Best Picture winners of the 21st century ranked

(sans Chicago and Million Dollar Baby since I haven't seen either of em)

1. No Country For Old Men
2. LotR Return of the King
3. The Artist
4. Birdman
5. The King's Speech
6. The Departed
7. The Hurt Locker
8. Slumdog Millionaire
9. Argo
10. 12 Years a Slave
11. A Beautiful Mind
12. Spotlight
13. Gladiator
14. Crash

Spotlight was fine - really well put together - but nothing special. Nothing that I'll remember. What'd everyone think of that winning?

Fave to least...

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

As for what I thought of Spotlight winning - while it was not my favourite of this year's nominees (I'd probably put Mad Max: Fury Road and Room ahead of it), I can definitely respect it winning. It may not have been "anything special" but I respect it for not trying way too hard to be special like, say, The Revenant did.

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God idea. Mine would probably look like:

1. The Departed 8/10
2. Gladiator 8/10
3. LOTR: Return of the King 7.5/10
4. No Country For Old Men 7.5/10
5. The Hurt Locker 7/10
6. Slumdog Millionaire 7/10
7. A Beautiful Mind 7/10
8. Birdman 7/10
9. Argo 7/10
10. The Artist 6/10
11. The King's Speech 6/10
12. 12 Years a Slave 6/10
13. Million Dollar Baby 5/10
14. Crash 4/10 (how the hell did this win an Oscar?)

Haven't seen the others.

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1. Return of the King
2. No Country for Old Men
3. The Departed
4. Birdman
5. Hurt Locker
6. Argo
7. Million Dollar Baby
8. Gladiator
9. Beautiful Mind
10. 12 Years a Slave
11. Kings Speech
12. Slumdog Millionaire
13. Spotlight
14. The Artisit
15. Crash

Honestly, i only really like a couple of these. Most are meh to ugh for me. No Country For Old Men is a better film than most above it but i just don't like it that much. Not seen Crash, Argo, The Artist or 12 Years A Slave yet.

01.Return of the King
02.Birdman
03.The Hurt Locker
04.Gladiator
05.The Kings Speech
06.The Departed
07.Spotlight
08.A Beautiful Mind
09.No Country For Old Men
10.Million Dollar Baby
11.Chicago
12.Slumdog Millionaire

ROTK is the best and 12 Years a Slave is the worst. The rest I don't really care what order, but No Country for Old Men and The Hurt Locker are probably #2 and #3.

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How can you make this thread without having seen two of the films?

I'm wondering how they rank Birdman at #4 on this particular list when it's the only one of these films to be on their profile's favourite movies list.

Bumping this for Moonlight. Where does everyone have Moonlight if they've seen it?

01.Return of the King
02.Moonlight
03.Birdman
04.The Hurt Locker
05.The King's Speech
06.The Departed
07.Gladiator
08.A Beautiful Mind
09.No Country For Old Men
10.Spotlight
11.Million Dollar Baby
12.Argo
13.Chicago
14.Slumdog Millionaire

Haven't seen:

Crash: All i've heard is that it is terrible so not got high hopes.
The Artist: Not sure what to expect here.
12 Years A Slave: Think this has the best potential for me as i love Shame.

Best to worst

No Country for Old Men
Birdman
12 Years A Slave
Moonlight
Spotlight
Crash
Argo
The Artist
The Hurt Locker
A Beautiful Mind
Gladiator
The Departed
Million Dollar Baby
Chicago
The King's Speech
Slumdog Millionaire
LOTR:ROTK

Think that's the highest i've ever seen Crash.

Crash isn't totally awful. It definitely has its tone-deaf parts but it's well acted and emotionally manipulative in a sometimes satisfying way



The Departed



The Artist
Gladiator
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Moonlight
No Country For Old Men
Spotlight
12 Years a Slave



Birdman
The Hurt Locker
Slumdog Millionaire



Argo
A Beautiful Mind
Chicago
Crash
The King's Speech
Million Dollar Baby

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



Not seen - Moonlight / Chicago

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Per my earlier list, I would probably put Moonlight between 12 Years A Slave and The Hurt Locker, maybe even between ROTK and 12 Years.

I love Crash.

Million Dollar Baby would top my list and Gladiator is probably second these days. Slumdog would find itself on the bottom.

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

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But would La La be one, Holden?

Well, yes, since we both said that on the Oscar Podcast.

Yeah.