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My Preferential Rankings of The Best Picture Winners Jun '08: I have seen 78 of the 79 winners, a ratio of 99%. Jun '08: Most recent addition: No Country for Old Men (2007) For the Ages 1943 Casablanca Dir. Michael Curtiz 1950 All About Eve Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1934 It Happened One Night Dir. Frank Capra 1977 Annie Hall Dir. Woody Allen 1972 The Godfather Dir. Francis Ford Coppola 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front Dir. Lewis Milestone 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives Dir. William Wyler 1940 Rebecca Dir. Alfred Hitchcock 1939 Gone with the Wind Dir. Victor Fleming 1997 Titanic Dir. James Cameron  Fantastic 1978 The Deer Hunter Dir. Michael Cimino 1961 West Side Story Dirs. Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 1993 Schindler's List Dir. Steven Spielberg 1954 On the Waterfront Dir. Elia Kazan 1974 The Godfather, Part II Dir. Francis Ford Coppola 1962 Lawrence of Arabia Dir. David Lean 1949 All the King's Men Dir. Robert Rossen 1953 From Here to Eternity Dir. Fred Zinnemann 2004 Million Dollar Baby Dir. Clint Eastwood 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai Dir. David Lean 2006 The Departed Dir. Martin Scorsese 1941 How Green Was My Valley Dir. John Ford 1991 The Silence of the Lambs Dir. Jonathan Demme 1996 The English Patient Dir. Anthony Minghella Fetching 1986 Platoon Dir. Oliver Stone 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty Dir. Frank Lloyd 1932 Grand Hotel Dir. Edmund Goulding 1999 American Beauty Dir. Sam Mendes 1928 Wings Dir. William Wellman 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Dir. Peter Jackson 1998 Shakespeare in Love Dir. John Madden 1965 The Sound of Music Dir. Robert Wise 1992 Unforgiven Dir. Clint Eastwood Fair 1987 The Last Emperor Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci 1969 Midnight Cowboy Dir. John Schlesinger 2007 No Country for Old Men Dirs. Joel and Ethan Coen 1990 Dances with Wolves Dir. Kevin Costner 2002 Chicago Dir. Rob Marshall 1951 An American in Paris Dir. Vincente Minnelli 1955 Marty Dir. Delbert Mann 1966 A Man for All Seasons Dir. Fred Zinnemann 2005 Crash Dir. Paul Haggis 1971 The French Connection Dir. William Friedkin 1942 Mrs. Miniver Dir. William Wyler 1980 Ordinary People Dir. Robert Redford 1983 Terms of Endearment Dir. James L. Brooks 1976 Rocky Dir. John G. Avildsen Feh 1960 The Apartment Dir. Billy Wilder 1963 Tom Jones Dir. Tony Richardson 1958 Gigi Dir. Vincente Minnelli 1945 The Lost Weekend Dir. Billy Wilder 1970 Patton Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner 1984 Amadeus Dir. Miloš Forman 1931 Cimarron Dir. Wesley Ruggles 1981 Chariots of Fire Dir. Hugh Hudson 1967 In the Heat of the Night Dir. Norman Jewison 1964 My Fair Lady Dir. George Cukor 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Dir. Miloš Forman 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer Dir. Robert Benton 1959 Ben-Hur Dir. William Wyler 1973 The Sting Dir. George Roy Hill 2001 A Beautiful Mind Dir. Ron Howard Flotsam 1929 The Broadway Melody Dir. Harry Beaumont 1968 Oliver! Dir. Carol Reed 1938 You Can't Take It With You Dir. Frank Capra 1936 The Great Ziegfeld Dir. Robert Z. Leonard  1947 Gentleman's Agreement Dir. Elia Kazan 1933 Cavalcade Dir. Frank Lloyd 2000 Gladiator Dir. Ridley Scott 1995 Braveheart Dir. Mel Gibson 1994 Forrest Gump Dir. Robert Zemeckis 1944 Going My Way Dir. Leo McCarey 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth Dir. Cecil B. DeMille 1989 Driving Miss Daisy Dir. Bruce Beresford 1937 The Life of Émile Zola Dir. William Dieterle 1988 Rain Man Dir. Barry Levinson 1985 Out of Africa Dir. Sydney Pollack 1956 Around the World in 80 Days Dir. Michael Anderson Unreliable — I Need a Second Look (In Chronological Order) 1948 Hamlet Dir. Laurence Olivier Unseen (In Chronological Order) 1982 Gandhi Dir. Richard Attenborough |
The Best of the Rest: My Favorites of the Losing Nominees Jun '08: I have seen 349 of the 460 nominees, a ratio of 76%. Jun '08: Most recent addition: Imitation of Life (1934) 1920s 1928 7th Heaven Dir. Frank Borzage 1930s 1930 The Big House Dir. George Hill 1930 The Love Parade Dir. Ernst Lubitsch 1932 Bad Girl Dir. Frank Borzage 1932 Shanghai Express Dir. Josef von Sternberg 1933 42nd Street Dir. Lloyd Bacon 1934 Imitation of Life Dir. John M. Stahl 1934 The Thin Man Dir. W.S. Van Dyke 1935 Alice Adams Dir. George Stevens 1935 The Informer Dir. John Ford 1935 Top Hat Dir. Mark Sandrich 1936 Dodsworth Dir. William Wyler 1936 Libeled Lady Dir. Jack Conway 1937 Stage Door Dir. Gregory La Cava 1937 A Star Is Born Dir. William Wellman 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood Dirs. Michael Curtiz & William Keighley 1938 Grand Illusion Dir. Jean Renoir 1939 Dark Victory Dir. Edmund Goulding 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Dir. Frank Capra 1939 Ninotchka Dir. Ernst Lubitsch 1939 Stagecoach Dir. John Ford 1939 The Wizard of Oz Dir. Victor Fleming 1940s 1940 All This and Heaven, Too Dir. Anatole Litvak 1940 The Grapes of Wrath Dir. John Ford 1940 The Letter Dir. William Wyler 1940 The Philadelphia Story Dir. George Cukor 1941 Citizen Kane Dir. Orson Welles 1942 The Magnificent Ambersons Dir. Orson Welles 1942 Random Harvest Dir. Mervyn LeRoy 1942 Wake Island Dir. John Farrow 1943 The More the Merrier Dir. George Stevens 1944 Double Indemnity Dir. Billy Wilder 1948 The Red Shoes Dirs. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger 1949 The Heiress Dir. William Wyler 1949 A Letter to Three Wives Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1950s 1950 Sunset Boulevard Dir. Billy Wilder 1951 A Place in the Sun Dir. George Stevens 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire Dir. Elia Kazan 1956 Giant Dir. George Stevens 1960s 1964 Dr. Strangelove Dir. Stanley Kubrick 1964 Mary Poppins Dir. Robert Stevenson 1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Dir. Fred Zinnemann 1967 Bonnie and Clyde Dir. Arthur Penn 1968 Rachel, Rachel Dir. Paul Newman 1969 Z Dir. Costa-Gavras 1970s 1970 Five Easy Pieces Dir. Bob Rafelson 1971 A Clockwork Orange Dir. Stanley Kubrick 1972 Cabaret Dir. Bob Fosse 1972 Sounder Dir. Martin Ritt 1973 Cries and Whispers Dir. Ingmar Bergman 1973 The Exorcist Dir. William Friedkin 1974 Chinatown Dir. Roman Polanski 1974 The Conversation Dir. Francis Ford Coppola 1975 Dog Day Afternoon Dir. Sidney Lumet 1975 Jaws Dir. Steven Spielberg 1975 Nashville Dir. Robert Altman 1976 All the President's Men Dir. Alan J. Pakula 1976 Network Dir. Sidney Lumet 1976 Taxi Driver Dir. Martin Scorsese 1977 Star Wars Dir. George Lucas 1979 Apocalypse Now Dir. Francis Ford Coppola 1980s 1980 The Elephant Man Dir. David Lynch 1980 Raging Bull Dir. Martin Scorsese 1981 Atlantic City Dir. Louis Malle 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark Dir. Steven Spielberg 1981 Reds Dir. Warren Beatty 1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Dir. Steven Spielberg 1982 Tootsie Dir. Sydney Pollack 1985 Kiss of the Spider Woman Dir. Hector Babenco 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters Dir. Woody Allen 1987 Broadcast News Dir. James L. Brooks 1987 Fatal Attraction Dir. Adrian Lyne 1988 Dangerous Liaisons Dir. Stephen Frears 1989 My Left Foot Dir. Jim Sheridan 1990s 1991 Beauty and the Beast Dirs. Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise 1991 JFK Dir. Oliver Stone 1992 The Crying Game Dir. Neil Jordan 1992 Howards End Dir. James Ivory 1993 The Piano Dir. Jane Campion 1993 The Remains of the Day Dir. James Ivory 1994 Pulp Fiction Dir. Quentin Tarantino 1995 Babe Dir. Chris Noonan 1996 Fargo Dir. Joel Coen 1996 Jerry Maguire Dir. Cameron Crowe 1996 Secrets & Lies Dir. Mike Leigh 1997 L.A. Confidential Dir. Curtis Hanson 1998 The Thin Red Line Dir. Terrence Malick 2000s 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Dir. Ang Lee 2001 Gosford Park Dir. Robert Altman 2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Dir. Peter Jackson 2001 Moulin Rouge Dir. Baz Luhrmann 2002 The Pianist Dir. Roman Polanski 2005 Capote Dir. Bennett Miller 2007 Juno Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson 2007 There Will Be Blood Dir. Jason Reitman |