In the afterglow of the 98th Academy Awards, Deadline takes a photo-heavy look back at every Best Picture winner since 1927.
Recent winners include Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (2o25), Sean Baker’s Anora (2024), Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023) and more.
RELATED: Oscars: Every Best Director Oscar Winner Back To 1928
Scroll through the gallery below to see them all.
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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, 2026
Paul Thomas Anderson’s passion project won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, among other categories, at the 98th Acadey Awards.
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ANORA (2025)
Image Credit: Neon /Courtesy Everett Collection Anora, starring Mikey Madison and Mark Eidelshtein, won Best Picture in 2025.
RELATED: ‘Anora’ Review: Mikey Madison Gives Her All In Sean Baker’s Subversive Screwball Comedy
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2024 – ‘Oppenheimer’
Image Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal/Everett Collection Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, which won Best Picture against Barbie and more at the 2024 Oscars.
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2023 – ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
Image Credit: A24 From left, Michelle Yeoh and Jing Li in Everything Everywhere All At Once, which won the 2023 Best Picture award.
Deadline reviewed the film out of SXSW.
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2022 – CODA
Image Credit: Apple TV+ Apple’s CODA, starring Best Supporting Actor winner Troy Kotsur, nabbed the Best Picture trophy in 2022.
Deadline reviewed the film after it opened at Sundance Film Festival in 2021.
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2021 – Nomadland
Image Credit: Searchlight Pictures Frances McDormand starred in Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland, which won Best Picture in 2021.
RELATED: Film Review: Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ Starring Frances McDormand
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2020 – Parasite
Image Credit: NEON Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite debuted at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, winning the Palme d’Or there.
The thriller film won Best Picture at the 2020 Oscars.
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2019 – Green Book
Image Credit: Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock Editorial use only. No book cover usage.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock (9971657x)
Mahershala Ali as Dr. Donald Shirley
‘Green Book’ Film – 2018
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. -
2018 – The Shape of Water
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2017 – Moonlight
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2016 – Spotlight
Image Credit: Open Road Films Spotlight
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2015 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Image Credit: Fox Searchlight “Birdman”
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2014 – 12 Years a Slave
Image Credit: Fox Searchlight 12 Years A Slave
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2013 – Argo
Image Credit: Everett Collection Warner Bros.
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2012 – The Artist
Image Credit: Everett Collection The Weinstein Company
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2011 – The King’s Speech
Image Credit: Everett Collection The Weinstein Company
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2010 – The Hurt Locker
Image Credit: Everett Collection Summit Entertainment
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2009 – Slumdog Millionaire
Image Credit: Everett Collection Slumdog Millionaire
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2008 – No Country For Old Men
Image Credit: Everett Collection Paramount Pictures
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2007 – The Departed
Image Credit: Everett Collection Warner Bros.
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2006 – Crash
Image Credit: Everett Collection Lionsgate
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2005 – Million Dollar Baby
Image Credit: Everett Collection Warner Bros.
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2004 – Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King
Image Credit: Everett Collection New Line Cinema
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2003 – Chicago
Image Credit: Everett Collection Miramax
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2002 – A Beautiful Mind
Image Credit: Everett Collection Universal Pictures
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2001 – Gladiator
Image Credit: Everett Collection DreamWorks
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2000 – American Beauty
Image Credit: Everett Collection Dreamworks
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1999 – Shakespeare In Love
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Shakespeare In Love”
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1998 – Titanic
Image Credit: Everett Collection Paramount Pictures
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1997 – The English Patient
Image Credit: Everett Collection Miramax
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1996 – Braveheart
Image Credit: Everett Collection Paramount Pictures
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1995 – Forrest Gump
Image Credit: Everett Collection Paramount Pictures
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1994 – Schindler’s List
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1993 – Unforgiven
Image Credit: Everett Collection Warner Bros.
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1992 – The Silence Of The Lambs
Image Credit: Everett Collection Orion Pictures
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1991 – Dances With Wolves
Image Credit: Everett Collection Orion Pictures
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1990 – Driving Miss Daisy
Image Credit: Everett Collection Warner Bros.
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1989 – Rain Man
Image Credit: United Artists/courtesy Everett Collection Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise.
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1988 – The Last Emperor 1987
Image Credit: Columbia/courtesy Everett Collection Richard Vuu
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1987 – Platoon
Image Credit: Orion Pictures/ Courtesy: Everett Collection. Willem Dafoe
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1986 – Out Of Africa
Image Credit: MCA/Universal: Courtesy Everett Collection. Michael Kitchen, Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
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1985 – Amadeus
Image Credit: Warner Bros./ Courtesy: Everett Collection. Tom Hulce
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1984 – Terms Of Endearment
Image Credit: Everett Collection Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson.
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1983 – Gandhi
Image Credit: Columbia Pictures/ Courtesy: Everett Collection Ben Kingsley and Ian Charleson.
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1982 – Chariots of Fire
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp Ian Charleson
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1981 – Ordinary People
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures/ Courtesy: Everett Collection. Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore.
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1980 – Kramer Vs. Kramer
Image Credit: Columbia Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection Justin Henry, Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman.
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1979 – The Deer Hunter
Image Credit: Universal/courtesy Everett Collection Robert De Niro and John Savage.
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1978 – Annie Hall
Image Credit: Everett Collection Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.
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1977 – Rocky
Image Credit: United Artists / Courtesy: Everett Collection Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers.
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1976 – One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Image Credit: Everett Collection Jack Nicholson
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1975 – The Godfather: Part II
Image Credit: Everett Collection Al Pacino
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1974 – The Sting
Image Credit: Everett Collection Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
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1973 – The Godfather
Image Credit: Everett Collection Al Pacino
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1972 – The French Connection
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Gene Hackman
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1971 – Patton
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp. / Courtesy Everett Collection George C. Scott
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1970 – Midnight Cowboy
Image Credit: Everett Collection Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman.
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1969 – Oliver!
Image Credit: Everett Collection Mark Lester
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1968 – In The Heat of The Night
Image Credit: Everett Collection Lee Grant and Sidney Poitier.
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1967 – A Man For All Seasons
Image Credit: Everett Collection Robert Shaw, Corin Redgrave, Susannah York, Paul Scofield and Wendy Hiller.
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1966 – The Sound Of Music
Image Credit: Everett Collection Julie Andrews
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1965 – My Fair Lady
Image Credit: Everett Collection Rex Harrison (back left), Audrey Hepburn (center of frame), Jeremy Brett (front right).
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1964 – Tom Jones
Image Credit: Everett Collection Susannah York and Albert Finney.
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1963 – Lawrence of Arabia
Image Credit: Everett Collection LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, 1962
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1962 – West Side Story
Image Credit: Everett Collection WEST SIDE STORY, 1961
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1961 – The Apartment
Image Credit: Everett Collection Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon.
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1960 – Ben-Hur
Image Credit: Everett Collection Charlton Heston
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1959 – Gigi
Image Credit: Everett Collection Leslie Caron
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1958 – The Bridge On The River Kwai
Image Credit: Everett Collection Alec Guinness, William Holden and Jack Hawkins.
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1957 – Around The World In 80 Days
Image Credit: Everett Collection Cantinflas and David Niven
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1956 – Marty
Image Credit: Everett Collection Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair.
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1955 – On The Waterfront
Image Credit: Everett Collection Eva Marie Saint and Marlon Brando.
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1954 – From Here To Eternity
Image Credit: Everett Collection Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster.
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1953 – The Greatest Show On Earth
Image Credit: Everett Collection Charlton Heston (front), rear from left: James Stewart and Betty Hutton.
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1952 – An American In Paris
Image Credit: Everett Collection Gene Kelly
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1951 – All About Eve
Image Credit: 20th Century-Fox Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Anne Baxter and George Sanders.
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1950 – All The King’s Men
Image Credit: Everett Collection Anne Seymour, Ralph Dumke, Richard Hale, John Ireland, Broderick Crawford and Walter Burke.
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1949 – Hamlet
Image Credit: Everett Collection Laurence Olivier
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1948 – Gentleman’s Agreement
Image Credit: Everett Collection Anne Revere and Gregory Peck.
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1947 – The Best Years Of Our Lives
Image Credit: Everett Collection Myrna Loy and Fredric March.
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1946 – The Lost Weekend
Image Credit: Everett Collection Ray Milland and Doris Dowling.
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1945 – Going My Way
Image Credit: Everett Collection Bing Crosby, Rise Stevens and Fortunio Bonanova.
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1944 – Casablanca
Image Credit: Everett Collection Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
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1943 – Mrs. Miniver
Image Credit: Everett Collection Teresa Wright and Richard Ney.
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1942 – How Green Was My Valley
Image Credit: Everett Collection Walter Pidgeon and Roddy McDowall.
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1941 – Rebecca
Image Credit: Everett Collection Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson.
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1940 – Gone With The Wind
Image Credit: Everett Collection Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel.
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1939 – You Can’t Take It With You
Image Credit: Everett Collection Ann Miller and Mischa Auer.
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1938 – The Life Of Emile Zola
Image Credit: Everett Collection Paul Muni and Gloria Holden.
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1937 – The Great Ziegfeld
Image Credit: Everett Collection William Powell and Myrna Loy.
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1936 – Mutiny On The Bounty
Image Credit: Everett Collection Movita and Franchot Tone.
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1935 – It Happened One Night
Image Credit: Everett Collection Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
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1934 – Cavalcade
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Beryl Mercer, Tempe Pigott, Merle Tottenham and Una O’Connor.
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1933 – Grandhotel
Image Credit: Everett Collection John Barrymore and Greta Garbo.
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1932 – Cimarron
Image Credit: Everett Collection Richard Dix and Irene Dunne.
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1931 All Quiet On The Western Front
Image Credit: Everett Collection Ben Alexander, Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim.
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1930 – The Broadway Melody
Image Credit: Everett Collection Anita Page, Bessie Love and Charles King.
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1929 – Wings
Image Credit: Everett Collection Richard Arlen, Charles Buddy Rogers and Clara Bow.
Every category should not be given an award every year, there should be a standard of 90% of all voters to earn that award. There’s some 35 movies that are best movies the rest are nothing more then some movie had to win. That applies to all categories. Movies are motion pictures. Parasite should not have won, if you’re reading subtitles, story is not told through moving pictures, you can’t read and watch scenes at the same time. English Dub should not win Best Movie.
Actually, the first entry – for the year 1929 is incorrect. In 1929, for only one time, two best picture categories existed. Wellman’s “Wings” won for Best Picture — Commercial. F.W. Murnau’s “Sunrise” won Best Picture – Artistic. Both are great pictures. “Sunrise” had a synchronized soundtrack using the Fox-Case system, a first.
I’m sorry that “Roman Holiday” didn’t win Best Picture. It’s my favorite movie.
I read elsewhere that the 1940 Best Picture award went to The Wizard of Oz, not Gone With the Wind.
A Best Picture is one that can be viewed over and over again, as many of these shown are that were chosen.
The Ten Commandments was one of the ones that needed to win. Spectacular Film.