Which movie will be named this year's Best Picture?

The Academy Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning, and some of the year’s best movies are now in the running for the Best Picture Oscar.

Best Pictures nominees this year include “The King’s Speech,” “True Grit,” “The Social Network,” “Black Swan,” “The Fighter,” “Inception,” “The Kids Are All Right,” “Toy Story 3,” “127 Hours” and “Winter’s Bone.”

How many of these movies have you seen? Which do you think will take home top honors as this year’s Best Picture?

We’ll all have to wait about a month to find out who will win. The Academy Awards will be given out on Sun., Feb. 27, in Hollywood. The awards show will be broadcast by ABC.

I haven’t written about it in a while, but some of you may remember that I’m in the process of watching all of the Academy Award Best Picture winners in reverse order. I last updated you on this little project on Jan. 3 when I posted a review of the 2002 winner, “Chicago.” Since then I’ve scratched the following winners off my list – “A Beautiful Mind” (2001), “Gladiator” (2000), “American Beauty” (1999), “Shakespeare in Love” (1998), “Titanic” (1997), “The English Patient” (1996), “Braveheart” (1995), “Forrest Gump” (1994), “Unforgiven” (1992), “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991) and “Dances with Wolves” (1990).

If you read the above list carefully, you’ll notice that the 1993 winner, “Schindler’s List” is missing. It must be an extremely popular movie because I’ve had it in my NetFlix queue for weeks now, and it still says it will be a “very long wait” before it will be available. It’s also not currently available for instant viewing online. I’ve actually seen the movie a couple of times, and I wonder if it’s a popular title among educators who show it to their classes.

If I had to rank the above titles in order of best to worst, that ranking would look something like this:

1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. A Beautiful Mind
3. Forrest Gump
4. American Beauty
5. Braveheart
6. Unforgiven
7. Gladiator
8. Dances with Wolves
9. Titanic
10. Shakespeare in Love
11. The English Patient

Don’t agree? Then how would you rank the above films? Which do you like? Which do you own? Let us know in the comments section below.