Oscarfever! 2012: Best Picture Lists

In honor of tomorrow's big show, here's a couple big Oscar-related lists for the day.  First, I've ranked all 76 of the Best Picture winners I've seen:

1. Casablanca   

2. Annie Hall

3. Sunrise

4. All About Eve

5. An American in Paris

6. Gone With the Wind

7. My Fair Lady

8. Unforgiven

9. The Godfather Part II

10. Lawrence of Arabia

11. Amadeus

12. On the Waterfront

13. The French Connection

14. The Godfather

15. It Happened One Night

16. The Best Years of Our Lives

17. Rebecca

18. All Quiet on the Western Front

19. The Apartment

20. How Green Was My Valley

21. The English Patient

22. The Departed

23. West Side Story

24. Patton

25. Wings

26. Gigi

27. The Sting

28. No Country for Old Men

29. Going My Way

30. Out of Africa

31. Mutiny on the Bounty

32. Hamlet

33. Midnight Cowboy

34. The Bridge on the River Kwai

35. The Silence of the Lambs

36. Platoon

37. The Return of the King

38. The Last Emperor

39. Schindler's List

40. The Deer Hunter

41. All the King's Men

42. Rocky

43. The Hurt Locker

44. Titanic

45. Marty

46. Ordinary People

47. Ben-Hur

48. You Can't Take It With You

49. In the Heat of the Night

50. Slumdog Millionaire

51. Terms of Endearment

52. Shakespeare in Love

53. Braveheart

54. The Broadway Melody

55. Oliver!

56. Grand Hotel

57. Dances with Wolves

58. A Man for All Seasons

59. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

60. The King's Speech

61. Kramer vs. Kramer

62. American Beauty

63. Gandhi

64. The Lost Weekend

65. Cimarron

66. Forrest Gump

67. Million Dollar Baby

68. Chariots of Fire

69. The Sound of Music

70. Rain Man

71. Gladiator

72. Cavalcade

73. A Beautiful Mind

74. Gentlemen's Agreement

75. Driving Miss Daisy

76. Crash

 The seven winners I haven't seen yet are: The Great Ziegfeld, The Life of Emile Zola

Mrs. Miniver, The Greatest Show on Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, Tom Jones,  and Chicago.

Second, a list of all the actual winners in chronological order, followed in parentheses by the actual nominee I would have picked (limited of course by the films I've seen) and my personal choice as Best Picture.  I'm following as best I can the Oscar eligibility rules for Hollywood films (foreign film release dates are too complicated, so for the sake of this exercise, let's just assume that films have been released simultaneously in all parts of the world).  

Looking at this list, it's reassuring how many great movies have been nominated for Best Picture, even if the eventual winners were lackluster.  18 times my favorite of the year was one of the nominees, with my favorite winning six times (Sunrise, Casablanca, All About Eve, An American in Paris, Annie Hall and Unforgiven).  If The Tree of Life pulls off a huge upset tomorrow, it'll be the seventh.

27/28: Sunrise/Wings (Sunrise, Sunrise)

28/29: The Broadway Melody (The Broadway Melody, The Docks of New York)

29/30: All Quiet on the Western Front (All Quiet on the Western Front, The Man with a Movie Camera)

30/31: Cimarron (The Front Page, City Lights)

31/32: Grand Hotel (Shanghai Express, Trouble in Paradise)

32/33: Cavalcade (42nd Street, Duck Soup)

1934: It Happened One Night (The Thin Man, L'Atalante)

1935: Mutiny on the Bounty (Top Hat, Top Hat)

1936: The Great Ziegfeld (Dodsworth, Swing Time)

1937: The Life of Emile Zola (The Awful Truth, Make Way For Tomorrow)

1938: You Can't Take It with You (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Bringing Up Baby)

1939: Gone with the Wind (Stagecoach, The Rules of the Game)

1940: Rebecca (The Philadelphia Story, The Shop Around the Corner)

1941: How Green Was My Valley (Citizen Kane, Citizen Kane)

1942: Mrs. Miniver (The Magnificent Ambersons, Cat People)

1943: Casablanca (Casablanca, Casablanca)

1944: Going My Way (Double Indemnity, A Canterbury Tale)

1945: The Lost Weekend (The Bells of St. Mary's, Children of Paradise)

1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (It's a Wonderful Life, The Big Sleep)

1947: Gentlemen's Agreement (Crossfire, Black Narcissus)

1948: Hamlet (The Red Shoes, The Red Shoes)

1949: All the King's Men (A Letter to Three Wives, The Third Man)

1950: All About Eve (All About Eve, All About Eve)

1951: An American in Paris (An American in Paris, An American in Paris)

1952: The Greatest Show on Earth (The Quiet Man, Singin' in the Rain)

1953: From Here to Eternity (Roman Holiday, Ugetsu)

1954: On the Waterfront (On the Waterfront, Seven Samurai)

1955: Marty (Mister Roberts, Night of the Hunter)

1956: Around the World in 80 Days (The Ten Commandments, The Searchers)

1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai (Witness for the Prosecution, Funny Face)

1958: Gigi (Gigi, Vertigo)

1959: Ben-Hur (Anatomy of a Murder, North by Northwest)

1960: The Apartment (The Apartment, Psycho)

1961: West Side Story (West Side Story, A Woman is a Woman)

1962: Lawrence of Arabia (Lawrence of Arabia, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)

1963: Tom Jones (How the West Was Won, The Birds)

1964: My Fair Lady (Dr. Strangelove, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)

1965: The Sound of Music (Dr. Zhivago, Pierrot le fou)

1966: A Man for All Seasons (A Man for All Seasons, Au hasard Balthazar)

1967: In the Heat of the Night (Bonnie & Clyde, Playtime)

1968: Oliver! (The Lion in Winter, Once Upon a Time in the West)

1969: Midnight Cowboy (Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, A Touch of Zen)

1970: Patton (Patton, Claire's Knee)

1971: The French Connection (The French Connection, Two-Lane Blacktop)

1972: The Godfather (Cabaret, Cabaret)

1973: The Sting (The Sting, F for Fake)

1974: The Godfather Part II (Chinatown, Celine & Julie Go Boating)

1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Jaws, Jaws)

1976: Rocky (Taxi Driver, Taxi Driver)

1977: Annie Hall (Annie Hall, Annie Hall)

1978: The Deer Hunter (The Deer Hunter, Days of Heaven)

1979: Kramer vs. Kramer (All that Jazz, Manhattan)

1980: Ordinary People (Raging Bull, The Empire Strikes Back)

1981: Chariots of Fire (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Raiders of the Lost Ark)

1982: Gandhi (The Verdict, Fitzcarraldo)

1983: Terms of Endearment (The Right Stuff, Sans soleil)

1984: Amadeus (Amadeus, Stranger than Paradise)

1985: Out of Africa (Out of Africa, Ran)

1986: Platoon (Hannah and her Sisters, Hannah and Her Sisters)

1987: The Last Emperor (Broadcast News, The Princess Bride)

1988: Rain Man (Dangerous Liaisons, Dangerous Liaisons)

1989: Driving Miss Daisy (Field of Dreams, Do the Right Thing)

1990: Dances with Wolves (Goodfellas, Miller's Crossing)

1991: Silence of the Lambs (JFK, Slacker)

1992: Unforgiven (Unforgiven, Unforgiven)

1993: Schindler's List (In the Name of the Father, Three Colors: Blue)

1994: Forrest Gump (Pulp Fiction, Chungking Express)

1995: Braveheart (Sense & Sensibility, Dead Man)

1996: The English Patient (The English Patient, Transpotting)

1997: Titanic (Titanic, Boogie Nights)

1998: Shakespeare in Love (The Thin Red Line, The Big Lebowski)

1999: American Beauty (The Insider, Eyes Wide Shut)

2000: Gladiator (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

2001: A Beautiful Mind (The Fellowship of the Ring, Millennium Mambo)

2002: Chicago (The Two Towers, Punch-Drunk Love)

2003: Return of the King (Master and Commander, Kill Bill Vol. 1)

2004: Million Dollar Baby (The Aviator, 2046)

2005: Crash (Munich, The New World)

2006: The Departed (The Departed, The Wind that Shakes the Barley)

2007: No Country for Old Men (There Will Be Blood, I'm Not There)

2008: Slumdog Millionaire (Milk, WALL-E)

2009: The Hurt Locker (Inglourious Basterds, Inglourious Basterds)

2010: The King's Speech (True Grit, Certified Copy)

2011: ??? ?????? (The Tree of Life, The Tree of Life)