Every year, when I finally get around to everything, I like to toss up my arbitrary ranking of the year’s Oscar-nominated feature films (and invite you to do the same).
There were 41 films nominated this year. One of them I didn’t see and won’t until some time this year, I imagine. But here’s the top 10. The rest after the jump. Feel free to rank what you’ve seen in the comments section if you like.
1. “Exit Through the Gift Shop”
2. “Another Year”
3. “Black Swan”
4. “The Social Network”
5. “Toy Story 3”
6. “The Way Back”
7. “Blue Valentine”
8. “True Grit”
9. “Inception”
10. “The King’s Speech”
11. “The Fighter”
12. “In a Better World”
13. “Restrepo”
14. “127 Hours”
15. “The Illusionist”
16. “Gasland”
17. “The Town”
18. “Inside Job”
19. “The Kids Are All Right”
20. “How to Train Your Dragon”
21. “Tangled”
22. “Rabbit Hole”
23. “Waste Land”
24. “Biutiful”
25. “Barney’s Version”
26. “Winter’s Bone”
27. “I Am Love”
28. “Animal Kingdom”
29. “Outside the Law”
30. “Unstoppable”
31. “Dogtooth”
32. “TRON Legacy”
33. “Incendies”
34. “Country Strong”
35. “Salt”
36. “The Wolfman”
37. “Hereafter”
38. “Iron Man 2”
39. “Alice in Wonderland”
40. “The Tempest”
Did not see: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I”
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63 responses to “Ranking Oscar’s 41 features (minus one)”
This list reminds me of how many of the nominated movies I disliked. For what it’s worth:
1. “Blue Valentine”
2. “Toy Story 3″
3. “How to Train Your Dragon”
4. “The Social Network”
5. “127 Hours”
6. “The Fighter”
7. “Tangled”
8. “Exit Through the Gift Shop”
9. “True Grit”
10. “The Kids Are All Right”
11. “The King’s Speech”
12. “Dogtooth”
13. “Salt”
14. “Winter’s Bone”
15. “Unstoppable”
16. “TRON Legacy”
17. “Iron Man 2″
18. “Inception”
19. “Black Swan”
20. “Alice in Wonderland”
21. “Animal Kingdom”
Oh, I forgot “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.” It should go between “Exit Through the Gift Shop” and “True Grit.”
1. Black Swan
2. Blue Valentine
3. The Social Network
4. Inside Job
5. Animal Kingdom
6. The Way Back
7. The Fighter
8. The Town
9. 127 Hours
10. Inception
11. Dogtooth
12. Winter’s Bone
13. Toy Story 3
14. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 1
15. True Grit
16. Unstoppable
17. The Kids Are All Right
18. The Kings Speech
19. Salt
20. Exit Through the Gift Shop
21. Iron Man 2
22. TRON Legacy
23. Alice in Wonderland
1. The Social Network
2. Inception
3. Black Swan
4. Animal Kingdom
5. The Fighter
6. The King’s Speech
7. Rabbit Hole
8. Toy Story 3
9. 127 Hours
10. True Grit
11. Winter’s Bone
12. Alice in Wonderland
13. Iron Man 2
14. The Kids Are All Right
15. Blue Valentine
16. How To Train Your Dragon
17. Exit Through The Gift Shop
18. I Am Love
19. The Town
20. Harry Potter
21. Barney’s Version
22. Salt
23. TRON Legacy
24. Hereafter
25. Gasland
26. Dogtooth
I’m glad to see that almost all of you posted The Social Network above The King’s Speech.
A top 10 is enough for me:
1. “The Social Network”
2. “The Illusionist”
3. “Black Swan”
4. “Salt”
5. “True Grit”
6. “The Town”
7. “The Kids Are All Right”
8. “Tangled”
9. “Inception”
10. “Iron Man 2”
I’ve managed to see 40 of the nominated films – but I include shorts. This year, sadly, none of the foreign films.
In rough categories of subjective quality:
Excellent
1. “Black Swan”
2. “The Social Network”
3. “Toy Story 3″
4. “Exit Through the Gift Shop”
5. “Another Year”
6. “Inception”
7. “Blue Valentine”
8. “How to Train Your Dragon”
9. “The Confession”
10. “God of Love”
Really (maybe even surprisingly) good
11. “Restrepo”
12. “The Fighter”
13. “Salt”
Good
14. “The King’s Speech”
15. “127 Hours”
16. “The Gruffalo”
17. “Wish 143”
18. “Gasland”
19. “Inside Job”
20. “Winter’s Bone”
21. “The Kids Are All Right”
22. “The Lost Thing”
23. “Let’s Pollute”
Mixed
24. “TRON Legacy”
25. “Animal Kingdom”
26. “True Grit”
27. “The Way Back”
28. “Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage”
29. “The Town”
30. “Day & Night”
31. “The Warriors of Qiugang”
32. “Unstoppable”
33. “Iron Man 2″
Mediocre
34. “The Crush”
35. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1”
Films I hated (for various reasons)
36. “Rabbit Hole”
37. “I Am Love”
38. “Alice in Wonderland”
39. “Hereafter”
40. “The Illusionist”
1. Toy Story 3
2. Another Year
3. Tangled
4. The Kids Are All Right
5. True Grit
6. Biutiful
7. Winter’s Bone
8. Hereafter
9. How to Train Your Dragon
10. Inception
11. The Way Back
12. Unstoppable
13. The King’s Speech
14. The Social Network
15. Tron Legacy
16. The Town
17. The Fighter
18. Rabbit Hole
19. Alice in Wonderland
20. The Illusionist
21. Gasland
22. Barney’s Version
23. Black Swan
24. Salt
25. Harry Potter
26. 127 Hours
27. The Tempest
28. Iron Man 2
29. The Wolfman
Haven’t seen that many…
1) Black Swan
2) Toy Story 3
3) The Social Network
4) Tangled
5) The King’s Speech
6) How to Train Your Dragon
7) The Fighter
8) True Grit
9) Inception
10) The Kids Are All Right
11) Winter’s Bone
12) The Town
13) Iron Man 2
14) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
1. Black Swan
2. Incendies
3. The Fighter
4. The Kids Are All Right
5. Dogtooth
6. Barney’s Version
7. The Town
8. How to Train Your Dragon
9. Country Strong
10. True Grit
11. 127 Hours
12. The King’s Speech
13. Hereafter
14. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
15. The Way Back
16. Biutiful
17. Toy Story 3
18. Inception
19. Hors-la-loi
20. L’illusionniste
21. The Social Network
22. Blue Valentine
23. Another Year
24. I Am Love
25. Exit Through the Gift Shop
26. Tangled
27. Salt
28. Gasland
29. Iron Man 2
30. Unstoppable
31. Inside Job
32. Restrepo
33. Rabbit Hole
34. Animal Kingdom
35. Alice in Wonderland
36. Winter’s Bone
37. The Wolfman
38. TRON: Legacy
I didn’t see:
In a Better World
Waste Land
The Tempest
DylanS – Why would me not seeing the movies piss anybody off?
I assumed you were just putting down all of the films nominated without seeing them, if that’s not the case, then my appolgies. I just don’t understand why you so frequently write negitave comments relating to films you either haven’t seen or only partly saw (ex. Shutter Island), it just seems like an aim to piss people with more well-based opinions regarding those films off.
1. Inception
2. Black Swan
3. The Social Network
4. Rabbit Hole
5. How To Train Your Dragon
6. Inside Job
7. Exit Through the Gift Shop
8. The Kids Are All Right
9. The Town
10. Tangled
Lots to see though.
I’ve only seen 26 of the 41, but out of the 15 I’ve missed, 11 were in your bottom 13 (the two exceptions I’ve seen were Alice and Dogtooth; the four others I’m missing are Gasland, In A Better World, the Illusionist, and Barney’s Version). Most of the films I omitted were left out purposefully because I have no interest– sounds like it was a good thing– but I’m working to see In a Better World, Gasland, and Incendies.
My Top 10:
1. Black Swan
2. Blue Valentine
3. The Social Network
4. The Kids Are All Right
5. The King’s Speech (it *is* possible to like both!)
6. True Grit
7. Toy Story 3
8. Rabbit Hole
9. Biutiful (even though it’s kinda a mess)
10. Another Year
We have seven in common, Kris, but where we differ, we really differ. I don’t get the love for Exit through the Gift Shop (which I respect as a film), but I really, really don’t get the love for The Way Back. I saw it right after Another Year and the transition was painful.