Every best picture winner of 21st century ranked – from Crash to Moonlight
Heading into this Sunday’s Academy Awards in Los Angeles, the best picture race seems to have solidified largely around two films: Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. Both films have their passionate champions, and either would be pretty great winners of a prize which has thrown up a fascinating array of victors at recent ceremonies – a far cry from the years not so long ago where the category was mainly the domain of safe, rather middlebrow pictures. As we wait to see which of those likely winners prevails, we’ve gone back in time to the turn of the century to rank each of the last 25 winners in order from worst to best, and have published the list below, alongside our official Radio Times review for each winner. Of course, it’s always worth pointing out that such an exercise is inherently subjective – and it’s very possible that your own list could differ substantially from the one printed below – it’s certainly a varied group of films, some of …
