20 Perfect Shots From Oscar Winning Movies

11. American Beauty - Petals

Sometimes a perfect shot is a glimpse at a distant, exotic planet, and sometimes it's something as simple as a beautiful woman writhing around in a bed of roses.

When most think of Sam Mendes' Best Picture-winning film, they'll almost immediately imagine rose petals and a young Mena Suvari's modesty barely being covered by them during Lester Burnham's (Kevin Spacey) fantasy sequence.

It's an entrancing, trippy image that is of course pivotal to Lester's desire to break free of his humdrum middle-class existence. Honestly, can you blame him when he's imagining things like this?