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Oscar Best Picture Winners: Every Academy Award Winning Movie. The Academy Awards are like time capsules: Each winner offers insights into the values and concerns of their era. Many of the past best picture winners are timeless classics. Others have dated badly; they may have captured their time, but times have changed and so have audience tastes. You will love some of these choices, and may hate others, but they’re all interesting. There are also links to the reviews from Variety that were published the same year as the film debuted. Best Picture Winner.
The “Moonlight” win was a record- breaker in Academy history: It was the first film with an all- black cast, with many black artists behind the camera, and was the first gay- themed film to take the top prize. It was also at the center of Oscar’s biggest snafu: Due to a mix- up in envelopes, Faye Dunaway announced “La La Land” as the winner, and it took a few minutes before the real “Moonlight” victory was announced. Read the Original 2. Film Review. 20. 15 Best Picture Winner. The fact- based story, about a Boston newspaper team, won two Oscars, for film and screenplay (by Josh Singer and director Tom Mc.
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Carthy). It marked the second consecutive win for a film starring Michael Keaton. Read the Original 2.
Film Review. 20. 14 Best Picture Winner. The film, about a faded star attempting a stage comeback, was technically dazzling, appearing to have been shot in one continuous take. Not everyone loved the Alejandro Inarritu- directed comedy- drama and some were mystified by the ending. But the people who liked it REALLY liked it. Read the Original 2. Film Review. 20. 13 Best Picture Winner. The film about U.
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S. The film earned an impressive $1. U. S. It earned three Oscars out of nine nominations and Brad Pitt was among the producers. Read the Original 2. Film Review. 20. 12 Best Picture Winner. The film about the true- life rescue of hostages in Tehran, was directed by Ben Affleck; it became the first movie in 2. It was also the fourth film in a decade with key scenes shot in Los Angeles.
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And it has one other major distinction: Variety plays an important role in a plot twist. Read the Original 2. Film Review. 20. 11 Best Picture Winner. This was yet another unlikely winner: a black- and- white film without dialogue, set in 1.
Hollywood, and made by French filmmakers. It was the first best picture Oscar winner to be set in the movie industry and only the second silent film, after original winner “Wings.”Read the Original 2. Film Review. 20. 10 Best Picture Winner.
The 2. 01. 0 film was another unlikely subject matter: The king of England needs to eliminate his stutter. But it became a touching film about a man overcoming personal obstacles, family love, and friendship. Colin Firth’s acting, Tom Hooper’s direction, and David Seidler’s script all won Oscars and got huge ovations from the Oscar audience. Read the Original 2. Film Review. 20. 09 Best Picture Winner. The film, directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal, beat out some tough competition, including the record- breaking “Avatar” — “Hurt Locker” earned $4.
Oscar history. But it has gained many fans and admirers over the years, and Bigelow so far is the only woman to win a directing Oscar. Read the Original 2.
Film Review. 20. 08 Best Picture Winner. No foreign- language film has won best picture, but “Slumdog Millionaire” comes closest, since one- third of the dialogue is in Hindi. It’s also a rarity, since it centers around a TV show: India’s version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.”Read the Original 2. Film Review. 20. 07 Best Picture Winner. The film, based on Cormac Mc. Carthy’s novel, became the second consecutive bloody actioner to take the big prize. And it was the second winner in Oscar history directed by a duo: Joel and Ethan Coen (after the team from “West Side Story”).
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After five nominations as director, Martin Scorsese hit the jackpot with No. It’s an Oscar rarity since it’s a remake, based on the 2. Hong Kong crime thriller “Infernal Affairs.”Read the Original 2. Film Review. 20. 05 Best Picture Winner. In the build- up to the Oscars, the gay western “Brokeback Mountain” had dominated the awards scene. But the Paul Haggis- directed “Crash” came out the big winner. Read the Original 2.
Film Review. 20. 04 Best Picture Winner. 2010 Blockbuster Movies The Outskirts (2015). This was Clint Eastwood’s second big night at the Academy Awards, following “Unforgiven.” The tale of a woman boxer holds another distinction: In Oscar’s 7. Southern California. Read the Original 2. Film Review. 20. 03 Best Picture Winner.
Peter Jackson’s film trilogy, adapted from the J. R. R. Tolkien novels, earned billions at the B. O., the intense loyalty of fans, and industry admiration for the new technology introduced in the fantasy epic. It also became the third film to win 1.
Oscars, after “Ben- Hur” and “Titanic” — and “LOTR” became the only one to sweep all its categories. Read the Original 2. Film Review. 20. 02 Best Picture Winner. Hollywood had circled around a movie adaptation of the stage musical since the 1. Rob Marshall and writer Bill Condon figured out how to make it work. They delivered a razzle- dazzle musical with wry observations about contemporary obsessions with scandal and celebrity.
Read the Original 2. Film Review. 20. 01 Best Picture Winner. It doesn’t sound like a surefire project: A biopic about a delusional math genius. But Russell Crowe turned in another great performance, and Oscars went to director Ron Howard, supporting actress Jennifer Connelly, and writer Akiva Goldsman, adapting Sylvia Nasar’s book about John Nash. Read the Original 2.
Film Review. 20. 00 Best Picture Winner. When the Ridley Scott- directed epic opened in May, audiences loved it, but few predicted it would be a best picture winner. But as the months wore on, Academy members clearly maintained their admiration for the film, the kind of intelligent spectacle that Hollywood does best. Read the Original 2. Film Review. 19. 99 Best Picture Winner. The dramedy looked at all the dark longings beneath the sunny facade of U.
S. But it shouldn’t have been a surprise: The film is a love letter to theater and acting, and the largest branch of the Academy is actors. Read the Original 1. Film Review. 19. 97 Best Picture Winner. When James Cameron was making his film, many in the industry predicted a gigantic disaster, since it was behind schedule, over budget, and everybody knew the ending. But when it opened, audiences turned it into the highest- grossing film of all time, and the Academy rewarded it with 1. Oscars, tying with “Ben- Hur” as the most winning films of all time. Read the Original 1.
Film Review. 19. 96 Best Picture Winner. The film almost wasn’t made, when the studio withdrew funding at the last minute. But Harvey Weinstein stepped in, and the film (directed by Anthony Minghella) earned an impressive $2. Oscars — meaning it’s one of the top seven winners of all time. Read the Original 1.
Film Review. 19. 95 Best Picture Winner. The biopic, directed by Mel Gibson, was a popular winner in a tight year. It’s also one of the few films to win Oscar’s top prize without a single acting nomination, alongside “Last Emperor,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” and a few others.
Read the Original 1. Film Review. 19. 94 Best Picture Winner. The Robert Zemeckis- directed film, starring Tom Hanks, utilized many technical innovations, but Oscar voters responded more to the tale and to the title character than to the decade- spanning effects. Read the Original 1. Film Review. 19. 93 Best Picture Winner. The Steven Spielberg film defied conventional wisdom, by being a long, black and white movie about a depressing topic.
But it was a hugely popular win. Read the Original 1. Film Review. 19. 92 Best Picture Winner. Clint Eastwood had directed 1. However, the thoughtful, well- crafted “Unforgiven” proved irresistible to audiences and to Academy voters.