Sometimes I like to challenge myself far beyond what I think I should do. After I saw a good friend post their top 50 Best Picture winners, I decided to try and rank them myself, cause I refuse to have someone tell y’all the wrong order things should be placed 😉 To date I’ve seen 50 Best Picture winners and am slowly but surely making my way through the other 36 I’m missing. The films will be updated via this page but here are the preliminary, unequivocal rankings of the Best Picture winners I’ve seen.

  1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  2. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  3. Casablanca (1942)
  4. West Side Story (1961)
  5. Amadeus (1985)
  6. All About Eve (1950)
  7. Titanic (1997)
  8. Forrest Gump (1994)
  9. Chicago (2002)
  10. From Here to Eternity (1953)
  11. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
  12. The English Patient (1996)
  13. Terms of Endearment (1983)
  14. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
  15. American Beauty (1999)
  16. It Happened One Night (1934)
  17. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  18. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  19. The Godfather (1972)
  20. Sound of Music (1964)
  21. Annie Hall (1977)
  22. Rebecca (1940)
  23. Argo (2012)
  24. The Hurt Locker (2009)
  25. Rocky (1976)
  26. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
  27. Unforgiven (1992)
  28. The Artist (2011)
  29. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  30. Kramer vs Kramer (1979)
  31. Crash (2005)
  32. The King’s Speech (2010)
  33. The Departed (2005)
  34. Platoon (1986)
  35. Ordinary People (1980)
  36. Ben-Hur (1959)
  37. On The Waterfront (1954)
  38. Chariots of Fire (1981)
  39. Gladiator (2000)
  40. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  41. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  42. Dances With Wolves (1990)
  43. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  44. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
  45. Oliver! (1968)
  46. My Fair Lady (1964)
  47. Gigi (1958)
  48. An American in Paris (1951)
  49. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
  50. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)