The List of Best Picture Winners, from 1938 to Present
Submitted by allegheny on Sun, 02/12/2006 - 10:16
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- 1938--You Can't Take It With You (Frank Capra)
- 1939--Gone With The Wind (Victor Fleming)
- 1940--Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
- 1941--How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
- 1942--Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler)
- 1943--Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
- 1944--Going My Way (Leo McCarey)
- 1945--The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
- 1946--The Best Years Of Our Lives (William Wyler)
- 1947--A Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan)
- 1948--Hamlet (Laurence Olivier)
- 1949--All The King's Men (Robert Rossen)
- 1950--All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankewiecz)
- 1951--An American in Paris (Vincent Minnelli)
- 1952--The Greatest Show on Earth (Cecille B. DeMille))
- 1953--From Here to Eternity (Fred Zimmerman)
- 1954--On The Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
- 1955--Marty (Delbert Mann)
- 1956--The King and I (Walter Lang)
- 1957--Bridge Over The River Kwai (David Lean)
- 1958--Gigi (Vincent Minelli)
- 1959--Ben Hur (William Wyler)
- 1960--The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
- 1961--West Side Story (Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise)
- 1962--Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
- 1963--Tom Jones (Tony Richardson)
- 1964--My Fair Lady (George Cukor)
- 1965--The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
- 1966--A Man For All Season (Fred Zimmerman)
- 1967--In The Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison)
- 1968--Oliver (Sir Carol Reed)
- 1969--Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
- 1970--Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
- 1971--The French Connection (William Friedkin)
- 1972--The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
- 1973--The Sting (George Roy Hill)
- 1974--The Godfather Part 2 (Francis Ford Coppola)
- 1975--One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
- 1976--Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
- 1977--Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
- 1978--The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
- 1979--Kramer Vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
- 1980--Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
- 1981--Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
- 1982--Gandhi (Sir Richard Attenborough)
- 1983--Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
- 1984--Amadeus (Milos Forman)
- 1985--Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack)
- 1986--Platoon (Oliver Stone)
- 1987--The Last Emperor (Bernado Bertolucci)
- 1988--Rain Man (Barry Levinsen)
- 1989--Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford)
- 1990--Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
- 1991--Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
- 1992--Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
- 1993--Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
- 1994--Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
- 1995--Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
- 1996--The English Patience...oops..Patient (Anthony Minghalla)
- 1997--Titanic (James Cameron)
- 1998--Shakespeare in Love (John Madden)
- 1999--American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
- 2000--Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
- 2001--A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard)
- 2002--Chicago (Rob Marshall)
- 2003--Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
- 2004--Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
- 2005--Crash (Paul Haggis)
- 2006--The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
I personally don't agree with some of these wins. I think Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg was a better film than West Side Story. I found Witness and The Color Purple more compelling and entertaining than Out of Africa. Sydney Pollack is a great director, but Out of Africa certainly wasn't his best work. Tootsie was a far better film. But, these are the ones the Academy chose to honor.