Best Picture: 2004

1998 through 2007

Best Picture: 2004

The Aviator
15
22%
Finding Neverland
1
1%
Million Dollar Baby
29
43%
Ray
0
No votes
Sideways
23
34%
 
Total votes: 68

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The Aviator.
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Million Dollar Baby.

Ray is an average made for cable biopic, and Sideways has some good elements but parts of it ring false, and I can't stand the character of Miles. All I want is to punch him in the face. The Aviator is at best a cinematic Spruce Goose of itself--someone blowing a huge budget on something that only flies for a short while, when something smaller and less bloated would've made more sense. At worst, it's a three hour lecture on the producer as auteur. Never bothered to watch more than a few scenes of Finding Neverland--in my quest to see all of the Best Picture nominees, this is probably one that I'll put off the longest.
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Million Dollar Baby, no question. The Aviator is second-rate Scorsese, I never loved Sideways like others do, Fiding Neverland is fluff and Ray is a bland biopic.
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Sideways
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Sideways.
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Who would you have chosen?
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