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List the Best Picture Winners of the 21th Century, from best to worst


Obviously beginning from 2001 and forth.

Here is my list :

No Country for Old Men 9+/10
The Artist 9/10
The Return of the King 9/10
The Departed 9-/10
A Beautiful Mind 8,5/10
The King's Speech 7/10
Slumdog Millionaire 6/10
Chicago 5/10
Crash 4,5/10

Haven't seen the other 3, obviously.


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umm, 20TH CENTURY?

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1. The Departed 11/10
2. Crash 10/10
3. The Artist 10/10
4. The Hurt Locker 9/10
5. Return of the King 9/10
6. Slumdog Millionaire 8.5/10
7. No Country for Old Men 8/10
8. Million Dollar Baby 8/10
9. A Beautiful Mind 8/10
10. Gladiator 8/10
11. The King's Speech 7.5/10
12. Argo 7/10
13. Chicago 6/10

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Dude, go back to school, hey? That's because Christ's birth did not launch the 0th century, man! There is no such thing! You must count centuries starting from the first century, which started on Jan 1, (000)1. The rule of thumb to number the century right is simply to add one unit to the prefix common to all years in a given century. If you write the years as I just did, that prefix is formed by the first two digits of the year (e.g. when writing the first year of each century - which incidentally is always that whose last two digits are 01 since there is no year 0 in our Gregorian calendar - (0001, 0101, 0201, ... 1001, 1101,..., 2001, 2101,etc.). As you see, by adding 1 to the digits shown in bold, you get the right century that begins on each of those years. Everybody older than 25 (at least) here remembers all the fuss that was made when we reached the new millenium. It was wrongly thought as beginning on January 1, 2000 (and all computers of the world were supposed to implode in one gigantic catastrophic digital chaos because a lot of them were not programmed to switch to a new millenium). No global shutdown happened apart from rare cases of people caught in elevators (or so say urban legends) of course, but the psychological effect of changing the first two digits of the new years to come made everybody celebrate the new millenium ... one year in advance as our current third millenium (yep dude, don't correct me, there is no millenium 0!!) started only on Jan 1, 2001 !! This shows how stupid such celebrations really are. Simple minds are struck and fascinated by the effect of raw numbers. These are the same people who buy lottery tickets and believe in astrology or numerology - they're just substitute religions that make even less sense. Our OP correctly listed films of the 21st century from 2001 onward but kuzya-23-477484 blurted "umm, 20th century?". Duh. As Confucius once said: "Worse than a troll is a headless chicken running around in the poultry."

.... Everybody knows that and I should not even lose my time explaining this in a world that makes any sense!!! And the worst is that for a short while (fortunately!), the next messages were retitled "best movies of the 20th century".

Oh, I see... You are a young fella who was born after year 2000, so the world started to exist in a century whose years are numbered 20xx. And you're probably too young to have studied much history, so you've not heard much the term 20th century, which resonates very clearly and distinctly to old geezers who were born, according to your system, in the 19th century (the years, duh, they begins with 19, like, so that's the sentry number 19, like).

OMG, OMG, OMG !!! Stop playing with your Gameboy for a while and read something for a change, dude!

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Em obviously I was talking about the 21st Century. :-P Fixed that. Thx.

Also, I am talking about BEST PICTURE WINNERS, not BEST MOVIES. The Academy says they are the best, not me.

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1. The Departed 10/10
2. No Country for Old Men 10/10
3. The Lord of the Rings 10/10
4. The King's Speech 10/10
5. Slumdog Millionaire 10/10
6. The Hurt Locker 9/10
7. Gladiator 8/10
8. Million Dollar Baby 8/10
9. Chicago 7/10
10. A Beautiful Mind 7/10
11. The Artist 7/10
12. Crash 7/10

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I'm kind of saddened by the available choices. Are these really the movies that have won Best Picture this century? None of them are that bad, but I wouldn't rate any of these a 10. I guess Gladiator would be my top choice, and after that I don't even care enough to list the rest.

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1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Million Dollar Baby
4. The Departed
5. Gladiator
6. No Country for Old Men
7. Crash
8. Slumdog Millionaire
9. A Beautiful Mind
10. The King's Speech

haven't seen: The Artist, Chicago

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1. Million Dollar Baby
2. Return Of The King
3. A Beautiful Mind
4. Gladiator
5. The King's Speech

... Havn't seen the rest

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



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

All great movies though

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You are the biggest dick head on this board hands down. Oh, and you are completely obsessed with The Artist. I picture you as the comic book guy from The Simpsons every time I read one of your pompous posts.

I dont doubt that you know more than I do about silent films and flim history in general, but I guarentee there are things (like any outdoor activity you can name) that I know much more about than you. The difference is when I have a client (I'm a fishing guide 3 months a year) I dont belittle or insult them because they cant tie a knot or because they dont know how to fly fish.

When one's opinion isnt the exact same as your opinion, you just call them a "child" or insult there intelligence. Do you have any other tricks other than acting like your opinion on film is end-all and be-all of opinions?

What happened to you when you were young that turned you into such a suck fest of human being?

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PRIME salmon fishing rivers in northern CA?

I'll stick with the Kenai peninsula in south central AK. N. CA is gorgeous but not close to Kenai for Kings/silvers/reds.

At least you dont deny what an azzhole you are.

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Well said

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Thank you, I wouldnt be surprised if that dude has any friends at all, at least if thats how he acts in real life. I am sure that if he were face to face with just about anyone that he insults on these forums his fat azz wouldnt say a word. *beep* him.

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Same for Hurt Locker

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

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1) LOTR: The Return of the King
2) No Country for Old Men
3) Gladiator
4) American Beauty (it's 21th Century for me)
5) The Departed
6) Crash
7) A Beautiful Mind
8) Millon Dollar Baby
9) The Artist
10) The King's Speech
11) The Hurt Locker
12) Slumdog Millonaire

Haven't seen:
Chicago

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Having still not seen Chicago or Million Dollar Baby this is going to be a little pointless, but hey...

=1) No Country for Old Men
=1) The Artist
3) The Hurt Locker
4) LOTR: The Return of the King
5) The Departed
6) A Beautiful Mind
7) The King's Speech
8) Slumdog Millionaire
9) Crash
10) Gladiator

I couldn't really choose between NCFOM and The Artist so I did the cowardly thing and chose them as joint first. The rest of the films I'd struggle to call anything approaching 'great', Gladiator and Crash both being on the good side of mediocre. Either way, you could quite easily make a list of ten films made in the last three years better than most on this list.

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I try to rate every movie I see within 24 hours of viewing it. Here are my ratings at the time, and my rankings within each numbered category (as I rate them today). I gave all of the Best Picture Winners very good (8/10) to classic (10/10) ratings. It was close this year, because, except for the visual experience, I was not impressed by Hugo (6/10)

10/10:
Crash (I know alot of you didn't like this one - it's my top rated Best Picture of the new millenium - But it does not crack my Top 100 - The Social Network is #70 on that list, and no others from the last 12 years - American Beauty from 1999 is the last Best Picture to make my Top 100, at #59)

Chicago (Sorry I'm a sucker for musicals)
Slumdog Millionaire

9/10
The Artist
The King's Speech

8/10
The Departed
A Beautiful Mind
No Country for Old Men
The Hurt Locker
Gladiator (Very good Toga and Sandals stuff, but there are many better ones, like Spartacus, Ben Hur & The Ten Commmandments - silent and sound . . .)

Million Dollar Baby (Sorry Clint but Unforgiven is ranked #55 in my Top 100)




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I did this list based on my opinion about the movies itself, not about if the movie was the best winner at the time:

(From best to Worst)
The King’s Speech
Chicago
The Artist
Gladiator
The Hurt Locker
Million Dollar Baby
A Beautiful Mind
Lord of the Rings
The Departed
No Country for old Men
Slumdog Millionaire

Before trolling, this is my opinion. But to be honest I think century isn’t exactly the best century for “movies” if you ask me.
Crash is the only movie I haven’t seen so far, so I take it out of the list because I don’t know who good or bad is it.

I’m shocked why many people didn’t like Chicago O.O

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The Artist
Slumdog Millionaire
The King's Speech
The Return of the King
No Country for Old Men
The Hurt Locker
Million Dollar Baby
A Beautiful Mind
Gladiator
Chicago
The Departed
Crash (This is one of the all time worst films to ever win Best Picture. Not even worthy of a nomination.)

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No Country for Old Men
The King's Speech
The Hurt Locker
The Return of the King
Million Dollar Baby
The Artist
Slumdog Millionaire
A Beautiful Mind
The Departed
Chicago
Crash

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