Richard Ranks

Introduction In case you missed last weeks post, in 2014 I decided to watch every Best Picture winner in a single year and then rank them.  In part one, I got through the films I had ranked from 87 to 66.  Today, I'm going through the next 15 to get us into the Top 50.  Hope you enjoy Part 2 of My Year at the Oscars ! Pt. 2: #65 - #51 This part, along with the next two, will only be 15 movies so that the last week will be a Top 20 post.   Part 3  will be 50 through 36 ( Friday 2/5/16 ),  Part 4  will be 35 through 21 ( Friday 2/12/16 ) and  Part 5  will be the top 20 ( Friday 2/19/16 ). #65: Chariots of Fire Director: Hugh Hudson Release Date: March 30th, 1981 Ceremony: 54th Wins: 4  (Best Picture; Best Writing, Original Screenplay; Best Original Score; Best Costume Design) Nominations: 7  (Best Director; Best Supporting Actor - Ian Holm ; Best Film Editing) Other Nominees: Atlantic City; On Golden Pond; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Reds This is a mov

Introduction to the series In 2014 I decided to watch every Best Picture winner in one year.  That is roughly 12,000 minutes of movie, or 8.3 days.  Some of them were incredible classics I couldn't believe I had never seen, some of them were previous favorites I had been watching for years, and some were extremely questionable decisions made by the Academy.  You win some, you lose some, but these are all technically winners so they deserve to be ranked! I know for a fact I'm not the first person to rank all 87 movies ( see, Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, Indiewire and pretty much any site that is dedicated to reviewing or discussing movies ), but my opinions were formed over the course of a year.  I figure that if you haven't seen  Ordinary People since 1980 but you watched The Hurt Locker  yesterday, you might prefer one to the other just on basis of memory.  With all of the movies watched in a 365 day period and my 21st century equivalent to pen and paper ready to write no