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
American Beauty
9) Crash
10) A Beautiful Mind
Best of the Best: Best Picture
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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.
"How's the despair?"
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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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.
Wesley Lovell
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"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin