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A list of films that won the Academy Awards "Oscar" for "Best Motion Picture of the Year".
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.
Mar 13, 2022 · The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out the first awards in 1929, with winners announced in advance. There were 12 categories, which has grown to the current 23.
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Academy Award for best picture, award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. It honours the film deemed the best of a given year—as determined by the academy’s voting members—and is typically regarded as the most prestigious of the various Academy Awards. The prize, which wa...
•1927: Wings (Sunrise won for best unique and artistic picture, but that category was eliminated the following year, and Wings was retrospectively named the official winner of the first Academy Award for best picture.)
•1929: The Broadway Melody
•1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
•1931: Cimarron
•1932: Grand Hotel
•1933: Cavalcade
•1940: Rebecca
•1941: How Green Was My Valley
•1942: Mrs. Miniver
•1943: Casablanca
•1944: Going My Way
•1945: The Lost Weekend
•1960: The Apartment
•1961: West Side Story
•1962: Lawrence of Arabia
•1963: Tom Jones
•1964: My Fair Lady
•1965: The Sound of Music
•1980: Ordinary People
•1981: Chariots of Fire
•1982: Gandhi
•1983: Terms of Endearment
•1984: Amadeus
•1985: Out of Africa
•2000: Gladiator
•2001: A Beautiful Mind
•2002: Chicago
•2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
•2004: Million Dollar Baby
•2005: Crash
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 26, 2015 · Given the sustainability of the first six Best Picture Winners (Wings, The Broadway Melody, All Quiet on the Western Front, Cimarron, Grand Hotel, and Cavalcade) we will begin in 1935, at the eighth Academy Awards.
Mar 11, 2024 · Some of the greatest films ever made have gone on to win best picture, beginning with "Wings" at the first Academy Awards and most recently with "Oppenheimer" at this year's 96th Academy Awards.
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