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The Oscars are usually wrong. Here are the real best pictures.

We first published this fine quarrel in 2016, but they just keep on handing out Oscars to the wrong movies. So we have updated it ahead of Sunday’s 98th Academy Awards, which is shaping up to be a showdown between “One Battle After Another” and “Sinners.” But which one should win? 

And how many times has the actual best movie of the year taken home the top prize over the past half century? We run through our picks below, dating back to 1974, when “The Godfather Part II” won over the tight yet sumptuous “Chinatown.”