Best Picture Oscar Winners of the 21st Century, Ranked

The Oscars are inherently silly. It’s Hollywood giving itself prizes, selecting the best “art” even though art is subjective, and it’s impossible to compare two different movies that are each attempting two very different things. And yet, the Oscars are also kind of great. They’re a night for celebrating an art form that I love, and they can raise the profile of smaller or more complicated movies that might have flown under the radar for audiences on a steady diet of blockbusters. Not that there’s anything wrong with blockbusters, but oftentimes, the films nominated for the Oscars can expand the horizons of those who watch them and serve as an empathy machine as we experience stories told by a number of different filmmakers from wildly different backgrounds.