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Best Picture Winners, Ranked: Nos. 62-57

In this seventh part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating six well-made dramas with differing levels of influence.

Best Picture Winners, Ranked: Nos. 68-63

In this sixth part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating some underrated classics and another one of the Academy’s recent choices.

Best Picture Winners, Ranked: Nos. 74-69

In this fifth part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating some solid but bland Best Picture winners, as well as a cutting-edge New Hollywood film that’s never appealed to me.

Best Picture Winners, Ranked: Nos. 80-75

In this fourth part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating movies that took big creative or aesthetic swings, but were a bit shaky in their execution.

Best Picture Winners, Ranked: Nos. 86-81

In this third part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating some of the Oscars’ most forgettable champions.

Best Picture Winners, Ranked: Nos. 92-87

In this second part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating a couple of films that simplify the complicated, and a monstrosity from the 1950s that amounts to very little.

Best Picture Winners, Ranked: Nos. 97-93

In this first part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating a trio of overlong snores, and two classic musicals that have aged poorly.

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