Editor's note, 1/13/2020: We've updated this list to include today's new batch of Best Picture nominees. Enjoy!

Oscar season is once again upon us. You know what that means: Theaters are suddenly crowded with Best Picture contenders where the costuming isn't 70 percent spandex, and the pop-culture discourse is pumping out takes at an alarming rate. As usual, the opportunities for cinematic radicalism and ratio'd tweets are most prevalent in the Best Picture category. But before the 2020 winner is announced on February 9th, it's worth a look at just how much Best Picture has evolved in the last decade.

Just before the Tens kicked off, everything changed: 2009's Oscars saw the Best Picture field expanded from five to 10. Then, in 2011, with a weak slate (we see you, War Horse) and too many slots to fill, the Academy loosened the rules to allow for anywhere between five and 10 films. These changes had a profound impact not just on the number of films recognized, but the types of stories we now celebrate.

Sure, middlebrow historical films still somehow show up in droves, but in recent years, we’ve also seen sci-fi films become a regular fixture (shout out to Arrival, 2016). As the Marvel Cinematic Universe dominated the box office, and matured thematically, a superhero movie has entered the field; Alfonso Cuarón's Roma (2018) was not only a foreign-language contender, but a foreign-language contender from a streaming service; LGBTQ stories have competed, as have films with a sincere focus on people of color. For all the hand-wringing at the start of the decade about dilution, we've only seen the opposite. Expand the number of films that can be nominated—while, as importantly‚ working to diversify and broaden the voting body’s membership—and the definition of a potential Best Picture only broadens to include stories, and storytellers, that had for too long been ignored.

In anticipation of this season’s Oscars ceremony, which caps a full decade of the Academy's evolution, we’ve ranked every Best Picture nominee of the 2010s—winners included, obviously. Some of the Academy’s choices have aged quite well, while others… have not. And with that, let’s begin at the very bottom of our own preferential ballot.

88. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Dir. Stephen Daldry, 2011)

Extremely overwrought and incredibly tedious. Sandra Bullock is wasted as a grieving widow and struggling mother post-9/11, while leading kid Thomas Horn is close to unwatchable and his character’s New York City-wide search—for the lock to match a mysterious key found among his late father’s belongings—seems endless. You can sense this wannabe-tearjerker straining for profundity in almost every single scene.