UMNIA’s definitive and complete Academy Awards Best Picture Ranking, with reasons and apologies.

It is time to put a proper button on the last circuit, in order for us to usher in the spring anew.

UMNIA’s definitive and complete Academy Awards Best Picture Ranking, with reasons and apologies.

Dear reader, 

I think everyone has had quite enough of this awards season – ironically, the years with the best cinema often tend to be both the most boring and the most contentious. I remember the "Nomadland" year being a lot like that.

Despite this, it is customary for those of us who cover the circuit to exorcise it from our psyche via a ranked list, so as to properly and definitively bring the previous year of cinema to order in our minds. It’s a ritual. It’s SEO-approved. It’s also paywalled.

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