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

Best Picture Nominees 2012

Not a great year. I was not a fan of a lot of these movies. I only think the top three are deserving.

1. The Help
2. Moneyball
3. The Descendants
4. Midnight in Paris
5. The Artist
6. Hugo
7. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
8. War Horse
9. The Tree of Life

Best Picture Nominees 2011

A pretty good crop this year. I don't have any big complaints except for Toy Story 3D. It wasn't even the best animated movie this year.

1.  Inception (tie)
2. True Grit (tie)
3. Black Swan
4. The King's Speech
5. The Fighter
6. The Social Network
7. 127 Hours
8. The Kids Are All Right
9. Winter's Bone
10. Toy Story 3

Best Picture Nominees 2010

Since the Academy Awards had decided to raise its nomination count to include ten movies, it seems like the perfect chance to rank them according to quality!

1. Up
2. Up In The Air
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. District 9
5. The Blind Side
6.An Education
7. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
8. The Hurt Locker
9. A Serious Man
10. Avatar

And, in case you were wondering since they are not all on my top of the year list, all but the last two deserve the nomination.

Best of the Oscar Shorts 2010

Here is a ranking of the 2010 Academy Award nominees for best dramatic short films (live and animated) in order of best to worst:

1. La Dama y la Muerte
2. Wallace and Gromit in 'A Matter of Loaf and Death'
3. The New Tenants
4. French Roast
5. Istället för Abrakadabra
6. Miracle Fish
7. Kavi
8. Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
9. Logorama
10. The Door

Biggest Snub:
Partly Cloudy

Worst Oscar Nominees

Here's the worst list. It's not just winners to broaden the playing field, but they are all nominees for Best Picture.

1. Working Girl (1988)
2. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
3. Munich (2005)
4. Love Story (1970)
5. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
6. The Sound of Music (1965)
7. Elizabeth (1998)
8. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
10. Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Best Best Picture Winners

In honor of the Academy Award nominations, I will do a list of the best movies to ever win Best Picture and the worst movies to ever be nominated for it. First, the best list:

1. On the Waterfront (1954)
2. Crash (2004)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. Amadeus (1984)
5. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
6. Gone with the Wind (1939)
7. It Happened One Night (1934)
8. Annie Hall (1977)
9. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
10. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)