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The results of the Times Leader’s readers’ ballot for this year’s Oscars is locked in! This is the first-ever poll — at least to my knowledge — of this kind made just for Times Leader readers. Now that the votes have been tallied, I’m happy to present the results.

This year’s crop of Best Picture nominees is an interesting bunch, from international films to heavy dissections of the American Dream. Rather than describing them vaguely, let’s take a look at each of this year’s nominees, ranked from worst to first.

In this seventeenth and final part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be offering up my choices for the five best winners of Best Picture. The five films listed include my personal favorite movie, a classic epic with a large scope in story and spectacle, a spirited story that represents the best of Hollywood’s Golden Age, and both halves of an iconic American saga.

In this sixteenth and penultimate part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating the two best winners released during my lifetime, and three films featuring iconic movie villains.

In this fifteenth part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating last year’s Best Picture winner, a film directed by one of Wilkes-Barre’s own, and the perfect romantic comedy and disaster films.

In this thirteenth part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating Alfred Hitchcock’s Best Picture winner, a film close to the hearts of Pennsylvanians, and the highest grossing movie of all-time.

In this twelfth part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating films with wildly different settings — from the trenches to the suburbs to the multiverse.

In this eleventh part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating five films with big cinematic appeal, and a small scale classic that made a legend of its budding star.

In this tenth part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating some of the most somber films to win Best Picture, including efforts from modern auteurs Bigelow, McQueen, and Scorsese.