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Best Picture Winners (1928/29 to 2022) Ranked |
(*Ranked by USA Today in 2023) |
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Academy Award Winner |
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and Wins |
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The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola |
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Casablanca | Michael Curtiz |
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Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg |
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| On The Waterfront | Elia Kazan | |||
| All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | |||
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Amadeus | Milos Forman |
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| The French Connection | William Friedkin | |||
| The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | |||
| The Godfather, Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | |||
| One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | Milos Forman | |||
| Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | |||
| Parasite | Bong Joon Ho | |||
| Moonlight | Barry Jenkins | |||
| Gone With The Wind | Victor Fleming | |||
| West Side Story | Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins | |||
| Spotlight | Tom McCarthy | |||
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Lewis Milestone | |||
| It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | |||
| Rocky | John G. Avildsen | |||
| The Apartment | Billy Wilder | |||
| From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | |||
| Chicago | Rob Marshall | |||
| 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen | |||
| My Fair Lady | George Cukor | 12 Noms 8 Wins |
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| The Departed | Martin Scorsese | |||
| In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | 7 Noms 5 Wins |
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| Gladiator | Ridley Scott | |||
| Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | |||
| Ben-Hur | William Wyler | |||
| The Sting | George Roy Hill | |||
| Annie Hall | Woody Allen | |||
| Titanic | James Cameron | |||
| Kramer vs. Kramer | Robert Benton | |||
| CODA | Sian Heder | |||
| Platoon | Oliver Stone | |||
| Everything Everywhere All at Once | Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | |||
| Hamlet | Laurence Olivier | |||
| Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger | |||
| No Country For Old Men | Joel and Ethan Coen | |||
| Patton | Franklin J. Schaffner | |||
| Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | |||
| Birdman | Alejandro González Iñárritu | |||
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Peter Jackson | |||
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Frank Lloyd | |||
| The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius | |||
| The Sound of Music | Robert Wise | |||
| Gandhi | Richard Attenborough | |||
| Rain Man | Barry Levinson | |||
| The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro | |||
| The Last Emperor | Bernardo Bertolucci | |||
| A Beautiful Mind | Ron Howard | |||
| A Man for All Seasons | Fred Zinnemann | |||
| All the King's Men | Robert Rossen | |||
| The Life of Emile Zola | William Dieterle | |||
| Dances with Wolves | Kevin Costner | |||
| Wings (Best Production) Sunrise (Unique and Artistic Picture) |
William Wellman F. W. Murnau |
4 Noms 3 Wins |
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| The Bridge On The River Kwai | David Lean | |||
| The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | |||
| Mrs. Miniver | William Wyler | |||
| An American In Paris | Vincente Minnelli | |||
| Ordinary People | Robert Redford | |||
| Braveheart | Mel Gibson | |||
| The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | |||
| Oliver! | Carol Reed | |||
| The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino | |||
| Argo | Ben Affleck | |||
| Going My Way | Leo McCarey | |||
| Nomadland | Chloe Zhao | |||
| You Can't Take It With You | Frank Capra | |||
| Gigi | Vincente Minnelli | |||
| Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks | |||
| American Beauty | Sam Mendes | |||
| The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | |||
| Marty | Delbert Mann | |||
| Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis | |||
| The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder | |||
| Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | |||
| Grand Hotel | Edmund Goulding | |||
| Tom Jones | Tony Richardson | |||
| Gentleman's Agreement | Elia Kazan | |||
| Green Book | Peter Farrelly | |||
| Chariots of Fire | Hugh Hudson | |||
| How Green Was My Valley | John Ford | |||
| Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood | |||
| The Great Ziegfeld | Robert Z. Leonard | |||
| Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | |||
| Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack | |||
| The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | |||
| Around the World in 80 Days | Michael Anderson | |||
| Driving Miss Daisy | Bruce Beresford | |||
| Cavalcade | Frank Lloyd | |||
| Cimarron | Wesley Ruggles | |||
| The Greatest Show on Earth | Cecil B. DeMille | |||
| Crash | Paul Haggis | |||
| The Broadway Melody | Harry Beaumont |
