My Personal Ranking of All 98 Best Picture Winners (+1)
After last night’s very nice ceremony, here is my updated list of Best Picture winners! (The first awards, in 1927, had Best Picture—Wings—and Most Artistic Picture—Sunrise—and the latter is inserted in my list with an indent.)
See the visual version of the list HERE on Letterboxd.
Chicago
Schindler’s List
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Annie Hall
Casablanca
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Sound of Music
The Best Years of Our Lives
Parasite
On the Waterfront
All About Eve
The Artist
One Battle After Another
Oliver!
Mrs. Miniver
Wings
Midnight Cowboy
No Country for Old Men
Shakespeare in Love
Out of Africa
The Silence of the Lambs
Gandhi
Gentleman's Agreement
Rebecca
Sunrise: a song of two humans
Argo
Oppenheimer
An American in Paris
Grand Hotel
The Lost Weekend
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Apartment
Mutiny on the Bounty
It Happened One Night
Unforgiven
Marty
The Last Emperor
Lawrence of Arabia
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Hurt Locker
Titanic
West Side Story
Spotlight
Cavalcade
Platoon
Nomadland
Ben-Hur
Going My Way
The King's Speech
The Great Ziegfeld
Gone with the Wind
12 Years a Slave
You Can’t Take It With You
Kramer vs. Kramer
How Green Was My Valley
The Sting
Hamlet
Chariots of Fire
Slumdog Millionaire
A Man For All Seasons
In the Heat of the Night
All the King’s Men
Gigi
The French Connection
Ordinary People
American Beauty
A Beautiful Mind
Anora
The Deer Hunter
Amadeus
Rocky
Forrest Gump
Terms of Endearment
From Here to Eternity
CODA
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Departed
The Shape of Water
The Broadway Melody
Moonlight
My Fair Lady
Rain Man
Green Book
Patton
The Life of Emile Zola
The Greatest Show on Earth
Around the World in 80 Days
Cimarron
Gladiator
The Godfather
The English Patient
Million Dollar Baby
Dances With Wolves
Crash
Driving Miss Daisy
Tom Jones
The Godfather, Part II
Braveheart