Best of the Best: Best Picture

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The Best of the Best: Best Picture

Shakespeare in Love
4
10%
American Beauty
5
12%
Gladiator
0
No votes
A Beautiful Mind
0
No votes
Chicago
2
5%
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
9
21%
Million Dollar Baby
6
14%
Crash
0
No votes
The Departed
6
14%
No Country for Old Men
10
24%
 
Total votes: 42
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1) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2) No Country for Old Men
3) The Departed
4) Million Dollar Baby
5) Chicago
6) Shakespeare in Love
7) Gladiator
8) American Beauty
9) Crash
10) A Beautiful Mind
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Three of these landed on top of their respective years: American Beauty, The Departed, and Million Dollar Baby. I went with American Beauty.
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1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Million Dollar baby
3. I hated the movie at the time, but over the years I loved it more and more in a campy kind of way (the same reason I love Titanic): Gladiator.

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Newly difficult lineup. I give it to 'No Country'. 'Shakespeare in Love' is only a good movie because it's so lovely; in actuality, it's fairly middling but benefits from a lovely accidental presence. And I'm still not convinced that 'The Departed' wasn't an editing room masterpiece. 'No Country' is confident from beginning to end in its vision and I respect that a little more.
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Shakespeare in Love, Return of the King, The Departed, and No Country for Old Men are all terrific winners, but I'm still moved every time I see Million Dollar Baby. Eastwood achieves the elegiac in an unlikely place and his sure, steady hand is a thing of beauty despite Paul Haggis' conservative tendencies. The man was simply robbed of the Best Actor Oscar.
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The Departed
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Shakespeare in Love.
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Thank goodness for No Country or I'd never be able to decide between The Departed and Million Dollar Baby. The Coens manage to surpass Scorsese and Eastwood here. Shakespeare is lovely and Rings is OK. The rest are shit.



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Hustler wrote:Maybe, most of you will choose Crash, but I´m going with A Beautiful Mind.
Don´t take that! I´ve got mixed up. I misunderstood the concept. In spite my vote which was misplaced, best picture of the decade is NCFOM.
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Maybe, most of you will choose Crash, but I´m going with A Beautiful Mind.
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Now that the 8th Decade has wrapped up, we can do a bit of examining. Now, since this year's films are firmly in the heads of everyone, I fully expect there to be some prejudice, so we'll have to take that with a grain of salt.
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