Richard Ranks

Introduction If you're new to  My Year at the Oscars , in 2014 I decided to watch every Best Picture winner in a single year and then rank them.  After four installments ranking #87 - #21, we have finally the top 20 Best Picture winners.  It gets very hard around this point in a ranking to determine what it the "greatest" between films that are all rightfully considered to be masterpieces of their genre, so a lot of this comes down to personal preferences.   Thank you so much to those of you who have been reading this blog for the past 4 weeks.  Before I get started, I wanted to let you guys know some of the other posts coming in the next month.   On Tuesday,  February 23rd  there will be " My Top 15 in 15 ", ranking the best 15 films from last year.  On Thursday, February 25th  my Oscar predictions for this years ceremony will be posted.  A post that you will all likely find very interesting comes the day after the Oscars, on Monday, February 29th , 

Introduction If you're new to  My Year at the Oscars , in 2014 I decided to watch every Best Picture winner in a single year and then rank them.  In the first three parts, I ranked film #87 to film #36.  Today, we are going from #35 to #21. Next step -- the top 20 Best Picture winners. These are all amazing films and we have definitely reached the point where any of these could have, and maybe should have, been considered Top 20 films, but for some reason there was another film that was more of a masterpiece than these.  Pt. 4: #35 - #21 Next week will be the final post in this series.   Part 5  will be the top 20 ( Friday 2/19/16 ).  #35: Gladiator Director: Ridley Scott Release Date: May 1st, 2000 ( Los Angeles ) ; May 5th, 2000 ( U.S. ) Ceremony: 73rd Wins: 5  (Best Picture; Best Actor -  Russell Crowe ; Best Visual Effects; Best Costume Design; Best Sound Mixing) Nominations: 12  (Best Director; Best Supporting Actor - Joaquin Phoenix ;