Image Credit: ©A.M.P.A.S.Wish you could determine this year’s ten Best Picture nominees? Well, until you become a member of the Academy, here’s the next best option: Vote in EW.com’s Best Picture Oscar poll.
Following the same nomination procedure as the Academy Awards, we’re asking EW.com readers to rank their 10 favorite films from 2010 — in order from No. 1 to No. 10. We’ll then count the ballots (by hand!) using the same preferential-voting system the Academy employs, and announce your Best Picture nominees shortly after the real Oscar nominations are revealed on Jan. 25. We’ll also use your ballots to thoroughly explain the Academy’s complicated nomination process, and why it’s advantageous for a movie to have a small but passionate group of supporters instead of a larger but less passionate group.
So vote with your heart, EW.com readers, and may the best films win!
Update: The poll is now CLOSED. Thank you for the phenomenal response, and feel free to continue discussing the year’s best movies in the comments section below.
Thank you EW for giving your readers a chance to vote like Academy Award voters do. It will be interesting to compare your results with the movie that does get the actual “Best Picture” statue,.
Yes, what a terrific idea so we can all see Eclipse and The Karate Kid get EW Oscar nominations.
hahaha
The results will certainly be entertaining. As for my personal Top 5 of 2010 that I saw (in no real order)…
Black Swan
Let Me In
The Social Network
A Prophet
Toy Story 3
1. Black Swan
2. The Social Network
3. Inception
4. How to train you dragon
5. Toy Story 3
A Prophet was so good! I didn’t realize that came out last year. If it’s eligible I really would like to see it get best picture.
Very cool blog. The guy has CLIPS for all his top ten’s too. And his number one is pretty rad. Not to mention a cool Number 8. And Number 3??? Cool blog.Thanks bruno.
FISH TANK
(or would that be foreign film?)
sorry, posted twice. couldn’t find it before and was dying to share. this bike guy should write for EW. lots of cool picks. randomly came across it too!
Thank you EW for giving your readers a chance to vote like Academy Award voters do.
Gee, I’d echo the sentiment if the voting were still open — but it’s less than 24 hours since that post was time-stamped and those of us who didn’t log on on Saturday are SOL. That can’t be a representative sampling from even your most rabid followers, guys. I usually log on at least once a day to check out the various blogs but, hey, skipping a day, especially on a weekend, shouldn’t result in being left out of something like this.
I agree. This is ridiculous. For those who come to the site several times a week, it’s an insult to run an Oscar poll for less than 24 hours, particularly on a Saturday.
No kidding. I saw the poll, but it was late and I was tired, so I thought I’d put it off until today. There was no indication that it was open only for 24 hours (do real Oscar voters only get 24 hours, too?), so I thought it would be okay. But no, of course not. How silly of me to think that EW would be considerate in that way.
Me too. How about leaving it up for a few more days?
I have to agree with other posters, that having the poll Only open for 24 hours on Saturday, January 8, 2010 was not right. Academy Award voters get more than 24 hours on a Saturday to vote.
gotta agree – I was looking forward to it, too, but it is all gone. how sad
Inception…
I would like to see Inception or Black Swan winning best picture..
Or King’s Speech, Black Swan or Social Network, Inception wasn’t great at all.
Inception is a stupid movie with great CGI. Get real!
I’ll take flak for this but I can take it. I didn’t care for Inception. I loved Winter’s Bone and The Town. The Ghost Writer was good as well. Need to see True Grit and Black Swan.
Thank God, someone else who didn’t like Inception! I thought I was the only one. It’s visually stunning, but the characters are very uninteresting and the final act goes on WAY too long. I was very disappointed by the film – all flash, no substance.
Yes, there is a section in the latter half the could have been removed and it wouldn’t have affected the story in any way.
Yep, the snow fortress was too long and derivative for the otherwise well-paced and original film.
Oops, still need to see The King’s Speech.
SO good! Definitely see it!
You shouldn’t take flak for not liking Inception. I loved it and don’t personally know anyone who didn’t love it. But any piece of art, be it music, movie or painting is not going to have the same appeal to everyone. It shouldn’t. There are different artists out there creating different types of art so that there is something for each of us to love and enjoy. We shouldn’t demand that everyone have our same tastes. I’m glad that you found movies that you could love and enjoy this year.
it’s fair to hate Inception just like it’s fair for me to hate Citizen Cane (HATE IT!!!!!!) but those are just opinions of a few audience members. The Academy has to award based on true CRITICAL relevance, cultural importance, and cinematic greatness. I hate Citizen Cane, but I’d have to put it SOMEWHERE on a top 100, even jsut at #100, for it to be credible. Just don’t start accusing it of problems on a CRITICAL level such as “all flash and no substance” when that is your personal opinion as someone who, I assume, did no further critical digging into the relevance and depth of the film after seeing it once or whatever. Oh and I’d put The Ghost Writer on a critical top 100 list too, even ahead of China Town as far as Polanski goes, in terms of my critical analysis. Personally, I just thought it was shockingly beautiful, and don’t read into it beyond that, even though there’s a lot to read into. And personally I hated China Town, because it leaves me feeling sick to my stomach for the level of human trauma it thinks is necessary to make a good cinematic experience.
I liked The Town better than Inception
Speaking for myself, I find Polanski-directed The Ghost Rider relatively more or less overrated. While it is a better film, it may not deserve Best Picture nomination (1 out of 5 (not 10)). IMO, the whole film goes too slow and lacks the thrilling moments this genre calls for, except the last few sequences where the truth has been revealed to the Ghost, and the wife is addressing the crowd in “you-know-where,” and the final one before the end credit. Though not used much, the original score is nevertheless the beauty.
Toy Story 3 was the best movie ive seen all year
Yes yes yes.
Inception, Toy STory 3, The Town, The Fighter, Black Swan…all deserve recognition…..
I voted for The girl on the train.
I know that it doesn’t have any chance, but that is my opinion.
I loved The Girl on the Train too. Would also like to see it get a best picture nod.
Where is A Prophet?
Ditto. “A Prophet” was released stateside in 2010, and thus should be included in this ballot…it would EASILY make my top 10 (probably my top 5).
Looking at the list of possibilities, it’s clear that I still have a lot to see (“The Kids Are All Right,” “King’s Speech,” “Greenburg,” “The Fighter,” “127 Hours,” etc etc etc). Still, I can say without a doubt that my top 10 list this year will easily trump my list from last year (I only saw three movies last year that I actually thought were OK…”Hurt Locker,” “Up,” and “Fantastic Mr. Fox”).
but A Prophet was nominated for Best Foreign Pic last year, can it be eligible again for this year contest?
Can it really be called The Oscars w/o Meryl Streep in the running???
Out with the old, in with the new. That’s just life.
The Social Network as my undisputed #1. Was loving it before Awards Season even kicked into gear. Can’t think of a film this year with fewer lulls or a smarter screenplay.
It was my #1, too — I thought it was blast from start to finish.
I also put in a vote for ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ (it was my #3), though I don’t think it really has a chance…
* A blast
Yeah Dragon won’t win but it was one of my favorites too.
Totally: The Social Network:Best film of 2010
Toy Story 3, Winter’s Bone, Inception, True Grit.
amazing how hard it is to pick 10 “good” ones…
Agreed. I groaned last year when the Academy expanded to 10 films, and the 8-10 films were far from Best Picture material. It needs to be a flexible category, where potential films have to meet certain requirements before being nominated to Best Picture. The “real” Best Pictures don’t need to have votes taken from them by the last half of the group, a la some American Idol crazy voting.
My top five was:
Social Network
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Winter’s Bone
The Town
Inception
I couldn’t find Joan Rivers a Piece of Work, it would’ve made my top 10.
I know, right? The Academy
needs to go back to 5!
1. Scott Pilgrim VS The World
2. Inception
3. Easy A
4. Black Swan
5. The Town
6. Toy Story 3
7. The Other Guys
8. The Social Network
9. How to Train your Dragon
10. Shutter Island
Black Swan
The Town
Inception
Easy A
Secretariat
Monsters
Winter’s Bone
YES! People with Easy A on their lists! I thought I was the only one. I know it doesnt have a chance but I thought it was the best comedy I’ve seen in years. Smart, funny, touching, well acted, thoroughly enjoyable.
disgusting