What biopics/docudramas do you consider the best and worst?

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Feel free to add a "so-so" category if you want.

Best:
Breach

Shattered Glass

The Blind Side

Ray

Walk the Line

American Splendor

Malcolm X

Good Night & Good Luck

Zodiac

The Aviator

Capote

The King's Speech

Argo

Lincoln

So-So:

Munich

Ali

Kinsey

Infamous

Public Enemies

Worst:

Beyond the Sea

I Love You, Phillip Morris

I haven't seen many biopics, so I will just tell you one of my favorites and my least favorite.

Favorite:

Ed Wood

Least favorite:

Public Enemies

I have seen all of these. All good ones:

All the President's Men
The Blind Side
Downfall
Ed Wood
Erin Brockovich
Goodfellas
The Pride of the Yankees
Schindler's List
Yankee Doodle Dandy

(1986) Sid & Nancy
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZp3meyWVm0[/youtube]

Recently I saw The Aviator, which is about Howard Hughes. It was a good film by Martin Scorsese.

The Pianist. That's a good one.

The Pursuit of Happyness was a good one too.

Shine, based on Rachmaninovs upbringing as a child, and the auto biography of James Dean, which starred bits of himself but also James Franco who played him.
I like that film as well with Joaquin Phoenix played Johnny cash and the ones which Elvis starred in as himself.

A biopic about Sir Elton John may soon be produced with Tom Hardy as Sir Elton John.

There are a lot of good ones here. I might add 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould, Last Days, Zero Days, My Week with Marilyn, Che: Part 1 &2, Motorcycle Diaries, The Social Network, Raging Bull, Amadeus, Milk, Good Night and Good Luck, Reds, Ghandi, The Elephant Man, A Beautiful Mind, Hurricane, Invictus, Good Morning Vietnam, Stand and Deliver,..etc. There are so many good ones.
Of all of them, I probably like Amadeus the most, at this moment. I'm going to look at some of the other biopics mentioned here.
Btw, Sid & Nancy was really hard to watch, very tragic.

Although they take a lot of liberties, The Glenn Miller Story with Jimmy Stewart and The Benny Goodman Story with Steve Allen are 2 of the best that I have seen.

Although it isn't a biopic, the Shootist pretty much run in parallel with John Wayne's personal life before his death from cancer.

Best-

Beat
The Whole Wide World
Amadeus
Infamous
Wonderland
Barfly
JFK
I'm sure there are others I'm not bringing to mind. While others have already been named.

Worst-

Ruby

The TV biopic about Temple Grandin was very well-done.

Gandhi
Lawrence of Arabia
Raging Bull
Patton
Spartacus
Sergeant York
Finding Neverland
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

American Splendor