re: Pick YOUR Best Picture Winners from the Past 10 Years

That was 15 man.

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How was Gravity nominated for best picture in 2013 but Interstellar not in 2014? Gravity was a very simplistic movie, but caught on for whatever reason that year. Interstellar had some faults but much was a much better movie than Selma and American Sniper.

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Because critics were comparing it to debatably the greatest Sci fi film of all time 2001: A Space Odyssey as if it had to equal it. The fact that the Last Jedi and Ghostbusters 2016 have higher T-Meter ratings is simply comical. I think even Interstellar bashers would agree it’s absurd.

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And out of all those years and all the movies Id pick Whiplash best of the decade.

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man what a movie.

fuggin incredible.

2008: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button I guess, but that's a very very bad list to me. Though if Dark Knight was on this list, that would be my choice.

2009: Inglourious Basterds. Very very easy decision. Only legit answer and is by far the best movie of the decade. That or Whiplash. 2009 wasn't a good movie year

2010: I'd say Inception. At least there were some very good choices here that can't go wrong. The Social Network, King's Speech, Black Swan, The Fighter, 127 Hours, Toy Story 3, and True Grit were all very good though and you could make cases for them all.

2011: Moneyball. Easily. I absolutely love that movie, but man there were some garbage arse movies if those were the best movies of that year. Probably the worst year for movies of all time.

2012: Silver Linings Playbook. It's an absolute toss up between that and Django Unchained to me. Django was more entertaining, but Silver Linings Playbook was a better all around movie, so I'll go with that one.

2013: American Hustle. Wolf of Wall Street is a very close 2nd, but American had a better balance of plot, scripting, and acting. Don't get people's hate with that movie. Two David Russell movies in a row. 12 Years a Slave, Nebraska, Captain Phillips, and Dallas Buyer's Club were also great. Good movie year.

2014: Whiplash. Not even close. Another pretty good year for good movies, but Whiplash just blows the rest out of the water. This or Inglourious Basterds are the best movie of the decade by far. Take your pick.

2015: Definitely the Martian. fricking loved this movie and outside of Kristen Wiig's terrible acting, this movie is perfect. This year was pretty weak, but The Revenant and Mad Max were both very very good. The Big Short was also decent.

2016: Hell or High Water, but it's close between that Fences and Hacksaw Ridge that were also very good. Hell or High Water seemed like a more original, more intense crime movie and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Good not great movies throughout 2016.

2017: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. It was very very hard for me to decide between that and The Shape of Water. Both were fricking excellent, but slight edge to Three Billboards. Baby Driver should be included in this too. Best action movie I've seen in a long long time. I think this is a decent year.


And if I had to rank the best winners of the past decade in order:

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Whiplash
3. The Martian
4. Moneyball
5. Silver Linings Playbook
6. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
7. Inception
8. American Hustle
9. Hell or High Water
10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The King's Speech and Social Network are the best movies on the entire list.

Guess I'd go with King's Speech.

Winter's Bone
Dallas Buyers Club
Her
Nebraska
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Slumdog Millionaire
Lion

Were all probably better than most on the list but some appeared in the same years.

Mad Max Fury Road for the decade.

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Most definitely the strongest group out of them all.

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It did remind me how big of a piece of shite “The Kids are All Right” was though. I’ve seen all the Best Picture nominees from 2010, and that movie was a Dumpster Fire that had no business in being in the company of those movies. If that movie had been about a straight man fricking the biological mother of their children instead of his wife that raised the kids, it’d be in the 30s on the T-Meter. They just put it in there because of the LGBT angle. In a year of great films mostly involving white people, they had to shove in one diversity pick for the hell of it.

2010’s list is really good. I like all of those movies

2008 Frost/Nixon
2009 District 9
2010 Inception
2011 Hugo
2012 Django Unchained
2013 Wolf of Wall Street
2014 Birdman
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 La La Land
2017 Dunkirk