The Best Picture Project – Rankings

So, as you know, I’m doing the Best Picture Project, where I watch all 88 Oscar winners for best picture and honestly, life just isn’t fun without rankings, so follows are my rankings of the Best Picture winners, from 1 to 76, complete with links to all previous posts, with 10 being shuttled over into their own special circle of hell, The Bottom Ten.  Two others were unranked, for reasons apparent in their initial reviews.

Best Picture Rankings

1. Schindler’s List
2. Rebecca
3. Gone With The Wind
4. The Bridge on the River Kwai
5. Annie Hall
6. Unforgiven
7. 12 Years A Slave
8. No Country For Old Men
9. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
10. American Beauty
11. Amadeus
12. The Hurt Locker
13. Argo
14. Mutiny on the Bounty
15. The Godfather
16. Titanic
17. Slumdog Millionaire
18. The Silence of the Lambs
19. The French Connection
20. Spotlight
21. Chicago
22. Casablanca
23. In The Heat of the Nightt
24. Midnight Cowboy
25. The King’s Speech
26. Shakespeare in Love
27. On The Waterfront
28. Kramer vs. Kramer
29. Dances With Wolves
30. The Apartment
31. The Sound of Music
32. Lawrence of Arabia
33. The Godfather Part II
34. Tom Jones
35. The Departed
36. Driving Miss Daisy
37. Rain Man
38. The Lost Weekend
39. Birdman
40. Hamlet
41. Patton
42. The Deer Hunter
43. A Man For All Seasons
44. It Happened One Night
45. Marty
46. Crash
47. My Fair Lady
48. West Side Story
49. Going My Way
50. Chariots of Fire
51. A Beautiful Mind
52. From Here to Eternity
53. Gentleman’s Agreement
54. Forrest Gump
55. Ordinary People
56. Platoon
57. The Last Emperor
58. You Can’t Take It With You
59. All About Eve
60. All The King’s Men
61. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
62. The Life of Emile Zola
63. Out of Africa
64. Gladiator
65. Oliver!
66. Around The World in 80 Days
67. Rocky
68. Cimarron
69. Terms of Endearment
70. Mrs. Miniver
71. Gandhi
72. Ben-Hur
73. All Quiet on The Western Front
74. How Green Was My Valley
75. The Best Years of Our Lives
76. The Sting

Bottom Ten (#1 being worst)

1. Million Dollar Baby
2. Cavalcade
3. Broadway Melody
4. An American in Paris
5. Gigi
6. Grand Hotel
7. The Great Ziegfeld
8. Braveheart
9. The English Patient
10. The Greatest Show On Earth

Unclassifiable

1. The Artist
2. Wings