Tom's 4th 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. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)*

6. The Godfather: Part II (1974)*

7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

8. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

9. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)* 

10. From Here to Eternity (1953)* 

11. The Sound of Music (1965)*

12. 12 Years a Slave (2012)*

13. No Country for Old Men (2007)

14. Ordinary People (1980)

15. Ben-Hur (1959)*

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Great Movies

16. Parasite (2019)*

17. The Apartment (1960)

18. The Lost Weekend (1945)

19. Midnight Cowboy (1969)*

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

21. Gone with the Wind (1939)*

22. Rebecca (1940)

23. Oppenheimer (2023)

24. The Departed (2006)

25. On the Waterfront (1954)* 

26. Gladiator (2000)

27. Platoon (1986)

28. Moonlight (2016)

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

30. The Deer Hunter (1978)

31. The French Connection (1971)

32. Spotlight (2015)* 

33. West Side Story (1961)

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My Personal Favorites

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

35. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

36. A Man for All Seasons (1966)

37. The Sting (1972)* 

38. American Beauty (1999)

39. Rocky (1976)*

40. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

41. Forrest Gump (1994)*

42. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

43. Anora (2024)

44. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)*

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

46. Braveheart (1995)

47. It Happened One Night (1934)*

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Just Plain Mid

48. Amadeus (1984)* 

49. Titanic (1997)

50. Unforgiven (1992)*

51. Patton (1970)

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Secondary Personal Favorites

52. Gentlemen's Agreement (1947)* 

53. Marty (1955)

54. My Fair Lady (1964)* 

55. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)*

56. Going My Way (1944)

57. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

58. Shakespeare in Love (1998)

59. The King's Speech (2010)

60. CODA (2021)

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Aggressively Fine

61. Argo (2013)

62. Million Dollar Baby (2004)

63. The Hurt Locker (2009)

64. Rain Man (1988)*

65. In the Heat of the Night (1967)*

66. The Shape of Water (2017)

67. Gandhi (1982)

68. Chicago (2002)

69. Terms of Endearment (1983)

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

71. Mrs. Miniver (1942)

72. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

73. Nomadland (2020)

74. Oliver! (1968)

75. Grand Hotel (1932)

76. Green Book (2018)

77. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

78. The Artist (2011)* 

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The Bad

79. Crash (2005)

80. Annie Hall (1977)

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Dull and Bloated

81. An American in Paris (1951)

82. Dances with Wolves (1990)

83. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

84. Out of Africa (1985)

85. The English Patient (1996)

86. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

87. Wings (1927)

88. Gigi (1958)

89. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

90. The Last Emperor (1987)

91. The Broadway Melody (1929)

92. Hamlet (1948)

93. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)* 

94. Cavalcade (1933)

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Those that Actively Anger Me

95. Chariots of Fire (1981)

96. Tom Jones (1963)

97. Cimarron (1931)

98. All the King's Men (1949)

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