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

37. The King's Speech (2010)

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It will forever be one of the Academy's all-time biggest screw-ups that they gave Best Picture to Tom Hooper's historical drama over David Fincher's masterful The Social Network.

To be clear, The King's Speech is a fantastically executed crowd-pleaser with a Colin Firth performance for the ages - to say nothing of Geoffrey Rush or Helena Bonham Carter - but winning in a year against not only Fincher's film but also Inception and Toy Story 3 (unlikely but deserving alternates) made it hard not to feel a little adversarial against it.

Not a great Oscar winner, but outside of this context, a great film no question, perfectly braced between high-brow Oscar-baiting concerns and something a little more irreverent. A period drama for people who don't really like period dramas, basically.

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