Best Picture Rankings

Today I bring you a special edition of Reeling Reviews. I recently finished watching all of the movies which have ever won the Academy Award for Best Picture. A friend recommended I rank them and share those rankings on here, so without further ado, here are my rankings of the Best Pictures. NOTE: I will continue to update this list each time a new Best Picture is announced, so bookmark this page and check back each year to see how I ranked the latest film.

Criteria: I took several things in to account when ranking the films. 1. How much did I enjoy the movie? 2. How likely am I to rewatch it? 3. Was there anything (quotes, scenes, soundtrack, etc.) that stood out and left an impression with me? 4. Acting, cinematography, directing, etc.

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  1. Gladiator (2000)
  2. Rocky (1976)
  3. The Deer Hunter (1978)
  4. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  5. Unforgiven (1992)
  6. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  7. The Godfather (1972)
  8. Forrest Gump (1994)
  9. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  10. Casablanca (1942)
  11. From Here to Eternity (1953)
  12. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  13. Dances with Wolves (1990)
  14. Annie Hall (1977)
  15. On the Waterfront (1954)
  16. Amadeus (1984)
  17. Ordinary People (1980)
  18. The Artist (2011)
  19. Argo (2012)
  20. American Beauty (1999)
  21. The Godfather Part II (1974)
  22. Patton (1970)
  23. Schindler’s List (1993)
  24. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  25. You Can’t Take it With You (1938)
  26. CODA (2021)
  27. Oppenheimer (2023)
  28. Chariots of Fire (1981)
  29. Terms of Endearment (1983)
  30. Rebecca (1940)
  31. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  32. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  33. The Sound of Music (1965)
  34. Hamlet (1948)
  35. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  36. Platoon (1986)
  37. The Sting (1973)
  38. The French Connection (1971)
  39. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  40. Out of Africa (1985)
  41. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  42. Green Book (2018)
  43. The Lost Weekend (1945)
  44. The Departed (2006)
  45. The King’s Speech (2010)
  46. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  47. The Last Emperor (1987)
  48. Gigi (1958)
  49. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
  50. The Apartment (1960)
  51. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
  52. Cimarron (1931)
  53. Grand Hotel (1932)
  54. All the King’s Men (1949)
  55. Ben-Hur (1959)
  56. Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
  57. It Happened One Night (1934)
  58. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
  59. Going My Way (1944)
  60. All About Eve (1950)
  61. An American in Paris (1951)
  62. Chicago (2003)
  63. Marty (1955)
  64. The Broadway Melody (1929)
  65. Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
  66. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  67. West Side Story (1961)
  68. Wings (1927)
  69. My Fair Lady (1964)
  70. Gandhi (1982)
  71. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
  72. Spotlight (2015)
  73. Rain Man (1988)
  74. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  75. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
  76. Cavalcade (1933)
  77. Braveheart (1995)
  78. The English Patient (1996)
  79. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
  80. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  81. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  82. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  83. Parasite (2019)
  84. Crash (2004)
  85. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
  86. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  87. Sunrise (1927)
  88. Oliver! (1968)
  89. Titanic (1997)
  90. Moonlight (2016)
  91. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
  92. Nomadland (2020)
  93. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
  94. The Hurt Locker (2009)
  95. Tom Jones (1963)
  96. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
  97. The Shape of Water (2017)