All 10 Best Picture Lineups of the 2000s, Ranked
The 2000s nominated a total of fifty movies for Best Picture, but which year had the strongest group of nominees? The answer might surprise you.
Winning it is nice, of course — but even just a nomination for the Best Picture Academy Award is perhaps the biggest honor in the film industry. Throughout the nearly one-century history of the award, there have been dozens upon dozens of Best Picture nominee lineups of all varying degrees of quality. Throughout the 2000s in particular (the last decade that had five nods in the category every year before it was expanded to ten in 2010), each of the ten lineups ranged from mediocre to phenomenal.