Ranking The Best Picture Winners From 2000 To 2020 PART ONE

Published: Feb. 28, 2021, 5 p.m.

Welcome back to Messy Notebook Paper, your essential podcast for all things film and media! On today\u2019s episode, host Riley shares her findings from her recently written research paper on the Academy Awards, #OscarsSoWhite, and the diversity standards. After a brief explanation of the research, Riley reviews the Best Picture winners she watched. How terrible is Crash? Did Chicago really deserve to win Best Picture? And how beautiful is Russell Crowe\u2019s mind in A Beautiful Mind? All this and more will be discussed in this episode, with major spoilers for the following films: Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Chicago, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Million Dollar Baby, Crash, The Departed, and No Country For Old Men. Again, the opinions expressed in this episode are purely subjective, so if you\u2019re a film bro or fan of LOTR, you may want to skip this episode. Part two of the ranking will be coming soon!