Tom's 5th Annual Best Picture Rankings

All-Time Classics

1. Schindler's List (1993)*

2. The Godfather (1972)*

3. Casablanca (1943)*

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

5. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)* 

6. All About Eve (1950)*

7. The Godfather: Part II (1974)*

8. The Sound of Music (1965)*

9. 12 Years a Slave (2012)*

10. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

11. Ordinary People (1980)*

12. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)*

13. Ben-Hur (1959)*

14. From Here to Eternity (1953)* 

15. Oppenheimer (2023)

16. Gone with the Wind (1939)*

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

18. The Lost Weekend (1945)*

19. Midnight Cowboy (1969)*

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

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Great Movies

21. No Country for Old Men (2007)

22. The Apartment (1960)*

23. Rebecca (1940)

24. The Departed (2006)

25. Spotlight (2015)* 

26. Gladiator (2000)*

27. Parasite (2019)*

28. Moonlight (2016)

29. On the Waterfront (1954)* 

30. West Side Story (1961)

31. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

32. A Man for All Seasons (1966)

33. The Sting (1972)* 

34. American Beauty (1999)

35. Rocky (1976)*

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Just Plain Mid

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

37. The Deer Hunter (1978)

38. The French Connection (1971)

39. Platoon (1986)

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

41. Amadeus (1984)* 

42. Titanic (1997)

43. Unforgiven (1992)*

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

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Personal Favorites

45. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

46. Forrest Gump (1994)*

47. Anora (2024)

48. Braveheart (1995)

49. Gandhi (1982)

50. Marty (1955)

51. My Fair Lady (1964)* 

52. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)*

53. It Happened One Night (1934)*

54. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

55. Going My Way (1944)

56. Patton (1970)*

57. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

58. Shakespeare in Love (1998)

59. The King's Speech (2010)

60. Gentlemen's Agreement (1947)* 

61. CODA (2021)

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Aggressively Fine

62. Argo (2013)

63. One Battle After Another (2025)

64. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

65. Rain Man (1988)*

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

67. The Shape of Water (2017)

68. Green Book (2018)

69. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

70. The Artist (2011)* 

71. Chicago (2002)

72. Million Dollar Baby (2004)

73. The Hurt Locker (2009)

74. Terms of Endearment (1983)

75. Mrs. Miniver (1942)

76. Nomadland (2020)

77. Oliver! (1968)

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

79. Grand Hotel (1932)

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The Bad

80. Crash (2005)

81. Annie Hall (1977)

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Dull and Bloated

82. An American in Paris (1951)

83. Dances with Wolves (1990)

84. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

85. Out of Africa (1985)

86. The English Patient (1996)

87. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

88. Wings (1927)

89. Gigi (1958)

90. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

91. The Last Emperor (1987)

92. The Broadway Melody (1929)

93. Hamlet (1948)

94. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)* 

95. Cavalcade (1933)

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Those that Actively Anger Me

96. Chariots of Fire (1981)

97. Tom Jones (1963)

98. Cimarron (1931)

99. All the King's Men (1949)

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