And that's it!

Well, that was it.  To be honest, I was very hesistant at first to do this ranking because I knew how controversial my number 1 would be. Bu...

Here they are once again...

So, all the movies have been ranked. Once again, here they are: 83. Cavalcade 82. Cimarron 81. Rain Man 80. Going my Way 79. The Broadway Me...

Number 01: The English Patient (Best Picture Ranking)

Don’t rub your eyes, you’re seeing right: The English Patient is my number 1. And I am very well aware how unpopular this choices is. It’s t...

Number 05: The Godfather: Part II (Best Picture Ranking)

The eternal question among movie fans seems to be: The Godfather or The Godfather Part II ? As you can see, my answer would be The Godfathe...

Number 04: Gone with the Wind (Best Picture Ranking)

Well…what can there be said? Probably not only the most famous movie to ever win the Oscar for Best Picture but quite simply the most famous...

Number 03: All Quiet on the Western Front (Best Picture Ranking)

When I started this ranking, I had little doubt that Gone with the Wind would be my number 1 movie from the 30s. But one of the last movies...

Number 02: The Godfather (Best Picture Ranking)

By now, it’s almost a cliché to call The Godfather one of the greatest movies of all time, but if the shoe fits… The Godfather , or course,...

Number 08: Schindler's Liste (Best Picture Ranking)

This is maybe the most difficult movie to judge in this ranking because it is impossible to separate the theme of Schindler’s List from the ...

Number 07: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Best Picture Ranking)

I have to be honest and say: I don’t care about fantasy movies. Never have. Nor do I care about fantasy books. I tried to read The Lord of t...

Number 06: Lawrence of Arabia (Best Picture Ranking)

Almost at the beginning of Lawrence of Arabia , one character tells T.E. Lawrence, the title character of the story, that only Bedouins and ...

Number 10: American Beauty (Best Picture Ranking)

American Beauty is certainly another love-/hate-movie in this line-up – for everyone who finds it powerful and overwhelming, there will be a...

Number 09: Casablanca (Best Picture Ranking)

What is it about Casablanca that makes it such perfection? Humphrey Bogart? Sure he’s great but I would never call it the performance of hi...

And then there were 10...

So, the movies from position 83 to 11 have been ranked. Once again, they were: 83. Cavalcade 82. Cimarron 81. Rain Man 80. Going my Way 79. ...

Number 11: Amadeus (Best Picture Ranking)

As they say in Moulin Rouge : Jealousy can drive you mad. But Amadeus does not tell of a jealousy of love – but of talent. And it does so in...

Number 12: Rebecca (Best Picture Ranking)

Next to movies like Vertigo , Rear Window or Psycho , Rebecca often seems to be a little forgotten when it comes to Hitchcock-movies but t...

Number 13: Annie Hall (Best Picture Ranking)

I did not care very much for Annie Hall the first few times I saw it – especially Woody Allen’s annoying Alvy Singer always made me want to...

Number 14: Midnight Cowboy (Best Picture Ranking)

Midnight Cowboy holds the distinction of being the only X-rated movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture – even if that rating has been chan...

Number 15: The Bridge on the River Kwai (Best Picture Ranking)

David Lean is among those directors who won two Oscar for directing two Best-Picture-winners. In 1962, he triumphed with Lawrence of Arabia ...

Number 16: Unforgiven (Best Picture Ranking)

In 1992, Clint Eastwood won his first Oscars for Directing and Producing with his critically acclaimed Western Unforgiven . It tells the sto...

Number 17: The Apartment (Best Picture Ranking)

I did not care very much for The Apartment the first time I saw it – but I was probably too young when that happened and an overdue re-watc...