Rank The Oscar Nominees For Best Picture

Still need to see Lion, Hidden Figures, an Arrival.

1. Moonlight
2. Hacksaw Ridge
3. Hell or High Water
4. Manchester by the Sea
5. La La Land
6. Fences

Didn't finish Fences or Hidden Figures. Fences, because it's play roots were showing way too strong and Hidden Figures because it seemed like, everyone is saying, a Lifetime movie.

7) Moonlight (very average movie, slightly boring at points, I don't see the hype)
6) Lion (like Moonlight, just average)
5) Hacksaw Ridge (it was a great action movie, but seemed too "cool" for a war movie, if that makes sense)
4) Hell or High Water (slow but has some very great sequences)
3) Manchester by the Sea (amazing performances and totally engrossing)
2) Arrival (genius)
1) La La Land (one of my all time favorites)

9- Fences

8- Hell or High Water

7- Arrival

6- Manchester By The Sea

5- Hidden Figures

4- Lion

3- La La Land

2- Moonlight

1- Hacksaw Ridge


Sorry but La La Land is so overrated.

1. La La Land (10/10)
2. Hacksaw Ridge (9.5/10)
3. Arrival (9.5/10)
4. Lion (8.5/10)
5. Fences (8.5/10)
6. Hidden Figures (8/10)
7. Moonlight (8/10)
8. Manchester by the Sea (8/10)
9. Hell or High Water (7.5/10)

From what I've seen

1. Lion
2. Arrival
3. Hidden Figures
4. Manchester By the Sea
5. Fences
6. La La Land

from what I've seen.
1- Hacksaw Ridge 9.5/10

2- Manchester by the sea 9.5/10

3- Hell Or High Water 9/10

4- La La Land 9/10

5- Moonlight 8.5/10

6- Arrival 8/10

Out of the ones I've seen:

1. La La Land
2. Hacksaw Ridge
3. Lion
4. Hell or High Water

Wow... I really need to watch more of this year's nominations.

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Tier I

1 La La Land - among my 10 favorite BP nominees or winners, period
2 Moonlight - very deserving and would be a deserving winner

Tier IA
3 Manchester by the Sea - excellent but suffers a bit in comparison with director's previous film Margaret

Tier II

4 Arrival - excellent but a bit too much of that typical Hollywood rush-to-discovery ending that is prevalent in too many otherwise good SF films

Tier III

5 Lion - GREAT first third, felt a bit formualaic after that, still a fine film
6 Hell or High Water - solid neo-western even if the many clichés pile up alarmingly
7 Fences - acting and ambiance save this and make it very watchable, but it can never escape it's essential staginess

Tier IV

8 Hidden Figures - pretty typical and generic (in the filmmaking and moral thrust, not so much in the story) Hollywood history lesson; acting is solid but that is overall not enough to make it something I'd likely bother with seeing again

Tier V

9 Hacksaw Ridge - film's pacifistic central character is ultimately overwhelmed by all too typical rah-rah America's so great and war is necessary theme - and I am troubled both by the way the Japanese were depicted, and the little coverage of this aspect in criticism. Still not an awful film or anything just very, very mixed for me.


Overall a well above-average year for nominees IMO.

Here's to the fools who dream