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

1. Chicago
2. No Country for Old Men
3. The Artist
4. Million Dollar Baby
5. The King's Speech
6. Slumdog Millionaire
7. The Hurt Locker
8. The Departed (of all the movies Scorsese could win for, it's this, ugh)
9. A Beautiful Mind
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (ironically, if FotR or TTT had won, they'd be #1 on my list)
11. Crash (ugh)

If you took my favorite movie from each year, though, it would look like this:

1. The Social Network (2010)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
3. Hugo (2011)
4. The Prestige (2006)
5. Catch Me if You Can (2002)
6. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
7. Batman Begins (2005)
8. In Bruges (2008)
9. Closer (2004)
10. Love Actually (2003)
11. Juno (2007)

1. Gladiator
2. The Departed
3. The artist
4. Crash
5. Million dollar baby
6. Slumdog Millionaire
7. The kings speech
8. The hurt locker

never seen the others

I'm including Gladiator. Deal.

The Hurt Locker 10
No Country for Old Men 9
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 9
The Departed 9
The Artist 9
Gladiator 8
A Beautiful Mind 8
The King's Speech 8
Slumdog Millionaire 8
Crash 7
Million Dollar Baby 7
Chicago 7

I do like the fact that most people consider Crash to be Trash - but then how is it that it has 8.0 on imdb?? :-/

Vincent: Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face.

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

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


from 7 to 12 it gets a little difficult to rate...
these don't feel like definite best picture of the year, almost more like best by default

Slumdog Millionaire is WAY better than The King's Speech.

Million Dollar 9+/10
Slumdog Millionaire 9/10
The Artist 8+/10
The Departed 8+/10
The Hurt Locker 8/10
A Beautiful Mind 8-/10
No Country For Old Men 7-/10
Crash 7-/10
The Gladiator 6/10
Chicago 6/10
The King's Speech


I won't rate The Return Of The King, because I have to see it more carefully to understand its meaning.