The Best 'Best Picture' Winner Of The Century (So Far)

[@Kervan21]

Kind of amazed of the lack of love for The Departed from the hosts. It’s probably my favorite of Scorsese’s.

[@jameswatza649]

2 picks in and Jake is the only one thinking clearly. The Departed and Gladiator are both 10/10 movies.

[@davidfilmexpert]

Well, I wouldn't go that far. Him saying Slumdog Millionaire has more of a personality to it than Spotlight makes him someone who's not thinking clearly but also is mentally insane.

[@jaimemitra2003]

Reelblend Friday baby!!! Can’t wait to watch this episode 🔥🔥🔥

[@josemunoz3834]

My biggest disappointment about the oscars nominations was that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross challengers score didn't get nominated!!

[@arshaddahlan]

Found this to be crazy. It should've won imo

[@cwilliamsnfl]

So incredibly glad I stayed until the very end😂

[@seanoconnell2073]

Things often get goofy

[@jameswatza649]

Love Oppenheimer but its definitely not as good as Return of The King or Gladiator. Breaking my heart yall. LOTR movies, especially ROTK are the greatest movies of the century thus far. Great show

[@dinoandrade3640]

Nosferatu was my film of 2024. Thanks for talking about it guys!

[@ckellyedits]

My favourite thing about videos like this is the absolute fear to say that films like Nomadland and Moonlight were overrated. It's absolutely fine to have that opinion, and hold conviction in it. The right movies largely advanced.

[@MsTriangle]

Promising Young Woman should have won that year. And Carey too.

[@CharlieRod23]

I'm sitting here drying my tears because ya'll made me cry laughing with the outro. I can't. 😂😂😂

[@stevenangel8235]

Please please keep things like the ending in that was so great

[@seanoconnell2073]

That humor is a staple of this stupid show. It’s not going anywhere!

[@bradybradshaw9878]

Great episode again guys! As far as Oscar noms go, Denis not getting a Director nod is a crime and I gotta be honest, Sebastian Stan should be nominated for A Different Man over The Apprentice. The Academy feels like it’s making a political statement when it comes to nominating both him and Jeremy Strong, which in turn takes a spot away from a deserving candidate. Just my take, but I love you guys 🫶

[@g.williamwoodward6676]

The conversation between Return of the King and Nomadland went on too long

[@PKSiggy24wc]

I like the bracket format but you should seed the based on their IMDb rating or some other rating. This will help avoid early close matchups and better movies will have easier routes to the later rounds.

[@swaggermcjagger4266]

These guys suck, I’m not even a departed fan like that but choosing shape of water over it is insane

[@rjmacready9828]

The best are (no order): Oppenheimer ROTK Hurt Locker NCFOM Departed Parasite

[@gerrynassar3592]

My top 10 of the BP winners would probably be: 1. ROTK 2. No Country 3..Oppenheimer 4. Gladiator 5. Beautiful Mind 6. The Departed 7. Parasite 8. Argo 9. The Hurt Locker 10. Slumdog Millionaire

[@harrisonburn3600]

I find it interesting that Colin Farrell got a lot of praise for his transformation (deservedly so) however Bill Skarsgard arguably did just as much if not more for Orlok e,g. The opera coach he used to get a lower voice. Just interesting to think about , why was one so transformative and deserved of awards and one was not. Is it because we expect different things from different actors? Maybe

[@DK-tt1zt]

I know it's tough to find time for everyone to be there but it's a shame when someone isn't there when you do these things because you'll never do that specific ranking again so we miss out on someone's input - in this case it was Kevin

[@lewystyles]

Shape of Water over Departed hahaha never talk movies again

[@khandkerfardin689]

The Social Network undoubtedly would’ve been at the top if not for a damn speech from a King! 😢

[@seanoconnell2073]

I probably agree.

[@sweetlows1]

like Jake, I definitely dislike it more because it won over The Social Network. It feels so slight and cute compared to it, I remember not being a fan and not really wanting to go back and watch it either. of Hooper's movies I think the only one I liked was The Damned United, which I've seen a few times and really enjoy.

[@seanoconnell2073]

@@sweetlows1 And CATS, of course

[@khandkerfardin689]

@ The Damned United is probably the best movie about football(soccer) I’ve seen. I also quite liked his version of Les Miserable.

[@gerrynassar3592]

Jake is right - Shape of Water is terrible. The Departed is far better - even if it is one if Scorseses weaker films.

[@dinoandrade3640]

Love these games!!!

[@paulyd6372]

No country for old men is WAY better than return of the king

[@michaelelavsky569]

Unfortunately could not take this seriously after Lotr over No country

[@sweetlows1]

for this year's oscars: snubs- Challengers getting nothing (mostly score but maybe cinematography, acting, editing, directing), Villeneuve for directing and adapted screenplay maybe? for Dune Part 2. Furiosa getting nothing was a bit odd too IMO considering how many technical ones Fury Road got and won. Nice to see The Substance pick up some nominations, Ariana Grande for Wicked, Edward Norton for A Complete Unknown (I like it when people playing quieter characters get a nom).

[@MsTriangle]

That last bit sounded like the infamous Blake Lively interview

[@Gypsywasteland]

Bro this not the time to say you are not a “David lynch fan”. Just pay ya respects to the legend smh

[@seanoconnell2073]

Fair

[@joelanthonylim6792]

8:07 lmao Jake was spot on here

[@austinmcmanus1397]

My Ranking of the 21st Century Best Picture Winners: 1. 12 Years a Slave 2. Parasite 3. Spotlight 4. Moonlight 5. Green Book 6. Million Dollar Baby 7. CODA 8. Nomadland 9. Birdman 10. A Beautiful Mind 11. LOTR: Return of the King 12. Gladiator 13. The Shape of Water 14. The King’s Speech 15. The Hurt Locker 16. Oppenheimer 17. Everything Everywhere All at Once 18. Chicago 19. Slumdog Millionaire 20. The Departed 21. Crash 22. The Artist 23. No Country for Old Men

[@thebrandonsalad]

No Denis for best director😥 Super disappointing. Dune 2 feels so snubbed as a whole. What if it dropped 2 months ago? Conversation might be totally different. Very disappointing.

[@seanoconnell2073]

It very much is like voters forgot it came out.

[@seanoconnell2073]

Chi-cargo

[@rocky5000100]

No way crash vs green book is random 🤣🤣

[@zacgilbert300]

Departed, gladiator both should have won and no country for old men should have won it all.

[@derekhicks1824]

Having The Departed lose like that is CRAZY

[@MsTriangle]

Dune:part two >> Oppenheimer

[@redcomet0079]

Worst best picture winners last 25 years: Crash, The Artist, Spotlight, Moonlight, Shape of Water, Green Book, Nomadland & *worst of all The King’s Speech*

[@obi-wanjabronii]

I cannot comprehend that anyone would think Everything Everywhere all at Once is in debate for this! Its good but cmon

[@The_Mariner]

Gladiator > Oppenheimer

[@user-uz3ex1sz7k]

Oppenheimer is much better

[@Nick_Salcido]

I see both sides here. I truly do. But, ultimately, I’d have to go with Oppenheimer myself! Great set of movies to choose from!

[@kommandantklink5032]

Gladiator easily over Oppenheimer. Jake is right!

[@PhilTovo]

This was one of the most frustrating episodes I've watched. So many good and bad choices all at once 😅

[@kommandantklink5032]

I think I am only going to listen to Jake going forward in regards to movies to watch.

[@g.williamwoodward6676]

Are we going to have fun or can you just tell me now that Parasite will be #1?

[@benrus44]

I saw 'Presence" last night. I was calling it Nickel Boys ghost movie. it was only ok...

[@matthewjcalderon]

Can't believe y'all complained about recency bias at the beginning of the bracket and then THAT movie won when Gladiator, Moonlight, and Parasite were right there to pick LMAO what a joke

[@ReelBlend]

😂

[@michelehamilton961]

Gladiator>Oppenheimer for sheer rewatch ability. Plus Gladiator2 shows how hard that magic is to capture.

[@seemsuncertain]

Man this was a fun show but damn I've never disagreed with you guys more with a lot of these choices. It's wild some of these films actually won Best Picture.

[@MrPhenom444]

Moonlight over Nomadland 🥹

[@actualaceandrew]

The Substance getting best picture nom is the best thing to happen to horror.

[@rjmacready9828]

Shape of water over Departed??? Lmfao what

[@davidfilmexpert]

These three are totally crazy Million Dollar Baby does hold up because it's not sacharine or maudlin, it's sophisticated and it's just as great as Unforgiven.

[@themagician96]

For me No Country for Old Men was the best best picture so far, but for sheer fun it’s Everything Everywhere and for the movie that shocked me by how good it was it’s Parasite

[@aaronjanlistanco]

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King are more best than Nomadland in here brackets

[@kristophertardy3163]

Oppenheimer is severely overrated. imo. Atleast 3-4 better films in the bracket.

[@kommandantklink5032]

Jake is right again The Shape is Water is not good!

[@have_studs_will_travel2809]

Proof that Oscars best pictures are not necessarily the best... Even when best is subjective LOL.... And the Weinstein/Miramax years are so sus

[@vzawada316]

also kings speech is an amazing movie its so much better than social network its not top 4 Fincher

[@vzawada316]

respect you're guys opinion but you're so off million dollar baby is a masterpiece

[@seanoconnell2073]

I think it's very good!

[@dariusradu2369]

Off the top of my head, No country for old men has to be the best one. Birdman and The Departed are close second and third.

[@davidfilmexpert]

Jake saying that Slumdog Millionaire has more of a personality to it than Spotlight makes him not only someone who's not thinking clearly but also mentally ill. 😒

[@aaronjanlistanco]

my top 5 Oscars Best Picture winners Everything Everywhere All At Once Parasite Birdman Oppenheimer The Shape Of Water

[@g.williamwoodward6676]

Should have been ROTK

[@tysonpennington7970]

The shape of water isn’t even CLOSE to the departed! What in the world. I like the shape of water, but it takes itself way too serious for it to be as silly as it is. This is absolute goofball territory.

[@scatmancrothers]

sean has some horrible taste

[@thehannahroboto]

slumdog millionaire over parasite....yea i'm gunna see myself out

[@franklopez4028]

This list is invalid just after the first match up.

[@tofansultani8472]

EEAAO IS overrated.

[@scottbarkley496]

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is the greatest movie this century

[@MsTriangle]

There Will Be Blood exists... So not even the best that year

[@PedroAugustoMarquesFontoura]

There Will he blood

[@mathieuprajnanpad4174]

Parasite = #1