Academy Awards: BEST PICTURE

87 BEST PICTURE WINNERS

Let's look back at the 87 Best Picture winners.

Here are all the winners by decade followed by my rating:

2010 The King's Speech ★★★★

2011 The Artist ★★★

2012 Argo ★★★★ 

2013 12 Years a Slave ★★★★
2014 Birdman ★★★  




2000 Gladiator ★ 
2001 A Beautiful Mind ★★★★  
2002 Chicago ★★★★ 
2003 The Return of the King ★★★★★ 
2004 Million Dollar Baby ★★  
2005 Crash ★★★  
2006 The Departed ★★★★ 
2007 No Country for Old Men ★★★★★  
2008 Slumdog Millionaire ★★★★  
2009 The Hurt Locker ★★★★


1990 Dances With Wolves ★★★★★ 
1991 The Silence of the Lambs ★★★★★  
1992 Unforgiven ★★★  
1993 Schindler's List ★★★★★  
1994 Forrest Gump ★★★★  
1995 Braveheart ★★  
1996 The English Patient ★★★★★  
1997 Titanic ★★★
1998 Shakespeare in Love ★★★★ 
1999 American Beauty ★★★★  

1980 Ordinary People ★★★★  
1981 Chariots of Fire ★★★ 
1982 Gandhi ★★★ 
1983 Terms of Endearment ★★★★
1984 Amadeus ★★★★★ 
1985 Out of Africa ★★★★★ 
1986 Platoon ★★★★ 
1987 The Last Emperor ★★★★★ 
1988 Rain Man ★★★  
1989 Driving Miss Daisy ★★★★ 

1970 Patton ★★★★ 
1971 The French Connection ★★★★
1972 The Godfather ★★★★★ 
1973 The Sting ★★★
1974 The Godfather Part II ★★★★★
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ★★★★★
1976 Rocky ★★★
1977 Annie Hall ★★★★★
1978 The Deer Hunter ★★★★
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer  ★★★★
 

1960 The Apartment ★★★★
1961 West Side Story ★★★★★
1962 Lawrence of Arabia ★★★★★
1963 Tom Jones ★★★★
1964 My Fair Lady ★★★★
1965 The Sound of Music ★★★★
1966 A Man for All Seasons ★★★
1967 In the Heat of the Night ★★★★
1968 Oliver! ★★★
1969 Midnight Cowboy ★★★★★ 

  

 

1950 All About Eve ★★★★★

1951 An American in Paris ★★★
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth ★★★★★
1953 From Here to Eternity ★★★★
1954 On the Waterfront ★★★
1955 Marty ★★★★★
1956 Around the World in 80 Days ★★★
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai ★★★★★
1958 Gigi ★★★★★        
1959 Ben Hur ★★★★

1940 Rebecca ★★★★★
1941 How Green Was My Valley ★★★
1942 Mrs. Miniver ★★★
1943 Casablanca ★★★★★
1944 Going My Way ★★★★
1945 The Lost Weekend ★★★★★
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives ★★★
1947 Gentleman's Agreement ★★
1948 Hamlet  ★★★★
1949 All the King's Men ★★★

1928 Wings ★★★
1929 The Broadway Melody ★★★
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front ★★★★
1931 Cimarron ★★★
1932 Grand Hotel ★★
1933 Cavalcade ★★★★
1934 It Happened One Night ★★★★★
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty  ★★★
1936 The Great Ziegfeld ★★★★
1937 The Life of Emile Zola ★★★
1938 You Can't Take It With You ★★★★★
1939 Gone with the Wind ★★★★