Best Picture winners ranked (DEPARTED added)
Best Picture winners ranked (DEPARTED added)
#1Best Picture winners ranked (DEPARTED added)
Posted: 2/20/07 at 3:54pm
Rotten Tomatoes put together a group of critics and asked them to rate all 79 best picture Oscar winners. Here are the results:
1. The Godfather
2. On the Waterfront
3. All About Eve
4. Sunrise
5. Rebecca
6. Marty
7. The Best Years of Our Lives
8. Lawrence of Arabia
9. The Godfather Part II
10. Casablanca
11. Annie Hall
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
13. An American in Paris
14. Wings
15. Amadeus
16. The French Connection
17. Gone with the Wind
18. Schindler's List
19. Unforgiven
20. Patton
21. West Side Story
22. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
23. It Happened One Night
24. Silence of the Lambs
25. The Sting
26. In the Heat of the Night
27. Mutiny on the Bounty
28. All Quiet on the Western Front
29. All the King's Men
30. The Departed
31. The Lost Weekend
32. The Bridge on the River Kwai
33. Shakespeare in Love
34. Hamlet
35. You Can't Take it With You
36. Rocky
37. Million Dollar Baby
38. My Fair Lady
39. Kramer vs. Kramer
40. Rain Man
41. Ben-Hur
42. Terms of Endearment
43. American Beauty
44. Midnight Cowboy
45. The Deer Hunter
46. The Last Emperor
47. Platoon
48. The Apartment
49. Gandhi
50. Gentleman's Agreement
51. Ordinary People
52. From Here to Eternity
53. How Green was My Valley
54. The English Patient
55. Chicago
56. A Man for All Seasons
57. Oliver!
58. Chariots of Fire
59. Grand Hotel
60. Mrs. Miniver
61. Titanic
62. Tom Jones
63. The Sound of Music
64. Gigi
65. Driving Miss Daisy
66. Going My Way
67. Out of Africa
68. Braveheart
69. Dances with Wolves
70. Gladiator
71. A Beautiful Mind
72. Around the World in 80 Days
73. Forrest Gump
74. The Life of Emile Zola
75. Crash
76. The Great Ziegfeld
77. Cavalcade
78. The Broadway Melody
79. Cimarron
80. The Greatest Show on Earth
So according to them, CRASH is the 6th worst best picture winner of all time. Looks right to me.
And personally, I think the list is just fine, though I would probably place SCHINDLER'S LIST, THE DEER HUNTER, and THE APARTMENT higher.
Thoughts?
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Updated On: 2/26/07 at 03:54 PM
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#2re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 3:56pmI think I need to start seeing more movies.
#2re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 4:01pmMy favorite film of all time, Amadeus, is ranked #15. I'm happy about that.
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#3re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 4:01pm
Everyone has one movie that they think shouldn't have won best picture.
I personally can't believe Gigi won. WTF?
Thank Heaven For Little Girls is the creepiest song of all. How old was Chevalier anyway when he did this?
....but the world goes 'round
#4re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 4:06pmHow did REBECCA and MARTY break into the Top Ten?
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#5re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 4:09pmThe Greatest Show on Earth LAST? Come on, if only for Betty Hutton and Gloria Graham it should outrank at least Forrest Gump and English Patient.
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#6re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 4:16pmOne word...... TITANIC!? God that movie was awful.
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#7re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 4:20pmi think Million Dollar Baby should be around last...
#8re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 4:23pm
I disagree with The Life of Emile Zola being so low!
It's a terrific film, with a brilliant performance by Paul Muni, and an Oscar-winning supporting performance by Joseph Schildkraut (sp?).
And The Sound of Music and Oliver! both below The English Patient? Not in any universe I'm familiar with.
This list is biased against musicals, and I'm so sick and tired of that mindset. It's boring and shortsighted.
EDIT: Oh, and they also goofed up. They have "Sunrise" down as a Best Picture winner. It won "Best Unique & Artistic Picture" that year (the only year that award was ever given out), but the Best Picture (Production) award winner for 1927-28 was "Wings."
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 2/20/07 at 04:23 PM
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#9re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 4:36pm
I'd bump 'Gump' and 'Return of the King' to the bottom of the list (although Gump's pretty close already.) 'Siilence of the Lambs' I'd shove down somewhere into the bottom 20 or so. Oh and I'd put 'Dances With Wolves' at 134th, just to plan for the next fifty or so years where there will be Best Picture winners, all of which will have to be better than that movie.
I'd put 'Amadeus' in the top 5.
#10re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 4:44pm
Honestly, I have to say, I've seen every single one of these films... in fact, I own them all, in my cute little Best Picture collection... and they're all pretty damn good. The best of their given years? Not necessarily.
But I enjoy (to some degree) every single one of them.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#11re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 5:00pm
It's not how I would order the list.
But, they didn't ask me.
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#12re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 5:01pm
Godfather should be in the end of the top 10s
I would bump silence of the lambs and my fair lady up along with chicago and amadeus
#13re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 10:51pmAm I alone in thinking that THE DEER HUNTER needs to be higher?
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#14re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 10:53pmi disagree about your thoughts on Schindler's List. Although a very well made, good, and powerful film, it was extraneously long.
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#15re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 11:01pmOh, I don't think so. However depressing as it is, there's not a boring or wasted moment.
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#16re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 11:06pmI agree that THE DEER HUNTER should be higher...I love that movie. I would also put THE GODFATHER PART TWO before I would put part one on my list, but that's just my bias.
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#17re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 11:08pmmaybe I'm just a heartless meanie, but i felt the ending was completly unnecessary (sp...?) and a waste of time. though the final shot was lovely.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#18re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/20/07 at 11:15pmRebecca is great movie but is it one of the all time greatest? I'm not sure about that. I do remeber that it scared the s**t out of me when I was a kid. So creepy!
#19re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/26/07 at 4:02pmBump for the addition of THE DEPARTED.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#20re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/26/07 at 4:25pm
My personal list would look something more like this... based on what I like and my own tastes...
1. Gone with the Wind
2. The Sound of Music
3. West Side Story
4. All About Eve
5. It Happened One Night
6. Oliver!
7. Rebecca
8. Casablanca
9. How Green was My Valley
10. Ben-Hur
11. An American in Paris
12. Amadeus
13. Gigi
14. A Man for All Seasons
15. My Fair Lady
16. In the Heat of the Night
17. American Beauty
18. The Godfather Part II
19. The Godfather
20. All Quiet on the Western Front
21. Shakespeare in Love
22. You Can't Take it With You
23. The Best Years of Our Lives
24. Marty
25. All the King's Men
26. Titanic
27. Chicago
28. On the Waterfront
29. Lawrence of Arabia
30. Silence of the Lambs
31. The Life of Emile Zola
32. Driving Miss Daisy
33. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
34. Annie Hall
35. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
36. Schindler's List
37. Rocky
38. A Beautiful Mind
39. Midnight Cowboy
40. Mrs. Miniver
41. Going My Way
42. Gentleman's Agreement
43. Out of Africa
44. Forrest Gump
45. The Last Emperor
46. The Bridge on the River Kwai
47. From Here to Eternity
48. Unforgiven
49. The Apartment
50. Grand Hotel
51. Gandhi
52. Kramer vs. Kramer
53. Ordinary People
54. Terms of Endearment
55. Million Dollar Baby
56. Cavalcade
57. Wings
58. Rain Man
59. Mutiny on the Bounty
60. The French Connection
61. The Lost Weekend
62. The Deer Hunter
63. Braveheart
64. The Great Ziegfeld
65. The Broadway Melody
66. Gladiator
67. Patton
68. Dances with Wolves
69. The Sting
70. Hamlet
71. Around the World in 80 Days
72. Cimarron
73. Crash
74. The Greatest Show on Earth
75. Tom Jones
76. The Departed
77. Platoon
78. The English Patient
79. Chariots of Fire
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Posted: 2/26/07 at 4:32pmb12b: You're a man after my own heart! I've seen all but two (OLIVER!, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY) of your "top ten Best Picture winners" and actually consider the remaining eight as some of my favorite movies of all time.
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#22re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/26/07 at 6:40pm
I've seen 36 of those films.
I'd place THE DEPARTED and THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING much lower.
Top ten, of those I have seen:
1) Shindler's List
2) The Sound of Music
3) Amadeus
4) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
5) Forrest Gump
6) West Side Story
7) Oliver! 
Gone With The Wind
9) American Beauty
10) Shakespeare In Love
Just watched THE APARTMENT for the first time last week. While I thought it was a great plot and script, I didn't care so much for it in general. Acting was good. I had trouble getting emotionally involved with the protagonists.
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#23re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/26/07 at 6:43pmI'm surprised The Departed made it so high on the list. Don't know if I agree or disagree, but I definitely didn't expect to find it at #30.
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#24re: Best Picture winners ranked
Posted: 2/26/07 at 6:46pmCrash should be number 80 no question. Godfather and Godfather 2 should be switched. Then again I'd rank Godfather II first with Waterfront remaining at 2 and Godfather at number 3.
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