Best Picture Winners


2005 78th Academy Awards
Crash (2004) - Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman

2004 77th Academy Awards
Million Dollar Baby (2004) - Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg

2003 76th Academy Awards
Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King (2003) - Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh

2002 75th Academy Awards
Chicago: The Musical (2002) - Martin Richards

2001 74th Academy Awards
Beautiful Mind, A (2001) - Brian Grazer and Ron Howard

2000 73rd Academy Awards
Gladiator (2000) - Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig

1999 72nd Academy Awards
American Beauty (1999) - Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks

1998 71st Academy Awards
Shakespeare in Love (1998) - David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman

1997 70th Academy Awards
Titanic (1997) - James Cameron, Jon Landau

1996 69th Academy Awards
English Patient, The (1996) - Saul Zaentz

1995 68th Academy Awards
Braveheart (1996) - Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey

1994 67th Academy Awards
Forrest Gump (1994) - Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey

1993 66th Academy Awards
Schindler's List (1993)- Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig

1992 65th Academy Awards
Unforgiven (1992) - Clint Eastwood

1991 64th Academy Awards
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) - Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman

1990 63rd Academy Awards
Dances With Wolves (1990) - Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner

1989 62nd Academy Awards
Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck

1988 61st Academy Awards
Rain Man (1988) - Mark Johnson

1987 60th Academy Awards
Last Emperor, The (1987) - Jeremy Thomas

1986 59th Academy Awards
Platoon (1986) - Arnold Kopelson

1985 58th Academy Awards
Out Of Africa (1985) - Sydney Pollack

1984 57th Academy Awards
Amadeus (1984) - Saul Zaentz

1983 56th Academy Awards
Terms Of Endearment (1983) - James L. Brooks

1982 55th Academy Awards
Gandhi (1982) - Richard Attenborough

1981 54th Academy Awards
Chariots of Fire (1981) - David Puttnam

1980 53rd Academy Awards
Ordinary People (1980) - Ronald L. Schwary

1979 52nd Academy Awards
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) - Stanley R. Jaffe

1978 51st Academy Awards
Deer Hunter, The (1978) - Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall

1977 50th Academy Awards
Annie Hall (1977) - Charles H. Joffe

1976 49th Academy Awards
Rocky (1976) - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff

1975 48th Academy Awards
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas

1974 47th Academy Awards
Godfather Part II, The (1974) - Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos

1973 46th Academy Awards
Sting, The (1973) - Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips

1972 45th Academy Awards
Godfather, The (1972) - Albert S. Ruddy

1971 44th Academy Awards
French Connection, The (1971) - Philip D'Antoni

1970 43rd Academy Awards
Patton (1970) - Frank McCarthy

1969 42nd Academy Awards
Midnight Cowboy (1969) - Jerome Hellman

1968 41st Academy Awards
Oliver! (1968)! - John Woolf

1967 40th Academy Awards
In The Heat of the Night (1967) - Walter Mirisch

1966 39th Academy Awards
Man for All Seasons, A (1966) - Fred Zinnemann

1965 38th Academy Awards
Sound Of Music, The (1965) - Robert Wise

1964 37th Academy Awards
My Fair Lady (1964) - Jack L. Warner

1963 36th Academy Awards
Tom Jones (1963) - Tony Richardson

1962 35th Academy Awards
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Sam Spiegel

1961 34th Academy Awards
West Side Story (1961) - Robert Wise

1960 33rd Academy Awards
Apartment, The (1960) - Billy Wilder

1959 32nd Academy Awards
Ben-Hur (1959) - Sam Zimbalist

1958 31st Academy Awards
Gigi (1958) - Arthur Freed

1957 30th Academy Awards
Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) - Sam Spiegel

1956 29th Academy Awards
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) - Michael Todd

1955 28th Academy Awards
Marty (1955) - Harold Hecht

1954 27th Academy Awards
On the Waterfront (1954) - Sam Spiegel

1953 26th Academy Awards
From Here To Eternity (1953) - Buddy Adler

1952 25th Academy Awards
Greatest Show on Earth, The (1952) - Cecil B. DeMille

1951 24th Academy Awards
American in Paris, An (1951) - Arthur Freed

1950 23rd Academy Awards
All About Eve (1950) - 20th Century-Fox

1949 22nd Academy Awards
All the King's Men (1949) - Robert Rossen Productions

1948 21st Academy Awards
Hamlet (1948) - J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films

1947 20th Academy Awards
Gentleman's Agreement (1947) - 20th Century-Fox

1946 19th Academy Awards
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) - 20th Century-Fox

1945 18th Academy Awards
Lost Weekend, The (1945) - Paramount

1944 17th Academy Awards
Going My Way (1944) - Paramount

1943 16th Academy Awards
Casablanca (1942) - Warner Bros.

1942 15th Academy Awards
Mrs. Miniver (1942) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

1941 14th Academy Awards
How Green Was My Valley (1941) - 20th Century-Fox

1940 13th Academy Awards
Rebecca (1940) - Selznick International Pictures

1939 12th Academy Awards
Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Selznick International Pictures

1938 11th Academy Awards
You Can't Take It with You (1938) - Columbia

1937 10th Academy Awards
Life of Emile Zola, The (1937) - Warner Bros.

1936 9th Academy Awards
Great Ziegfeld, The (1936) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

1935 8th Academy Awards
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

1934 7th Academy Awards
It Happened One Night (1934) - Columbia

1929 2nd Academy Awards
Broadway Melody, The (1929) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

1928 1st Academy Awards
Wings (1927) - Paramount Famous Lasky