Best Movies of 2017

1. Coco 
2. It Comes At Night
3. Okja
4. Wonder Woman 
5. Logan 
6. Hidden Figures
7. Baby Driver 
8. War for the Planet of the Apes
9. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri  
10. Spider-Man: Homecoming

Best Picture Nominees 2018

A typical mix of great movies, good movies, and not-so-good ones.

1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. Darkest Hour
3. Get Out
4. The Shape of Water
5. Phantom Thread
6. The Post
7. Lady Bird
8. Dunkirk
9. Call Me by Your Name

Best Picture Nominees 2017

A decent year. A couple clunkers, a couple mediocre, but we've seen worse. A very strong top 4.

1. Hell or High Water
2. Hidden Figures
3. Manchester by the Sea
4. Arrival
5. Hacksaw Ridge
6. La La Land
7. Fences
8. Lion
9. Moonlight

Best Picture Nominees 2016

Wow. Great year. Every movie nominated was great and deserving. A rarity.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Martian
3. Spotlight
4. Room
5. The Revenant
6. The Big Short
7. Brooklyn
8. Bridge of Spies

Best Picture Nominees 2015

Not so terrible this year. Not a list of my favorite movies, but I only hated one.

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. The Imitation Game
3. Boyhood
4. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
5. Whiplash
6. Selma
7. American Sniper
8. The Theory of Everything

Best Picture Nominees 2014

So-so year this year. I liked most of these movies but didn't love them.

1. Her
2. Philomena
3. Gravity
4. Nebraska
5. Captain Phillips
6. The Wolf of Wall Street
7. 12 Years a Slave
8. American Hustle
9. Dallas Buyers Club

Best Picture Nominees 2013

Much better crop than last year, as you can probably tell from my personal best of the year list. The wrong winner, but when is that not the case?

1. Silver Linings Playbook
2. Les Miserables
3. Lincoln
4. Django Unchained
5. Argo
6. Life of Pi
7. Beasts of the Southern Wild
8. Zero Dark Thirty
9. Amour