LIVE POLL: Favorite Oscar-Nominated Best Picture Remake Movie?

I agree that Mad Max:Fury Road exceeded the original.

Fair point, I wasn't aware of all that information. The intended scope is to cover Oscar nominees that aren't original. I think it would fit better as reboot. Therefore, I made the following changes to the poll suggestion to address your concerns..

Favorite Oscar Best Picture Remake or Reboot Nominee?

Which of these Best Picture Oscar-nominated remake or reboot movies, that are either directly based or indirectly based on a prior film or movie franchise, is your favorite?

For the purpose of this question, a remake is defined as any movie that is either a direct remake (based on the same screenplay, an indirect remake (based on the same source material, historical figure, place or event) or a reboot of a prior movie franchise (relaunched in order to establish a new beginning of an existing franchise).

FYI, had Batman Begins (2005) been Oscar nominated, I would have liked to see it or other films like it qualify for this poll suggestion. I think with the revisions the now better fit the intended scope. It also removes the blur when filmmakers reintroduce films to a new generation.

Added.  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) could be considered either a remake or reboot.

"Some of the events of The Two Towers along with The Fellowship of Ring were depicted in the 1978 film of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, directed by Ralph Bakshi. Both The Two Towers and the succeeding film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, abandoned the parallel storytelling of the volume in favour of a more chronological presentation. The first chapter from the volume actually appears at the end of Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Later events of The Two Towers involving Frodo and Sam were filmed for Jackson's The Return of the King."(from Wikipedia)

For the purpose of this question, a remake is defined as any movie that is either a direct remake (based on the same screenplay, an indirect remake (based on the same source material, historical figure, place or event) or a reboot of a prior movie franchise (relaunched in order to establish a new beginning of an existing franchise).

Thanks, some good information.  I am going to limit the notations to the most notable titles. As you can attest to some these movies have been remade numerous times, in fact too many to list them all. I like to watch the different versions of the same film. Mostly because they have an elevated quality level, as well as, to see what can be done with the same raw material. Thanks, again.

I don't think you added any of the suggestions even though they qualify as much as others on the list. Or maybe you need to change your criteria.

Fair enough, I think 4-5 are worthy of adding. I wanted to avoid the issue of shorts, lowly rated and low vote nominees and previous versions that were silent films. I will add a floor of 10k imdb.com votes for remakes and require both the original and remake be full length features.

Added
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938 nominee) has a 1922 and 1913 silent version
The Wizard of Oz (1939 nominee) has a 1925 silent version.
Gaslight (1944 nominee) has a previous 1940 version.
Hamlet (1948 winner) has a 1921, 1913 and a1910 silent versions
Seabiscuit (2004 nominee) has a 1939 documentary and 1949 feature
Quo Vadis 1951 | Movie 7.2 (13,242)
Captain Blood 1935 | Movie 7.7 (12,670)

Low Vote Nominees
Ivanhoe 1952 | Movie 6.8 (7,914)
Pygmalion1938 | Movie 7.7 (7,683) Original Movie: Pygmalion (1935) and Pygmalion (1937) (all movies based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion)
Cleopatra 1934 | Movie 6.8 (3,317) Original Movie: Cleopatra (1917)
David Copperfield 1935 | Movie 7.4 (3,658)
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1935 | Movie 6.9 (3,090)
Romeo and Juliet 1936 | Movie 6.5 (1,713) Original Movie: Romeo and Juliet (1916) (all movies inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet)Aug 2020
Little Women 1933 | Movie 7.2 (6,241)

I couldn't agree more. A great example is how Pixar initially refused to do remakes, preferring to release only original movies. The produced hot after hit, never going back to the the well. It wasn't until their 11th film did they now to pressure from their distribution/marketing partner Disney to release a sequel to Toy Story. Since being acquired by Disney, they have become a sequel factory and have have lost some of the luster that made them special in the first place