Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents a golden statue to the film it feels represents cinema's best from the previous year. Despite all the parties and prestige surrounding the man affectionately known as Oscar, like most of us, he isn't perfect. And without fail every year, the Academy's selections take the place of office gossip, Internet status updates, and conversations with strangers in public places. And every year, we take a look back at the Best Picture winners of Oscars past, as sorted by the strict and rigorous standards of Tomatometer science.

From the undisputed classics (Casablanca, The Godfather) to the dubious selections (The Broadway Melody), we?ve ranked all of the Best Picture winners from Wings to The Hurt Locker. How many have you seen? Where do your favorites rank? And where does The Hurt Locker land? Check out RT?s Best of the Best Pictures to find out!

• Each critic from our discrete list gets one vote, all weighted equally.
• Reviews without ratings are not counted toward the results.
• Because reviews are continually added, manually and otherwise, we have a cutoff
  date at which new reviews are not counted. The current cut off date is 3/7/2010.
• We use a weighted formula to account for variation in the number of reviews
  per movie per year. The winners are determined by the rankings,
  designated as the "adjusted score," after applying said formula:

  t + ((r-a) ÷ a) if number of reviews > average number of reviews for
  corresponding year.
  t * (r ÷ a) if number of reviews < average number of reviews for
  corresponding year
  t if number of reviews = average number of reviews for
  corresponding year
  with "r" representing the number of rated reviews, "t" the
  Tomatometer score, and "a" the average number of reviews
  per movie for corresponding year