Tom's 3rd Annual Best Picture Rankings

All-Time Classics

1. Schindler's List (1993)

2. The Godfather (1972)*

3. Casablanca (1943)*

4. All About Eve (1950)

5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

6. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)*

7. The Godfather: Part II (1974)*

8. 12 Years a Slave (2012)

9. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

10. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)* 

11. From Here to Eternity (1953)* 

12. Parasite (2019)

13. The Sound of Music (1965)

14. The Apartment (1960)

15. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)* 

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Great Movies

16. Platoon (1986)

17. No Country for Old Men (2007)

18. Moonlight (2016)

19. Oppenheimer (2023)

20. On the Waterfront (1954)* 

21. Unforgiven (1992)

22. The Sting (1972)*

23. Ben-Hur (1959)

24. Gone with the Wind (1939)*

25. The Lost Weekend (1945)

26. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

27. The Deer Hunter (1978)

28. The French Connection (1971)

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My Personal Favorites

29. The Departed (2006)

30. Spotlight (2015)* 

31. The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King (2003)

32. Rebecca (1940)

33. Ordinary People (1980)

34. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

35. Gladiator (2000)

36. A Man for All Seasons (1966)

37. It Happened One Night (1934)

38. Gentlemen's Agreement (1947)* 

39. American Beauty (1999)

40. West Side Story (1961)

41. Rocky (1976)

42. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

43. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

44. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

45. Amadeus (1984)* 

46. Patton (1970)

47. Forrest Gump (1994)

48. Braveheart (1995)

49. Marty (1955)

50. CODA (2021)

51. My Fair Lady (1964)* 

52. Mrs. Miniver (1942)

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Aggressively Fine

53. Titanic (1997)

54. Argo (2013)

55. Going My Way (1944)

56. In the Heat of the Night (1967)* 

57. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

58. Million Dollar Baby (2004)

59. Shakespeare in Love (1998)

60. The King's Speech (2010)

61. The Hurt Locker (2009)

62. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

63. Gandhi (1982)

64. Rain Man (1988)

65. Terms of Endearment (1983)

66. You Can't Take It With You (1938)

67. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

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The Bad

68. Dances with Wolves (1990)

69. Chicago (2002)

70. Midnight Cowboy (1969)

71. Green Book (2018)

72. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

73. The Artist (2011)*

74. Nomadland (2020)

75. Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

76. Grand Hotel (1932)

77. The Shape of Water (2017)

78. Crash (2005)

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Dull and Bloated

79. Oliver! (1968)

80. An American in Paris (1951)

81. Annie Hall (1977)

82. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

83. Hamlet (1948)

84. Gigi (1958)

85. The English Patient (1996)

86. Out of Africa (1985)

87. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

88. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

89. The Last Emperor (1987)

90. The Broadway Melody (1929)

91. Wings (1927)

92. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)* 

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Those that Actively Anger Me

93. Cavalcade (1933)

94. Chariots of Fire (1981)

95. Tom Jones (1963)

96. Cimarron (1931)

97. All the King's Men (1949)

* Covered already on Greatest Movie of All-Time podcast.