Best picture winners list: Every single movie to win top Oscar

LOS ANGELES -- In the Oscars' astir 100-year history, the Academy has nominated 611 films for the champion representation award.

Some winners, similar the comedy-drama "Forrest Gump" (1994), are considered classics. While others, similar the intelligence fearfulness "Silence of the Lambs" (1991), are trailblazers successful their genres.

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"Titanic" (1997) and "All About Eve" (1950) apical the database arsenic the most-nominated movies to triumph champion picture, with 14 nominations each. "La La Land" (2016) besides boasts 14 nods but did not triumph champion picture, adjacent if Warren Beatty's celebrated faux pas had millions of ceremonial viewers concisely believing it had.

"Titanic" is besides 1 of 3 movies to triumph a grounds 11 awards, joined by "Ben-Hur" (1959) and "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" (2003). Yet the second takes the barroom for being the most-nominated movie to triumph successful each azygous nominated category.

"Gone with the Wind" (1939) was the pioneer for colour films, portion "Midnight Cowboy" (1969) is the lone X-rated movie to ever triumph champion picture.

Few sequels are nominated for champion picture, and lone 2 person won: "The Godfather Part II" (1974) and "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" (2003).

When "Parasite" won champion representation successful 2020, it became the archetypal non-English connection movie to instrumentality location the Academy's highest honor. At the time, it was lone the 2nd clip a non-English connection movie has made the nominees list. "Grand Illusion" (1938), successful French, was the first, "Drive My Car" (2021), successful Japanese, made 2021's list, and this year, Germany's "All Quiet connected the Western Front" made the cut.

Only 3 champion representation winners were directed by women: Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" (2009), Chloé Zhao's "Nomadland" (2020) and Sian Heder's "CODA" (2021). Woman-directed movies person lone made that nominee database 16 times, including "Women Talking," directed by Sarah Polley.

As movie buffs know, winning respective awards successful different categories does not warrant champion representation success. "Cabaret" (1972) won successful 8 categories but mislaid to "The Godfather" for the apical prize.

Here are the 96 Oscar champion representation winners listed successful reverse-chronological order.

Please enactment that the accompanying twelvemonth indicates erstwhile the movie was released, not erstwhile it won its Oscar:

2020s: Best representation winners

This representation released by Universal Pictures shows Cillian Murphy successful a country from "Oppenheimer."

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• "Oppenheimer" (2023)


• "Everything Everywhere All At Once" (2022)


• "CODA" (2021)


• "Nomadland" (2020)

2010s: Best representation winners

Michael Keaton stars successful "Birdman" (2014).

• "Parasite" (2019)


• "Green Book" (2018)


• "The Shape of Water" (2017)


• "Moonlight"(2016)


• "Spotlight" (2015)


• "Birdman" (2014)


• "12 Years a Slave" (2013)


• "Argo" (2012)


• "The Artist" (2011)


• "The King's Speech" (2010)

2000s: Best representation winners

Russell Crowe looking astatine a partition of numbers successful a country from the movie "A Beautiful Mind" (2001).

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• "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)

1990s: Best representation winners

Tom Hanks successful "Forrest Gump" (1994)

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• "American Beauty" (1999)


• "Shakespeare successful 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)

1980s: Best representation winners

Debra Winger successful a country from the movie "Terms of Endearment" (1983).

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• "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)

1970s: Best representation winners

Al Pacino sitting successful an armchair successful a publicity inactive issued for the film, "The Godfather Part II" (1974)

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• "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)

1960s: Best representation winners

Julie Andrews performs a philharmonic fig successful the movie "The Sound Of Music" (1964) directed by Robert Wise.

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• "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)

1950s: Best representation winners

Messala, played by Stephen Boydcompetes against Judah Ben-Hur, played by Charlton Heston, successful the chariot racing country from "Ben-Hur" (1959), directed by William Wyler.

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• "Ben-Hur" (1959)


• "Gigi" (1958)


• "The Bridge connected the River Kwai" (1957)


• "Around the World successful 80 Days" (1956)


• "Marty" (1955)


• "On the Waterfront" (1954)


• "From Here to Eternity" (1953)


• "The Greatest Show connected Earth" (1952)


• "An American successful Paris" (1951)


• "All About Eve" (1950)

1940s: Best representation winners

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman prima successful the Warner Brothers movie "Casablanca" (1942).

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• "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)

1930s: Best representation winners

Joan Crawford, John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore prima successful "Grand Hotel" (1932), directed by Edmund Goulding for MGM.

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• "Gone with the Wind" (1939)


• "You Can't Take It with You" (1938)


• "The Life of Emile Zola" (1937)


• "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936)


• "Mutiny connected the Bounty" (1935)


• "It Happened One Night" (1934)


• "Cavalcade" (1933)


• "Grand Hotel" (1932)


• "Cimarron" (1931)


• "All Quiet connected the Western Front" (1930)

1920s: Best representation winners

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers and Clara Bow successful beforehand of an airplane successful a country from the movie "Wings" (1927).

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• The Broadway Melody" (1929)


• "Wings" (1927)

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