1948: Hamlet — beat The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Johnny Belinda, The Red Shoes, The Snake Pit (Presented by Ethel Barrymore) All 93 Best Picture Winners, Ranked. Academy Award Winners and Nominees For Best Picture (1963-2010) Menu. Jump to … [6] Except for the early years (when the Academy used a non-calendar year), the year shown is the one in which the film first premiered in Los Angeles County, California; normally this is also the year of first release, however, it may be the year after first release (as with Casablanca and, if the film-festival premiere is considered, Crash). 1999: American Beauty — beat The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense (Presented by Clint Eastwood) The Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been closely linked throughout their history. Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima was a companion piece to his film Flags of Our Fathers, released earlier the same year. (Presented by Audrey Hepburn) At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night: Outstanding Picture and Unique and Artistic Picture, the former being won by the war epic Wings, and the latter by the art film Sunrise. 2004: Million Dollar Baby — beat Finding Neverland, Ray, Sideways, The Aviator (Presented by Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand) Academy Award Best Picture Nominees (And Winners) show list info. 1991: The Silence of the Lambs — beat JFK, Bugsy, Beauty and the Beast, The Prince of Tides (Presented by Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor) 1998: Shakespeare in Love — beat Elizabeth, Life is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line (Presented by Harrison Ford) From the onset of the Academy in 1929 to the present - this list will comprise of ever nominee for Best Picture (and updated as new nominees are announced). 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[27], In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenter Faye Dunaway read La La Land as the winner of the award. 1978: The Deer Hunter — beat An Unmarried Woman, Coming Home, Heaven Can Wait, Midnight Express (Presented by John Wayne) 1949: All the King’s Men — beat A Letter to Three Wives, Battleground, The Heiress, Twelve O’Clock High (Presented by James Cagney) 1983: Terms of Endearment — beat The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies, The Big Chill, The Dresser (Presented by Frank Capra) "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going to allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize," AMPAS President Sid Ganis said in a press conference. We’re talking the Oscar for Best Picture. This footage survives only in black and white. 1971: The French Connection — beat A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler on the Roof, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Last Picture Show (Presented by Jack Nicholson) If there are only eight pictures that truly earn that honor in a given year, we shouldn't feel an obligation to round out the number. 2017: The Shape of Water — beat Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Dunkirk, Lady Bird, Get Out, The Post, Darkest Hour, Call Me by Your Name, Phantom Thread (Presented by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway) 1932-33: Cavalcade — beat 42nd Street, A Farewell to Arms, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Lady for a Day, Little Women, She Done Him Wrong, Smilin’ Through, State Fair, The Private Life of Henry VIII (Presented by Will Rogers) (Schindler's List, the 1993 winner, was predominantly black-and-white but it did contain some color sequences). At the 1st Academy Awards, the Best Picture award – then named "Academy Award for Outstanding Picture" – was presented to the 1927 silent film Wings. 1982: Gandhi — beat E.T. 1937: The Life of Emile Zola — beat A Star Is Born, Captains Courageous, Dead End, In Old Chicago, Lost Horizon, One Hundred Men and a Girl, Stage Door, The Awful Truth, The Good Earth (Presented by Frank Capra) 2009: The Hurt Locker — beat Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, Inglourious Basterds, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, A Serious Man, Up, Up in the Air (Presented by Tom Hanks) 2001: A Beautiful Mind — beat The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, Moulin Rouge (Presented by Tom Hanks) The following year, the Academy dropped the Unique and Artistic Picture award, and decided retroactively that the award won by Wings was the highest honor that could be awarded. 1952: The Greatest Show on Earth — beat High Noon, Ivanhoe, Moulin Rouge, The Quiet Man (Presented by Mary Pickford) [25] The Racket, also from 1928, was believed lost for many years until a print was found in Howard Hughes' archives. That year the protocol was changed so that the award was presented to all credited producers. The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.