THE BEST PICTURE RETROSPECTIVE: THE COMPLETE RANKINGS
We now have 92 Best Picture Academy Award winners. Parasite becomes the first foreign-language film to win film's highest honor.
With that, I now include it among the rankings to see where it will fall from Number 1 to Number 92. Now, again let us remember the three criteria I used for my personal rankings?
Do I think the film is good?
Do I think this film will or has it stood the test of time?
Would I watch it again?
It is hard to say exactly how Parasite will ultimately end up in the annals of film history. Certainly in being the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture it has earned a place in history, but where it will stand in overall film history is still up to debate. I have done the best I could looking on the three criteria I created.
It should be no surprise that this list will be updated every year, but perhaps in a decade I will reevaluate the entire list. With that, enjoy.
- Casablanca (1943)
- All About Eve (1950)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- The Godfather Part II (1974)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Amadeus (1984)
- West Side Story (1961)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Unforgiven (1992)
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- Hamlet (1948)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Rocky (1976)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- Rebecca (1940)
- The Last Emperor (1987)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- Wings (1928)
- Marty (1955)
- All the King's Men (1949)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
- Grand Hotel (1932)
- The French Connection (1971)
- Chariots of Fire (1981)
- Parasite (2019)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- How Green Was My Valley (1941)
- Platoon (1986)
- Patton (1970)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- The King's Speech (2010)
- A Man for All Seasons (1966)
- Terms of Endearment (1983)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- Moonlight (2016)
- The Sting (1973)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- Spotlight (2015)
- Midnight Cowboy (1969)
- Chicago (2002)
- The Apartment (1960)
- Gladiator (2000)
- You Can't Take it With You (1938)
- 12 Years a Slave (2013)
- Argo (2012)
- Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- Braveheart (1995)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- The Departed (2006)
- The Artist (2011)
- The Lost Weekend (1945)
- Green Book (2018)
- Shakespeare in Love (1998)
- The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
- Going My Way (1944)
- Gandhi (1982)
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
- Dances With Wolves (1990)
- The Hurt Locker (2009)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
- Rain Man (1988)
- The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
- Gigi (1958)
- An American in Paris (1951)
- Tom Jones (1963)
- Titanic (1997)
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
- Ordinary People (1980)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- American Beauty (1999)
- Oliver! (1968)
- Million Dollar Baby (2004)
- The Broadway Melody (1929)
- Cimarron (1931)
- A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- The English Patient (1996)
- Birdman (2014)
- Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
- Crash (2005)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)
- The Shape of Water (2017)
- Out of Africa (1985)
- Cavalcade (1933)
I look forward to seeing where next year's winner will find itself.
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