LIVE POLL: Favorite Oscar-Nominated Best Picture Western Movie?

Western Oscar Nominees (per IMDb Search)

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_movie,video&genres=western&groups=oscar_best_picture_nominees&sort=release_date,asc

@Jessica​ Corrected.

Is the minimum number of votes neccesary?

There is enough room to include all western Best Picture nominees, and among those you're cutting off is one of the very few Oscar winners of the genre.

@Pencho15​, I would disagree that is what is happening. The list of movies tagged on IMDb as "Westerns" is very inaccuate. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_movie,video&genres=western&groups=oscar_best_picture_nominees

The list is inconsistent likely because there is no universally set parameters for the Western genre. The resulting ommisions and inclusions of Oscar Best Picture nominated movies are a direct result of the flexible definition of the Western genre. They are probably more than thirty-five Oscar-nominated Best Picture movies that fit a broader definition of the Western genre.

The simple definition of a Western is a genre of fiction and film set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century and the early 20th century in the Western United States, which is styled the "Old West" or the "Wild West".

I have even seen some "Western" definitions even more tightly restrict the period settings to 1850-1899 time set films. But, a broader and more fitting Western definition is about ideals of the genre and includes movies with either "Western" themes or plots movies that take place during a time or in a location outside what is traditional for a Western.  I am more comfortable with setting the time period for traditional "Westerns" between the Louisiana Purchase on 04 July 1803 and the admission of Arizona as the 48th US state on 14 February 1912 (ending the continetal USA territorial era). The movies widely acknowledged to be part of a non-traditional or traditional Western subgenre often have multiple recurring themes that define the genre, rather than a time and place (ie Space Westerns, Science Fiction Westerns, Range Westerns, Cracker Westerns, Klondike Westerns, Northerns (North of 49th parallel ie The Gold Rush) NorthEastern/SouthEastern (frontier-era East of Mississippi ie Last of the Mohicans), Australian Westerns, Acid Westerns, Black Westerns, Civil War Westerns, Chinese Westerns, Curry Westerns, Horror Westerns, Western Satire, Spaghetti Westerns, Weird Westerns, Steampunk Westerns, Drifter Westerns, Pre-Westerns, Contemporary Westerns, Neo-Westerns, Revisionist Westerns, Osterns, and countless other Western subgenres/themes that include outlaws, cattle drives, ranch life, railroads, telegraphs, saloons, frontier justice, prospecting/mining, trail life, wagon trains, indians, settlers, range conflicts, westward migration, etc. . http://cuebon.com/ewriters/Wsubgenres.html

I would prefer for the answer pool to include movies that fit the broader definition (ie No Country for Old Men, Bonnie and Clyde, Giant, There Will Be Blood, Brokeback Mountain, Django Unchained, The Revenant, Hell or High Water, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), and The Sundowners are more revelant, rather than just including movies that fit a strict narrow definition and are less relevant (In Old Arizona, Villa Viva!* [set in Mexico]) to most poll takers. 

I changed the threshold to 2,500 IMDb votes and included Cimarron (1931) among twelve other additional movies to bring the total to 35 options. FYI, despite being an Oscar Best Picture winner, Cimarron is the lowest IMDb-rated @ 5.9 of the forty of so Western Oscar Best Picture nominees. Personally, I don't find the rating to be reflective of the film.

I generally like to be around 27 to 30 solid answer options and I will be omitting mostly early Best Picture nominated movies that fit the broader definition.  An everything else option will be used to represent lower-rated and least watched options like In Old Arizona (1928), Villa Viva! (1934) [Mexican set], nominees.

@Jessica​ Thanks