This won the BAFTA award for Best Picture, over Amadeus.

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Purple Rose of Cairo

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macgeek2004 — 18 years ago(January 26, 2008 11:10 PM)

Please tell me this is a typo on the part of IMDB?

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JohnKoliba — 18 years ago(February 16, 2008 05:46 PM)

Ross Kemp has a BAFTA. The BAFTAs are a joke.
It was certainly a weak year if you look at the Oscars as well. My favourite film released that year is probably Brazil and I'm a fan of Ran and Back to the Future.

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sadie_beth_1124 — 17 years ago(April 18, 2008 06:44 PM)

It was well deserved!
I maintain that if somebody doesn't like "The Purple Rose of Cairo", they just don't get it.
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macgeek2004 — 17 years ago(May 06, 2008 11:28 PM)

I like The Purple Rose of Cairo. I really like it. It's a great film. It had the most creative plot idea i've ever witnessed in a film.
And yet, giving a "best film" award to it over Amadeus is completely and utterly preposterous.

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snorlax3111984 — 17 years ago(May 09, 2008 04:17 PM)

Amadeus is my candidate for greatest film ever made, so naturally I concur with the original poster.
That said, Purple Rose of Cairo is a great film. I consider it Allen's 3rd best after Bananas & Hanna and her Sisters

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marvelass — 13 years ago(September 26, 2012 10:48 PM)

Yes,
Purple Rose
won the Best Film BAFTA over
Amadeus
. Incidentally,
Back to the Future
was also nominated that year, which I found more interesting.
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hafabee — 12 years ago(July 10, 2013 01:06 AM)

Any one of those movies could have won Best Picture and they wouldn't be wrong.

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franzkabuki — 12 years ago(July 30, 2013 07:50 PM)

What is this? Amadeus is a 1984 film while Purple Rose came out in 1985?
Either way, if we look at the movies that came out in 1984, Amadeus has serious difficulty even making the top 10 as far as Im concerned. Bit of a bloated, populist piece of film, that - and somewhat overrated as most Formans films tend to be.
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