Oscars

If you're an aspiring film maker and you want your movie to win an Oscar for Best Picture follow these simple guidelines:
a. Your movie must be longer than 2 hours (bonus points for 3 hours+)
b. The more depressing the better. If you don't make the audience cry you have failed.
c. Movies about war are always appreciated.

Below are the 85 movies that have been honored by the Academy and my thoughts on each, including a rating. Let me know what you think. Think I got a review terribly wrong? Totally agree with how awful Cimarron was? Leave a comment!

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Year	Movie	Rating
2012	Argo
2011	The Artist
2010	The King’s Speech
2009	The Hurt Locker	4
2008	Slumdog Millionaire
2007	No Country for Old Men	2
2006	The Departed	4
2005	Crash	4
2004	Million Dollar Baby
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2002	Chicago
2001	A Beautiful Mind
2000	Gladiator
1999	American Beauty	2
1998	Shakespeare in Love	2
1997	Titanic
1996	The English Patient
1995	Braveheart
1994	Forrest Gump
1993	Schindler’s List	4
1992	Unforgiven
1991	The Silence of the Lambs
1990	Dances with Wolves
1989	Driving Miss Daisy
1988	Rain Man
1987	The Last Emperor
1986	Platoon
1985	Out of Africa	2
1984	Amadeus
1983	Terms of Endearment
1982	Gandhi
1981	Chariot’s of Fire
1980	Ordinary People
1979	Kramer Vs. Kramer	3
1978	The Deer Hunter
1977	Annie Hall	4
1976	Rocky	3
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	4
1974	The Godfather Part II	1
1973	The Sting
1972	The Godfather	3
1971	The French Connection
1970	Patton
1969	Midnight Cowboy
1968	Oliver!
1967	In the Heat of the Night
1966	A Man for All Seasons
1965	The Sound of Music
1964	My Fair Lady	2
1963	Tom Jones
1962	Lawrence of Arabia
1961	West Side Story
1960	The Apartment
1959	Ben-Hur
1958	Gigi
1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai
1956	Around the World in 80 Days	3
1955	Marty
1954	On the Waterfront
1953	From Here to Eternity
1952	The Greatest Show on Earth
1951	An American in Paris	3
1950	All About Eve
1949	All The King’s Men
1948	Hamlet
1947	Gentleman’s Agreement
1946	The Best Years of Our Lives
1945	The Lost Weekend
1944	Going My Way
1943	Casablanca
1942	Mrs. Miniver
1941	How Green Was My Valley
1940	Rebecca	3
1939	Gone With the Wind	4
1938	You Can’t Take it With You
1937	The Life of Emile Zola
1936	The Great Ziegfeld
1935	Mutiny on the Bounty
1934	It Happened One Night
1933	Cavalcade
1932	Grand Hotel	3
1931	Cimarron	1
1930	All Quiet on the Western Front	4
1929	The Broadway Melody	1
1928/27	Wings