Top 10 Greatest Best Picture Oscar-Winning Movies
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"frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" is the most heartless cruel dialogue ever written !!!
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ok, Life is Beautiful???
How did Gone With the Wind not be named number one much less make the list?
All About Eve not even in the honorable mention list?
Silence of the limbs??? no way! It's a good movie but no where near to this list
How did Rocky win best picture over Taxi Driver? Stallone is an awful actor.
I hated The Godfather
HMs:
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Casablanca
Rebecca
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
LOTR: TROTK
10. Unforgiven
9. The Deer Hunter
8. The Departed
7. No Country for Old Men
6. On the Waterfront
5. Schindler's List
4. The Silence of the Lambs
3. Platoon
2. The Godfather: Part II
1. The Godfather
The Godfather (Part 1 & Part 2), Amadeus, Million Dollar Baby, and The Return of the King are my personal favorites. Although, there are a lot better films than those recognized by the Oscars, sadly.
What a fucking Terrible list.
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is my favorite movie of all time and being #2 is both shocking and amazing.
Jaws should have won best picture not one flew over
No country for old men sucked and Lawrence of Arabia should be on the list
Number 10 looks like it has the same plot as the railway man
Top 10 Greatest Best Picture Oscar-Winning Movies Besides The Godfather.
where is Star wars a new hope?
This list is such a sham
I'm mildly disappointed that "The Godfather" didn't make this list. But I am horrified that "12 Years A Slave" (one of the greatest movies ever made) didn't even get an honorable mention! Come on MoJo, step up your game.
Also, "Rocky" gets an honorable mention but "Braveheart" does not!?
West Side Story should have been on this list
Forrest Gump is the best movie I have ever seen
Amadeus
Every Winner I've Seen Ranked:
31: Dances With Wolves-1990 (4.1/10)
30: The Hurt Locker-2009 (4.5/10)
29: Unforgiven-1992 (5.2/10)
28: Rocky-1976 (6.5/10)
27: A Beautiful Mind-2001 (6.8/10)
26: Gandhi-1982 (7.2/10)
25: Crash-2005 (7.8/10)
24: Forrest Gump-1994 (8/10)
23: Ordinary People-1980 (8/10)
22: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (8.3/10)
21: The Godfather Part II (8.4/10)
20: Titanic-1997 (8.6/10)
19: The Godfather-1972 (8.6/10)
18: Million Dollar Baby-2004 (8.7/10)
17: Slumdog Millionaire-2008 (8.7/10)
16: American Beauty-1999 (8.8/10)
15: 12 Years A Slave-2013 (8.9/10)
14: Amadeus-1984 (9/10)
13: The Kings Speech-2010 (9.1/10)
12: The Deer Hunter-1978 (9.1/10)
11: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)-2014 (9.1/10)
10: Spotlight-2015 (9.3/10)
9: Argo-2012 (9.6/10)
8: Schindlers List-1993 (10/10)
7: Platoon-1986 (10/10)
6: Braveheart-1995 (10/10)
5: No Country For Old Men-2007 (10/10)
4: Silence of The Lambs-1991 (10/10)
3: Lord of The Rings Return of The King-2003 (10/10)
2: Gladiator-2000 (10/10)
1: The Departed-2006 (10/10)
where is Titanic?
gone with the wind should have been number one
gone with the wind should have been number one
Love the silence of the lambs
Lawrence of Arabia
All About Eve
Moonlight
The original Godfather movie is the best — EVERRRRR!
haven't yet watched departed and one flew over the cuckoo's nest..
Top 10 Best Animated Feature Film winners:
10 Shrek
9 Finding nemo
8 Ratatouille
7 Zootopia
6 Up
5 The incredibles
4 Inside out
3 Wall-E
2 Toy story 3
1 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi(Spirited away)
Forrest Gump should be in the list.. not in mentioms
Watchmojo instead of doing a list like this you should instead do something like cinefix and have different genres. Even though there are loads of genres this would have helped you looked less stupid and would have been easier
This list is bunk !~ Except for Cukoos nest, and Kwaii…… I mean really Gladiator ???? Lol
Best Picture Oscar-Winning films from That Should and Need to Be On This List, Include the Following, Classic, Best Picture Oscar Winning films:
1. "The Godfather"- 1972; Director: Francis Ford Coppola
2. "Lawrence of Arabia"- 1962; Director: David Lean
3. "On the Waterfront"- 1954; Director: Elia Kazan
4. "Ben- Hur"- 1959; Director: William Wyler
5. "From Here to Eternity"- 1953; Director: Fred Zinnemann
6. "Midnight Cowboy"- 1969; Director: John Schlesinger
7. "The Sound of Music"- 1965; Director: Robert Wise
8. "West Side Story"- 1961; Directors: Robert Wise & Jerome Robins
9. "The French Connection"- 1971; Director: William Friedkin
10. "Annie Hall"- 1977; Director: Woody Allen
11. "Unforgiven"- 1992; Director: Clint Eastwood
12. "Titanic"- 1997; Director: James Cameron
13. "Braveheart"- 1995; Director: Mel Gibson
14. "Platoon"- 1986; Director: Oliver Stone
15. "Amadeus"- 1984; Director: Milos Forman
16. "The Apartment"- 1960; Director: Billy Wilder
17. "It Happened One Night"- 1934; Director: Frank Capra
18. "In the Heat of the Night"- 1967; Director: Norman Jewison
19. "Patton"- 1970; Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
20. "The Sting"- 1973; Director: George Roy Hill
21. "12 Years a Slave"- 2013; Director: Steve McQueen
22. "The Last Emperor"- 1987; Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
23. "Argo"- 2012; Director: Ben Affleck
24. "My Fair Lady"- 1964; Director: George Cukor
25. "Marty"- 1955; Director: Delbert Mann
26. "All About Eve"- 1950; Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
27. "Out of Africa"- 1985; Director: Sydney Pollack
28. "Rain Man"- 1988; Director: Barry Levinson
29. "Slumdog Millionaire"- 2008; Director: Danny Boyle
30. "Million Dollar Baby"- 2004; Director: Clint Eastwood
31. "A Beautiful Mind"- 2001; Director: Ron Howard
32. "Terms of Endearment"- 1983; Director: James L. Brooks
33. "The Best Years of Our Lives"- 1946; Director: William Wyler
34. "Rebecca"- 1940; Director: Alfred Hitchcock
35. "Mrs. Miniver"- 1942; Director: William Wyler
36. "Birdman: Or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance"- 2014; Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
37. "Chicago"- 2002; Director: Rob Marshall
38. "The Artist"- 2011; Director: Michel Hazanavicius
39. "The King's Speech"- 2010; Director: Tom Hooper
40. "Moonlight"- 2016; Director: Barry Jenkins
41. "Spotlight"- 2015; Director: Tom McCarthy
42. "Gigi"- 1958; Director: Vincente Minnelli
43. "The English Patient"- 1996; Director: Anthony Minghella
44. "Grand Hotel"- 1932
45. "All Quiet on the Western Front"- 1930
46. "All the King's Men"- 1949; Director: Robert Rossen
Exceptional Films That Should Have Been Nominated for Best Picture; But Were Egregiously and Unfairly Snubbed:
WARNING: (Not in Chronological Order):
1. "Rear Window"- 1954
2. "Psycho"- 1960
3. "Some Like It Hot"- 1959
4. "North by Northwest"- 1959
5. "The Searchers"- 1956
6. "Vertigo"- 1958
7. "Spartacus"- 1960
8. "Paths of Glory"- 1957
9. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"- 1977
10. "Singin' in the Rain"- 1952
11. "2001: A Space Odyssey"- 1968
12. "Do the Right Thing"- 1989
13. "The Dark Knight"- 2008
14. "Thelma & Louise"- 1991
15. "Bringing Up Baby"- 1938
16. "Rosemary's Baby"- 1968
17. "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"- 1969
18. "Cool Hand Luke"- 1967
19. "The Truman Show"- 1998
20. "Almost Famous"- 2000
21. "A Touch of Evil"- 1958
22. "The Third Man"- 1949
23. "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"- 1969
24. "Rebel Without à Cause"- 1955
25. "Brief Encounter"- 1946
26. "Mean Streets"- 1973
27. "Reservoir Dogs"- 1992
28. "The Big Sleep"- 1946
29. "Notorious"- 1946
30. "The Usual Suspects"- 1995
31. "Blade Runner"- 1982
32. "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back"- 1980
33. "The Shining"- 1980
34. "The African Queen"- 1951
35. "The Bad and the Beautiful"- 1952
36. "Boogie Nights"- 1997
37. "Dreamgirls"- 2006
38. "A History of Violence"- 2005
39. "The Matrix"- 1999
40. "The Talented Mr. Ripley"- 1999
41. "Boyz n the Hood"- 1991
42. "Blue Velvet"- 1986
43. "Mulholland Drive"- 2001
44. "Back to the Future"- 1985
45. "Empire of the Sun"- 1987
46. "Full Metal Jacket"- 1987
47. "Being John Malkovich"- 1999
48. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"- 2004
49. "Catch Me If You Can"- 2002
50. "Duck Soup"- 1933
51. "Metropolis"- 1927
52. "Walk the Line"- 2005
53. "Sling Blade"- 1996
54. "The Player"- 1992
55. "Bullets Over Broadway"- 1994
56. "Se7en"- 1995
57. "Fight Club"- 1999
58. "The Big Lebowski"- 1998
59. "A Night at the Opera"- 1935
60. "Easy Rider"- 1969
61. "Stand by Me"- 1986
62. "Modern Times"- 1936
63. "The Wild One"- 1954
64. "King Kong"- 1933
65. "King Kong"- 2005
66. "An Officer and a Gentleman"- 1982
67. "Billy Elliot"- 2000
68. "Adaptation."- 2002
69. Glory"- 1989
70. "About Schmidt"- 2002
71. "Magnolia"- 1999
72. "Leaving Las Vegas"- 1995
73. "Far from Heaven"- 2002
74. "Cold Mountain"- 2003
75. "Memento"- 2001
76. "The Wrestler"- 2008
77. "Gran Torino"- 2008
78. "Doubt"- 2008
79. "The Constant Gardener"- 2005
80. "Revolutionary Road"- 2008
81. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"- 2011
82. "Gone Girl"- 2014
83. "Children of Men"- 2006
84. "Pan's Labyrinth"- 2006
85. "Requiem for a Dream"- 2000
86. "The Man Who Wasn't There"- 2001
87. "A Star Is Born"- 1954
88. "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"- 1962
89. "The Age of Innocence"- 1993
90. "The Miracle Worker"- 1962
91. "To Catch a Thief"- 1955
92. "Interstellar"- 2014
93. "Foxcatcher"- 2014
94. "Road to Perdition"- 2002
95. "Reversal of Fortune"- 1990
96. "The Grifters"- 1990
97. "Changeling"- 2008
98. "Dead Man Walking"- 1995
99. "Sophie's Choice"- 1982
100. "Amistad"- 1997
101. "8 1/2"- 1962
102. "City Lights"- 1931
103. "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"- 1966
104. "Dirty Harry"- 1971
105. "To Have and Have Not"- 1944
106. "Once Upon a Time in America"- 1984
107. "American Gangster"- 2007
108. "A Cinderella Man"- 2005
109. "The Last Samurai"- 2003
110. "Amélie"- 2001
111. "WALL-E"- 2008
112. "Toy Story"- 1995
113. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"- 1937
114. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"- 1988
115. "Face to Face"- 1976
116. "Malcolm X"- 1992
117. "Paper Moon"- 1973
118. "Wall Street"- 1987
119. "Drive"- 2011
120. "Straight Outta Compton"- 2015
121. "Carol"- 2015
122. "Serpico"- 1973
123. "Breakfast at Tiffany's"- 1961
124. "The Poseidon Adventure"- 1972
125. "Days of Heaven"- 1978
126. "Badlands"- 1973
127. "Manhattan"- 1979
128. "Interiors"- 1978
129. "Splendor in the Grass"- 1961
130. "Crimes and Misdemeanors"- 1989
131. "Suddenly, Last Summer"- 1959
132. "Moonrise Kingdom"- 2012
133. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"- 2015
134. "Kill Bill: Vol. 1"- 2003
135. "Minority Report"- 2002
136. "The Night of the Hunter"- 1955
137. "Jackie Brown"- 1997
138. "Heat"- 1995
139. "The Lives of Others"- 2006
140. "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"- 2007
141. "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"- 1974
142. "The Last Temptation of Christ"- 1988
143. "Philadelphia"- 1993
144. "Rope"- 1948
145. "Eastern Promises"- 2007
146. "Raising Arizona"- 1987
147. "Meet Me in St. Louis"- 1944
148. "Talk to Her"- 2002
149. "Ran"- 1985
150. "Seven Samurai"- 1954
151. "Rashomon"- 1950
152. "Fanny and Alexander"- 1983
153. "The Ice Storm"- 1997
154. "The Hateful Eight"- 2015
155. "Inside Llewyn Davis"- 2013
156. "Invictus"- 2009
157. "Blood Diamond"- 2006
158. "The Last King of Scotland"- 2006
159. "House of Sand and Fog"- 2003
160. "Sicario"- 2015
161. "The Passion of the Christ"- 2004
162. "Blue Jasmine"- 2013
163. "The Master"- 2012
164. "Saving Mr. Banks"- 2013
165. "Silence"- 2016
166. "Jackie"- 2016
167. "Sully"- 2016
168. "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"- 2007
169. "Into the Wild"- 2007
170. "The Bourne Ultimatum"- 2007
171. "Groundhog Day"- 1993
172. "Blazing Saddles"- 1974
173. "Young Frankenstein"- 1974
174. "The Way We Were"- 1973
175. "Apocalypto"- 2006
176. "Jurassic Park"- 1993
177. "Skyfall"- 2012
178. "The Town"- 2010
179. "Hotel Rwanda"- 2004
180. "Big Fish"- 2003
181. "Eyes Wide Shut"- 1999
182. "Casino"- 1995
183. "Gilda"- 1946
184. "To Be or Not to Be"- 1942
185. "Charlie Wilson's War"- 2007
186. "Lust for Life"- 1956
187. "Donnie Brasco"- 1997
188. "Murder on the Orient Express"- 1974
189. "The China Syndrome"- 1979
190. "The People vs. Larry Flynt"- 1996
191. "Wild"- 2014
192. "Memoirs of a Geisha"- 2005
193. "Pleasantville"- 1998
194. "When Harry Met Sally.."- 1989
195. "Sex, Lies and Videotape"- 1989
196. "Don't Look Now"- 1973
197. "The Day the Earth Stood Still"- 1951
198. "The Lady from Shanghai"- 1948
199. "The Seven Year Itch"- 1955
200. "Once Upon a Time In the West"- 1968
201. "Bus Stop"- 1956
202. "The Parallax View"- 1974
203. "Rio Bravo"- 1959
204. "Three Kings"- 1999
205. "The Long Goodbye"- 1973
206. "Miller's Crossing"- 1990
207. "Being There"- 1979
208. "What's Up, Doc?"- 1972
209. "Nightcrawler"- 2014
210. "Zodiac"- 2007
211. "Donnie Darko"- 2001
212. "The Royal Tenenbaums"- 2001
213. "The King of Comedy"- 1983
214. "Body Heat"- 1981
215. "Bye, Bye Birdie"- 1963
216. "Flags of Our Fathers"- 2006
217. "Sullivan's Travels"- 1941
218. "The Shop Around the Corner"- 1940
219. "Closer"- 2004
220. "Sid & Nancy"- 1986
221. "Pretty Woman"- 1990
222. "Bridesmaids"- 2011
223. "Mighty Aphrodite"- 1995
224. "Saturday Night Fever"- 1977
225. "Hud"- 1963
226. "Election"- 1999
227. "Imitation of Life"- 1959
228. "Barton Fink"- 1991
229. "City of God"- 2003
230. "Alien"- 1979
The Films That Should Have Won Best Picture; Instead of the Films That Egregiously Did Win Best Picture:
1. "Citizen Kane"- 1941; Director: Orson Welles; over "How Green Was My Valley"- 1941; Director: John Ford
2. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madré"- 1948; Director: John Huston; over "Hamlet"- 1948; Director: Laurence Olivier
3. "A Streetcar Named Desire"- 1951; Director: Elia Kazan; over "An American in Paris"- 1951; Director: Vincente Minnelli
4. "High Noon"- 1952; Director: Fred Zinnemann; over "The Greatest Show on Earth"- 1952; Director: Cecil B. DeMille
5. "The Ten Commandments"- 1956; Director: Cecil B. DeMille or "Giant"- 1956; Director: George Stevens; over "Around the World in 80 Days"- 1956; Director: Michael Anderson
6. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"- 1966; Director: Mike Nichols; over "A Man for All Seasons"- 1966; Director: Fred Zinnemann
7. "The Lion in Winter"- 1968; Director: Anthony Harvey or "2001: A Space Odyssey"- 1968 (Not Nominated); Director: Stanley Kubrick; over "Oliver!"- 1968; Director: Carol Reed
8. "Apocalypse Now"- 1979; Director: Francis Ford Coppola; over "Kramer vs. Kramer"- 1979; Director: Robert Benton
9. "Raging Bull"- 1980; Director: Martin Scorsese; over "Ordinary People"- 1980; Director: Robert Redford
10. "Reds"- 1981; Director: Warren Beatty or "Raiders of the Lost Ark"- 1981; Director: Steven Spielberg; over "Chariots of Fire"- 1981; Director: Hugh Hudson
11. "E.T.: the Extra- Terrestrial"- 1982; Director: Steven Spielberg; over "Gandhi"- 1982; Director: Richard Attenborough
12. "Born on the Fourth of July"- 1989; Director: Oliver Stone or "Do the Right Thing"- 1989 (Not Nominated); Director: Spike Lee; over "Driving Miss Daisy"- 1989; Director: Bruce Beresford
13. "GoodFellas"- 1990; Director: Martin Scorsese; over "Dances with Wolves"- 1990; Director: Kevin Costner
14. "Saving Private Ryan"- 1998; Director: Steven Spielberg; over "Shakespeare in Love"- 1998; Director: John Madden
15. "Brokeback Mountain"- 2005; Director: Ang Lee; over "Crash"- 2005; Director: Paul Haggis
16. "The Revenant"- 2015; Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu; over "Spotlight"- 2015; Director: Tom McCarthy
17. "La La Land"- 2016; Director: Damien Chazelle; over "Moonlight"- 2016; Director: Barry Jenkins
10 The lord of The rings The return of The King
9 the bridge on the river kwai
8 annie hall
7 on the waterfront
6 the godfather
5 lawrence of arabia
4 no country for old men
3 one flew over the cuckoo's nest
2 Schindler's list
Honorable mentions
american beauty
the departed
the silence of The lambs
the deer hunter
gone with the wind
Casablanca
1 The godfather part 2
American beauty was so dumb idk why people think it's good
The Godfather, Terms of Endearment, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Apartment…