Rank the '00s Best Picture Winners

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I don't find this hard at all, for some reason.

01. No Country for Old Men (A+)
02. The Departed (A)
03. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (A)
04. The Hurt Locker (A-)
05. Million Dollar Baby (B+)
06. Gladiator (B)
07. Slumdog Millionaire (B)
08. Chicago (B)
09. A Beautiful Mind (C-)
10. Crash (D)

Those last two are abysmal, lol.

Keeping in mind I haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire or The Hurt Locker:

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

I have not been a big fan of the recent best picture winners, and thinking about ranking them really brought that back into focus.

A Beautiful Mind (8/10)
No Country For Old Men (8/10)
Gladiator (7/10)
Lord Of the Rings: Return of the King (7/10)
Million Dollar Baby (6/10)
The Departed (6/10)
Chicago (5/10)
Crash (4/10)
(have not seen Slumdog or Hurt Locker)

Crash in my mind is without a doubt the worst film to ever win a best picture. I would welcome any suggestions to the contrary, but I don't know if I can be swayed.

Return of the King I think was the least deserving out of all the films nominated the same year.

I think Departed is perhaps the most overrated of all of them. It was a brutally snappy and fun gangster/cop movie, nothing more.

Million Dollar Baby could have been monumentally awesome, if the post-injury section of the film was done differently. It was just too ham-fisted, preachy, and overlong for me. Seemed to go the tragedy route for no other reason than for the shock/twist value and to create the illusion of depth, which seemed a bit cheap. Definitely gets my "most schizophrenic" award as I would give the first 2/3 of the movie 9/10. The last third gets a 4/10.

Gladiator
The Departed
Lord of the Rings III
The Hurt Locker
No Country For Old Men
Chicago
Million Dollar Baby
Slumdog Millionaire
Crash
A Beautiful Mind

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
No Country for Old Men
Million Dollar Baby
The Departed
Chicago
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind
Slumdog Millionaire
Crash
The Hurt Locker

Gladiator 10
The Departed 10
Million Dollar Baby 10
A Beautiful Mind 10
Crash 9
Slumdog Millionaire 9
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 9
Chicago 8
The Hurt Locker 8

Strangely enough I enjoyed all of these movies, even though I put Hurt Locker last I still really enjoyed the movie

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - 10/10
Million Dollar Baby - 9/10
The Departed - 8/10
The Hurt Locker - 7/10
No Country for Old Men - 5/10

Have not seen Slumdog,a beautiful mind,Chicago and Crash and i accidentally fell asleep during Gladiator lol, not because it was boring i was just exhausted but i do plan on trying to watch it again.

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