Every Best Picture Oscar Winner Ranked Worst To Best
41. Ordinary People (1980)
The ever-brilliant Robert Redford spent years as one of Hollywood's most beloved and talented leading men, and with his sophisticated directorial debut Ordinary People proved he could be just as good behind the camera as he was in front of it.
A deep look into the lives of a family beset by loss, Redford's drama is one of defining performances (namely from former TV stars Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton, and a never-better Donald Sutherland) and raw honesty. From its first frame to its last, it's a sorrowful journey impossible to emerge from unchanged.