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

28. Amadeus (1984)

Milos Foreman's classic Mozart biopic is the rarest of movies to score two Best Actor Oscar nominations, as nowadays, conniving studios will generally market the "lesser" performance as a supporting turn in a blatant act of category fraud.

Amadeus is a gorgeously mounted drama which makes the most of the central Mozart-Salieri rivalry to ensure its beefy 161-minute runtime actually clips by fairly quickly.

You needn't be a card-carrying fan of classical music to appreciate its fascinating observations of artistic genius and those who are blessed with it. But the music's pretty damn great, too.

What could've been a stodgy, bloated biopic is one of the best examples of well-executed Oscar-bait there is.