Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Best Picture: Master List of Reviews and Scores

Here it is, my full list of scores and reviews. The list goes from my favorite winner to my least favorite winner. In cases where films share the same score, I’ve listed them based on personal preference. For example, the first 4 star review you see listed will be my favorite of all the films I’ve given 4 stars to.* Or, to put it another way, they’re listed in order of “most likely to ever watch again” to “least likely to ever watch again.”

Future winners will be reviewed as I see them, and will be added to this master list, with a link to this list at the bottom of the review.

  1. Casablanca - 5.0
  2. On the Waterfront - 4.75
  3. American Beauty - 4.75
  4. In the Heat of the Night - 4.75
  5. The Departed - 4.5
  6. The Godfather - 4.5
  7. Platoon - 4.5
  8. Schindler’s List - 4.5
  9. Spotlight - 4.5
  10. Marty - 4.5
  11. Ordinary People - 4.25
  12. All the King’s Men - 4.25
  13. Gone with the Wind - 4.25
  14. Chicago - 4.25
  15. Million Dollar Baby - 4.25
  16. Lawrence of Arabia - 4.25
  17. The Artist - 4.25
  18. The Sound of Music - 4.25
  19. The King’s Speech - 4.25
  20. Gandhi - 4.25
  21. Oliver! - 4.25
  22. Terms of Endearment - 4.25
  23. Dances with Wolves - 4.0
  24. The Lost Weekend - 4.0
  25. All About Eve - 4.0
  26. The Best Years of Our Lives - 4.0
  27. 12 Years a Slave - 4.0
  28. Slumdog Millionaire - 4.0
  29. Patton - 4.0
  30. The Bridge on the River Kwai - 4.0
  31. It Happened One Night - 4.0
  32. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - 4.0
  33. The Silence of the Lambs - 4.0
  34. The Hurt Locker - 4.0
  35. West Side Story - 4.0
  36. Going My Way - 4.0
  37. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - 4.0
  38. Kramer vs. Kramer - 4.0
  39. Driving Miss Daisy - 3.75
  40. The Godfather Part II - 3.75
  41. Gentleman’s Agreement - 3.75
  42. Ben-Hur - 3.5
  43. The Sting - 3.5
  44. Rain Man - 3.5
  45. The Life of Emile Zola - 3.5
  46. No Country for Old Men - 3.5
  47. The Apartment - 3.5
  48. Grand Hotel - 3.5
  49. Rocky - 3.25
  50. Out of Africa - 3.25
  51. The English Patient - 3.25
  52. Rebecca - 3.25
  53. Unforgiven - 3.25
  54. Wings - 3.0
  55. All Quiet on the Western Front - 3.0
  56. Birdman - 3.0
  57. Forrest Gump - 3.0
  58. From Here to Eternity - 3.0
  59. Braveheart - 3.0
  60. Hamlet - 3.0
  61. My Fair Lady - 3.0
  62. Annie Hall - 3.0
  63. Chariots of Fire - 3.0
  64. You Can’t Take It with You - 3.0
  65. Mrs. Miniver - 3.0
  66. Titanic - 2.75
  67. The French Connection - 2.75
  68. Argo - 2.75
  69. How Green Was My Valley - 2.75
  70. A Beautiful Mind - 2.75
  71. Midnight Cowboy - 2.75
  72. Amadeus - 2.75
  73. A Man for All Seasons - 2.5
  74. The Broadway Melody - 2.5
  75. Cavalcade - 2.5
  76. Gladiator - 2.5
  77. Around the World in Eighty Days - 2.5
  78. Shakespeare in Love - 2.5
  79. Gigi - 2.5
  80. Cimarron - 2.5
  81. An American in Paris - 2.0
  82. The Deer Hunter - 2.0
  83. Mutiny on the Bounty - 2.0
  84. The Last Emperor - 2.0
  85. The Great Ziegfeld - 1.5
  86. Crash - 1.0
  87. The Greatest Show on Earth - 1.0
  88. Tom Jones - .25

*By far the hardest decisions were which “4.75” to list first and which “1” to list first
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2 comments:

Patricia said...

I like that your top ten ratings are from many different decades. And good job on this project. When I tell people about this, they are astounded that you made it all the way through. 1927 was a very long time ago.

June 19, 2014 at 5:42 PM
balyien said...

I was really surprised and pleased by that as well! Missing are only the 20s (with only two movies from that decade overall, unsurprising), the 30s (which sucked in general), and the 2010s, although there's plenty of time for one of those to make the list in the future.

And thanks. Sometimes it felt like a slog but mostly it's been really fun.

June 21, 2014 at 12:56 PM

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