Best Romantic Comedies

In honor of St. Valentine's day, I am putting together a "couple" (get it?) lists of romance movies. The first: comedy

1. As Good as It Gets (1997)
2. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
3. Love Actually (2003)
4. It Happened One Night (1934)
5. Annie Hall (1977)
6. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
7. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
8. Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
9. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
10. There's Something About Mary (1998)

Best Movies of 2000

1. Unbreakable
2. One Day in September
3. The Emperor's New Groove
4. What Lies Beneath
5. Meet the Parents
6. Frequency
7. The Perfect Storm
8. Erin Brockovich
9. Finding Forrester
10. Gladiator

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)

Best Movies of 2001

1. Moulin Rouge!
2. Memento
3. Donnie Darko
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Vanilla Sky
6. Training Day
7. A Beautiful Mind
8. Black Hawk Down
9. The Others
10. Serendipity

Best Movies with a Christmas Setting

Now this list is of movies that are great films at take place at Christmastime. Some of them are considered holiday movies and some aren't, but Christmas itself could be taken out and the film would not skip a beat.

1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
2. Die Hard (1988)
3. We're No Angels (1955)
4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
5. Love Actually (2003)
6. The Thin Man (1934)
7. Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
8. Black Christmas (1974)
9. Go (1999)
10. Trapped in Paradise (1994)

Best Christmas Movies

Okay, this holiday season, I'm going to split Christmas movies into two categories. The first is straight-up Christmas movies. These are movies in which Christmas is a major theme or intregal to the plot. There are a lot more older movies on this chart than most of my lists, but, let's get real. How often does Hollywood put out a decent holiday movie these days?

1. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
2. Scrooge (1970)
3. The Bishop's Wife (1947)
4. A Christmas Story (1983)
5. Elf (2003)
6. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
7. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1938)
8. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
9. Home Alone (1990)
10. Prancer (1989)