Ranking the 1940 Best Picture Nominees

It’s the beginning of a new decade. And honestly, this was a let down of a year. Not all the movies nominated this year were bad, but considering it had to follow up 1939, it doesn’t inspire confidence. Some of the films on this list are absolute classics, but they are the minority. Most of

Ranking the 1939 Best Picture Nominees

1939 was a huge year not just for the Oscars, but for movies in general. Most consider this year to be the greatest year in film history. All the movies nominated for this year are considered classics and some of the greatest movies ever made. And I would agree as so far this is the

Ranking the 1938 Best Picture Nominees

While this is not as bad a year as 1936, 1938 is a bit of a step down in quality from 1937. The movies from this year are not as good as 1937, but they are not all bad either. Some of the nominees are considered classics, which I somewhat agree with. Just be grateful

Ranking the 1937 Best Picture Nominees

Holy crap we have a really good year this year! After the terrible year that was 1936, I was surprised at how many good movies came out in 1937. It also helps that there are movies on this list that some of you might have heard of or seen, unlike in 1936 where even I

Ranking DreamWorks Animated Movies from Worst to Best

I’ve decided to take a break from watching all the Academy Award Best Picture nominees to talk about an animation studio I should have talked about a while ago: DreamWorks Animation. Like a lot of people my age and younger, I grew up with a lot of their early work and had sometimes dabbled into

Ranking the 1936 Best Picture Nominees

So far, 1936 has been the worst year for the Best Picture nominees. I know I’ve complained about other years before, but when I don’t like a single nomination from this year, you know you’ve done something wrong. There isn’t a single good film that I would ever want to revisit again on this list.

Ranking the 1935 Best Picture Nominees

We are now, officially, out of the Pre-Code era of films and into the Hays Code era. This means that violent and sexual scenes that you could see in movies from 1927 to 1934 are no more. Everything has to be passed as morally acceptable by the Hays Code board and the movies from this

Ranking the 1934 Best Picture Nominees

We’re finally done with the two year awards and have officially just stuck with the calendar year as the start of the award season. I can’t tell you how happy I am to stick to talking about the films that come out in one calendar year, rather than going back and forth between two differing

Ranking the 1932/1933 Best Picture Nominees

Well this took a hell of a lot longer to get through than the last few years. Maybe it’s because the list increased to 10 nominees now, or maybe it’s because the movies are not as good as they were in the other years. Yeah, I won’t lie, these two years were a slog to

Ranking the 1931/1932 Best Picture Nominees

So now we have gone from five Best Picture nominations to eight. I don’t know why it skyrocketed to that many films, but that just means it’s going to be a harder job watching even more films for this retrospective. But honestly, I think this list of nominees is way better than the year before.