Thus far, 61 people have sent me their rankings of the Academy's choices for best picture from 1927 to 2011. That's about 55 more people than I thought we were going to get. Two days ago I listed off who's winning in the best best-picture race. This is a post about who's losing. Which is the worst best picture the Academy has chosen?

It's not much of a surprise.

Oddly, save for that one film, there is generally less agreement on which of the Academy's best pictures is worst. Those 61 readers chose 19 different movies in the No. 1 slot but 29 different movies for last place.

Here are the 18 best pictures who received just one vote as our worst best picture:

• The Broadway Melody (1929)
• Cimarron (1931)
• The Great Ziegfield (1936)
• How Green Was My Valley (1941)
• Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• The French Connection (1971)
• Terms of Endearment (1983)
• Amadeus (1984)
• Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
• Unforgiven (1992)
• Titanic (1997)
• Chicago (2002)
• The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
• Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• The Departed (2006)
• Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• The Hurt Locker (2009)

I know. “Unforgiven”? “Amadeus”? But there 'tis.

Four movies received two votes each:

• Rocky (1976)
• Gandhi (1982)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Five movies received three votes each:

• Cavalcade (1933)
• The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
• Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
• Dances with Wolves (1990)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)

There's a surprise, at least to me, for our second-worst movie. With four votes:

• Braveheart (1995)

No surprise at all, as I said, with our choice for the worst best picture the Academy ever chose. In a landslide with 16 votes:

• Crash (2005)

Make sure you get your votes in. We'll be parsing the numbers on a deeper level soon.

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