Editing Forrest Gump (section)

=== Re-evaluation ===

Writing in 2004, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' said, "Nearly a decade after it earned gazillions and swept the Oscars, Robert Zemeckis' ode to 20th-century America still represents one of cinema's most clearly drawn lines in the sand. One half of folks see it as an artificial piece of pop melodrama, while everyone else raves that it's sweet as a box of chocolates."<ref name="EWStrikeBack">{{cite magazine |last=Bal |first=Sumeet |author2=Marc Bernardin |author3=Monica Mehta |author4=Joshua Rich |author5=Erin Richter |author6=Michael Sauter |author7=Missy Schwartz |author8=Nancy Sidewater |title=Cry Hard 2 The Readers Strike Back |url=https://ew.com/article/2004/01/09/cry-hard-2-readers-strike-back/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=January 9, 2004 |access-date=October 20, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412042010/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,570497,00.html |archive-date=April 12, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2015, ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' polled hundreds of academy members, asking them to re-vote on past controversial decisions. Academy members said that, given a second chance, they would award the 1994 Oscar for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] to ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' instead.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 18, 2015 |title=Recount! Oscar Voters Today Would Make 'Brokeback Mountain' Best Picture Over 'Crash' |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/recount-oscar-voters-today-would-773522 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122094645/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/recount-oscar-voters-today-would-773522 |archive-date=January 22, 2019 |access-date=January 3, 2020 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en}}</ref>