The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Oscars is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot. The Best Picture category is usually the final award of the night and is widely considered as the most prestigious honor of the ceremony.
The Grand Staircase columns at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, where the Academy Awards ceremonies have been held since 2002, showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award’s inception. There have been 581 films nominated for Best Picture and 94 winners.
- Wings (1927/28)
- The Broadway Melody (1928/29)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/30)
- Cimarron (1930/31)
- Grand Hotel (1931/32)
- Cavalcade (1932/33)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
- The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
- You Can’t Take It With You (1938)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- How Green Was My Valley (1941)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Crash (2005)
- The Departed (2006)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
- The Hurt Locker (2009)
- The King’s Speech (2010)
- The Artist (2011)
- Argo (2012)
- 12 Years a Slave (2013)
- Birdman (2014)
- Spotlight (2015)
- Moonlight (2016)
- The Shape of Water (2017)
- Green Book (2018)
- Parasite (2019)
- Nomadland (2020)
- CODA (2021)
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
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 – Taxi Driver
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 King’s Men
1948 – Hamlet
1947 – Gentlemen’s Agreement
1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives
1945 – The Lost Weekend
1944 – Going My Way
1943 – Casablanca
