Best Picture
Wings sings The Broadway Melody
It’s All Quiet on the Western Front
But hostilities Cimarron
At the Grand Hotel Cavalcade
It Happened One Night the show was delayed
Inciting a Mutiny on the Bounty
'Great,' grated Ziegfeld, 'no discount, eh?'
'It seems Of this Life,' Emile Zola opined
'You Can’t Take it With You, it’s Gone with the Wind'
The day she turned 40 Rebecca O’Malley
Said, 'Oh lackaday, How Green Was My Valley
My friend Mrs Miniver
Are you movin’ over
To Casablanca or Going My Way down the alley?
We’ve Lost the Weekend and The Best Years of Our Lives
Through the Gentleman’s Agreement each husband contrives
And not even Hamlet nor All the King’s Men
Can bring back our youth and beauty again'
Have you heard All About Eve?
An American in Paris, in the 50s I believe
Who said that The Greatest Show on Earth or sea
Of all time - From Here to Eternity
Occurred On the Waterfront when Marty
Trying to go Around the World in 80 Days with a party
At the Bridge on the River Kwai-etly resigned
When Gigi alleged he was rob-Ben Hur blind
Apartment 60 on the West Side, so Story goes
Is where Laurence of Arabia and Mr Tom Jones
Introduced My Fair Lady (with bells on her toes)
To The Sound of Music played on saxophones
And though he is known as A Man for all Seasons
In The Heat of the Night, Oliver! has his reasons
To usefully employ
A Midnight Cowboy
Ignoring the effect of all the drugs he’s on
Patton (70) denies Le Connection’s request
When The Godfather Stings himself Twice overall
For just as One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
So Rocky the road grew
For sweet Annie Hall
Who says that she finds The Deer Hunter tamer
Than the antagonists in Kramer vs Kramer.
In the 80s, Ordinary People can hire
Awesome weapons like Chariots of Fire
But peace-loving Gandhi
Finds it so handy
To whisper sweet Terms of Endearment
Causing Amadeus his first major movement …
Moving Out of Africa with a Platoon
Puts The Last Emperor over the moon
Though the Rain Man’s dance won’t come to an end
Driving Miss Daisy right round the bend
In Dances With Wolves
The Silence of the Lambs
Could be Unforgiven
Lest they’re on the duty
List Schindler evolves
For Forrest Gump
A Braveheart who crams
The English Patient’s chump
With Titanic promiscuity
Outdoing Shakespeare in Love
With an American Beauty
A Gladiator with A Beautiful Mind?
It's Chicago in the aughties I think you’ll find
Though The Lord Of The Rings:
Return of The King
Where nobody sings
Is more my thing
And a Million Dollar Baby goes Crash on a swing
The Departed report there's No Country for Old Men
And a Slumdog Millionaire awaits winner number ten
Maybe he should have a beta-blocker
To get over his Hurt Locker
The King’s Speech in the 2010s
Was written by The Artist who referenced Argo
Who was 12 Years a Slave
While the Birdman
(With the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Was in the Spotlight
In the Moonlight
Where The Shape of Water
Appeared in the Green BookAs a Parasite
In the 2020s Nomadland has a CODA Where Everything is Everywhere All at Once Leaving Oppenheimer Desiring AnoraWho finds herself in a potherWith One Battle After Another
In the 2020s Nomadland has a CODA Where Everything is Everywhere All at Once Leaving Oppenheimer Desiring AnoraWho finds herself in a potherWith One Battle After Another