As is now my tradition, this is my public historical record of my personal Oscar ballot that will either validate my personal genius or forever serve as evidence of my dumb hubris. Last year I went a stunningly accurate 21 for 24 in the awards with all my major misses coming from the crapshoot short …
I really thought I could do it this year. With traditional bellwethers for the Academy Awards seeming to go out of their way to hint at a "throwback" year by awarding middle-brow and historically revisionistic movies like Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Vice it seemed like this could be a year that I might sit out, cudmudgeonly throwing shade …
Let this be my public historical record so that I may be proven right afterwards or as a shining example of my hubris and lack of predictive powers. For the sake of brevity I'm not going to make a prediction on any of the shorts categories or the foreign language category because I did not …
(List has been updated to include last year's winner) And we have finally arrived at the Top 25 Oscar winners and suffice to say, these are all just great films with very little separating them. To be honest I could move any of these movies up and down a couple of slots and not have …
Continue reading Ranking Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Part 3 (#25-1)
(List has been updated to include last year's winner) Here is the continuation of my futile task of ranking all the Oscar winners. At some point in this list (somewhere in the mid-30s) the movies move from being decent to legitimately great and worthy winners of the prize. Even if they beat out another nominee …
Continue reading Ranking Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Part 2 (#56-26)
(List has been updated to include last year's winner) In conjunction with the upcoming Academy Awards this weekend, I engaged in the daunting task of catching up with every Best Picture winner ever. While there were moments when this task turned out to be a slog (especially at the end, when my excuses for avoiding …
Continue reading Ranking Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Part 1 (#90-57)
I will admit that for most of my run in catching up with the Best Picture winners I hadn't seen yet it has been a bit of a slog. It simply confirmed that there was a reason why I ignored most of these movies in the first place as I ran the gamut of over-wrought, …
As the title of this post may indicate, this is the second edition of my quest to actually see all the Best Picture Winners. While Volume 1 helped to shatter some preconceived notions of the kinds of movies that win the Oscars, Volume 2 has only emphasized that there are very valid reasons why the …
So I had grand plans of making a comprehensive ranking of every Academy Award best picture winner at the end of the month. I just have one problem: Apparently even though I've watched over 2,500 movies I've only seen 63 of the 89 best picture winners. This is hardly surprising given that I tend to …
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