Best Picture Winners

I managed to watch all of the Academy Award winners for Best Picture. Obviously this is one of those lists that I am going to have to maintain once a year – still, pretty cool to be able to have completed this!

Note: If there is no link that means I watched it before starting the blog proper.

1. Wings
2. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
3. The Broadway Melody
4. All Quiet on the Western Front
5. Cimarron
6. Grand Hotel
7. Cavalcade
8. It Happened One Night
9. Mutiny on the Bounty
10. The Great Ziegfeld
11. The Life of Emile Zola
12. You Can’t Take It with You
13. Gone with the Wind
14. Rebecca
15. How Green Was My Valley
16. Mrs. Miniver
17. Casablanca
18. Going My Way
19. The Lost Weekend
20. The Best Years of Our Lives
21. Gentleman’s Agreement
22. Hamlet
23. All the King’s Men
24. All About Eve
25. An American in Paris
26. The Greatest Show on Earth
27. From Here to Eternity
28. On the Waterfront
29. Marty
30. Around the World in Eighty Days
31. The Bridge on the River Kwai
32. Gigi
33. Ben-Hur
34. The Apartment
35. West Side Story
36. Lawrence of Arabia
37. Tom Jones
38. My Fair Lady
39. The Sound of Music
40. A Man for All Seasons
41. In the Heat of the Night
42. Oliver!
43. Midnight Cowboy
44. Patton
45. The French Connection
46. The Godfather
47. The Sting
48. The Godfather: Part II
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
50. Rocky
51. Annie Hall
52. The Deer Hunter
53. Kramer vs. Kramer
54. Ordinary People
55. Chariots of Fire
56. Gandhi
57. Terms of Endearment
58. Amadeus
59. Out of Africa
60. Platoon
61. The Last Emperor
62. Rain Man
63. Driving Miss Daisy
64. Dances with Wolves
65. The Silence of the Lambs
66. Unforgiven
67. Schindler’s List
68. Forrest Gump
69. Braveheart
70. The English Patient
71. Titanic
72. Shakespeare in Love
73. American Beauty
74. Gladiator
75. A Beautiful Mind
76. Chicago
77. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
78. Million Dollar Baby
79. Crash
80. The Departed
81. No Country for Old Men
82. Slumdog Millionaire
83. The Hurt Locker
84. The King’s Speech
85. The Artist
86. Argo
87. Twelve Years a Slave
88. Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
89. Spotlight
90. Moonlight
91. The Shape of Water
92. Green Book
    
93. Parasite
94. Nomadland

 

As an extra, since 2015 I have been trying to watch all the Best Picture nominees before the ceremony. I have been blogging them as a weeklong block before the Oscars. So if you want to see my thoughts on the Oscar losers you’ve scrolled down to the right place.

2015

Bridge of Spies – Brooklyn – Mad Max: Fury Road – Room – The Big Short – The Martian –
The Revenant

2016

Arrival – Fences – Hacksaw Ridge – Hell or High Water – Hidden Figures – La La Land – Lion – Manchester by the Sea

2017

Call Me By Your Name – Darkest Hour – Dunkirk – Get Out – Lady Bird  – Phantom Thread –  The Post – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

2018

A Star Is Born – Black Panther – BlacKkKlansman – Bohemian Rhapsody – The Favourite – Roma – Vice

2019

1917 – Ford v Ferrari – The Irishman – Jojo Rabbit – Joker – Little Women – Marriage Story – Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood

2020

The Father – Judas and the Black Messiah – Mank – Minari – Promising Young Woman – The Sound of Metal – The Trial of the Chicago 7