Author: Andreas Babiolakis

We have reached the final instalment of this series, where every Academy Award winner for Best Picture is ranked within their respective decades. As we have not reached 2020 yet, all of the most recent winners will be combined with the previous decade. Why shouldn’t they be? We have witnessed a resurgence in the integrity […]

This is the sixth examination of every Academy Award for Best Picture winner. Sadly, the Oscar Bait years continue, and you will find the majority of the worst offenders of this phenomenon within these ten years. Epics weren’t as epic as they may have seemed, and some of the experiments here fall as flat as […]

This is the fifth examination at every Academy Award for Best Picture winner, and this is where the history of winners really starts to slow down. After the blazing experimentations of the ‘60s and ‘70s winners, something happened in the ‘80s that created the phenomenon we all know as “Oscar Bait”. Films got schmaltzy like […]

This is the fourth entry in this series, where every Academy Award for Best Picture winner gets ranked. This is the greatest decade in the history of the Academy. While the most recent years have had great results in winners (the Academy has swung back around from the lowest levels of Oscar Bait territory in […]

We have reached the ‘60s Best Picture winners, and this is where the experiment really gets interesting. The Hollywood Code has lost its control, filmmakers are bursting at the seams to change how every fundamental element of cinema works (editing, sound recording, acting, photography, etc.), and films were being used as podiums for political and […]

This is our second look at every Academy Award for Best Picture winner. In this instalment, we have entered the ‘50s. To compare to the previous winners, this portion will feature a larger percentage of films that are presented in colour. The Hollywood Code is still affecting the content of the films of this time, […]