The Academy Awards are considered the pinnacle of the entertainment industry. Given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the golden statuette known popularly as an “Oscar” depicts an Art Deco-style knight.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929. Since then, over 3,000 Oscars have been awarded.

Best Picture Winners

  1. Wings (1927)
  2. The Broadway Melody (1929)
  3. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  4. Cimarron (1931)
  5. Grand Hotel (1932)
  6. Cavalcade (1933)
  7. It Happened One Night (1934)
  8. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  9. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
  10. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
  11. You Can’t Take It With You (1938)
  12. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  13. Rebecca (1940)
  14. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
  15. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
  16. Casablanca (1943)
  17. Going My Way (1944)
  18. The Lost Weekend (1945)
  19. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  20. Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
  21. Hamlet (1948)
  22. All the King’s Men (1949)
  23. All About Eve (1950)
  24. An American in Paris (1951)
  25. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
  26. From Here to Eternity (1953)
  27. On the Waterfront (1954)
  28. Marty (1955)
  29. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
  30. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  31. Gigi (1958)
  32. Ben-Hur (1959)
  33. The Apartment (1960)
  34. West Side Story (1961)
  35. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  36. Tom Jones (1963)
  37. My Fair Lady (1964)
  38. The Sound of Music (1965)
  39. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
  40. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  41. Oliver! (1968)
  42. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  43. Patton (1970)
  44. The French Connection (1971)
  45. The Godfather (1972)
  46. The Sting (1973)
  47. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
  48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  49. Rocky (1976)
  50. Annie Hall (1977)
  51. The Deer Hunter (1978)
  52. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  53. Ordinary People (1980)
  54. Chariots of Fire (1981)
  55. Gandhi (1982)
  56. Terms of Endearment (1983)
  57. Amadeus (1984)
  58. Out of Africa (1985)
  59. Platoon (1986)
  60. The Last Emperor (1987)
  61. Rain Main (1988)
  62. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
  63. Dances with Wolves (1990)
  64. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  65. Unforgiven (1992)
  66. Schindler’s List (1993)
  67. Forrest Gump (1994)
  68. Braveheart (1995)
  69. The English Patient (1996)
  70. Titanic (1997)
  71. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
  72. American Beauty (1999)
  73. Gladiator (2000)
  74. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  75. Chicago (2002)
  76. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  77. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  78. Crash (2005)
  79. The Departed (2006)
  80. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  81. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  82. The Hurt Locker (2009)
  83. The King’s Speech (2010)
  84. The Artist (2011)
  85. Argo (2012)
  86. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
  87. Birdman (2014)
  88. Spotlight (2015)
  89. Moonlight (2016)
  90. The Shape of Water (2017)
  91. Green Book (2018)
  92. Parasite (2019)
  93. Nomadland (2020)
  94. CODA (2021)
  95. Everything Everwhere All at Once (2022)
  96. Oppenheimer (2023)
  97. TBD (2024)