Widely seen as the most prestigious award in film, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences crowns the best film of each year as Best Picture. While disagreements may remain if each of these films was the best in its respective year, the Academy has demonstrated a good track record of picking strong choices. Below are my reviews for all of the Best Picture Winners.
1929: Wings
1930: The Broadway Melody
1931: All Quiet on the Western Front
1932: Cimarron
1933: Grand Hotel
1934: Cavalcade
1935: It Happened One Night
1936: Mutiny on the Bounty
1937: The Great Ziegfeld
1938: The Life of Emile Zola
1939: You Can’t Take It With You
1940: Gone with the Wind
1941: Rebecca
1942: How Green was my Valley
1943: Mrs. Miniver
1944: Casablanca
1945: Going My Way
1946: The Lost Weekend
1947: Best Years of Our Lives
1948: Gentleman’s Agreement
1949: Hamlet
1950: All the King’s Men
1951: All About Eve
1952: An American in Paris
1953: The Greatest Show on Earth
1954: From Here to Eternity
1955: On the Waterfront
1956: Marty
1957: Around the World in 80 Days
1958: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1959: Gigi
1960: Ben-Hur
1961: The Apartment
1962: West Side Story
1963: Lawrence of Arabia
1964: Tom Jones
1965: My Fair Lady
1966: The Sound of Music
1967: A Man for all Seasons
1968: In the Heat of the Night
1969: Oliver!
1970: Midnight Cowboy
1971: Patton
1972: The French Connection
1973: The Godfather
1974: The Sting
1975: The Godfather: Part II
1976: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1977: Rocky
1979: The Deer Hunter
1980: Kramer vs. Kramer
1981: Ordinary People
1982: Chariots of Fire
1983: Gandhi
1984: Terms of Endearment
1985: Amadeus
1986: Out of Africa
1987: Platoon
1988: The Last Emperor
1989: Rain Man
1990: Driving Miss Daisy
1991: Dances with Wolves
1992: Silence of the Lambs
1993: Unforgiven
1994: Schindler’s List
1995: Forrest Gump
1997: The English Patient
1998: Titanic
1999: Shakespeare in Love
2000: American Beauty
2001: Gladiator
2002: A Beautiful Mind
2003: Chicago
2004: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2005: Million Dollar Baby
2006: Crash
2007: The Departed
2008: No Country for Old Men
2009: Slumdog Millionaire
2010: The Hurt Locker
2011: The King’s Speech
2012: The Artist
2013: Argo
2014: 12 Years a Slave
2015: Birdman
2016: Spotlight
2017: Moonlight
2018: The Shape of Water
2019: Green Book
2020: Parasite
2021: Nomadland
2022: CODA
2023: Everything Everywhere All at Once
2024: Oppenheimer
2025: Anora
2026: One Battle After Another
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