From "Wings" in 1929 to "The King's Speech" in 2011, the Academy Awards have recognized many great motion pictures throughout the years.
Other classic films to have won the Best Picture Oscar include "Gone With the Wind", "Casablanca", "The Godfather", and "Forrest Gump".
Best Picture Academy Award Winners
| 2012 | |
| Nominees: The Artist; The Descendants; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close; The Help; Hugo; Midnight In Paris; Moneyball; The Tree Of Life; War Horse | |
| 2011 The King's Speech | |
| Other Nominees: Black Swan; The Fighter; Inception; The Kids Are All Right; 127 Hours; The Social Network; Toy Story 3; True Grit; Winter's Bone | |
| 2010 The Hurt Locker |    |
| Kathryn Bigelow; Mark Boal; Nicolas Chartier; Greg Shapiro | |
| Other Nominees: Avatar; The Blind Side; District 9; An Education; Inglourious Basterds; Precious; A Serious Man; Up; Up In The Air | |
| 2009 Slumdog Millionaire |  |
| Christian Colson | |
| Other Nominees: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; Frost/Nixon; Milk; The Reader | |
| 2008 No Country For Old Men |  |
| Scott Rudin; Joel & Ethan Coen (Producers) | |
| Other Nominees: Atonement; Juno; Michael Clayton; There Will Be Blood | |
| 2007 The Departed |  |
| Other Nominees: Babel; Letters From Iwo Jima; Little Miss Sunshine; The Queen | |
| 2006 Crash |  |
| Paul Haggis; Cathy Schulman | |
| Other Nominees: Brokeback Mountain; Capote; Good Night and Good Luck; Munich | |
| 2005 Million Dollar Baby |  |
| Clint Eastwood; Albert S. Ruddy; Tom Rosenberg | |
| Other Nominees: The Aviator; Finding Neverland; Ray; Sideways | |
| 2004 The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King |  |
| Barrie M. Osborne; Peter Jackson; Fran Walsh | |
| Other Nominees: Lost In Translation; Master and Commander; Mystic River; Seabiscuit | |
| 2003 Chicago |  |
| Martin Richards | |
| Other Nominees: Gangs of New York; The Hours; Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; The Pianist | |
| 2002 A Beautiful Mind |  |
| Brian Grazer; Ron Howard | |
| Other Nominees: Gosford Park; In the Bedroom; Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; Moulin Rouge | |
| 2001 Gladiator |  |
| Douglas Wick; David Franzoni; Branko Lustig | |
| Other Nominees: Chocolat; Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; Erin Brokovich; Traffic | |
| 2000 American Beauty |  |
| Bruce Cohen; Dan Jinks | |
| Other Nominees: The Cider House Rules; The Green Mile; The Insider; The Sixth Sense | |
| 1999 Shakespeare In Love |  |
| David Parfitt; Donna Giglotti; Harvey Weinstein; Edward Zwick; Marc Norman | |
| Other Nominees: Elizabeth; Life Is Beautiful; Saving Private Ryan; The Thin Red Line | |
| 1998 Titanic |  |
| James Cameron; Jon Landau | |
| Other Nominees: As Good As It Gets; The Full Monty; Good Will Hunting; LA Confidential | |
| 1997 The English Patient |  |
| Saul Zaentz | |
| Other Nominees: Fargo; Jerry Maguire; Secrets and Lies; Shine | |
| 1996 Braveheart |  |
| Mel Gibson; Alan Ladd Jr; Bruce Davey | |
| Other Nominees: Apollo 13; Babe; The Postman; Sense and Sensibility | |
| 1995 Forrest Gump |  |
| Wendy Finerman; Steve Tisch; Steve Starkey | |
| Other Nominees: Four Weddings and a Funeral; Pulp Fiction; Quiz Show; The Shawshank Redemption | |
| 1994 Schindler's List |  |
| Steven Spielberg; Gerald R Molen; Branko Lustig | |
| Other Nominees: The Fugitive; In the Name of the Father; The Piano; The Remains of the Day | |
| 1993 Unforgiven |  |
| Clint Eastwood | |
| Other Nominees: The Crying Game; A Few Good Men; Howard's End; Scent of a Woman | |
| 1992 The Silence Of The Lambs |  |
| Edward Saxon; Kenneth Utt; Ron Bozman | |
| Other Nominees: Beauty and the Beast; Bugsy; JFK; The Prince of Tides | |
| 1991 Dances With Wolves |  |
| Jim Wilson; Kevin Costner | |
| Other Nominees: Awakenings; Ghost; The Godfather Part III; Goodfellas | |
| 1990 Driving Miss Daisy |  |
| Richard D Zanuck; Lili Fini Zanuck | |
| Other Nominees: Born on the Fourth of July; Dead Poets Society; Field of Dreams; My Left Foot | |
| 1989 Rain Man |  |
| Mark Johnson | |
| Other Nominees: The Accidental Tourist; Dangerous Liaisons; Mississippi Burning; Working Girl | |
| 1988 The Last Emperor |  |
| Jeremy Thomas | |
| Other Nominees: Broadcast News; Fatal Attraction; Hope and Glory; Moonstruck | |
| 1987 Platoon |  |
| Arnold Kopelson | |
| Other Nominees: Children of a Lesser God; Hannah and Her Sisters; The Mission; A Room With A View | |
| 1986 Out Of Africa |  |
| Sydney Pollack | |
| Other Nominees: The Color Purple; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Prizzi's Honor; Witness | |
| 1985 Amadeus |  |
| Saul Zaentz | |
| Other Nominees: The Killing Fields; A Passage To India; Places in the Heart; A Soldier's Story | |
| 1984 Terms Of Endearment |  |
| James L Brooks | |
| Other Nominees: The Big Chill; The Dresser; The Right Stuff; Tender Mercies | |
| 1983 Gandhi | |
| Richard Attenborough | |
| Other Nominees: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; Missing; Tootsie; The Verdict | |
| 1982 Chariots Of Fire |  |
| David Puttnam | |
| Other Nominees: Atlantic City; On Golden Pond; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Reds | |
| 1981 Ordinary People | |
| Ronald L Schwary | |
| Other Nominees: Coal Miner's Daughter; The Elephant Man; Raging Bull; Tess | |
| 1980 Kramer Vs Kramer | |
| Stanley R Jaffe | |
| Other Nominees: Apocalypse Now; All That Jazz; Breaking Away; Norma Rae | |
| 1979 The Deer Hunter | |
| Barry Spikings; Michael Deeley; Michael Cimino; John Peverall | |
| Other Nominees: Coming Home; Heaven Can Wait; Midnight Express; An Unmarried Woman | |
| 1978 Annie Hall |  |
| Charles H Joffe | |
| Other Nominees: The Goodbye Girl; Julia; Star Wars Episode IV; The Turning Point | |
| 1977 Rocky |  |
| Irwin Winkler; Robert Chartoff | |
| Other Nominees: All the President's Men; Bound for Glory; Network; Taxi Driver | |
| 1976 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | |
| Saul Zaentz; Michael Douglas | |
| Other Nominees: Barry Lyndon; Dog Day Afternoon; Jaws; Nashville | |
| 1975 The Godfather Part II | |
| Francis Ford Coppola; Gray Frederickson; Fred Roos | |
| Other Nominees: Chinatown; The Conversation; Lenny; The Towering Inferno | |
| 1974 The Sting | |
| Tony Bill; Michael Phillips; Julia Phillips | |
| Other Nominees: American Graffiti; The Exorcist; A Touch of Class; Cries and Whispers | |
| 1973 The Godfather | |
| Albert S Ruddy | |
| Other Nominees: Cabaret; Deliverance; Sounder; The Emigrants | |
| 1972 The French Connection | |
| Philip D'Antoni | |
| Other Nominees: A Clockwork Orange; Fiddler on the Roof; The Last Picture Show; Nicholas and Alexandra | |
| 1971 Patton | |
| Frank McCarthy | |
| Other Nominees: Airport; Five Easy Pieces; Love Story; M*A*S*H | |
| 1970 Midnight Cowboy | |
| Jerome Hellman | |
| Other Nominees: Anne of the Thousand Days; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Hello Dolly!; Z | |
| 1969 Oliver! | |
| John Woolf | |
| Other Nominees: Funny Girl; The Lion In Winter; Rachel Rachel; Romeo and Juliet | |
| 1968 In The Heat Of The Night | |
| Walter Mirisch | |
| Other Nominees: Bonnie and Clyde; Doctor Dolittle; The Graduate; Guess Who's Coming To Dinner | |
| 1967 A Man For All Seasons |  |
| Fred Zinnemann | |
| Other Nominees: Alfie; The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming; The Sand Pebbles; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
| 1966 The Sound Of Music | |
| Robert Wise | |
| Other Nominees: Darling; Doctor Zhivago; Ship of Fools; A Thousand Clowns | |
| 1965 My Fair Lady | |
| Jack L Warner | |
| Other Nominees: Zorba the Greek; Becket; Dr Strangelove; Mary Poppins | |
| 1964 Tom Jones | |
| Tony Richardson | |
| Other Nominees: America America; Cleopatra; How the West Was Won; Lillies of the Field | |
| 1963 Lawrence Of Arabia | |
| Sam Spiegel | |
| Other Nominees: The Longest Day; The Music Man; Mutiny on the Bounty; To Kill A Mockingbird | |
| 1962 West Side Story | |
| Robert Wise | |
| Other Nominees: Fanny; The Guns of Navarone; The Hustler; Judgement at Nuremberg | |
| 1961 The Apartment |  |
| Billy Wilder | |
| Other Nominees: The Alamo; Elmer Gantry; Sons and Lovers; The Sundowners | |
| 1960 Ben-Hur |  |
| Sam Zimbalist | |
| Other Nominees: Anatomy of a Murder; The Diary of Anne Frank; The Nun's Story; Room at the Top | |
| 1959 Gigi | |
| Arthur Freed | |
| Other Nominees: Auntie Mame; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Defiant Ones; Separate Tables | |
| 1958 The Bridge On The River Kwai | |
| Sam Spiegel | |
| Other Nominees: Peyton Place; Sayonara; 12 Angry Men; Witness for the Prosecution | |
| 1957 Around The World In 80 Days |  |
| Michael Todd | |
| Other Nominees: Friendly Persuasion; Giant; The King and I; The Ten Commandments | |
| 1956 Marty | |
| Harold Hecht | |
| Other Nominees: Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing; Mister Roberts; Picnic; The Rose Tattoo | |
| 1955 On The Waterfront | |
| Sam Spiegel | |
| Other Nominees: The Caine Mutiny; The Country Girl; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Three Coins In the Fountain | |
| 1954 From Here To Eternity |  |
| Buddy Adler | |
| Other Nominees: Julius Caesar; The Robe; Roman Holiday; Shane | |
| 1953 The Greatest Show On Earth | |
| Cecil B DeMille | |
| Other Nominees: High Noon; Ivanhoe; Moulin Rouge; The Quiet Man | |
| 1952 An American In Paris |  |
| Arthur Freed | |
| Other Nominees: Decision Before Dawn; A Place In the Sun; Quo Vadis; A Streetcar Named Desire | |
| 1951 All About Eve |  |
| Darryl F Zanuck | |
| Other Nominees: Born Yesterday; Father of the Bride; King Solomon's Mines; Sunset Boulevard | |
| 1950 All The King's Men |  |
| Robert Rossen | |
| Other Nominees: Battleground; The Heiress; A Letter To Three Wives; Twelve O'Clock High | |
| 1949 Hamlet | |
| Laurence Olivier | |
| Other Nominees: Johnny Belinda; The Red Shoes; The Snake Pit; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | |
| 1948 Gentleman's Agreement | |
| Darryl F Zanuck | |
| Other Nominees: The Bishop's Wife; Crossfire; Great Expectations; Miracle on 34th Street | |
| 1947 The Best Years Of Our Lives | |
| Samuel Goldwyn | |
| Other Nominees: Henry V; It's A Wonderful Life; The Razor's Edge; The Yearling | |
| 1946 The Lost Weekend | |
| Charles Bracken | |
| Other Nominees: Anchors Aweigh; The Bells of St Mary's; Mildred Pierce; Spellbound | |
| 1945 Going My Way | |
| Leo McCarey | |
| Other Nominees: Double Indemnity; Gaslight; Since You Went Away; Wilson | |
| 1944 Casablanca | |
| Hal B Wallis | |
| Other Nominees: For Whom the Bell Tolls; Heaven Can Wait; The Human Comedy; In Which We Serve; Madame Curie; The More the Merrier; The Ox Bow Incident;The Song of Bernadette; Watch on the Rhine | |
| 1943 Mrs Miniver | |
| Sidney Franklin | |
| Other Nominees: Forty-Ninth Parallel; Kings Row; The Magnificent Ambersons; The Pied Piper; The Pride of the Yankees; Random Harvest; The Talk of the Town; Wake Island; Yankee Doodle Dandy | |
| 1942 How Green Was My Valley | |
| Darryl F Zanuck | |
| Other Nominees: Blossoms In the Dust; Citizen Kane; Here Comes Mr Jordan; Hold Back the Dawn; The Little Foxes; The Maltese Falcon; One Foot In Heaven; Sergeant York; Suspicion | |
| 1941 Rebecca | |
| David O Selznick (Producer) | |
| Other Nominees: All This and Heaven Too; Foreign Correspondent; The Grapes of Wrath; The Great Dictator; Kitty Foyle; The Letter; The Long Voyage Home; Our Town; The Philadelphia Story | |
| 1940 Gone With The Wind | |
| David O Selznick (Producer) | |
| Other Nominees: Dark Victory; Goodbye Mr Chips; Love Affair; Mr Smith Goes To Washington; Ninotchka; Of Mice and Men; Stagecoach; The Wizard of Oz; Wuthering Heights | |
| 1939 You Can't Take It With You | |
| Frank Capra (Producer) | |
| Other Nominees: The Adventures of Robin Hood; Alexanders Ragtime Band; Boys Town; The Citadel; Four Daughters; Grand Illusion; Jezebel; Pygmalion; Test Pilot | |
| 1938 The Life Of Emile Zola | |
| Henry Blanke (Producer) | |
| Other Nominees: The Awful Truth; Captains Courageous; Dead End; The Good Earth; In Old Chicago; Lost Horizon; 100 Men and a Girl; Stage Door; A Star Is Born | |
| 1937 The Great Ziegfeld | |
| Hunt Stromberg (Producer) | |
| Other Nominees: Anthony Adverse; Dodsworth; Libeled Lady; Mr Deeds Goes To Town; Romeo and Juliet; San Francisco; The Story of Louis Pasteur; A Tale of Two Cities; Three Smart Girls | |
| 1936 Mutiny On The Bounty | |
| Irving Thalberg (Producer) | |
| Other Nominees: Alice Adams; Broadway Melody of 1936; Captain Blood; David Copperfield; The Informer; Les Miserables; Live of A Bengal Lancer; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Naughty Marietta; Ruggles of Red Gap; Top Hat | |
| 1935 It Happened One Night | |
| Harry Cohn (Producer) | |
| Other Nominees: The Barretts of Wimpole Street; Cleopatra; Flirtation Walk; The Gay Divorcee; Here Comes the Navy; The House of Rothschild; Imitation of Life; One Night of Love; The Thin Man; Viva Villa; The White Parade | |
| 1934 Cavalcade | |
| Winfield Sheehan | |
| Other Nominees: A Farewell To Arms; 42nd Street; I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang; Lady For A Day; Little Women; The Private Life of Henry VIII; She Done Him Wrong; Smilin' Through; State Fair | |
| 1932 Grand Hotel | |
| Irving Thalberg | |
| Other Nominees: Arrowsmith; Bad Girl; The Champ; Five Star Final; One Hour With You; Shanghai Express; The Smiling Lieutenant | |
| 1931 Cimarron | |
| William LaBaron | |
| Other Nominees: East Lynne; The Front Page; Skippy; Trader Horn | |
| 1930 All Quiet On The Western Front |  |
| Carl Laemmie Jr | |
| Other Nominees: The Big House; Disraeli; The Divorcee; The Love Parade | |
| 1930 The Broadway Melody | |
| Harry Rapf | |
| Other Nominees: Alibi; Hollywood Revue; In Old Arizona; The Patriot | |
| 1929 Wings | |
| Adolph Zukor | |
| Other Nominees: The Racket; 7th Heaven | |
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