Movie Rankings Thread

[RockyRaccoon]

[Mercury]

I ranked the best picture winners I've seen. And just for added fun I paramtheyicly mention what fill I feel should have won of the film's I'd seen that year from the nominees. Obviously, if I thought the right choice was made there is no statement next to the winner.


Best Picture Winners ranked:

1. The Apartment - 1960

2. Schindler's List - 1993

3. Casablanca - 1943

4. Amadeus - 1984

5. Annie Hall - 1977

6. It Happened One Night - 1934

7. The Godfather - 1972

8. All About Eve - 1950 (I think this is correct, but Sunset Blvd is brilliant too and basically as good)

9. The Godfather Part II - 1974

10. Dances With Wolves - 1990

11. The Departed - 2006

12. No Country For Old Men - 2007

13. Lawrence of Arabia - 1962 (Great movie, but I slightly prefer and wish To Kill A Mockingbird had won)

14. Return of the King - 2003 (Much prefer Lost In Translation)

15. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - 1975 (prefer Jaws and even Nashville by a bit. But solid year of noms)

16. Silence of the Lambs - 1991 (Prefer Beauty and the Beast)

17. Unforgiven - 1992

18. Forrest Gump - 1994 (Prefer Pulp Fiction)

19. Gandhi - 1982 (Prefer E.T. )

20. The Bridge On The River Kwai - 1957

21. American Beauty - 1999 (Prefer The Cider House Rules)

22. Patton - 1970

23. Rocky - 1976 (TAXI DRIVER WAS ROBBED!!! ... still I quite like Rocky)

24. The King's Speech - 2010

25. Terms of Endearment - 1983

26. Braveheart - 1995 (Prefer Apollo 13)

27. On The Waterfront - 1954

28. 12 Years a Slave - 2013 (I preferred Her.)

29. The Deer Hunter - 1978

30. Spotlight (I preferred Room and Mad max by a lot. Also was pulling for The Martian)

31. Million Dollar Baby - 2004

32. Titanic - 1997 (Prefer Good Will Hunting)

33 The Sting - 1973

34. West Side Story - 1961 (Prefer The Hustler)

35. Gladiator - 2000

36. My Fair Lady - 1964

37. From Here To Eternity - 1949

38. Hamlet (1948) (Slightly prefer Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

39. Platoon - 1986 (Prefer Hannah and Her Sisters)

40. A Beautiful Mind - 2001 (Much prefer Fellowship of the Ring)

41. The Artist (I preferred The Tree of Life slightly)

42. The Lost Weekend (1945)

43. In The Heat of the Night - 1967 (Prefer Bonnie and Clyde by a lot and The Graduate by quite a bit as well.)

44. Gone with The Wind - 1939 (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington I wish had one)

45. The Hurt Locker - 2009 (I preferred Inglourious Basterds)

46. Shakespeare In Love - 1998 (SAVING PRIVATE RYAN WAS ROBBED!!!!)

47. Kramer vs. Kramer - 1979 (Prefer Apocalypse Now)

48. The French Connection - 1971

49. Rain Man - 1988

50. Slumdog Millionaire - 2008 (I preferred Milk)

51. The Sound of Music -1965

52. Driving Miss Daisy - 1989

53. The English Patient - 1996 (Prefer Jerry Maguire)

54. Midnight Cowboy - 1969

55. Birdman - 2014 (I sooooo preferred Boyhood. Or even Whiplash. Still salty about that win)

56. Crash - 2005 (Much preferred Munich, but also Brokeback Mountain or Capote I would have preferred winning)

57. Chicago - 2002 (Much Prefer The Two Towers or The Pianist)
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[AwaitingAndrew]

Best Picture Winners that I've seen:
1. American Beauty (1999)
2. The Departed (2006)
3. Rocky (1976)
4. Forrest Gump (1994 - though Shawshank should've won, I still love this film)
5. Schindler's List (1993)
6. Gladiator (2000)
7. You Can't Take It With You (1938)
8. Titanic (1997)
9. Braveheart (1995)
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
11. On The Waterfront (1954)
12. Spotlight (2015)
13. Casablanca (1942)
14. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (2014)
15. Argo (2012)
16. 12 Years A Slave (2013)
17. Platoon (1986)
18. From Here to Eternity (1953)
19. No Country For Old Men (2007)
20. Crash (2005)
21. The Sound of Music (1965)
22. Annie Hall (1977)

I actually have a ton of BP winners on my IMDb watchlist that I really oughta get to and there are others like The Godfather that I haven't seen in so long that it's unfair to rate them.

[AwaitingAndrew]

And a Pixar list, which you can also find on my IMDb page here: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls074757190/ I suspect an update will be in order later this month once I see Finding Dory.

1. Inside Out
2. Up
3. Toy Story
4. Monsters, Inc.
5. WALL-E
6. The Incredibles
7. Finding Nemo
8. Toy Story 3
9. The Good Dinosaur
10. Toy Story 2
11. Monsters University
12. Ratatouille
13. A Bug's Life
14. Brave
15. Cars (never saw the sequel, don't plan to either)

[nutso42]

Shakespeare adaptations, with year of release or the play it's based off of. Or both if I feel like it.

1. Ran (1985, King Lear)
2. Chimes at Midnight (1965, Henry IV, Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V)
3. The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Hamlet)
4. Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
5. Throne of Blood (1957, Macbeth)
6. Hamlet (2009)
7. Gamlet (1964, Hamlet)
8. The Hollow Crown (2012, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V)
9. Henry V (1989)
10. King Lear (1971)
11. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990, Hamlet)
12. Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
13. Strange Brew, or the Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie (Hamlet)
14. Richard III (that one with Ian McKellen)
15. Hamlet (1996, with Branagh, and that guy who can't act playing Laertes. Seriously, that guy is the worst)

[stangetzaway]

My favourites!

Apocalypse Now (redux)
The Seventh Seal
North by Northwest
Raging Bull
A Short Film About Killing
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Festen
The Third Man
The Last Picture Show
City Lights
Dr Strangelove
Fanny and Alexander
Seven Samurai
Aguirre Wrath of God
Midnight Cowboy
Taxi Driver
8 1/2
East of Eden
Singin In The Rain
Sunset Boulevard
Wild Strawberries
The Rules of the Game
Brokeback Mountain
Her
Vertigo
The Conversation
The Apartment
Ordet
Downfall
The Lives of Others
The Magnificent Ambersons
Annie Hall
Goodfellas
Paris Texas
Smiles of a Summer Night
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Downfall
Talk to Her

[splashfoop]

Luchino Visconti:

1. La caduta degli Dei
2. Ludwig II
3. Il gattopardo
4. Morte a Venezia
5. Senso
6. Rocco e i suoi fratelli
7. La terra trema
8. Bellissima
9. Gruppo di famiglia in un interno
10. Le notti bianche

Theo Angelopoulos:

1. Ulysses' Gaze
2. The Travelling Players
3. Eternity and a Day
4. The Suspended Step of the Stork
5. O Megalexandros
6. Landscape in the Mist
7. The Hunters
8. Eleni
9. Voyage to Cythera
10. Reconstruction

Luis Buñuel:

1. Cet obscur objet du désir
2. Los olvidados
3. Nazarín
4. El ángel exterminador
5. Viridiana
6. Él
7. Belle de jour
8. Ensayo de un crimen
9. Tristana
10. Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie

[splashfoop]

Ingmar Bergman:

1. Cries and Whispers
2. Persona
3. The Communicants
4. Hour of the Wolf
5. Tystnaden
6. Smultronstället
7. Såsom i en spegel
8. Fanny and Alexander
9. The Virgin Spring
10. Höstsonaten

David Lynch:

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Lost Highway
3. Blue Velvet
4. The Elephant Man
5. Eraserhead
6. Inland Empire
7. The Straight Story
8. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
9. Wild at Heart
10. Dune

[CA Dreamin]

Scorsese/De Niro

1. Goodfellas
2. Taxi Driver
3. Raging Bull
4. The King of Comedy
5. Mean Streets
6. Casino
7. Cape Fear
8. New York, New York

[stangetzaway]

Hitchcock favs

North by Nortwest
Vertigo
Rebecca
The 39 Steps
Strangers on a Train
The Lady Vanishes
Foreign Corresponent
Psycho
Shadow of a Doubt
Rear Window
Notorious
Spellbound
The Man Who Knew too Much (1950's)
I Confess
The Farmer's Wife