The Favorite Films Of My Lifetime: 2008

Let's start this differently.  Take a look at these Academy Award nominees for Best Picture.

The Favorite Films Of My Lifetime: 2006

This year turned out to be really easy, but contained a lot of my absolute favorites from the entire decade.  I remember being severely disappointed in the Best Picture nominees for this particular year.  And while I liked The Departed and think Scorsese's career deserved a Best Director statue, I was rooting against its Best Picture win, because its a remake and a lot of it (including full sequences and framings) were ripped straight from the original.  Also, this was the year of the Mexican director, but of the 3 that made big time films, they picked the one that wasn't even that good of a movie as a Best Picture nominee.  But, what can you do.

The Favorite Films Of My Lifetime: 2005

2005 contains one of the most depreciated films to win Best Picture that I can recall.  Before it won the honors it was a well respected and genuinely liked film.  Once they were handed the trophy its been hated so much that its even been called one of the worst movies ever.  I'm talking, of course, of Paul Haggis' Crash.  I think the film is kind of safe, but I still enjoy it.  Its got some good performances and while the issues are a bit on the nose, they're still goo ones to see play out.  The storytelling pattern of Crash would be something that would be utilized in many films for the next few years as well.  2005 also marks the year I moved to Los Angeles and Crash had a lot of locations I was becoming familiar with, so I kind of easily warmed to it.  Its also notable that this is the year I joined forces with the infamous Scott Mendelson.