The Good, The Bad and The Critic

Established on March 19th, 2012 and pioneered by film fanatic Michael J. Carlisle. The Good, The Bad and The Critic will analyze classic and contemporary films from all corners of the globe. This title references Sergei Leone's influential spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

Monday, March 3, 2025

Every Best Picture Ranked (Best to Worst)

 Title: Every "Best Picture" Ranked (Best to Worst)


The 97th Academy Awards have come and gone. We have a new "Best Picture" in Sean Baker's Anora. I thought Conclave would win, but I'm happy to be wrong. Anora was a great film, that was equal parts comedy and tearjerker. In 2024 I made it a goal to watch EVERY Best Picture Winner. Sometimes this goal was easy, like watching Hitchock's Rebecca (1940), and sometimes it was a brutal slog, like having to watch Cimarron (1931). At the time I didn't do a Best Picture ranking, but with Anora's win I feel like finally writing one. So here it is: 



  1. All About Eve (1950)
  2. Casablanca (1942)
  3. Schindler's List (1993)
  4. Moonlight (2016)
  5. West Side Story (1961)
  6. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
  7. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  8. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  9. The Apartment (1960)
  10. The Godfather (1972)
  11. The Godfather Part II (1974)
  12. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
  13. On the Waterfront (1954)
  14. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  15. Gone With the Wind (1939)
  16. Parasite (2019)
  17. Rebecca (1940)
  18. Oliver! (1968)
  19. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  20. My Fair Lady (1964)
  21. Amadeus (1984)
  22. An American in Paris (1951)

  23. Hamlet (1948)
  24. Tom Jones (1963)
  25. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  26. The Departed (2006)
  27. The Sound of Music (1965)
  28. It Happened One Night (1934)
  29. From Here to Eternity (1953)
  30. Titanic (1997)
  31. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  32. Return of the King (2003)
  33. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  34. Anora (2024)
  35. Unforgiven (1992)
  36. Ordinary People (1980)
  37. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
  38. Annie Hall (1977)
  39. Terms of Endearment (1983)
  40. Marty (1955)
  41. Rocky (1976)
  42. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  43. Chariots of Fire (1981)
  44. Chicago (2003)

  45. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  46. The Deer Hunter (1978)
  47. Braveheart (1995)
  48. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  49. Oppenheimer (2023)
  50. The Great Zeigfeld (1936)
  51. Grand Hotel (1932)
  52. 12 Years a Slave (2014)
  53. Gladiator (2000)
  54. The Lost Weekend (1945)
  55. Nomadland (2020)
  56. You Can't Take it With You (1938)
  57. Gigi (1958)

  58. The Sting (1973)
  59. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  60. Spotlight (2015)
  61. The French Connection (1971)
  62. Wings (1927) 
  63. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  64. Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
  65. Forrest Gump (1994)
  66. The Last Emperor (1987)
  67. The Artist (2011)
  68. American Beauty (1999)
  69. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
  70. The English Patient (1996)
  71. Going My Way (1944)

  72. Coda (2021)
  73. The Broadway Melody (1929)
  74. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
  75. The Shape of Water (2017)
  76. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  77. Ben Hur (1959)
  78. The Hurt Locker (2009)
  79. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  80. Birdman (2014)
  81. Argo (2012)
  82. Rain Man (1988)
  83. The King's Speech (2010)
  84. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
  85. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  86. Platoon (1988)
  87. Patton (1970)
  88. Gandhi (1982)
  89. All the King's Men (1949)
  90. Out of Africa (1985)
  91. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) 
  92. Dances with Wolves (1990)
  93. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
  94. Green Book (2018)
  95. Crash (2005) 
  96. Cavalcade (1933)
  97. Cimarron (1931)
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