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Movies by Lists - Best Picture Winners (93 [93])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
12 Years a SlaveIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.2013Steve McQueen (*)Biography, Drama, History8.1 (676K votes)13420211228
All About EveA seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.1950Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*)Drama8.2 (128K votes)13820211228
All Quiet on the Western FrontA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.1930Lewis MilestoneDrama, War8.1 (60.2K votes)15220211228
All the King's MenThe rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.1949Robert Rossen (*)Drama, Film-Noir7.5 (14.6K votes)11020211228
AmadeusThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.1984Milos Forman (*)Biography, Drama, Music8.3 (388.6K votes)16020211228
American BeautyA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.1999Sam MendesDrama8.3 (1.1M votes)12220211228
An American in ParisThree friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.1951Vincente Minnelli (*)Drama, Musical, Romance7.2 (32.8K votes)11420211228
Annie HallAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.1977Woody Allen (*)Comedy, Romance8.0 (260.6K votes)9320211228
Apartment, TheA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.1960Billy Wilder (*)Comedy, Drama, Romance8.3 (175.7K votes)12520211228
ArgoActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.2012Ben AffleckBiography, Drama, Thriller7.7 (598.7K votes)12020211228
Around The World In 80 DaysA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.1956Michael Anderson, John FarrowAdventure, Comedy, Family, Romance6.8 (26.6K votes)17520211228
Artist, TheAn egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood's silent era.2011Michel HazanaviciusComedy, Drama, Romance7.9 (238K votes)10020211228
Beautiful Mind, AAfter John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.2001Ron HowardBiography, Drama8.2 (897.8K votes)13520211228
Ben HurAfter a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.1959William Wyler (*)Adventure, Drama, History8.1 (232.2K votes)21220211228
Best Years of Our Lives, TheThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.1946William Wyler (*)Drama, Romance, War8.1 (62K votes)17020211228
BirdmanA washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.2014Alejandro G. IñárrituComedy, Drama7.7 (610.3K votes)11920211228
BraveheartScottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.1995Mel Gibson (*)Biography, Drama, History, War8.3 (1M votes)17820211228
Bridge on the River Kwai, TheBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.1957David Lean (*)Adventure, Drama, War8.1 (214.6K votes)16120211228
Broadway Melody, TheA pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.1929Harry BeaumontDrama, Musical, Romance5.7 (7K votes)10020211228
CasablancaA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.1942Michael Curtiz (*)Drama, Romance, War8.5 (558.2K votes)10220220423
CavalcadeA portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933.1933Frank LloydDrama, Romance, War5.9 (5.1K votes)11220211228
Chariots of FireTwo British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.1981Hugh HudsonBiography, Drama, Sport7.2 (58.5K votes)12520211228
ChicagoTwo death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.2002Rob MarshallComedy, Crime, Musical7.2 (225.3K votes)11320211228
CimarronA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.1931Wesley RugglesDrama, Western5.9 (6K votes)12320211228
CrashLos Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.2004Paul HaggisCrime, Drama, Thriller7.7 (430.4K votes)11220211228
Dances with WolvesLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Native Americans, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.1990Kevin Costner (*)Adventure, Drama, Western8.0 (254.9K votes)18120211228
Deer Hunter, TheAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.1978Michael Cimino (*)Drama, War8.1 (329.7K votes)18320211228
Departed, TheAn undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.2006Martin Scorsese (*)Crime, Drama, Thriller8.5 (1.3M votes)15120211228
Driving Miss DaisyAn old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.1989Bruce BeresfordDrama7.4 (107K votes)9920211228
English Patient, TheAt the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.1996Anthony MinghellaDrama, Romance, War7.4 (186.4K votes)16220211228
Forrest GumpThe presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweeth1994Robert Zemeckis (*)Drama, Romance8.8 (2M votes)14220211228
French Connection, TheA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.1971William Friedkin (*)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller7.7 (118.5K votes)10420211228
From Here To EternityAt a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.1953Fred Zinnemann (*)Drama, Romance, War7.6 (45.9K votes)11820211228
GandhiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.1982Richard Attenborough (*)Biography, Drama8.0 (225.5K votes)19120211228
Gentlemen's AgreementA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.1947Elia Kazan (*)Drama, Romance7.3 (15.9K votes)11820211228
GigiWeary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.1958Vincente Minnelli, Charles WaltersComedy, Musical, Romance6.7 (22.3K votes)11520211228
GladiatorA former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.2000Ridley Scott (*)Action, Adventure, Drama8.5 (1.4M votes)15520211228
Godfather Part I, TheThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son.1972Francis Ford Coppola (*)Crime, Drama9.2 (1.7M votes)17520211228
Godfather Part II, TheThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.1974Francis Ford Coppola (*)Crime, Drama9.0 (1.2M votes)20220211228
Going My WayWhen young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.1944Leo McCarey (*)Comedy, Drama, Music7.1 (11.7K votes)12620211228
Gone with the WindThe manipulative daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a turbulent romance with a roguish profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.1939Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam WoodDrama, History, Romance, War8.1 (306.3K votes)23820211228
Grand HotelA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.1932Edmund GouldingDrama, Romance7.4 (18.8K votes)11220211228
Great Ziegfeld, TheThe ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.1936Robert Z. LeonardDrama, Musical6.7 (7.9K votes)17620211228
Greatest Show on Earth, TheThe dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.1952Cecil B. DeMille (*)Drama, Family, Romance6.6 (14.2K votes)15220211228
Green BookA working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.2018Peter FarrellyBiography, Comedy, Drama, Music8.2 (442K votes)13020211228
HamletPrince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.1948Laurence Olivier (*)Drama7.6 (16.5K votes)15420211228
How Green Was My ValleyAt the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.1941John Ford (*)Drama, Family7.7 (23.4K votes)11820211228
Hurt Locker, TheDuring the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.2008Kathryn BigelowDrama, Thriller, War7.5 (440.1K votes)13120211228
In The Heat of The NightA black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.1967Norman Jewison (*)Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller7.9 (73.3K votes)11020211228
It Happened One NightA renegade reporter trailing a young runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York, and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.1934Frank Capra (*)Comedy, Romance8.1 (100.7K votes)10520211228
Kings Speech, TheThe story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.2010Tom HooperBiography, Drama, History8.0 (664.6K votes)11820211228
Kramer vs KramerAfter his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.1979Robert Benton (*)Drama7.8 (141.4K votes)10520211228
Last Emperor, TheThe story of the final Emperor of China.1987Bernardo Bertolucci (*)Biography, Drama, History7.7 (100.2K votes)16320211228
Lawrence of ArabiaThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.1962David Lean (*)Adventure, Biography, Drama, War8.3 (284.5K votes)22820211228
Life of Emile Zola, TheThe biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.1937William Dieterle (*)Biography, Drama7.2 (8K votes)11620211228
Lost Weekend, TheThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.1945Billy Wilder (*)Drama, Film-Noir7.9 (36K votes)10120211228
Man For All Seasons, AThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.1966Fred Zinnemann (*)Biography, Drama, History7.7 (33.8K votes)12020211228
MartyA middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.1955Delbert Mann (*)Drama, Romance7.7 (23.5K votes)9020211228
Midnight CowboyA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.1969John Schlesinger (*)Drama7.8 (108.2K votes)11320211228
Million Dollar BabyA determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.2004Clint Eastwood (*)Drama, Sport8.1 (667.5K votes)13220211228
MoonlightA young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.2016Barry JenkinsDrama7.4 (294.5K votes)11120211228
Mrs. MiniverA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.1942William Wyler (*)Drama, Romance, War7.6 (17.2K votes)13420211228
Mutiny on the BountyFirst mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.1935Frank LloydAdventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance7.7 (22.3K votes)13220211228
My Fair LadyIn 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society.1964George Cukor (*)Drama, Family, Musical, Romance7.8 (93K votes)17020211228
No Country For Old MenViolence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.2007Ethan Coen, Joel CoenCrime, Drama, Thriller8.1 (924.5K votes)12220211228
NomadlandA woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.2020Chloé ZhaoDrama7.3 (175.2K votes)10720231016
Oliver!After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London.1968Carol Reed (*)Drama, Family, Musical7.4 (37.4K votes)15320211228
On The WaterfrontAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.1954Elia Kazan (*)Crime, Drama, Thriller8.1 (150.9K votes)10820211228
One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestA criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.1975Milos Forman (*)Drama8.7 (970.7K votes)13320211228
Ordinary PeopleThe accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.1980Robert Redford (*)Drama7.7 (50.4K votes)12420211228
Out of AfricaIn 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.1985Sydney Pollack (*)Biography, Drama, Romance7.2 (77.6K votes)16120211228
Parasite [Gisaengchung]Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.2019Bong Joon Ho (*)Comedy, Drama, Thriller8.6 (700.6K votes)13220211228
PattonThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.1970Franklin J. Schaffner (*)Biography, Drama, War7.9 (100K votes)17220211228
PlatoonChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.1986Oliver Stone (*)Drama, War8.1 (401.4K votes)12020211228
Rain ManAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritan1988Barry Levinson (*)Drama8.0 (497.3K votes)13320211228
RebeccaA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.1940Alfred Hitchcock (*)Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller8.1 (133.3K votes)13020211228
Return of the KingGandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.2003Peter Jackson (*)Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy8.9 (1.7M votes)20120211228
RockyA small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.1976John G. Avildsen (*)Drama, Sport8.1 (551.3K votes)12020211228
Schindlers ListIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.1993Steven Spielberg (*)Biography, Drama, History8.9 (1.3M votes)19520211228
Shakespeare in LoveThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.1998John MaddenComedy, Drama, History, Romance7.1 (221.3K votes)12320211228
Shape of Water, TheAt a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.2017Guillermo del Toro (*)Drama, Fantasy, Romance7.3 (401.2K votes)12320211228
Silence of the Lambs, TheA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.1991Jonathan Demme (*)Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller8.6 (1.4M votes)11820211228
Slumdog MillionaireA Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".2008Danny Boyle, Loveleen TandanDrama, Romance8.0 (826.9K votes)12020211228
Sound of Music, TheA young novitiate is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.1965Robert Wise (*)Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance8.0 (221.6K votes)17220211228
SpotlightThe true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.2015Tom McCarthyBiography, Crime, Drama8.1 (451.5K votes)12920211228
Sting, TheTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.1973George Roy Hill (*)Comedy, Crime, Drama8.3 (254.4K votes)12920211228
Terms of EndearmentFollows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.1983James L. Brooks (*)Comedy, Drama7.4 (58.8K votes)13220211228
TitanicA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.1997James Cameron (*)Drama, Romance7.8 (1.1M votes)19420211228
Tom JonesThe romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.1963Tony RichardsonAdventure, Comedy, History, Romance6.5 (12.7K votes)12920211228
UnforgivenRetired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."1992Clint Eastwood (*)Drama, Western8.2 (398.7K votes)13020211228
West Side StoryTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.1961Jerome Robbins, Robert WiseCrime, Drama, Musical, Romance7.5 (108.1K votes)15320211228
WingsTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.1927William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'ArrastDrama, Romance, War, Action7.5 (12.5K votes)14420211228
You Can't Take It With YouThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family, not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.1938Frank Capra (*)Comedy, Drama, Romance7.9 (25.1K votes)12620211228