Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards. Also called Oscars, the Academy Awards are given to people working in the movie industry by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). The name of the award has changed over time. It was first Best Production in 1927. They also gave out Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production also known as "Best Artistic Quality of Production" in 1927. the Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production award was only given out the first year. In 1930, the name was changed to Best Picture. It is still called that today.

In the list below are the winners of the award for each year. A list of the winners and other nominees is in the main article for each decade.

1920s

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• Best production - 1927-28 Wings - Paramount Famous Lasky - Lucien Hubbard
• Best picture - 1927-28 Sunrise - Fox - William Fox
• 1928-29 The Broadway Melody - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Harry Rapt
• 1929-30 All Quiet on the Western Front - Universal - Carl Laemmle Jr.

1930s

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• 1930-31 Cimarron - RKO Radio - William LeBaron
• 1931-32 Grand Hotel - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
• 1932-33 Cavalcade - Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head
• 1934 It Happened One Night - Columbia - Harry Cohn
• 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg with Albert Lewin
• 1936 The Great Ziegfeld - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hunt Stromberg
• 1937 The Life of Emile Zola - Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke
• 1938 You Can't Take it With You - Columbia - Frank Capra
• 1939 Gone with the Wind - Selznick, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick

1940s

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• 1940 Rebecca - Selznick, United Artists - David O. Selznick
• 1941 How Green Was My Valley - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
• 1942 Mrs. Miniver - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin
• 1943 Casablanca - Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis
• 1944 Going My Way - Paramount - Leo McCarey
• 1945 The Lost Weekend - Paramount - Charles Bracken
• 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn
• 1947 Gentleman's Agreement - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
• 1948 Hamlet - J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, U-I (British) - Laurence Olivier
• 1949 All the King's Men - Rossen, Columbia - Robert Rossen

1950s

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• 1950 All About Eve - 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck
• 1951 An American in Paris - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed
• 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth - DeMille, Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille
• 1953 From Here to Eternity - Columbia - Buddy Adler
• 1954 On the Waterfront - Horizon-American, Columbia - Sam Spiegel
• 1955 Marty - Hecht-Lancaster, United Artists - Harold Hecht
• 1956 Around the World in Eighty Days - Todd, United Artists - Michael Todd
• 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai - Horizon, Columbia - Sam Spiegel
• 1958 Gigi - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed
• 1959 Ben-Hur - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist

1960s

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• 1960 The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists - Billy Wilder
• 1961 West Side Story - Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists - Robert Wise
• 1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Horizon-Spiegel-Lean,
• 1963 Tom Jones - Woodfall, United Artists-Lopert (British) - Tony Richardson
• 1964 My Fair Lady - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner
• 1965 The Sound of Music - Argyle, 20th Century-Fox - Robert Wise
• 1966 A Man for All Seasons - Highland, Columbia - Fred Zinnemann
• 1967 In the Heat of the Night - Mirisch, United Artists - Walter Mirisch
• 1968 Oliver! - Romulus, Columbia - John Woolf
• 1969 Midnight Cowboy Hellman-Schlesinger, United Artists - Jerome Hellman

1970s

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• 1970 Patton - 20th Century-Fox - Frank McCarthy
• 1971 The French Connection - D'Antoni-Schine-Moore, 20th Century-Fox - Philip D'Antoni
• 1972 The Godfather - Ruddy, Paramount - Albert S. Ruddy
• 1973 The Sting - Bill/Phillips-Hill, Zanuck/Brown, Universal - Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips
• 1974 The Godfather, Part II - Coppola Company, Paramount - Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos
• 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Fantasy Films, United Artists - Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas
• 1976 Rocky - Chartoff-Winkler, United Artists - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
• 1977 Annie Hall - Rollins-Joffe, United Artists - Charles H. Joffe
• 1978 The Deer Hunter - EMI Films/Cimino, Universal - Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall
• 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer - Jaffe, Columbia - Stanley R. Jaffe

1980s

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• 1980 Ordinary People - Wildwood, Paramount - Ronald L. Schwary
• 1981 Chariots of Fire - Enigma, The Ladd Company/Warner Bros. - David Puttnam
• 1982 Gandhi - Indo-British Films, Columbia - Richard Attenborough
• 1983 Terms of Endearment - Brooks, Paramount - James L. Brooks
• 1984 Amadeus - Barrandov Studios - Zaentz, Orion - Saul Zaentz
• 1985 Out of Africa - Universal - Sydney Pollack
• 1986 Platoon - Hemdale, Orion - Arnold Kopelson
• 1987 The Last Emperor - Hemdale, Columbia - Jeremy Thomas
• 1988 Rain Man - Mirage Entertainment, Star Partners II, United Artists - Mark Johnson
• 1989 Driving Miss Daisy - Majestic Films International, Zanuck Company., Warner Bros. - Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck

1990s

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• 1990 Dances With Wolves - Tig Productions, Majestic Films International - Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner
• 1991 The Silence of the Lambs - Orion Pictures Corp. - Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
• 1992 Unforgiven - Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood
• 1993 Schindler's List - Amblin Entertainment, Universal Pictures - Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig
• 1994 Forrest Gump - Paramount Pictures - Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey
• 1995 Braveheart - 20th Century Fox, B. H. Finance C. V., Icon Entertainment International, Paramount Pictures, The Ladd Company - Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey
• 1996 The English Patient - J&M Entertainment, Miramax Films, Tiger Moth Productions - Saul Zaentz
• 1997 Titanic - 20th Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment, Paramount Pictures - James Cameron, Jon Landau
• 1998 Shakespeare in Love - Bedford Falls Productions, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures - David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman
• 1999 American Beauty - DreamWorks SKG, Jinks/Cohen Company - Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks

2000s

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• 2000 Gladiator - Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, & Branko Lustig
• 2001 A Beautiful Mind - Universal & DreamWorks - Brian Grazer & Ron Howard
• 2002 Chicago - Miramax - Martin Richards
• 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - New Line - Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, & Fran Walsh
• 2004 Million Dollar Baby - Warner Brothers - Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, & Tom Rosenburg
• 2005 Crash - Lions Gate Films - Paul Haggis & Cathy Schulman
• 2006 The Departed - Warner Brothers - Graham King
• 2007 No Country for Old Men - Miramax Films, Paramount Vantage - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
• 2008 Slumdog Millionaire - Fox Searchlight - Danny Boyle
• 2009 The Hurt Locker - Summit Entertainment - Kathryn Bigelow

2010s

• 2010 The Kings Speech - The Wienstein Co. Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, & Gareth Unwin
• 2011 The Artist - La Petite Reine, ARP Sélection, Weinstein Co.. Thomas Langmann
• 2012 Argo - Warner Bros - Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov

Other websites

• Oscars.org (official Academy site)
• Oscar.com (official ceremony promotional site)
• The Academy Awards Database (official site)
• Academy Awards Photos and News(People.com)
• Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
• IMDb.com (Internet Movie Database site)
• Link to DVD list of all Best Picture Winners