Ranking The Best Picture Nominees For The Oscars

One man. Nine movies. No Master. Here’s how one of our writers would rank the nine films in the running for this year’s Best Picture Oscar.

So one of the nice side benefits of perpetual unemployment, other than learning to translate which Craigslist job ads are for porn (read: ALL OF THEM), is that you’ve got plenty of time to catch up on movies. In a first, I’ve actually managed to see every Best Picture nominee that the year has had to offer, so I thought I’d drop my two cents on how they all measure up. Even with snubs to both The Master, and my own personal favorite movie of the year, this is a strong selection of films, and everything on this list is absolutely worth checking out. So enjoy, and remember: I’m not an authority on these matters, I’m the ONLY^*authority on these matters!!!

*Side effects of chronic unemployment may also include mild megalomania to justify spending a whole evening writing about an awards show that, let’s face it, is mostly meaningless.

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http://www.facebook.com/Aproposofthewetsnow Stephen Doria

Wow. Although I respect your opinion & I found entertainment in reading your article, I personally feel that your ranking order would have to push itself to be further from my perspective.
- Sam
  
  Haha, thanks for reading and commenting. I’d be curious to read your preference in ranking. I think you could list these in just about any order, and make a convincing argument for doing so.
Billy

Wow indeed. Good idea for an article, but I didn’t even bother moving on after the comments on Les Mis.

Mine would be something like this:

9. Beasts of the Southern Wild
8. Amour
7. Life of Pi
6. Zero Dark Thirty
5. Argo
4. Silver Linings Playbook
3. Django Unchained
2. Lincoln
1. Les Miserables
Tex

Although I loved Les Miz and I firmly believe Anne Hathaway will win an Oscar for her role, I would put Lincoln on top. Now that it’s basically known that Zero Dark Thirty isn’t really all that near to the truth of what happened the night we got Osama (thanks to the Navy Seal’s book), I have a hard time seeing that one coming out on top.