![]() ![]() We’re not even sure it would make a list of the top 200 musicals of all time. Its only real appeal at the time (look, there’s dancing and singing … in a movie!) has, uh, lost a considerable amount of its novelty today. Its clichés, silliness, and abundant amount of cheese might have seemed somehow new in 1928 - though we doubt even that - but it’s difficult to sit through today. Widely considered the first real “Hollywood musical,” to be honest, that’s just about the only thing going for it. That’s what the Academy Awards are all about. So here it is: our ranking of all 94 Best Picture winners. ![]() After all, they have an Academy Award, and we don’t. That becomes a Best Picture winner’s cross to bear - the fact that a particular film won’t stand up over time, and may actually look pretty terrible in retrospect - but, honestly, we’re pretty sure most Oscar recipients don’t much mind what the rest of us think. Sure, mediocrity rules the roost, but for the most part this list is littered with good movies - sometimes very good, occasionally incredible, but largely good-enough movies. It’s very easy to second-guess the Academy on its Best Picture picks, but while putting together our ranking of every winner, we decided that, all in all, there aren’t that many terrible choices. It also means that, for the rest of time, a lot of people will complain that your movie wasn’t that great and should have lost to some other movie they felt was eminently more deserving. Even in a world overrun with awards shows, the Oscars remain the grandest prize, and a Best Picture victory cements filmmakers and actors’ place in history. This story first ran in 2019 and has been updated to reflect Coda ’s Oscar win.Įvery year starting in late August and ending sometime around late February - well, except in this pandemic-scarred year - Hollywood is consumed with winning an eight-and-a-half-pound gold trophy. Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture ![]()
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