Complete List of Past “Best Picture” Winners
January 3, 2012 1 Comment
- 2010 – “The King’s Speech”
- 2009 – “The Hurt Locker”
- 2008 – “Slumdog Millionaire”
- 2007 – “No Country for Old Men”
- 2006 – “The Departed”
- 2005 – “Crash”
- 2004 – “Million Dollar Baby”
- 2003 – “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”
- 2002 – “Chicago”
- 2001 – “A Beautiful Mind”
- 2000 – “Gladiator”
- 1999 – “American Beauty”
- 1998 – “Shakespeare in Love”
- 1997 – “Titanic”
- 1996 – “The English Patient”
- 1995 – “Braveheart”
- 1994 – “Forrest Gump”
- 1993 – “Schindler’s List”
- 1992 – “Unforgiven”
- 1991 – “The Silence of the Lambs”
- 1990 – “Dances With Wolves”
- 1989 – “Driving Miss Daisy”
- 1988 – “Rain Man”
- 1987 – “The Last Emperor”
- 1986 – “Platoon”
- 1985 – “Out of Africa”
- 1984 – “Amadeus”
- 1983 – “Terms of Endearment”
- 1982 – “Gandhi”
- 1981 – “Chariots of Fire”
- 1980 – “Ordinary People”
- 1979 – “Kramer vs. Kramer”
- 1978 – “The Deer Hunter”
- 1977 – “Annie Hall”
- 1976 – “Rocky”
- 1975 – “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
- 1974 – “The Godfather Part II”
- 1973 – “The Sting”
- 1972 – “The Godfather”
- 1971 – “The French Connection”
- 1970 – “Patton”
- 1969 – “Midnight Cowboy”
- 1968 – “Oliver!”
- 1967 – “In the Heat of the Night”
- 1966 – “A Man for All Seasons”
- 1965 – “The Sound of Music“
- 1964 – “My Fair Lady”
- 1963 – “Tom Jones”
- 1962 – “Lawrence of Arabia”
- 1961 – “West Side Story”
- 1960 – “The Apartment”
- 1959 – “Ben-Hur”
- 1958 – “Gigi”
- 1957 – “The Bridge on the River Kwai”
- 1956 – “Around the World in 80 Days”
- 1955 – “Marty”
- 1954 – “On the Waterfront”
- 1953 – “From Here to Eternity”
- 1952 – “The Greatest Show on Earth”
- 1951 – “An American in Paris”
- 1950 – “All About Eve”
- 1949 – “All the Kings Men”
- 1948 – “Hamlet”
- 1947 – “Gentleman’s Agreement”
- 1946 – “The Best Years of Our Lives”
- 1945 – “The Lost Weekend”
- 1944 – “Going My Way”
- 1943 – “Casablanca”
- 1942 – “Mrs. Miniver”
- 1941 – “How Green Was My Valley”
- 1940 – “Rebecca”
- 1939 – “Gone with the Wind”
- 1938 – “You Can’t Take It with You”
- 1937 – “The Life of Emile Zola”
- 1936 – “The Great Ziegfeld”
- 1935 – “Mutiny on the Bounty”
- 1934 – “It Happened One Night”
- 1932/1933 – “Cavalcade”
- 1931/1932 – “Grand Hotel”
- 1930/1931 – “Cimarron”
- 1929/1930 – “All Quiet on the Western Front”
- 1928/1929 – “The Broadway Melody”
- 1927/1928 – “Wings”
About Lane J. Lubell
cinemashadow 
This list of films are all masterpieces desearving praise, but the films that were nominated but faild to win also include some of the best, and most loved movies of all time.
The classic example is 1939 which was one of the years that the Academy nominated ten films for Best Picture. Looking at this list one could picture several that could have taken home the prize in another year.
Dark Victory
Gone With the Wind (The winner)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Love Affair
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ninotchka
Of Mice and Men
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz
Wuthering Heights
But there have been many very competitive years, for example Annie Hall was up against o The Goodbye Girl, Julia, Star Wars and The Turning Point.
It seems so difficult to have to choose one film from this list, luckily these films all found an audience and continue to be treasured.