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The Oscars (Academy Awards) Best picture list

Below is a list of all the Best picture winners for every year the Academy Awards have been held.

> Click here to view a list of the oscar winners for 2016
> Click here to view a list of all the past hosts of the Oscars

Click a film title to be taken to the corresponding IMDB page.

YEAR

BEST PICTURE

2016

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2015

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

2014

12 Years a Slave

2013

Argo

2012

The Artist

2011

The King’s Speech

2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No Awards this year 1933

1932

Grand Hotel

1931

Cimarron

Nov: 1930

All Quiet on the Western Front

Apr: 1930

The Broadway Melody

1929

Wings

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