Back To The Future
Back to the Future is the one of the best of its kind. I feel safe saying that most people agree on that point. However, when it came out back in 1985, no one – including director Robert Zemeckis – expected it to turn out as well as it did.
I have conversations with people all the time about how hard it is to tell if a new film will become a classic (the debate sprung up in discussion of Dunkirk, neither me nor my friend thought that it will be one of the great war movies). I suppose the Academy had the same issue with Back to the Future, recognizing it primarily as a teen comedy, as opposed to a science fiction chef-d’oeuvre.
The film earned four nominations, with only one in the “Big Five” categories (Writing, which it did not win). Like Raiders of the Lost Ark, there aren’t many movies as iconic in American culture as this, with few lines as memorable as “I’m your density” or “are you telling me that you built a time machine…out of a DeLorean?”