Best Picture Rankings... the serious and the silly
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 3:31PM by Nathaniel
It may surprise you to know that DUNE does not even have the highest death count among the Best Picture nominees
Each year after the Oscar nominations are announced we give ourselves over, even more fully, to our primal mania of list-making. On the updated Best Picture Oscar Chart you'll find a daily Reader's Choice poll, plus lots of info on the films, how we did on our predictions, and multiple very random lists like these...
I'm noticing we've been very light on coverage of Licorice Pizza and Nightmare Alley -- these things kind of happen but they're never planned avoidances! It's just the confluence of timing issues, what I am personally drawn to writing about and what the team happens to pitch me for their own pieces.
Any requests on topics, performances or films, you'd really like to read more about here at TFE?
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Reader Comments (20)
I’d love an article where each member of TFE ranks the Best Actress contenders and adds a brief capsule explaining why. I think that’s the acting category this year that contains the most divisive performances so I’m curious to see where everyone lands. (My two cents is that I think all five contenders range from very good to stellar)
How about an article about the internationality of the acting and directing nominees? This year, only 12 of 20 are from the U.S. (I don't count Kidman or Garfield.)
How about hotness content, as suggested by the picture? Or are we afraid of the scolds who will emerge from the woodwork if we admit that 25 year old Kodi Smit-McPhee is, yes, a hottie?
@ Dan H
But hotness is
in the eye of the thermometera matter of taste.@ Working stiff. So are the Oscars. While there are some quantifiable stats, much of what we talk about here is opinion.
Nathaniel, Licorice Pizza is rated R, not PG-13...
EDIT: I just saw that you fixed it, sorry.
@ Dan H
So then you'll admit that the true hottie in that category is Daddy Jesse. ;-)
Just a minor qualm at the moment. Under the RT/MetaCritic section you place Don't Look Up as panned which is kind of odd to me. The critics are firmly split on it which I would say is more mixed reception as opposed to the movies in the mixed to positive which I would just state as mostly positive instead of mixed to positive when a majority of critics received those films well. Just a nitpick because when I see panned I honestly say oh god everyone hated it which is not the case here.
Would love to see the Horror Movie Actressing articles again! Also Hit Me With Your Best Shot!!
Aside from bringing those back, would love to see different fan art/poster art from around the web. Maybe a Parker Posey month in November. I hope they show clips this Oscars telecast because I miss ranking those Oscar clips.
@ Working Stiff. I could happily fall into bed with all three of the leading actors in POWER OF THE DOG. Also: Ramontay McConnell, Sean Keenan, and George Mason.
I second 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot' series. I loved those and they stayed with me so much, that sometimes I just do my personal, while watching films.
Also, the following is a SPOILER for Belfast: There is actually a death person at the end of the film, that is in fact crucial to the plot.
I'd also like a pick the Oscar clips post,Horror is low around here so something regular on classic or modern horror and not the old tried and tested ones like The Shining or Psycho or stuff that's been over discussed get Out or The Witch.
@ Dan H
Eclectic taste, I'm with you.
(But don't get me started about the men of Dune and West Side Story...)
Notes & questions:
"Ranked by Horniness"
N/A
King Richard
(not even "In Horny Matrimony"?)
"Most likely to become a Broadway musical"
Nightmare Alley
(already is a musical, premiered in 2010 at the Geffen in L.A.)
"Longest to Shortest"
Belfast 98 min
Marty (1955) 91 min
Annie Hall (1977) 93 min
Driving Miss Daisy (1989) 99 min
The Artist (2011) 100 min
(Is Belfast comparable to these "quickie" winners?)
Oh Bradley, they're all ignoring you, which means more of you for ME!!!
thank you for these suggestions!
update on the death count: not everybody survives belfast
Calling dibs on Finneas O'Connell
These might be topics suitable for a link, but I'd love a discussion about which streaming service we should be watching. Now that's a Top Ten ranking that might be valuable in "real life."
Also, since we might all get to actually open our doors and travel this year, what are the Top Ten cities for watching movies in real, magical movie theaters? Maybe even for live stage performances? Again, a real life list that would be helpful to everyone.
Beyond that, I'd like to see which "new" people of the Class of 2021 that the Film Experience thinks has what it takes to make an actual lasting mark in cinema.
And sure, agreeing with everyone else, let's have a hotness discussion. How about a secret hotness discussion? Who do you like that you think no one else does?
@ Working stiff. "(But don't get me started about the men of Dune and West Side Story...)"
I know! This year is filled with sexy men being sexy in the cinema. Yet another reason to watch the Academy Awards!