# Your ranking of the nominated Best Films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654 "2011-02-08T15:58:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654/1 "2011-02-08T15:58:42Z")
There have been a couple of Oscar threads, but I don’t think we’ve had one asking people to rank them. I’ve seen 8/10 so far, so to be fair I’ve excluded the ones I haven’t seen yet. This is kind of difficult since I pretty much liked all eight of the movies I saw. But here is how I rank them: 1. The Social Network 2. The King’s Speech 3. True Grit 4. Toy Story 3 5. Inception 6. The Fighter 7. Black Swan 8. The Kids Are All Right Haven’t yet seen 127 Hours or Winter’s Bone, although WB is next in my queue. And although Social Network and King’s Speech are my 1-2, they could go either way. Same with 4-6. The only movie I was really underwhelmed with was The Kids Are All Right. I didn’t think it was bad, I just didn’t think it was that special (although the acting was good). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654/2 "2011-02-08T16:55:36Z")
King’s Speech True Grit Winter’s Bone Social Network Inception The Fighter The Kids are All Right Black Swan I didn’t include Toy Story, as I don’t think it belongs in the best film category. Haven’t seen 127 Hours. Black Swan beat us over the head with the plot, and _Kids_ and _Fighter_ have been done and done again, although they weren’t bad films. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654/3 "2011-02-08T18:02:41Z")
I’ve seen nine, as of today, and plan to get to \*Black Swan \*next week. My preference: 1. _Inception_ 2. _The King’s Speech_ 3. _The Social Network_ 4. _127 Hours_ 5. _True Grit_ 6. _The Fighter_ 7. _Toy Story 3_ 8. _The Kids Are All Right_ 9. _Winter’s Bone_ I say _Inception_ is my film of the year. Innovative, entertaining, maddening, intelligent … where were Nolan’s nomination for directing or Tom Hardy’s for supporting actor? Heck, where was Andrew Garfield’s for supporting actor in _Social Network_? I like Mark Ruffalo, but not in _The Kids Are All Right_, so he stole a nomination from somebody there. In my book, anyway. In my opinion, spots 2-6 could really be mixed up in any order. If any of my top seven should win (of course they won’t, only two of them probably have a chance), I would applaud the choice. _Toy Story 3_ is a great movie, but it just doesn’t feel right for tops of the year. Similarly _The Kids Are All Right_. _Winter’s Bone_ didn’t click for me at all, I am not a fan. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654/4 "2011-02-08T20:52:35Z")
1. The Black Swan 2. The King’s Speech 3. The Social Network 4. Inception 5. Toy Story 3 6. True Grit 7. Winter’s Bone 8. The Fighter I haven’t seen \*The Kids Are All Right \*or _127 Hours_. Best Actor - Colin Firth - The King’s Speech Best Actress - Natalie Portman - The Black Swan Best Supporting Actor - Christian Bale - The Fighter Best Supporting Actress - Hailee Stanfield - True Grit Best Director - Darren Aronofsky - The Black Swan ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654/5 "2011-02-08T22:03:07Z")
1. The Social Network 2. Winter’s Bone 3. The King’s Speech 4. True Grit 5. The Fighter 6. Toy Story 7. 127 Hours 8. Inception 9. Black Swan 10. The Kids Are All Right The last three would not have been nominated, if it had been up to me. And my favorite movie of the year was _The Town_, which didn’t even get nominated. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654/6 "2011-02-08T22:15:17Z")
1. Inception 2. The King’s Speech 3. The Social Network 4. 127 Hours 5. The Fighter 6. True Grit 7. Black Swan 8. The Kids Are All Right 9. Winter’s Bone ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654/7 "2011-02-08T22:53:14Z")
If we’re ranking in the order that we liked them, rather than the order in which we think they should win Best Picture\*, my list would be: 1. Winter’s Bone 2. Inception 3. The Social Network 4. True Grit 5. 127 Hours 6. The King’s Speech 7. The Fighter 8. Toy Story 3 9. Black Swan I loved all those movies and any one of them would make me cheer if it won Best Picture. What a great, great lineup. It looks wrong that Black Swan is way down there, because after the first 4, they’re even in my regard. As much as I love it, there’s a special place in my heart for Winter’s Bone that goes beyond the movie itself, in that it was responsible for me getting a membership at the Gene Siskel Film Center, and I met the director Debra Granik after a sneak preview showing. There’s about a mile between those 9 and #10. 1. The Kids Are Alright It’s the only one I didn’t care for and while it’s a well-made and well-acted film, it pissed me off and it bothers me that it’s listed among all those other great films. I can think of so many other movies that should be in that spot, starting with Biutiful, Shutter Island and The Town. Anette Bening’s nomination pisses me off too. She’s taken Naomi Watts’s spot. Bening was far far better in a far far better film this last year, Mother and Child. She should have gotten a nomination for that. And yeah, Andrew Garfield should be in Mark Ruffalo’s spot. - the order in which they should win Best Picture would, IMO, be The Social Network The King’s Speech True Grit Inception The order in which they are most likely to come in getting Best Picture will probably be The King’s Speech True Grit The Fighter The Social Network though we’ll never know those rankings because AMPAS never releases the totals. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654/8 "2011-02-08T23:37:11Z")
Equipose, I agree with you about there being nine great movies and about _Kids_ being undeserving (although I don’t mind the nomination for Benning). And my intent was for people to list there preferred ranking, not what they thought would or should happen. I think _Social Network_ SHOULD win, but _The King’s Speech_ seems to have the momentum. Not that it’s a bad choice either; I loved them both. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654/9 "2011-02-09T00:11:26Z")
1. The King’s Speech 2. The Social Network 3. Inception 4. True Grit 5. 127 Hours 6. Toy Story 3 7. The Fighter 8. Winter’s Bone 9. The Kids are All Right 10. Black Swan The first two are nearly interchangeable for me, I loved both of them. ---
**Author:** ![bramma23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bramma23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bramma23)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654/10 "2011-02-09T01:39:47Z")
The Social Network The Black Swan Inception True Grit I’m lagging behind in watching all of them. Next up is King’s Speech and Biutiful (even if that isn’t nominated). ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654/11 "2011-02-09T03:02:20Z")
1. The King’s Speech 2. Inception 3. Black Swan 4. Winter’s Bone 5. The Social Network 6. 127 Hours 7. Toy Story 3 8. The Kids Are All Right Wonderful films, all of them. I’d be happy with any of them winning, especially the first 5. I’ve been sitting here trying to decide on the order of those 5 for ages and have swapped them around a few times, but I think that’s about right. Planning on seeing True Grit tonight. (Although Catfish is also playing and that looks intriguing too.) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654/12 "2011-02-09T19:22:48Z")
As of one hour ago, I’ve seen all 10, so here we go: 1. The King’s Speech 2. True Grit 3. 127 Hours 4. Inception 5. Winter’s Bone 6. The Social Network 7. The Kids Are All Right 8. Toy Story 3 9. Black Swan 10. The Fighter While I don’t consider any of these bad movies, three were disappointments to me: The Social Network, Black Swan, and The Fighter. mmm ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-ranking-of-the-nominated-best-films/570654/13 "2011-02-09T19:30:08Z")
1. _Winter’s Bone_ 2. _127 Hours_ 3. _Black Swan_ 4. _Inception_ 5. _The Social Network_ 6. _Toy Story 3_ 7. _The Kids Are All Right_ 8. _The King’s Speech_ 9. _The Fighter_ 10. _True Grit_