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Oscars Awards: A Look At Every Best Picture Winner 

BY Dora Abena Dzaka March 2, 2025 10:36 PM EDT
Photo Credit Instagram: @theacademy

In the wake of Oscars awards night and the ceremony’s nearly 100-year history, the Academy has nominated 611 films for the Best Picture award.

Therefore, we are taking a look at all the nominated films at the Oscars under the Best Picture category.

Below is the list of 96 Oscar Best Picture winners listed in reverse chronological order.

2020s: Best picture winners

  • Anora (2024
  • Oppenheimer” (2023)
  • “Everything Everywhere All At Once” (2022)
  • “CODA” (2021)
  • “Nomadland” (2020)

2010s: Best picture winners

  • “Parasite” (2019)
  • “Green Book” (2018)
  • “The Shape of Water” (2017)
  • “Moonlight”(2016)
  • “Spotlight” (2015)
  • “Birdman” (2014)
  • “12 Years a Slave” (2013)
  • “Argo” (2012)
  • “The Artist” (2011)
  • “The King’s Speech” (2010)

2000s: Best picture winners

  • “The Hurt Locker” (2009)
  • “Slumdog Millionaire” (2008)
  • “No Country for Old Men” (2007)
  • “The Departed” (2006)
  • “Crash” (2005)
  • “Million Dollar Baby” (2004)
  • “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003)
  • “Chicago” (2002)
  • “A Beautiful Mind” (2001)
  • “Gladiator” (2000)

1990s: Best picture winners

  • “American Beauty” (1999)
  • “Shakespeare in Love” (1998)
  • “Titanic” (1997)
  • “The English Patient” (1996)
  • “Braveheart” (1995)
  • “Forrest Gump” (1994)
  • “Schindler’s List” (1993)
  • “Unforgiven” (1992)
  • “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)
  • “Dances with Wolves” (1990)

1980s: Best picture winners

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

1970s: Best picture winners

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

1960s: Best picture winners

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

1950s: Best picture winners

  • “Ben-Hur” (1959)
  • “Gigi” (1958)
  • “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957)
  • “Around the World in 80 Days” (1956)
  • “Marty” (1955)
  • “On the Waterfront” (1954)
  • “From Here to Eternity” (1953)
  • “The Greatest Show on Earth” (1952)
  • “An American in Paris” (1951)
  • “All About Eve” (1950)

1940s: Best picture winners

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

1930s: Best picture winners

  • “Gone with the Wind” (1939)
  • “You Can’t Take It with You” (1938)
  • “The Life of Emile Zola” (1937)
  • “The Great Ziegfeld” (1936)
  • “Mutiny on the Bounty” (1935)
  • “It Happened One Night” (1934)
  • “Cavalcade” (1933)
  • “Grand Hotel” (1932)
  • “Cimarron” (1931)
  • “All Quiet on the Western Front” (1930)

1920s: Best Picture Winners

  • The Broadway Melody” (1929)
  • “Wings” (1927)

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