Relive cinema history with this definitive list of the last 50 Academy Award for Best Picture winners, from the recent triumph of Anora to the gritty classics of the mid-70s.

A high-energy, modern-day dramedy following a Brooklyn sex worker who impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch, leading to a wild series of consequences.
The epic story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the Manhattan Project and developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
A hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman who can't seem to finish her taxes.
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family, torn between her love for music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
A woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West as a van-dwelling nomad.
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour through venues in the 1960s American South.
At a top-secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature being held in captivity.
A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.
The true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions.
A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a sci-fi film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran.
An ego-driven silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in very different directions.
The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.
During 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.
A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'.
Violence 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.
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.
Gandalf 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.
Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for the publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer who can keep them from the gallows.
A mathematical genius, John Nash, made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim.
A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
The world's greatest playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of luck and stuck in a creative rut until he meets the woman of his dreams.
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
At 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.
Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
The 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.
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Retired 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.'
A 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.
Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
A selfish L.A. car dealer discovers that his estranged father has left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed.
The story of the final Emperor of China, Pu Yi, following his life from his ascension to the throne as a small boy to his imprisonment and political rehabilitation.
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness and plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri, who is confined to an insane asylum.
Follows hard-to-please Aurora and her daughter Emma as they struggle to find the other side of love.
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships between the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
Ted Kramer's wife leaves him, allowing him to finally bond with his young son. When she returns, he must fight for custody.
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War examines and upends the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the quirky Annie Hall.
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