Academy Award for Best Picture Rankings
All Oscar Best Picture winners with year and director last name.
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🌍 World Ranking
▲ Top 5
#1
The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
+10
#2
The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)
+7
#3
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman, 1975)
+6
#4
Platoon (Stone, 1986)
+4
#5
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
+2
▼ Bottom 5
#1
Crash (Haggis, 2005)
-11
#2
Chicago (Marshall, 2002)
-6
#3
The English Patient (Minghella, 1996)
-6
#4
The Hurt Locker (Bigelow, 2009)
-4
#5
Out of Africa (Pollack, 1985)
-3
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The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)+10
The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)+7
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman, 1975)+6
Platoon (Stone, 1986)+4
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)+2
The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991)+2
Wings (Wellman, 1927)—
The Broadway Melody (Beaumont, 1928)—
All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1929)—
Cimarron (Ruggles, 1930)—
Grand Hotel (Goulding, 1931)—
Cavalcade (Lloyd, 1932)—
It Happened One Night (Capra, 1934)—
Mutiny on the Bounty (Lloyd, 1935)—
The Great Ziegfeld (Leonard, 1936)—
The Life of Emile Zola (Dieterle, 1937)—
You Can't Take It with You (Capra, 1938)—
Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940)—
How Green Was My Valley (Ford, 1941)—
Mrs. Miniver (Wyler, 1942)—
Casablanca (Curtiz, 1943)—
Going My Way (McCarey, 1944)—
The Lost Weekend (Wilder, 1945)—
The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)—
Gentleman's Agreement (Kazan, 1947)—
Hamlet (Olivier, 1948)—
All the King's Men (Rossen, 1949)—
All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950)—
An American in Paris (Minnelli, 1951)—
The Greatest Show on Earth (DeMille, 1952)—
From Here to Eternity (Zinnemann, 1953)—
On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)—
Marty (Mann, 1955)—
Around the World in 80 Days (Anderson, 1956)—
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean, 1957) —
Gigi (Minnelli, 1958)—
Ben-Hur (Wyler, 1959)—
The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)—
West Side Story (Wise/Robbins, 1961)—
Tom Jones (Richardson, 1963)—
My Fair Lady (Cukor, 1964)—
The Sound of Music (Wise, 1965) —
A Man for All Seasons (Zinnemann, 1966)—
In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967)—
Oliver! (Reed, 1968)—
Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger, 1969)—
Patton (Schaffner, 1970)—
The French Connection (Friedkin, 1971)—
The Sting (Hill, 1973)—
The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)—
Rocky (Avildsen, 1976)—
Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)—
Kramer vs. Kramer (Benton, 1979)—
Ordinary People (Redford, 1980)—
Chariots of Fire (Hudson, 1981)—
Gandhi (Attenborough, 1982)—
Terms of Endearment (Brooks, 1983)—
Amadeus (Forman, 1984)—
The Last Emperor (Bertolucci, 1987)—
Rain Man (Levinson, 1988)—
Driving Miss Daisy (Beresford, 1989)—
Dances with Wolves (Costner, 1990)—
Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)—
Schindler's List (Spielberg, 1993)—
Forrest Gump (Zemeckis, 1994)—
Braveheart (Gibson, 1995)—
Titanic (Cameron, 1997)—
Shakespeare in Love (Madden, 1998)—
American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)—
Gladiator (Scott, 2000)—
A Beautiful Mind (Howard, 2001)—
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson, 2003)—
Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood, 2004)—
The Departed (Scorsese, 2006)—
No Country for Old Men (Coen, 2007)—
Slumdog Millionaire (Boyle, 2008)—
The King's Speech (Hooper, 2010)—
The Artist (Hazanavicius, 2011)—
Argo (Affleck, 2012)—
12 Years a Slave (McQueen, 2013)—
Birdman (Inarritu, 2014)—
Spotlight (McCarthy, 2015)—
Moonlight (Jenkins, 2016)—
The Shape of Water (del Toro, 2017)—
Green Book (Farrelly, 2018)—
Parasite (Bong, 2019)—
Nomadland (Zhao, 2020)—
CODA (Heder, 2021)—
Everything Everywhere All at Once (Kwan/Scheinert, 2022)—
Oppenheimer (Nolan, 2023)—
Gone with the Wind (Fleming, 1939)-1
Out of Africa (Pollack, 1985)-3
The Hurt Locker (Bigelow, 2009)-4
The English Patient (Minghella, 1996)-6
Chicago (Marshall, 2002)-6
Crash (Haggis, 2005)-11