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Last 50 Best Picture Oscar Winners: The Ultimate Movie Marathon

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.

Last 50 Best Picture Oscar Winners: The Ultimate Movie Marathon
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Anora

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.

2025
USA
2.

Oppenheimer

The epic story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the Manhattan Project and developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

2024
USA
3.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

A hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman who can't seem to finish her taxes.

2023
USA
4.

CODA

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.

2022
USA
5.

Nomadland

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.

2021
USA
6.

Parasite

Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.

2020
South Korea
7.

Green Book

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.

2019
USA
8.

The Shape of Water

At a top-secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature being held in captivity.

2018
USA
9.

Moonlight

A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.

2017
USA
10.

Spotlight

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.

2016
USA
11.

Birdman

A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.

2015
USA
12.

12 Years a Slave

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

2014
USA
13.

Argo

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.

2013
USA
14.

The Artist

An ego-driven silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in very different directions.

2012
France
15.

The King's Speech

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.

2011
UK
16.

The Hurt Locker

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.

2010
USA
17.

Slumdog Millionaire

A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'.

2009
India
18.

No Country for Old Men

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.

2008
USA
19.

The Departed

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

2007
USA
20.

Crash

Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

2006
USA
21.

Million Dollar Baby

A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.

2005
USA
22.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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.

2004
New Zealand
23.

Chicago

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.

2003
USA
24.

A Beautiful Mind

A mathematical genius, John Nash, made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim.

2002
USA
25.

Gladiator

A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.

2001
Italy
26.

American Beauty

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

2000
USA
27.

Shakespeare in Love

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.

1999
UK
28.

Titanic

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

1998
Atlantic Ocean
29.

The English Patient

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.

1997
Italy
30.

Braveheart

Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.

1996
Scotland
31.

Forrest Gump

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.

1995
USA
32.

Schindler's List

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.

1994
Poland
33.

Unforgiven

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.'

1993
USA
34.

The Silence of the Lambs

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.

1992
USA
35.

Dances with Wolves

Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.

1991
USA
36.

Driving Miss Daisy

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.

1990
USA
37.

Rain Man

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.

1989
USA
38.

The Last Emperor

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.

1988
China
39.

Platoon

A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

1987
Vietnam
40.

Out of Africa

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness and plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

1986
Kenya
41.

Amadeus

The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri, who is confined to an insane asylum.

1985
Austria
42.

Terms of Endearment

Follows hard-to-please Aurora and her daughter Emma as they struggle to find the other side of love.

1984
USA
43.

Gandhi

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

1983
India
44.

Chariots of Fire

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.

1982
UK
45.

Ordinary People

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.

1981
USA
46.

Kramer vs. Kramer

Ted Kramer's wife leaves him, allowing him to finally bond with his young son. When she returns, he must fight for custody.

1980
USA
47.

The Deer Hunter

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.

1979
USA
48.

Annie Hall

Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the quirky Annie Hall.

1978
USA
49.

Rocky

A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the heavy-weight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

1977
USA
50.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the patients against the oppressive Nurse Ratched.

1976
USA

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