Feb. 1, 2012 at 8:18pm with 14 notes View comments
Ranking & Rating the Best Picture Nominees

Nine films were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar this year and I have already rated and reviewed all nine in prior posts, but I thought I’d offer up an overview of my ratings, link to the reviews and then rank those nine nominees. I’d only call one of the films nominated terrible, while there are four I’d classify as great and seven of the nine are good films worth seeing. Like usual, Oscar overlooked MOST of the best films 2011 had to offer (My Best of the Year lists will FINALLY make an appearance in the third week of Feb), but nonetheless here’s the list from weakest to strongest.

As always here is my ratings system.

10= Perfection (maybe 5-10 films all-time have made this category)
9= Great Film/ Likely Masterpiece
8= Must See/ Worth Owning
7= Worth Seeing/ Recommend to Others
6= Decent and Not Unhappy to Have Viewed/ May Recommend to Select People, but Not to Most
5= Likely had Some Positives but Wasn’t a Good Film
4= Bad Film
3= Horrible Film
2= Offensively Bad Film/ Surely Angered Me to have Viewed
1= Worst Pile of Shite Ever Committed to Film



#9. War Horse ———————————————-4/10




#8. The Help ————————————————6/10




#7. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ——-7/10




#6. The Descendants —————————————7/10




#5. The Artist ———————————————-7/10




#4. The Tree of Life ————————————-8/10




#3. Midnight in Paris ————————————8/10




#2. Moneyball ————————————————8/10




#1. Hugo ——————————————————-8/10



How would you rank them?


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  1. perryspathetic said: out of the five ive seen so far, ive got Artist ahead of Midnight
  2. mikecutrone said: I really disliked Moneyball and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, but aside from that your rankings are spot on (although I do agree that Oscar omitted a lot of brilliant films.)
  3. filmigeek said: 4/10 for War Horse? That’s harsh, man.
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