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Feb 19, 2024 · From 'Gladiator' to 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' — our rankings of every film to take home the top Oscar since 2000, from worst to best.
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- 'Weekend' (2011) Heady but grounded in pragmatic reality, ecstatically romantic but marbled with sobering veins of melancholy, Andrew Haigh’s immersive account of a steamy hookup between two gay Nottingham men unfolds over 48 hours in what feels almost like real time.
- 'Black Panther' (2018) Navigating the Marvel Cinematic Universe — or is it a Multiverse now? — requires, for many of us, a certain tolerance for green or LED screens, mass destruction, snarky dialogue and cosmic shtick.
- 'Time' (2020) Garrett Bradley’s documentary observes the brutality of the American carceral system from an uncommon vantage point. The filmmaker jettisons the expository soundbites of talking heads and the contextual support of charts and numbers, choosing instead to construct an impressionistic portrait of one family’s specific experience.
- 'Bright Star' (2009) It’s the story of an unconsummated love affair in the final years of John Keats’ short life. Catnip for English majors? No question.
- “Crash”
- “Green Book”
- “Coda”
- “The King’s Speech”
- “Argo”
- “The Shape of Water”
- “Chicago”
- “A Beautiful Mind”
- “The Artist”
- “Slumdog Millionaire”
“Brokeback Mountain” deserved better, but the Academy didn’t know it. Paul Haggis’ painfully obvious ensemble drama about racial prejudices in Los Angeles was a smug, one-note drama designed to make white liberals feel good about themselves. (It took a decade for “Get Out” to put this recurring tendency in its place.) The spin-the-racial-wheel stru...
There are the Oscar wins that age poorly, and then there are the ones that are embarrassing in the moment. “Green Book” fits squarely into the latter category. Peter Farrelly’s buddy dramedy was an unexpected and cringeworthy Best Picture coronation absolutely no prognosticator wanted, one that took the trophy from a bevy of infinitely more deservi...
It’s astonishingly easy to forget that “Coda” is a Best Picture winner, which isn’t entirely the fault of Sian Heder’s overly earnest family comedy. As you may recall, the 2022 Oscar ceremony had some onstage drama that largely overshadowed the actual awards entirely. But getting forgotten is probably the best case scenario for “CODA,” because it m...
Tom Hooper’s snoozy character study about the stuttering future King George VI’s attempt to get over his impediment and deliver a declaration of war on Germany demonstrates the worst tendencies of Oscar bait: weighty subject matter given a quirky, entertaining twist. That was the Weinstein formula in a nutshell. Colin Firth does his thing in the le...
It’s crazy to think that, only a few years ago, Hollywood awarded their highest honor to a glorified TV movie because they felt bad for Ben Affleck. And the only reason they felt bad for Ben Affleck was because they forgot to nominate him for their highest individual honor. Oscar narratives sure take on a life of their own. Of course, as is often t...
In theory, “The Shape of Water” should be an exciting film to see win Best Picture. A sci-fi romance about a woman falling in love with a fishman in the ’60s, from “Pan’s Labyrinth” director Guillermo del Toro? Hell yeah! Then you actually watch the film. There are things worth praising about “The Shape of Water” — Sally Hawkins’ wonderful performa...
Hardly the worst of the Hollywood musicals that have plagued the screen since the turn of the century, Rob Marshall’s feature debut is a rather modest little movie for something that precipitated monstrosities on the magnitude of “Les Misérables,” “Phantom of the Opera,” and “Rock of Ages.” All razzle dazzle and no real substance, “Chicago” essenti...
Ron Howard’s story of brilliant economist John Nash (Russell Crowe), whose astonishing ability to decipher Soviet code for the Pentagon is upended by his bouts of paranoid schizophrenia, was a major best picture contender even before the cameras started rolling. Howard’s involving direction, guided along by Akiva Goldman’s screenplay, gives Crowe a...
100 minutes of empty throwback charm, “The Artist” was a lovely and innocuous little movie before Harvey Weinstein got his dirty hands on it and made the low-budget French comedy into an Oscar-winning punchline. When Michel Hazanavicius’ cute homage to silent cinema first premiered in competition at Cannes, it was rightfully seen as a crowd-pleasin...
Is “Slumdog Millionaire” the weirdest movie to ever win Best Picture? Its triumph at the Oscars seems almost as unlikely as Jamal Malik’s on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,” and that show was literally rigged against him (why Sony Television ever agreed to let one of their flagship programs get besmirched like that is still a mystery). How could a...
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- Parasite (2019) What Should Have Won: Parasite. Much like No Country for Old Men, it’s still hard to believe Parasite ran the table at the Academy Awards.
- No Country for Old Men (2007) What Should Have Won: No Country for Old Men. No Country for Old Men is one of the boldest Best Picture wins in Academy Awards history.
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) What Should Have Won: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. This one is kind of cheating because if you ask me, The Fellowship of the Ring is the best Lord of the Rings film.
- Moonlight (2016) What Should Have Won: Moonlight. It still doesn’t entirely feel like Moonlight actually won Best Picture, due in part to the fiasco that put the La La Land team on the stage first.
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List of Academy Award records. Walt Disney, the record-holder for most Academy Awards won (22 Oscars) This list of Academy Award records is current as of the 96th Academy Awards, with the ceremony taking place on March 10, 2024.
A list of the best to worst films which have received the Best Picture Oscar in the 21st century.
