With the end of the women's college basketball tournament yesterday and men's tournament tonight and the 93rd Academy Awards later this month, I've made a bracket to determine which of the films released in the 2010s and nominated for Best Picture is the best: #2010sMovieMadness.

This exercise isn't to determine the best movie of the decade. The Academy often fails to give nominations to specific genres of film and there are always Oscar snubs. Rather, it's to determine which film recognized by The Academy Twitter believes is the best. #2010sMovieMadness

88 films released between 2010 and 2019 received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, so I ranked them from No. 1 to No. 88 and removed the 24 that didn't make the cut. Those films are listed, by year and then alphabetical order, in the attached image. #2010sMovieMadness

I present to you: the full 64-film bracket. (Note: Though I won't share the process behind rankings/seedings, I can assure you it was done objectively and was not influenced by any single person's subjective view of a film. I haven't even seen all of them yet.) #2010sMovieMadness

Each of the four quadrants has been named after the film that made the most at the worldwide box office, per Box Office Mojo (by @IMDb). #2010sMovieMadness

• Top Left: "La La Land"
• Top Right: "The Martian"
• Bottom Right: "Toy Story 3"
• Bottom Left: "Black Panther"

I will tweet out polls in the mornings to determine the winner of each matchup. That will all be done in this thread. #2010sMovieMadness

The Round of 64 will take place over the course of this week, starting tomorrow morning, the day after the men's college basketball championship. Each day of the week through Friday will cover one quadrant of the bracket. Round of 64 polls will run 20 hours. #2010sMovieMadness

From there, I have a tentative, but not finalized, schedule. That's still something I'm working on, but the hope is to crown a champion by Friday, April 23 — the Friday prior to the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday, April 25. #2010sMovieMadness

So be sure to return to this thread on Tuesday morning (Pacific time) to begin voting, and may the best movie win! #2010sMovieMadness

The formatting on a previous tweet in this thread explaining the naming of the four quadrants was bothering me, so I've re-ordered those four pictures here so it actually looks like the bracket. Sorry about that! #2010sMovieMadness

Let's get the Round of 64 started! #2010sMovieMadness

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "La La Land" Quadrant

No. 1 "Lady Bird" (2017), dir. Greta Gerwig

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No. 16 "The Post" (2017), dir. Steven Spielberg

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "La La Land" Quadrant

No. 8 "127 Hours" (2010), dir. Danny Boyle

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No. 9 "Amour" (2012), dir. Michael Haneke

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "La La Land" Quadrant

No. 5 "12 Years a Slave" (2013), dir. Steve McQueen

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No. 12 "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012), dir. David O. Russell

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "La La Land" Quadrant

No. 4 "The Social Network" (2010), dir. David Fincher

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No. 13 "Birdman or" (2014), dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "La La Land" Quadrant

No. 6 "Arrival" (2016), dir. Denis Villeneuve

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No. 11 "American Hustle" (2013), dir. David O. Russell

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "La La Land" Quadrant

No. 3 "Hell or High Water" (2016), dir. David Mackenzie

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No. 14 "The Fighter" (2010), dir. David O. Russell

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "La La Land" Quadrant

No. 7 "Call Me By Your Name" (2017), dir. Luca Guadagnino

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No. 10 "Room" (2015), dir. Lenny Abrahamson

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "La La Land" Quadrant

No. 2 "Brooklyn" (2015), dir. John Crowley

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No. 15 "La La Land" (2016), dir. Damien Chazelle

Should any #2010sMovieMadness matchup poll result in a tie, I will set up a three-hour tiebreaker to determine which film advances — "overtime." If the matchup is tied at the end of that tiebreaker, I'll set up another one. That'll keep happening until a winner is determined.

The first group of Round of 64 matchups, from the "La La Land" Quadrant, is in the books! Here are the results and updated bracket.

The next group of matchups will begin in an hour. #2010sMovieMadness

Here are the first round matchups for the "The Martian" Quadrant! #2010sMovieMadness

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "The Martian" Quadrant

No. 1 "Selma" (2014), dir. Ava DuVernay

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No. 16 "The Big Short" (2015), dir. Adam McKay

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "The Martian" Quadrant

No. 8 "Winter's Bone" (2010), dir. Debra Granik

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No. 9 "Captain Phillips" (2013), dir. Paul Greengrass

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "The Martian" Quadrant

No. 5 "The Artist" (2011), dir. Michel Hazanavicius

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No. 12 "The Shape of Water" (2017), dir. Guillermo del Toro

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "The Martian" Quadrant

No. 4 "Manchester by the Sea" (2016), dir. Kenneth Lonergan

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No. 13 "The Martian" (2015), dir. Ridley Scott

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "The Martian" Quadrant

No. 6 "True Grit" (2010), dir. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen

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No. 11 "Dunkirk" (2017), dir. Christopher Nolan

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "The Martian" Quadrant

No. 3 "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015), dir. George Miller

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No. 14 "Bridge of Spies" (2015), dir. Steven Spielberg

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "The Martian" Quadrant

No. 7 "Her" (2013), dir. Spike Jonze

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No. 10 "Midnight in Paris" (2011), dir. Woody Allen

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "The Martian" Quadrant

No. 2 "Boyhood" (2014), dir. Richard Linklater

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No. 15 "A Star Is Born" (2018), dir. Bradley Cooper

The second group of Round of 64 matchups, from the "The Martian" Quadrant, is in the books! Here are the results and updated bracket.

The next group of matchups will begin in an hour. #2010sMovieMadness

Here are the first round matchups for the "Toy Story 3" Quadrant! #2010sMovieMadness

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Toy Story 3" Quadrant

No. 1 "Get Out" (2017), dir. Jordan Peele

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No. 16 "Lincoln" (2012), dir. Steven Spielberg

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Toy Story 3" Quadrant

No. 8 "Whiplash" (2014), dir. Damien Chazelle

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No. 9 "Dallas Buyers Club" (2013), dir. Jean-Marc Vallée

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Toy Story 3" Quadrant

No. 5 "Gravity" (2013), dir. Alfonso Cuarón

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No. 12 "The Kids Are All Right" (2010), dir. Lisa Cholodenko

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Toy Story 3" Quadrant

No. 4 "BlacKkKlansman" (2018), dir. Spike Lee

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No. 13 "Nebraska" (2013), dir. Alexander Payne

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Toy Story 3" Quadrant

No. 6 "The Irishman" (2019), dir. Martin Scorsese

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No. 11 "Fences" (2016), dir. Denzel Washington

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Toy Story 3" Quadrant

No. 3 "Spotlight" (2015), dir. Tom McCarthy

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No. 14 "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012), dir. Kathryn Bigelow

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Toy Story 3" Quadrant

No. 7 "The King's Speech" (2010), dir. Tom Hooper

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No. 10 "Hugo" (2011), dir. Martin Scorsese

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Toy Story 3" Quadrant

No. 2 "Toy Story 3" (2010), dir. Lee Unkrich

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No. 15 "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (2017), dir. Martin McDonagh (title in poll truncated due to lack of available characters)

The third group of Round of 64 matchups, from the "Toy Story 3" Quadrant, is in the books! Here are the results and updated bracket.

The next group of matchups, the final of the Round of 64, will begin in an hour. #2010sMovieMadness

Here are the first round matchups for the "Black Panther" Quadrant! These will be the final matchups of the first round. #2010sMovieMadness

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Black Panther" Quadrant

No. 1 "Moonlight" (2016), dir. Barry Jenkins

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No. 16 "The Imitation Game" (2014), dir. Morten Tyldum

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Black Panther" Quadrant

No. 8 "Moneyball" (2011), dir. Bennett Miller

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No. 9 "The Favourite" (2018), dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Black Panther" Quadrant

No. 5 "Little Women" (2019), dir. Greta Gerwig

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No. 12 "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014), dir. Wes Anderson

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Black Panther" Quadrant

No. 4 "Black Panther" (2018), dir. Ryan Coogler

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No. 13 "Phantom Thread" (2017), dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Black Panther" Quadrant

No. 6 "Roma" (2018), dir. Alfonso Cuarón

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No. 11 "Ford v Ferrari" (2019), dir. James Mangold

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Black Panther" Quadrant

No. 3 "Argo" (2012), dir. Ben Affleck

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No. 14 "Philomena" (2013), dir. Stephen Frears

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Black Panther" Quadrant

No. 7 "Marriage Story" (2019), dir. Noah Baumback

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No. 10 "Hidden Figures" (2016), dir. Theodore Melfi

#2010sMovieMadness Round of 64, "Black Panther" Quadrant

No. 2 "Parasite" (2019), dir. Bong Joon-ho

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No. 15 "1917" (2019), dir. Sam Mendes

The fourth and final group of Round of 64 matchups, from the "Black Panther" Quadrant, is in the books! Here are the results and updated bracket.

The next group of matchups, the first of the Round of 32, will begin on Monday morning. #2010sMovieMadness

Next week, we'll cover both the Round of 32, Sweet Sixteen, AND Elite Eight. Each matchup, much like the Round of 64, will be 20 hours long. The difference, however, is that they'll start and finish one hour later — from 10AM to 6AM PT rather than 9AM to 5AM. #2010sMovieMadness

That will allow longer polls the following week for the Final Four and Championship ahead of the 93rd Academy Awards. I hope you'll all stick around for that.

See you on Monday morning! #2010sMovieMadness

The #2010sMovieMadness Round of 32 will begin in two hours, so be back to this thread then to get your votes in.