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The Very Best Oscar-Winning Movies For Best Picture

All of the best Oscar winning movies that won the Oscar for Best Picture. Currently, there are 92 movies that have won the highly coveted Best Picture Academy Award, and they are all here for you to vote and rank from best to worst. The annual Academy Awards ceremony brings the world together in celebration of the best films of the year, and this list of all the movies that have won the Best Picture Academy Award is here in celebration of decades of quality filmmaking. With 92 years of votable film history behind us, there are plenty of classic movies vying for the honor of being called the greatest film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. From the movies that win critical acclaim across generational divides (The Godfather, Schindler's List), to the feel-good movies with great casts (Forrest Gump, The Artist), to controversial Best Picture Oscar winners (The Hurt Locker, Crash), this list of the films that won a Best Picture Oscar is here to separate the best movies of all time from the ones that were maybe the best of the year they won. What is the best movie that ever won the Best Picture Oscar? What is the worst movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture? Vote on these Best Picture winners, and maybe you'll find out! If there's an Oscar winner for Best Picture that you didn't like, vote it down and let other moviegoers know it wasn't worthy of film's top honor.

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#1Currently leadingThe Godfather

1
The Godfather
81% upvoted
2
Schindler's List
74% upvoted
3
The Godfather: Part II
73% upvoted
4
The Silence of the Lambs
71% upvoted
5
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
70% upvoted
6
Casablanca
66% upvoted
7
The Bridge on the River Kwai
64% upvoted
8
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
62% upvoted
9
Gladiator
63% upvoted
10
The Sound of Music
63% upvoted
11
Unforgiven
63% upvoted
12
Rocky
62% upvoted
13
The Departed
62% upvoted
14
Lawrence of Arabia
62% upvoted
15
The Sting
63% upvoted
16
Platoon
62% upvoted
17
Amadeus
62% upvoted
18
Braveheart
61% upvoted
19
No Country for Old Men
61% upvoted
20
The Deer Hunter
61% upvoted
21
Titanic
60% upvoted
22
Rain Man
61% upvoted
23
Ben-Hur
61% upvoted
24
Dances with Wolves
60% upvoted
25
Gone with the Wind
59% upvoted
26
Patton
60% upvoted
27
A Beautiful Mind
59% upvoted
28
West Side Story
60% upvoted
29
On the Waterfront
60% upvoted
30
Parasite
59% upvoted
31
Forrest Gump
56% upvoted
32
My Fair Lady
59% upvoted
33
It Happened One Night
58% upvoted
34
All About Eve
59% upvoted
35
All Quiet on the Western Front
58% upvoted
36
12 Years a Slave
58% upvoted
37
In the Heat of the Night
58% upvoted
38
The French Connection
57% upvoted
39
The King's Speech
56% upvoted
40
The Apartment
57% upvoted
41
Spotlight
55% upvoted
42
American Beauty
55% upvoted
43
Million Dollar Baby
55% upvoted
44
From Here to Eternity
56% upvoted
45
Gandhi
55% upvoted
46
Rebecca
56% upvoted
47
Midnight Cowboy
55% upvoted
48
Driving Miss Daisy
54% upvoted
49
Slumdog Millionaire
53% upvoted
50
Oppenheimer
61% upvoted
51
A Man for All Seasons
60% upvoted
52
Terms of Endearment
52% upvoted
53
Mutiny on the Bounty
54% upvoted
54
Kramer vs. Kramer
51% upvoted
55
Chariots of Fire
51% upvoted
56
The Last Emperor
51% upvoted
57
The Hurt Locker
50% upvoted
58
The Best Years of Our Lives
52% upvoted
59
Annie Hall
49% upvoted
60
Argo
48% upvoted
61
Moonlight
48% upvoted
62
Chicago
48% upvoted
63
Marty
53% upvoted
64
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
47% upvoted
65
Oliver!
49% upvoted
66
The Shape of Water
48% upvoted
67
Ordinary People
48% upvoted
68
An American in Paris
47% upvoted
69
The Artist
43% upvoted
70
Everything Everywhere All at Once
47% upvoted
71
The English Patient
42% upvoted
72
How Green Was My Valley
45% upvoted
73
Grand Hotel
45% upvoted
74
The Lost Weekend
44% upvoted
75
Mrs. Miniver
44% upvoted
76
Hamlet
44% upvoted
77
All the King's Men
43% upvoted
78
Green Book
43% upvoted
79
You Can't Take It With You
43% upvoted
80
Out of Africa
43% upvoted
81
Nomadland
41% upvoted
82
Wings
41% upvoted
83
Around the World in 80 Days
40% upvoted
84
CODA
39% upvoted
85
Going My Way
39% upvoted
86
Gentleman's Agreement
36% upvoted
87
Gigi
35% upvoted
88
The Greatest Show on Earth
34% upvoted
89
Crash
35% upvoted
90
Shakespeare in Love
33% upvoted
91
The Great Ziegfeld
30% upvoted
92
Tom Jones
28% upvoted
93
The Life of Emile Zola
26% upvoted
94
The Broadway Melody
24% upvoted
95
Cimarron
24% upvoted
96
Cavalcade
18% upvoted