Your Best Picture Winners

[CConn]

Yeah, so since people always complain about who wins Best Picture, I wanted to see, if you were all 6000 members of the Academy, what movies would be your Best Picture winners since, oh, let's say 2000?

[CConn]

Here's mine...

Oh, I'm also ignoring that whole Best Animated/Foreign Movie. If its the best picture, it's the best picture. EOS.

2012 (so far)
Best Picture: Moonrise Kingdom

2011
Best Picture: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Runners Up: Warrior, A Seperation, Drive
(Personally, I think 2011 was a year of really good but not great movies, and none of them really deserved to win)

2010
Best Picture: Inception
Runners Up: Toy Story 3, The Social Network, The Fighter

2009
Best Picture: Inglorious Bastards
Runners Up: District 9, 500 Days of Summer, Up in the Air

2008
Best Picture: The Dark Knight
Runners Up: Wall-E, Grand Torino, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2007
Best Picture: There Will Be Blood
Runners Up: No Country for Old Men, Persepolis

2006
Best Picture: The Departed
Runners Up: Children of Men, The Lives of Others, The Illusionist

2005
Best Picture: Crash
Runners Up: Brick, Munich, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2004
Best Picture: Hotel Rwanda
Runners Up: Downfall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Howl's Moving Castle

2003
Best Picture: Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Runners Up: Return of the King, Oldboy, Finding Nemo

2002
Best Picture: City of God
Runners Up: The Pianist, The Two Towers

2001
Best Picture: The Fellowship of the Ring
Spirited Away, Monsters Inc, A Beautiful Mind

2000
Best Picture: Memento
Runners Up: Requiem of a Dream, Snatch, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

[Slushy]

Should have won Best Picture:

Fargo

L.A. Confidential

Saving Private Ryan

The Aviator

Letters From Iwo Jima

The Social Network

[Max J Power]

I did four runners up, in keeping with the five Best Picture nominees system. The runners up aren't in any particular order.

2011
Best Picture: The Tree of Life
Runners Up: The Descendants, Moneyball, Drive, Midnight in Paris

2010
Best Picture: Toy Story 3
Runners Up: Inception, The Social Network, Shutter Island, True Grit

2009
Best Picture: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Runners Up: Inglourious Basterds, Up in the Air, A Serious Man, The Hurt Locker

2008
Best Picture: Wall-E
Runners Up: The Wrestler, In Bruges, Milk, Ponyo

2007
Best Picture: No Country For Old Men
Runners Up: There Will Be Blood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Hot Fuzz, Zodiac

2006
Best Picture: The Departed
Runners Up: Children of Men, The Lives of Others, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen

2005
Best Picture: Brokeback Mountain
Runners Up: Good Night and Good Luck, Munich, Match Point, Capote
*If documentaries could win Best Picture, Grizzly Man would be my winner, and Brokeback Mountain and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room would replace Capote and Match Point as runners up.

2004
Best Picture: Sideways
Runners Up: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kill Bill Vol. 2, The Incredibles, The Life Aquatic

2003
Best Picture: Return of the King
Runners Up: Mystic River, Finding Nemo, A Mighty Wind, American Splendor

2002
Best Picture: Adaptation
Runners Up: The Two Towers, Minority Report, Hero, About Schmidt

2001
Best Picture: The Fellowship of the Ring
Runners Up: Spirited Away, Gosford Park, The Royal Tenenbaums, Waking Life

2000
Best Picture: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Runners Up: Best in Show, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, High Fidelity, Almost Famous

[CConn]

^ I like that list.

[childeroland]

Year indicates when the film came out, not necessarily when it was eligible for the Oscar (which I'm not bothering to look up)

2000 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, or In the Mood for Love
2001 - Millennium Mambo
2002 - Hero, or The Two Towers
2003 - City of God or Lost in Translation, or A Tale of Two Sisters
2004 - 2046, The Sea Inside, House of Flying Daggers, or Yesterday
2005 - Three Times, The New World, or Howl's Moving Castle
2006 - Pan's Labyrinth, or Syndromes and a Century
2007 - Spirited Away (or There Will Be Blood or Secret Sunshine, if No Country for Old Men hadn't won--one of few years the Academy got it right)
2008 - WALL-E, Lust, Caution, Let the Right One In, The Secret of the Grain, or Ponyo
2009 - A Prophet
2010 - Toy Story 3, Let Me In, Black Swan, Poetry, or Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2011 - The Tree of Life, or A Separation
2012 - Nothing I'd give a best pic to yet, but I haven't seen any of the Cannes entries, etc.

[Evil Twin]

2011 - A Separation over Tree of Life
2010 - True Grit
2009 - Inglourious Basterds (although the movie that's sticking with me is A Serious Man)
2008 - Man on Wire (and, yes, The Dark Knight is terrific)
2007 - No Country for Old Men narrowly over There Will be Blood. Zodiac was terrific too.
2006 - Pan's Labyrinth narrowly over Brick
2005 - Grizzly Man
2004 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003 - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World over The Station Agent
2002 - City of God over Y Tu Mama Tambien
2001 - Mulholland Dr. (although Gosford Park and LotR: FotR are both terrific as well)
2000 - Memento

Just to take it back further:

1999 - Being John Malkovich although on any given day I could vote for Toy Story 2, The Matrix, The Iron Giant, or The Insider. An incredible year.
1998 - Saving Private Ryan over Out of Sight
1997 - L.A. Confidential
1996 - Fargo
1995 - Twelve Monkeys
1994 - Ed Wood
1993 - Schindler's List (although Remains of the Day is rising in my estimation)
1992 - Unforgiven
1991 - Silence of the Lambs
1990 - Goodfellas

1989 - Do the Right Thing
1988 - Bull Durham over The Last Temptation of Christ
1987 - Robocop
1986 - Blue Velvet
1985 - Akira Kurosawa's Ran
1984 - Amadeus
1983 - The Right Stuff
1982 - Blade Runner
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1980 - Raging Bull

[CConn]

1999: American Beauty
1998: Saving Private Ryan
1997: Princess Mononoke
1996: Fargo
1995: Seven
1994: The Shawshank Redemption
1993: Schindler's List
1992: Unforgiven
1991: The Silence of the Lambs
1990: Goodfellas (I'm actually not a fan of the movie myself, but with how much other people love it, it deserved it)

1989: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1988: Cinema Paradiso
1987: Full Metal Jacket
1986: Blue Velvet
1985: Ran
1984:*Once Upon a Time in America
1983: The Right Stuff
1982: Blade Runner
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1980: The Empire Strikes Back

[moviedoors]

* indicates agreement with Mr. Oscar

2011- Attack the Block
2010- True Grit
2009- Inglourious Basterds
2008- The Dark Knight
*2007- No Country For Old Men
*2006- The Departed
2005- A History of Violence
2004- Sideways
2003- Master and Commander
2002- Minority Report
2001- Memento
2000- Shadow of the Vampire
1999- Audition
1998- Dark City
1997- Jackie Brown
1996- Fargo
1995- Apollo 13
1994- Pulp Fiction
*1993- Schindler's List
*1992- Unforgiven
1991- Barton Fink
1990- Goodfellas
1989- The Abyss
1988- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1987- Evil Dead II
1986- Big Trouble in Little China
1985- Back to the Future
*1984- Amadeus
1983- Videodrome
1982- The Thing
1981- Raiders of the Lost Ark
1980- The Empire Strikes Back
1979- Apocalypse Now
1978- Halloween
1977- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1976- Taxi Driver
1975- Jaws
1974- The Conversation
1973- The Exorcist
1972- Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1971- Get Carter
1970- Woodstock
1969- The Wild Bunch
1968- 2001: A Space Odyssey
1967- Le Samourai
1966- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
1965- Red Beard
1964- Dr. Strangelove
1963- The Haunting
*1962- Lawrence of Arabia
1961- The Guns of Navarone
1960- Psycho
1959- Rio Bravo
1958- Vertigo
1957- 12 Angry Men
1956- Forbidden Planet
1955- The Night of the Hunter
1954- Seven Samurai
1953- The Wages of Fear
1952- Ikiru
1951- Strangers on a Train
1950- Rashomon
1949- The Third Man
1948- Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1947- Out of the Past
1946- Notorious
1945- The Spiral Staircase
1944- Double Indemnity
1943- I Walked With a Zombie
*1942- Casablanca
1941- Citizen Kane
1940- Fantasia
1939- The Rules of the Game
1938- The Adventures of Robin Hood
1937- La Grande Illusion
1936- Modern Times
1935- Bride of Frankenstein
1934- The Thin Man
1933- King Kong
1932- Vampyr
1931- M
1930- All Quiet On The Western Front
1929- Pandora's Box
1928- The Passion of Joan of Arc
1927- Metropolis

I'm surprised our choices only matched up 7 times.

[CConn]

I'm not. You have some weird choices.

[moviedoors]

I am a weird guy, but they're still all brilliant choices.

That's just a snapshot anyway. If I did that a week ago or a week from now, it'd be a little different. It ebbs and it flows.

[Kahran Ramsus]

I'll go back to 1990 for now. I'm too tired to do much more tonight.

2011 - Moneyball
2010 - The King's Speech
2009 - Inglourious Basterds
2008 - The Dark Knight
2007 - There Will Be Blood
2006 - The Prestige
2005 - Good Night and Good Luck
2004 - Million Dollar Baby
2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002 - Gangs of New York
2001 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2000 - Gladiator
1999 - The Matrix
1998 - The Truman Show
1997 - LA Confidential
1996 - Hamlet
1995 - Apollo 13
1994 - Pulp Fiction
1993 - Schindler's List
1992 - Unforgiven
1991 - The Silence of the Lambs
1990 - Goodfellas

[CConn]

1979 - Alien, Life of Brian, Manhattan
1978 - The Deer Hunter, Days of Heavan, Animal House
1977 - Star Wars, The Ascent, Annie Hall
1976 - Taxi Driver, Rocky, Network
1975 - Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1974 - Chinatown, The Godfather: Part II, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Conversation
1973 - Scenes from a Marriage, The Exorcist, The Sting
1972 - The Godfather, Solaris
1971 - The French Connection, A Clockwork Orange
1970 - Patton
1969 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1968 - Once Upon a Time in the West, Planet of the Apes, 2001: A Space Odyssey
1967 - Le Samourai, Cool Hand Luke, The Dirty Dozen
1966 - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Persona
1965 - The Sound of Music
1964 - Dr. Strangelove
1963 - 8 1/2
1962 - Lawrence of Arabia, TO Kill a Mockingbird, Karakiri
1961 - Judgement at Nurenberg, Yojimbo, West Side Story
1960 - Spartacus, Psycho, The Apartment
1959 - North by Northwest, Ben-Hur, Some Like It Hot, The 400 Blows, The Great War
1958 - Vertigo, Touch of Evil, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1957 - 12 Angry Men, The Seventh Seal, Paths of Glory, Wild Stawberries
1956 - The Killing
1955 - Rififi, Diabolique, The Night of the Hunter, Rebel without a Cause
1954 - Seven Samurai, Rear Window, On the Waterfront
1953 - Stalag 17, The Big Heat
1952 - Singin' in the Rain, Ikiru
1951 - A Streetcar Named Desire
1950 - Rashomon, Sunset Blvd.
1949 - The Third Man
1948 - Bicycle Thieves, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, Rope
1947 - Out of the Past
1946 - The Big Sleep, Notorious, It's a Wonderful Life
1945 - Children of Paradise, Rome Open City, The Lost Weekend
1944 - Arsenic and Old Lace, Double Indemnity, Laura
1943 - Shadow of a Doubt
1942 - Casablanca
1941 - The Maltese Falcon, Citizen Kane
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath, Rebecca, The Great Dictator
1939 - The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Gone with the Wind
1938 - The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Lady Vanishes
1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Le Grande Illusion
1936 - Modern Times
1935 - The 39 Steps, The Bride of Frankenstein
1934 - The Thin Man
1933 - The Invisible Man (I think this might be the most underrated movie ever), King Kong, Duck Soup
1932 - Trouble in Paradise, Freaks,
1931 - M, City Lights, Frankenstein
1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front
1929 - Pandora's Box
1928 - The Passion of Joan of Arc
1927 - Metropolis

There we go.