Best Picture by Decade
Every Academy Award for Best Picture winner, from Wings (1929) to today
1920s
- 1927/28Wings
- 1928/29The Broadway Melody
1930s
- 1929/30All Quiet on the Western Front
- 1930/31Cimarron
- 1931/32Grand Hotel
- 1932/33Cavalcade
- 1934It Happened One Night
- 1935Mutiny on the Bounty
- 1936The Great Ziegfeld
- 1937The Life of Emile Zola
- 1938You Can't Take It with You
- 1939Gone with the Wind
1940s
- 1940Rebecca
- 1941How Green Was My Valley
- 1942Mrs. Miniver
- 1943Casablanca
- 1944Going My Way
- 1945The Lost Weekend
- 1946The Best Years of Our Lives
- 1947Gentleman's Agreement
- 1948Hamlet
- 1949All the King's Men
1950s
- 1950All About Eve
- 1951An American in Paris
- 1952The Greatest Show on Earth
- 1953From Here to Eternity
- 1954On the Waterfront
- 1955Marty
- 1956Around the World in 80 Days
- 1957The Bridge on the River Kwai
- 1958Gigi
- 1959Ben-Hur
1960s
- 1960The Apartment
- 1961West Side Story
- 1962Lawrence of Arabia
- 1963Tom Jones
- 1964My Fair Lady
- 1965The Sound of Music
- 1966A Man for All Seasons
- 1967In the Heat of the Night
- 1968Oliver!
- 1969Midnight Cowboy
1970s
- 1970Patton
- 1971The French Connection
- 1972The Godfather
- 1973The Sting
- 1974The Godfather Part II
- 1975One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 1976Rocky
- 1977Annie Hall
- 1978The Deer Hunter
- 1979Kramer vs. Kramer
1980s
- 1980Ordinary People
- 1981Chariots of Fire
- 1982Gandhi
- 1983Terms of Endearment
- 1984Amadeus
- 1985Out of Africa
- 1986Platoon
- 1987The Last Emperor
- 1988Rain Man
- 1989Driving Miss Daisy
1990s
- 1990Dances with Wolves
- 1991The Silence of the Lambs
- 1992Unforgiven
- 1993Schindler's List
- 1994Forrest Gump
- 1995Braveheart
- 1996The English Patient
- 1997Titanic
- 1998Shakespeare in Love
- 1999American Beauty
2000s
- 2000Gladiator
- 2001A Beautiful Mind
- 2002Chicago
- 2003The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- 2004Million Dollar Baby
- 2005Crash
- 2006The Departed
- 2007No Country for Old Men
- 2008Slumdog Millionaire
- 2009The Hurt Locker
2010s
- 2010The King's Speech
- 2011The Artist
- 2012Argo
- 201312 Years a Slave
- 2014Birdman
- 2015Spotlight
- 2016Moonlight
- 2017The Shape of Water
- 2018Green Book
- 2019Parasite
2020s
- 2020Nomadland
- 2021CODA
- 2022Everything Everywhere All at Once
- 2023Oppenheimer
- 2024Anora
- 2025The Brutalist
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