Unbelievably, this week’s film The Last Emperor is the 60th BP winner to be featured on FlicksChick.com! Crazy! Although this movie didn’t crack the top 20+ films in my personal rankings of Best Pictures, it’s still worth seeing and will be the focus of a couple more posts in the next few days; so please make sure to check back in for those!

Today I’m posting an updated list of my BP rankings–no major changes, though I did go through the list with a fine-toothed comb this time since I took such a long sabbatical from blogging this past fall. The Sound of Music still reigns as the best BP in my book–really, really special film there–followed closely by the stunning Gone with the Wind. At the bottom of the heap, Annie Hall and Tom Jones keep each other company and don’t need to ever take up any of my time again.

Some really big films are coming up in the next decade of BP winners (Schindler’s List, Braveheart, and Titanic, to name a few I’m highly anticipating), so you can definitely expect some changes toward the top of the following list. But for now, here’s how I rank the first 60 winners of the Academy’s highest prize.

1. The Sound of Music (1965)
2. Gone with the Wind (1939)
3. Ben-Hur (1959)
4. All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/30)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. The Godfather (1972)
7. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
8. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
9. West Side Story (1961)
10. You Can’t Take It with You (1938)
11. Amadeus (1984)
12. Chariots of Fire (1981)
13. Out of Africa (1985)
14. All About Eve (1950)
15. Gandhi (1982)
16. Casablanca (1943)
17. My Fair Lady (1964)
18. It Happened One Night (1934)
19. Rebecca (1940)
20. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
21. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
22. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
23. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
24. The Deer Hunter (1978)
25. On the Waterfront (1954)
26. Oliver! (1968)
27. The French Connection (1971)
28. Ordinary People (1980)
29. The Last Emperor (1987)
30. All the King’s Men (1949)
31. The Lost Weekend (1945)
32. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
33. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
34. Hamlet (1948)
35. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
36. Patton (1970)
37. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
38. Rocky (1976)
39. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
40. Gigi (1958)
41. The Sting (1973)
42. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
43. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
44. Platoon (1986)
45. Wings (1927/28)
46. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
47. Marty (1955)
48. Going My Way (1944)
49. Cavalcade (1932/33)
50. Gentlemen’s Agreement (1947)
51. Grand Hotel (1931/32)
52. Cimarron (1930/31)
53. Terms of Endearment (1983)
54. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
55. The Apartment (1960)
56. From Here to Eternity (1953)
57. An American in Paris (1951)
58. The Broadway Melody (1928/29)
59. Annie Hall (1977)
60. Tom Jones (1963)