Oscars: Every Best Picture Winner Ever Ranked From Worst To Best

80. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

Like so many "issue" movies from decades past, Elia Kazan's post-war examination of anti-Semitic sentiment often plays as facile and stodgy today, and in a year where it faced off against the easily superior Great Expectations and Miracle on 34th Street, it feels like it won Best Picture because of what it said rather than how it said it.

This was also the year that criminally snubbed Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus, arguably 1947's best film, for anything more than crafts awards. For shame.

Sour grapes aside, it has a worthy message, especially coming so soon after the end of WWII, though it's layered on comically thick, even if the ever-reliable Gregory Peck does his damnedest to keep things afloat (and often succeeds).