This is the “hub” page for my “The Best Pictures” series – I’m watching and then writing about every film that has won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Click the name of the film in this table to be directed to the relevant post.
| OSCAR NO. | POST NO. | Film (Year of Release, Director) | Previously Watched? |
| 1 | 6 | Wings (1927, William A. Wellman) | No |
| 3 | 1 | All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Lewis Milestone) | No |
| 7 | 2 | It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra) | Yes |
| 21 | 5 | Hamlet (1948, Laurence Olivier) | Yes |
| 40 | 4 | In the Heat of the Night (1967, Norman Jewison) | No |
| 68 | 3 | Braveheart (1995, Mel Gibson) | Yes |
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The previously watched column answers whether I’ll be watching the film for the first time for Best Picture Sunday or not.
| Oscar No. | Film (release year, director) | Previously Watched? |
| 2 | The Broadway Melody (1929, Harry Beaumont) | No |
| 4 | Cimarron (1931, Wesley Ruggles) | No |
| 5 | Grand Hotel (1932, Edmund Goulding) | No |
| 6 | Cavalcade (1933, Frank Lloyd) | No |
| 8 | Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, Frank Lloyd) | No |
| 9 | The Great Ziegfeld (1936, Robert Z. Leonard) | No |
| 10 | The Life of Emile Zola (1937, William Deieterle) | No |
| 11 | You Can’t Take It With You (1938, Frank Capra) | No |
| 12 | Gone With the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming) | Yes |
| 13 | Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock) | Yes |
| 14 | How Green Was My Valley (1941, John Ford) | Yes |
| 15 | Mrs. Miniver (1942, William Wyler) | No |
| 16 | Casablanca (1943, Michael Curtiz) | Yes |
| 17 | Going My Way (1944, Leo McCarey) | No |
| 18 | The Lost Weekend (1945, Billy Wilder) | No |
| 19 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler) | No |
| 20 | Gentleman’s Agreement (1947, Elia Kazan) | No |
| 22 | All the King’s Men (1949, Robert Rossen) | No |
| 23 | All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) | Yes |
| 24 | An American in Paris (1951, Vincente Minnelli) | No |
| 25 | The Greatest Show On Earth (1952, Cecil B. DeMille) | No |
| 26 | From Here to Eternity (1953, Fred Zinnemann) | No |
| 27 | On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan) | Yes |
| 28 | Marty (1955, Delbert Mann) | No |
| 29 | Around the World in 80 Days (1956, Michael Anderson) | No |
| 30 | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean) | Yes |
| 31 | Gigi (1958, Vincente Minnelli) | No |
| 32 | Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler) | Yes |
| 33 | The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder) | Yes |
| 34 | West Side Story (1961, Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins) | Yes |
| 35 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean) | Yes |
| 36 | Tom Jones (1963, Tony Richardson) | No |
| 37 | My Fair Lady (1964, George Cukor) | No |
| 38 | The Sound of Music (1965, Robert Wise) | No |
| 39 | A Man for All Seasons (1966, Fred Zinnemann) | No |
| 41 | Oliver! (1968, Carol Reed) | Yes |
| 42 | Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger) | No |
| 43 | Patton (1970, Franklin J. Schaffner) | No |
| 44 | The French Connection (1971, William Friedkin) | Yes |
| 45 | The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola) | Yes |
| 46 | The Sting (1973, George Roy Hill) | Yes |
| 47 | The Godfather Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) | Yes |
| 48 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Milos Forman) | Yes |
| 49 | Rocky (1976, John G. Avildsen) | Yes |
| 50 | Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen) | Yes |
| 51 | The Deer Hunter (1978, Michael Cimino) | Yes |
| 52 | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979, Robert Benton) | Yes |
| 53 | Ordinary People (1980, Robert Redford) | Yes |
| 54 | Chariots of Fire (1981, Hugh Hudson) | No |
| 55 | Gandhi (1982, Richard Attenborough) | No |
| 56 | Terms of Endearment (1983, James L. Brooks) | No |
| 57 | Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman) | Yes |
| 58 | Out of Africa (1985, Sydney Pollack) | No |
| 59 | Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone) | Yes |
| 60 | The Last Emperor (1987, Bernardo Bertolucci) | No |
| 61 | Rain Man (1988, Barry Levinson) | Yes |
| 62 | Driving Miss Daisy (1989, Bruce Beresford) | No |
| 63 | Dances With Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner) | No |
| 64 | The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme) | Yes |
| 65 | Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood) | Yes |
| 66 | Schindler’s List (1993, Steven Spielberg) | Yes |
| 67 | Forrest Gump (1994, Robert Zemeckis) | Yes |
| 69 | The English Patient (1996, Anthony Minghella) | No |
| 70 | Titanic (1997, James Cameron) | Yes |
| 71 | Shakespeare in Love (1998, John Madden) | Yes |
| 72 | American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes) | Yes |
| 73 | Gladiator (2000, Ridley Scott) | Yes |
| 74 | A Beautiful Mind (2001, Ron Howard) | Yes |
| 75 | Chicago (2002, Rob Marshall) | Yes |
| 76 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, Peter Jackson) | Yes |
| 77 | Million Dollar Baby (2004, Clint Eastwood) | Yes |
| 78 | Crash (2005, Paul Haggis) | Yes |
| 79 | The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese) | Yes |
| 80 | No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel & Ethan Coen) | Yes |
| 81 | Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Danny Boyle) | Yes |
| 82 | The Hurt Locker (2009, Kathryn Bigelow) | Yes |
| 83 | The King’s Speech (2010, Tom Hooper) | Yes |
| 84 | The Artist (2011, Michel Hazanavicius) | No |
| 85 | Argo (2012, Ben Affleck) | Yes |
| 86 | 12 Years a Slave (2013, Steve McQueen) | Yes |
| 87 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014, Alejandro G. Innaritu) | Yes |
| 88 | Spotlight (2015, Tom McCarthy) | Yes |
| 89 | Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins) | No |
| 90 | The Shape of Water (2017, Guillermo del Toro) | Yes |
| 91 | Green Book (2018, Peter Farrelly) | Yes |
| 92 | Parasite (2019, Bong Joon-ho) | Yes |
| 93 | Nomadland (2020, Chloe Zhao) | No |
| 94 | CODA (2021, Sian Heder) | No |
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