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Order of Merit: Best Picture

All the films I consider "Best Picture" worthy over time. There are no nominations or limits, just a threshold of "that good". I started tracking in late 2021 so this only includes films I've watched or re-watched since then.

  • Three Colours: Red
  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • Train Dreams
  • The Brutalist
  • Wake Up Dead Man
  • No Other Choice
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • The Clock
  • The Killer
  • Sinners
  • Hard Boiled
  • Sholay
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  • All About Eve
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • A Fish Called Wanda
  • Thief
  • Anora
  • Jesus Christ Superstar
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Shrek
  • The Lion in Winter
  • All We Imagine as Light
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • True Stories
  • The Straight Story
  • White Heat
  • The Ox-Bow Incident
  • Titanic
  • Leaving Las Vegas
  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  • The Hunt
  • Red Cliff II
  • The Shop on Main Street
  • Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
  • The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
  • Watermelon Man
  • How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
  • Tampopo
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Harakiri
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Sparrow
  • Unbreakable
  • The Taste of Things
  • You Can Count on Me
  • My Cousin Vinny
  • Underground
  • The Boy and the Heron
  • Cure
  • Chicago
  • Face/Off
  • The Birdcage
  • Shane
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
  • The Searchers
  • In the Loop
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • Jaws
  • Last Life in the Universe
  • The Informer
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  • Vampire Hunter D
  • Made in Hong Kong
  • Ordinary People
  • Chinatown
  • The Fugitive
  • Bound
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • Civil War
  • Challengers
  • The Sting
  • Stop Making Sense
  • West Side Story
  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • Mission: Impossible
  • Broadcast News
  • Dune: Part Two
  • The Abyss
  • Farewell My Concubine
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • Magnolia
  • Evil Does Not Exist
  • Once
  • The Color of Money
  • Crimson Tide
  • Enemy of the State
  • The Zone of Interest
  • Fargo
  • The First Slam Dunk
  • The Puppetmaster
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • The Boy Friend
  • Redline
  • The Watermelon Woman
  • Raging Bull
  • Blue Giant
  • A Bride for Rip Van Winkle