Best Picture winners of the 21st century ranked

I'm growing old and I forget these things.

1. The Lord of the Rings (I understand the Oscar to the movie was for the whole trilogy. For artistic value and fantasiams, nothing beats that trilogy.)
2. Gladiator (epic and has set the standard for modern gladiator movies)
3. King's Speech (now that's how you direct a drama)
4. Argo (well balance of comedie and serious tone)
5. Slumdog Millionaire (it's touching and uplifting, at least. Each frame was like a painting and I appreciate that)
6. The Departed (I much prefer the original Hongkong version, but The Departed was fun to watch nonetheless)
7. Spotlight (it might be not impressive enough, but it's honest and professional, and not Oscar-bait. I can't say enough how I'm bored with Oscar-baits.)
8. No Country for Old Men (Javier Bardem was the only hightlight for me. But I've seen better henchmen.)
9. Chicago (decent, just not my type)
10. The Artist (I don't love it, but don't hate it either, and it did have some old-time charm, which became repetitive and cliché in La la land.)
11. 12 Years a Slave (it's okay)
12. Beautiful Mind (mathematicians are not like that, dude)
13. Birdman (i don't care about middle-age crisis)
14. Million Dollar Baby (can't even remember a single thing about that movie, other than it being about a female boxer)
15. Hurt Locker (it feels like an epilogue to something else)
16. Crash (haven't seen it, and don't feel like)

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How is Anton Chigurh (Bardem) as henchman?

Saunch: or hitman, whatever he was, I'm not professional in that area of jobs

The Departed
Million Dollar Baby
LotR Return of the King
Chicago
Birdman
Slumdog Millionaire
The Hurt Locker
No Country For Old Men
Gladiator
The King's Speech
Argo
12 Years a Slave
A Beautiful Mind
The Artist
Moonlight
Crash
Spotlight

Yeah man, all zero of them.

You mean the zero of them that you have watched? How about Pompeii 2014? Spartacus 20xx? It's not a crowded genre, of course, but it pops up every now and then. Nowadays, when they make anything on screen about gladiators, people will compare it with Gladiator 2000. That's what I call standard.

You know you lost when you have to bring up Pompei, smh

Whether you like Pompeii or not is irrelevant to the topic. The genre exists and continues.

All-time I've got Moonlight at 64/90(I count Sunrise as a BP winner)


87. Crash
82. A Beautiful Mind
80. The King's Speech
72. Spotlight
65. The Hurt Locker
64. Moonlight
56. Gladiator
54. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
45. 12 Years a Slave
43. Million Dollar Baby
41. Artist
37. Slumdog Millionaire
35. Chicago
26. Argo
18. Birdman
17. No Country for Old Men
12. Departed

Time to update this.

Fantastic.
1. Return of the King
2. No Country For Old Men
3. The Departed.
4. Birdman
5. Argo

Really Good.
6. Moonlight
7. Hurt Locker
8. Gladiator

Good.
9. Beautiful Mind
10. 12 Years a Slave
11. Million Dollar Baby

Okay.
12. Slumdog Millionaire
13. The Kings Speech
14. Chicago

Bad.
15. Spotlight
16. The Artist
17. Crash

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1. No Country for Old Men
2. 12 Years a Slave
3. The Hurt Locker
4. The Departed
5. Spotlight
6. Birdman
7. Gladiator
8. The King's Speech
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
10. Slumdog Millionaire
11. Million Dollar Baby
12. Argo
13. The Artist
14. Chicago
15. A Beautiful Mind (this won??)
16. Crash

Moonlight I haven't seen yet.

Edit: just for fun, my personal best picture winners:

00: O' Brother, Where Art Thou?
01: In the Bedroom
02: 25th Hour
03: Kill Bill vol.1
04: Kill Bill vol.2
05: Brokeback Mountain
06: Children of Men
07: The Assassination of Jesse James
08: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
09: A Serious Man
10: The Social Network
11: A Separation
12: Zero Dark Thirty
13: 12 Years a Slave (hey, they got one right!)
14: Boyhood
15: The Hateful Eight
16: O.J.: Made in America

1. The Departed
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Argo
4. The Lord of the Rings: TRotK

No Country for Old Men
Birdman
The Artist
Million Dollar Baby
12 Years a Slave
Return of the King
Spotlight
Argo
The Hurt Locker
The Departed
Slumdog Millionaire
The King's Speech
Chicago
A Beautiful Mind
Crash
Gladiator


No Country for Old Men is far, far away my favorite of the bunch. I like the rest until you get to A Beautiful Mind which I had too many problems with, Crash which I have no respect for, and Gladiator which I outright hate.

I haven't seen Moonlight.

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No Country for Old Men
Hurt Locker
Spotlight
King's Speech
Gladiator
Beautiful Mind
Chicago
Artist
Return of the King
Million Dollar Baby
Argo
Crash
12 Years a Slave
Slumdog Millionaire
Birdman

I haven't seen Moonlight, but it sounds like a politically correct win, and a horrible movie.

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Still worth watching, though.

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I'll see it regardless, but I'm not looking forward to it. I've seen every Best Picture winner except Moonlight, and I've decided to watch every single winner until I die.

I've found that thinking of watching Best Picture winners as an obligation only serves to hurt a given film, especially when a sizeable fraction of them don't measure up anyway.

Not for me. I like most of them, and I enjoy keeping up with the Academy. I just enjoy completing lists, and I set out to watch them all in 2012, so I'd feel incomplete otherwise. Besides, what harm is there watching one film I may not like every year? I may love it.