The only film from 2006 that I can think of more worthy of winning Best Picture was Children of Men, and that film didn't even get a nomination. Granted, I will agree that probably a good part of the reason that Scorsese won is because he's had it long-coming, but that doesn't mean his film that won was any less worthy. I'll probably get slammed for this, but I enjoyed The Departed more than Goodfellas.

First off, let me state that I created an account just to comment on this list.

I really enjoyed this list with one exception: what the f*** is The Departed on here for? The Departed is a fantastic film with great acting and enjoyable story development in every frame. I haven't seen it's parent film "Internal Affairs," but it's not really a matter of which film overshadows which.

Let's look at 2006's contenders again. Little Miss Sunshine? Cute. That's about all it had going for it. Babel? Good film, really, but ultimately ended up being preachy. Letters from Iwo Jima? Good film, but doesn't stand out from dozens of other war films except for the fact that it's American-made and tells the story from the Japanese side. And freakin' The QUEEN? One of the most boring, uninteresting film experiences I've ever had to sit through. It was two hours of build-up to learn that, hey, this woman's frumpy and kinda sad that Princess Di got killed. Whoopty-freakin-doo.