1950s: The Postwar Boom

Looking closer at the fascinating early days in old Hollywood and ranking the top films of the golden age of cinema.

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The 1950s: in America, the decade is synonymous with rock 'n' roll, bobby socks, and the movies. If that last one didn't come to mind before, it certainly will after you read through this list. These are the very best Oscar nominated and winning movies of the 1950s, as ranked by you. These 1950s movies nominated for Best Picture make up a wide-ranging collection. Some are laugh-out-loud comedies, featuring legends like Gene Kelly and Spencer Tracy. Others are stirring dramas starring the likes of Bette Davis, Vivien Leigh, and Audrey Hepburn. Whichever flick is your favorite, you will likely agree that these Oscar-nominated 1950s movies are some of the best films of all time.What films will you find on this list of 1950s Best Picture winners and nominees? Gloria Swanson captivated movie-goers with her portrayal of aging movie star Norma Desmond in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard. The Billy Wilder-directed film was even nominated Best Picture. Roman Holiday is another good Oscar-nominated movie from the 1950s. Best Picture winner&nbsp;All About Eve&nbsp;gave audiences an inside look at the competitive world of contemporary Hollywood. Other great films featured on this&nbsp;list include A Place in the Sun, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Quiet Man.Which 1950s Oscar nominee should top the list? That's up to you to decide. Give your favorite films a thumbs up to move them towards the number-one spot.

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Animated movies have been around since Disney released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, but it wasn't until 2001 that the Academy first introduced a new award category for this kind of movie. In 2001, Shrek took home the first Oscar given for Best Animated Feature. This list includes every movie to win an Oscar for animated film, including titles such as “Toy Story 3”, “Brave,&quot;&nbsp;and “Happy Feet.”Movies have the ability to make us feel. They make us want to believe, be inspired and live vicariously through the stories we see on screen. It is for this reason we often feel an emotional connection to films. The best of these movies are often bestowed with an Academy Award nomination, and those that are <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-truly-hard-seltzer-flavors/bottoms-up?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">truly the best</a> take home the Oscar.These best Oscar winning animated films provide a kind of escapism that filmmakers hope people seek in entertainment. They are often heart-warming, endearing, and appropriate for the whole family. They provide the type of entertainment that is groundbreaking in their technology and their story-telling. These movies vary in their genre, though many are comedies, but they are all equally engaging.Though all of these animated films were the best in their year, some are still the best of all winners. Vote up the best Academy Award winning animated films below.

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Every year, Hollywood holds its collective&nbsp;breath to find out which&nbsp;films, actors, directors, and more will be awarded for their work in the previous year at the Academy Awards. The film industry&#39;s obsession with awards and prestige led to the creation of an entire genre of films catered specifically to garnering such accolades, Oscar bait films. The glut of such pictures resulted in a bizarre class structure, at the top of which you have Oscar winning classics, at the bottom of which you have god-awful&nbsp;catastrophes like J.&nbsp;Edgar, and in the middle you have <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/pretty-good-horror-movies/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">pretty good</a> Oscar bait movies, some of which may have even won a trophy or two.&nbsp;

Mediocre Oscar bait films are&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/pretty-good-movies-about-demons-to-watch/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">okay movies</a> that failed to live up to awards season ambitions but are still worth checking out. On the far end of the spectrum are <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/oscar-bait-movies-that-failed/anncasano" target="_blank">Oscar bait movies that are rightfully forgotten</a>.

The following&nbsp;films probably didn&#39;t win any major awards (okay, The Revenant won some big ones, but come on), but that doesn&#39;t mean they aren&#39;t decent prestige pictures. Those films that fail to win, or even get nominated&nbsp;for, awards and have no value beyond being awards bait often get lost in the crevices of time. Not all these movies deserve such a fate, as is the case with the&nbsp;so-so awards bait pictures worth watching on this list.&nbsp;

Pretty Good Oscar Bait Movies

19 Pretty Good Oscar Bait Movies Worth Watching

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Oscars

Every year the Academy evaluates a year's worth of brilliant original screenplays and picks what they believe to be the best of the best, nominating these for the most prestigious writing awards in cinema: the Oscars. This in itself is an honor - just to be nominated for an Academy Award. But only one person can win each year, and the men and women listed here are all Academy Award winners for Best Adapted Screenplay - but which Best Adapted Screenplay winners are the best?Of the screenwriters who have won in this category, who is the greatest? &nbsp;Is it a classic writer like Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather I, II, and III)? Maybe a more contemporary writer like William Monahan (The Departed) or Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network)? Maybe it's writer&nbsp;who penned a contemporary classic like Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List).&nbsp;What about the other top Hollywood writers who can count themselves among the ranks of Oscar-winning screenplay writers? With so many options choosing the best is hard, but that's where you come in. Vote up the very best writers of all the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners below!

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And just like that, the Academy is making changes this year&#39;s Oscar ceremony in order to stem the tide of declining viewership that gets worse every year. Last year&#39;s broadcast was the lowest-rated ever, representing a 50% drop in viewers. So in order to make the show appeal to more viewers (which may be an impossibility at this point), the Academy decided to cut eight award presentations from the broadcast, relegating those awards to a pre-taped ceremony. People are not happy about the omissions, which include film editing and original score, saying that the Academy is only punishing their core audience, people who are passionate about ALL the categories. Will it work? We&#39;ll see when the award ceremony is broadcast on March 27th.&nbsp;

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The Academy Is Making Big Changes To This Year's Oscars And Film Fans Are Not Happy

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All honorary Oscar recipients have achieved the ultimate recognition in Hollywood. From the first ceremony in 1929, the Academy has handed out honorary Oscars to cinematic luminaries and companies whose achievements were too great to ignore.

Among the first honorary Oscar winners were two of the most famous figures in film history, Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney, who won honorary Oscars for creating Mickey Mouse and producing&nbsp;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/list-of-snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-movie-writers/reference?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Snow White and the Seven</a> Dwarfs. In addition to people, companies like Warner Bros. Entertainment and Technicolor can also be included on the list of those to receive&nbsp;an Academy honorary award.

Perhaps the most prestigious award is the Oscar lifetime achievement award, celebrating the entire body of work prodcued by an individual. Among the winners of the lifetime achievement Oscar are Chaplin, Orson Welles, and Gary Cooper.

So spend some time checking out every honorary Academy Award winner and remembering their tremendous achievements.

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This year&#39;s Oscar ceremony&nbsp;was filled with highs, lows, and so many odd&nbsp;moments: it was held at a train station, the best picture prize was not last, the&nbsp;winner for the final Oscar was MIA, a highlight was Glenn Close doing Da Butt... the list goes on and on.&nbsp;

And of course, the folks watching the madness at home had something to say about it.&nbsp;

Here are a few reactions to the 2021 Academy Awards. Vote up the reactions to key moments that deserve their own award.&nbsp;

Award-Worthy Reactions To The 2021 Oscars That Are Just As Off The Wall As The Ceremony Itself

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The Oscars were first televised in 1953. Ever&nbsp;since, they have been&nbsp;the preeminent&nbsp;award show in film. However, Hollywood doesn't nail it every year, and some Oscar years are simply better than others when it comes to overall quality of content. Which years were best for the Academy Awards&nbsp;was the best? Film buffs often squabble about which movies&nbsp;really&nbsp;deserved the treasured <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/weird-things-actors-did-with-oscar-statues/kevin-jacobsen" target="_blank">Oscar statue</a>. Time affords cinema fans the opportunity to look back on all of the Academy’s decisions to see&nbsp;which films remain a relevant part of cinema history - as well as which years simply fielded the strongest groups of nominees.The most memorable Oscars feature heavyweight battles between great films and breathtaking performances. All About Eve versus Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown versus The Godfather II, and Robert DeNiro versus Jack Nicholson are just a few of the big moments. Some years were rife with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-films-not-to-win-oscars/anncasano" target="_blank">major Oscar snubs</a>&nbsp;while in other years the nominations were&nbsp;on the mark.&nbsp;What was the best year for the Oscars? Vote up the years below that had the strongest groups of nominees and vote down the years where the Academy was really stretching.

The Best Years For Oscar Movies

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Lists for fans addicted to horror films (and shows) and all the jump-scarin', blood-splatterin', "b*tch, get out the house!" adrenaline that goes with them.

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Since the 1920s, the <a href="https://www.oscars.org/academy-story" target="_blank">Oscars</a>&nbsp;have been&nbsp;one of the most prestigious and recognized awards ceremonies on the globe. With different categories for acting, directing, and other aspects of filmmaking, winning an Oscar&nbsp;is a lifelong goal for some. However, some of directors&#39; best works never receive an&nbsp;award.

Beyond the glittering art that earned many of the directors on this list their star status, many have ventured into the world of the gory, psychological, and uncanny. <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/redeemable-bad-horror-movies/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">Not all of these films</a> are award-worthy, but they showcase the horrific creations that can come from the least expected sources.

Horror Movies Made By Oscar-Winning Directors

Oscar-Winning Directors Who Also Directed Horror Movies

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Whe it comes to glitz and glamour, there is no event that can hold a candle&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;Academy Awards and its red carpt. A&nbsp;top tier event attended by top tier celebs, every A-lister puts on their very best as millions tune in to watch them waltz done the red carpet. But despite the many hours of prep work it takes before many an entrance, not all celebrities knock it out of the park with their red carpet looks.&nbsp;

In honor of the Oscars,&nbsp;Rank vs. Rank hosts Mikaela and Jack take a look as the red carpet Oscar fashions that took a very big swing and ended up with a very big miss. From a sorry swan&nbsp;to Prada jumpsuits, here is a look at Oscar red carpet fashions that missed the mark.&nbsp;

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Mikaela & Jack Reveal Their Picks For The Worst Red Carpet Oscar Looks

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Ranking everything in the era of JFK, the Vietnam War, the Beatles, Martin Luther King, the mini-skirt, the space race, and Woodstock.

The Swinging Sixties

60s Movies

The 1960s marked a monumental decade for the movies. The best Oscar-nominated 1960s movies make up a varied collection, ranging from big-budget musicals to small-scale dramas. But whatever the style or scope of the story, these Best Picture nominees and winners are considered some of the very best movies ever filmed.&nbsp;What beloved films will you find on this list of 1960s Oscar-winning movies?&nbsp;The Graduate did not win the Oscar in 1967, but the darkly comic coming-of-age story went down in history as one of the best films ever made. The film's star, Dustin Hoffman, seems to have the winning touch: the actor also appeared in Midnight Cowboy, which won Best Picture in 1969.Academy voters loved musicals in the 1960s, with filmed adaptations of&nbsp;The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, and West Side Story all taking home the top prize throughout the decade. Other great films featured on this list of top 1960s Oscar-nominated movies include&nbsp;In the Heat of the Night,&nbsp;The Hustler, and Alfie.Which of these Oscar-nominated 1960s films is the very best? That's up to you to decide. Vote your favorite movies to the top of the list by giving them a thumbs up.

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The Best Oscar-Nominated Movies of the 1960s

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Awards Season 2019

Many people were apprehensive about the 91st Academy Awards, the first hostless Oscars ceremony in three decades. The last time the Academy attempted a <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/why-the-1989-oscars-were-so-bad/erin-mccann" target="_blank">hostless Oscars was in 1989</a>, and it nearly ruined the institution.

Fortunately, the 2019 Oscars avoided disaster&nbsp;with some great presenters and comedic bits. Yes, some <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/green-book-best-picture-reaction/samantha-dillinger" target="_blank">folks were upset when&nbsp;Green Book</a>&nbsp;took home Best Picture, but the 2019 hostless Oscars also featured some fairly endearing and hilarious celebrity moments. From Olivia Colman&#39;s <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-oscar-acceptance-speeches-of-all-time/ranker-film" target="_blank">amazing Oscar acceptance speech</a> to Spike Lee and Samuel L. Jackson&#39;s enthusiastic hug after the&nbsp;BlacKkKlansman&nbsp;helmer won Best Adapted Screenplay, here are the best celebrity moments from the 2019 Academy Awards.&nbsp;

Which Celebrity Moments Made Up The Most For The Hostless Oscars?

Maggie Clancy

The 2022&nbsp;crop of Oscar contenders is&nbsp;a mixed bag of entertainers from every facet of the&nbsp;entertainment biz, from comedic actors to vets of the stage and screen. Over the span of their careers, these actors made the rounds from talk shows to awards ceremonies, endearing themselves to audiences and fans thanks to their good humor. Here are a few adorable and/or funny moments from 2022&#39;s award nominees. Vote up the moments that make you smile.&nbsp;

Pretty Amusing Interview Moments With 2022 Oscar Nominees That Made Us Smile

What was going on the year you were born? A look at the most popular things happening in entertainment, music, and even real world news while you were busy cycling through naps.

The Year You Were Born

Were you <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/most-famous-actor-year-you-were-born/donn-saylor" target="_blank">born the same year</a> Meryl Streep&nbsp;cemented her legendary status by winning Best Supporting Actress&nbsp;in Best Picture winner Kramer v. Kramer?&nbsp;Or were you a child of the early '90s&nbsp;and born the same year Hannibal Lector changed the connotation of fava beans and chianti forever?Since 1929, the Oscar of Merit has been doled out to Hollywood's&nbsp;favored golden children. While the inaugural ceremony only lasted 15 minutes and had no more than 270 guests, today's Oscars are broadcast across the globe to over 100 million viewers. The award's significance&nbsp;transcends mere&nbsp;viewership, though. <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-academy-award-winners-for-best-picture" target="_blank">Best Picture winners</a> speak to the culture of an&nbsp;era, be it the post-Vietnam tensions&nbsp;depicted in&nbsp;The Deer Hunter&nbsp;or the&nbsp;suburban cynicism found in&nbsp;American Beauty.&nbsp;Check out these Oscar-winning movies by year&nbsp;and discover what film took home the gold when you entered the world. Perhaps you'll discover you were&nbsp;part of the collective consciousness that brought forth the bittersweet romance of Shakespeare in Love&nbsp;or epic heroism of Gladiator. What better way to discover the zeitgest that informed the very formation of your being than the Oscar-winning movie the year you were born? <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/life-imitating-art-photos/nathandavidson?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Life imitates art</a>, after all.&nbsp;&nbsp;

What Won Best Picture The Year You Were Born?

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The 2019 Oscar nominations for Best Actress have been announced, but there is still time to get your&nbsp;predictions in for the 91st Oscars.&nbsp;There were plenty of great female roles that have been nominated for the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-actresses-who-have-never-won-an-oscar/ranker-film?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Best Actress Oscar</a> this year. With so many great actresses giving phenomenal performances (and no Meryl &quot;Has Too Many Oscars Anyway&quot; Streep&nbsp;nomination)&nbsp;it&#39;s&nbsp;hard to choose who will ultimately take home the 2019 Best Actress Oscar.

Who are the&nbsp;2019&nbsp;Best Actress nominees? Lady Gaga is&nbsp;nominated for&nbsp;Best Actress this year for her work in&nbsp;A Star Is Born. Melissa McCarthy received a nod for Can You Ever Forgive Me.&nbsp;Award-winning actress Glenn Close got a nomination for Best Actress in 2019 for playing&nbsp;Joan Castleman&nbsp;in the film The Wife. Yalitza Aparicio for Roma and Olivia Colman for The Favourite&nbsp;also received Best Actress nominations this year. Cast your votes for the nominated actresses you think will win the Academy Award this year and see what other film fans vote up as well!

Who Will Win Best Actress At The 2019 Oscars?

2019 Best Actress Oscar Predictions, Ranked by Film Fans

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Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decides, in its infinite (and campaign-influenced) wisdom, upon a small group of films meant to represent the best the year in question had to offer. The winners are remembered, of course; the Best Picture award&nbsp;either enhances a film&#39;s&nbsp;reputation or irreparably harms it, depending on what it was going up against.

But what about the whole batch? Which year had the best overall group of Best Picture nominees? Vote up the most impressive groups from the 2010s.

NOTE: The years in question refer to the year in which the Oscar ceremony took place, not the year in which the movies were released.

What Years Had The Most Impressive Best Picture Lineups? 2010s Edition

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All of the best <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/every-oscar-winning-film-ever/drake-bird?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Oscar winning movies</a> that won the Oscar for Best Picture. Currently, there are 92&nbsp;movies that have won the highly coveted Best Picture Academy Award, and they are all here for you to vote and rank from best to worst. The annual Academy Awards ceremony brings the world together in celebration of the best films of the year, and this list of all the movies that have won the Best Picture Academy Award is here in celebration of decades of quality filmmaking.

With 92&nbsp;years of votable film history behind us, there are plenty of classic movies vying for the honor of being called the greatest film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. From the movies that win critical acclaim across generational divides (The Godfather, Schindler&#39;s List), to the feel-good movies with great casts (Forrest Gump, The Artist), to controversial Best Picture Oscar winners (The Hurt Locker, Crash), this list of the films that won a Best Picture Oscar is here to separate the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-movies-of-all-time">best movies of all time</a> from the ones that were maybe the best of the year they won.

What is the best movie that ever won the Best Picture Oscar? What is the worst movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture? Vote on these Best Picture winners,&nbsp;and maybe you&#39;ll find out! If there&#39;s an Oscar winner for Best Picture that you didn&#39;t like, vote it down and let other moviegoers know it wasn&#39;t worthy of film&#39;s top honor.

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This is a list of the greatest directors in movie history, who are most deserving of Academy Awards and critical recognition. The list includes directors who have already won major awards, those who continue to have the potential to win Oscars, and filmmakers who were overlooked by the Academy during their lifetime.

Often, the greatest of these filmmakers will go unrecognized by the Motion Picture Academy, particularly during the most active, vital period of their careers. Alfred Hitchcock famously never took home a statue for best director, despite being perhaps the one of the most&nbsp;iconic film directors, and certainly one of the most significant contributors to contemporary film language and genre. Another of the best film directors in history, Martin Scorsese, eventually did take home best director for his work on The Departed,&nbsp;but this film came long after the movies for which Scorsese will likely be best remembered - Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull,&nbsp;and so on.

Who is the best film director? Do you think Guillermo del Toro is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time? Some say David Lynch is one of the greatest Hollywood directors of all time. If you don&rsquo;t agree that they are some of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-living-directors?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best movie directors</a>, here&#39;s your chance to make your opinion known.

The top 10 people on this list are perhaps the 10 best directors of all time. Vote up those you believe are&nbsp;the best filmmakers of all time. Then check back to see if your favorites topped the list!&nbsp;

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Who are the best Oscar hosts of alltime? This is a list of Academy Awards emcees, with photos, voted on by Oscar fans worldwide. Some are hard to argue - Bob Hope, who hosted (or co-hosted) the Academy Awards a whopping 18 times, was a phenomenal master of ceremonies. Billy Crystal is another ever-popular host (having hosted&nbsp;eight&nbsp;times). Among the more recent Academy Awards hosts, several stand out: Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg and Jon Stewart come to mind.

What makes for a truly great Oscar host? First and foremost, a stellar opener is a must. You&#39;ve got to capture the audience&#39;s attention and be prepared to hold it for the duration. These shows run long, so that can certainly be a challenge. Humor is always a huge plus (many hosts, from the early days to contemporary telecasts, are&nbsp;comedians). Oh, and be ready to punt at a moment&#39;s notice: The Academy Awards show is live, after all, and anything can happen (just ask 1974 Oscars emcee David Niven, who dealt with a streaker).

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The Best Oscar Hosts Ever

Best Oscars Hosts | List of All Best Academy Awards Hosts

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Who gave the worst Oscar-nominated performances yet still managed to win? This list contains <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-film-actors-and-actresses-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">actors and actresses</a> who, despite winning the Academy Award for best actor, best actress, or either of the best supporting categories, are still unworthy, whether for that specific performance&nbsp;or just in general career terms. These are the worst Oscar winners that you feel&nbsp;are weak actors who have been overpraised by peers, critics, and the public alike.

A number of actors have won Oscars, only to then have their careers taper off quickly. Adrien Brody won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29 in 2003 for the film The Pianist&nbsp;(becoming the youngest actor to ever win an Oscar in the category), and has - in the interim - failed to appear in a large number of popular or award-contending films (with a few notable exceptions.) F. Murray Abraham, as well, saw his roles begin to dry up after winning the Academy Award for the role of Salieri in Amadeus.

Who are the worst actors and actresses who nevertheless have received American acting&#39;s highest honor? Who are the worst actors to win Oscars? Help decide the unworthy Oscar winners by for your picks below. Then check back to see if your least favorite topped the list!&nbsp;