abe55

Pick your favorite best picture winner of the past ten years.

Cornelius1047

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

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FinkPish

As in the strongest, that wasn't released simply to pick up awards and pander to critics and fools on awards commitees?

No Country for Old Men, because it didn't seem like it was made to pick up awards necessarily. It was made because it was something the Coen Brothers felt it would be an interesting movie. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but the rest of them feel like "Must Vote Because We Owe Them" (The Departed and LOTR specifically), or because they pandered to the lowest common emotional level, (hype included, which explains Chicago).

wilky61

NCFOM is the best, American Beauty is my favorite. I voted for American Beauty.

Mr. Cinema

Looking at that list reminded me of how bad the Academy can be at selecting the "best" film. Too bad Saving Private Ryan or The Insider can't be choices.

I'm going with The Departed. Amazing cast with great performances.

JPRaup

No Country then The Departed. The rest I could go without watching...

Charlie Goose

In order, from best to worst. Never saw Shakespeare in Love.

The Departed
American Beauty
No Country For Old Men
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Million Dollar Baby
Chicago
A Beautiful Mind
Gladiator
Crash

matome

Million Dollar Baby

auto

I agree with this although I would put A Beautiful Mind below Gladiator. I would definitely leave Crash at the bottom though.

conscience

Lost in Trans....sorry, American Beauty.

Palaver

I was thinking the same thing.

I'd have to go with Return of the King just because that whole project was so damn ambitious and overall Jackson pulled it off beautifully.

superdeluxe

ROTK. I know, not the best film in the series, But if the academy looked at it as a oscar for the entire trilogy, I will as well.

RobCA

Of the four I've seen, I'd have to go with Chicago.

Rob

Larry C.

The Departed...

Ram

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

wendersfan

What a depressing list. I guess out of those I'd go with The Departed, but man, what a bloated film.

tommyp007

American Beauty, followed closely by Departed and Gladiator. If you take into account all 3 Rings movies as one, then I'd probably put that as the top, but ROTK stand-alone just doesnt do it for me.

McHawkson

Where's "None of above" option?

Maxflier

Gladiator

RichC2

If you hate them all equally, they're all the best.

fumanstan

Out of all of them, I enjoyed Gladiator the most, followed by Departed and A Beautiful Mind.

amplified

This is the order I would put them in.

American Beauty
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
A Beautiful Mind
Gladiator
Crash
No Country For Old Men
Chicago
The Departed
Million Dollar Baby
Shakespeare in Love

clckworang

I look at much of the list and remember the other movie that I was rooting for that year. There are only a couple on that list that I thought were the best of the year or at least deserving of the titles as best.

So, anyway, I picked No Country. ROTK was a little tempting, but I probably liked that one the least from the trilogy. For this poll, I feel like I should recognize an individual film, not a trilogy.

Crash definitely deserves to go at the bottom of this list though. I don't think there is a best picture winner that I felt was less deserving than Crash. Well, maybe Forrest Gump ...

project86

Crap! I clicked on A Beautiful Mind thinking it was American Beauty. Man I'm tired.

TimeandTide

Departed, CLOSELY followed by NCFOM.

SPR would have been my vote, however, had it won Best Picture.