices in there, but I was almost grateful when Oppenheimer won, not because I’m a Nolan fanboy (I’m not) but it was nice to see something that engaged the public on a reasonably intelligent level while also being entertaining.

Parasite was a fairly good film, and it’s cool that Bong Joon-Ho won and did his little Scorsese tribute, and you should see it, but it’s mostly notable for an interesting story twist about halfway through. I didn’t find the ending terribly resonant at all and wondered if it wasn’t some lost-in-translation thing that I didn’t get, having only watched a few Asian movies in my life.

I thought Butch Cassidy was a good film, but never thought it was a masterpiece, then watched The Sting and didn’t like it at first, then later rewatched it and liked it a bit more, but still found it inferior to Butch Cassidy. It won for 1973, which had several far more deserving candidates IMO (American Graffiti, Badlands, The Exorcist). It’s been given lavish DVD reissues and whatnot, but I don’t know that’s one of the 1970s films that recent generations have been looking up all that much.