Best & Worst
of the Year

Best Release:
The Interrupters

Worst Release:
Angels Crest

Best Rental:
Man with a Movie Camera

Worst Rental:
Chloe

Best Picture Nominees

I am working on a year-by-year discussion of the Best Picture nominees. Each year's page will include the following: a discussion of that year at the Oscars; my comments on each nominee, including a list of the Oscars each film was nominated for and won; and a list of my top ten films from that year.

I started this project back when I actually thought that the Oscars had something to do with actual quality of film. I've continued it because I like to finish things that I start, and because I'm so close, but mainly because I think the Oscars are a valuable window into what mainstream people of a given year thought was good.

Click here for a list of all of the Best Picture nominees for which I have written full reviews.

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Best Picture Nominees I haven't seen: All That Jazz (1979), All This, and Heaven Too (1940), Auntie Mame (1958), Becket (1964), Cleopatra (1963), Coming Home (1978), Doctor Dolittle (1967), Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Dresser (1983), East Lynne (1930–lost), Fanny (1961), Funny Girl (1968), Giant (1956), Gone with the Wind (1939–winner), Hold Back the Dawn (1941), Imitation of Life (1934), Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), My Fair Lady (1964–winner), Nashville (1975), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Norma Rae (1979), The Nun's Story (1959), Ordinary People (1980–winner), The Patriot (1928–lost), The Sand Pebbles (1966), Seabiscuit (2003), Seventh Heaven (1927), Skippy (1930), The Song of Bernadette (1943), Sons and Lovers (1960), State Fair (1932), Tess (1980), The White Parade (1934), Zorba the Greek (1964).