What is the best Academy Award Best Picture winner of all time?

By YPB Team

The Academy Award for Best Picture is Hollywood's highest honour — which of these winners truly deserves the title of greatest film of all time?

  1. Schindler's List — ranked #11
    Schindler's List
    Steven Spielberg's 1993 devastating black-and-white Holocaust drama, winner of seven Academy Awards.
  2. The Godfather — ranked #22
    The Godfather
    Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 crime saga about the Corleone family, considered one of the greatest films ever made.
  3. Casablanca — ranked #33
    Casablanca
    Michael Curtiz's 1942 wartime romance set in a Moroccan café, a timeless classic of Hollywood's Golden Age.
  4. Lawrence of Arabia — ranked #44
    Lawrence of Arabia
    David Lean's 1962 sweeping epic about T.E. Lawrence's role in the Arab Revolt, celebrated for its visual grandeur.
  5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — ranked #55
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Peter Jackson's 2003 trilogy finale that swept 11 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director.
  6. Annie Hall — ranked #66
    Annie Hall
    Woody Allen's 1977 groundbreaking romantic comedy that redefined the genre with its self-referential style.
  7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — ranked #77
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Miloš Forman's 1975 adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel, starring Jack Nicholson in one of cinema's defining performances.
  8. Titanic — ranked #88
    Titanic
    James Cameron's 1997 epic romance and disaster film that became the highest-grossing film of its era.
  9. Moonlight — ranked #99
    Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins' 2016 intimate triptych about a young Black man's identity and sexuality in Miami, a historic Best Picture win.
  10. Parasite — ranked #1010
    Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho's 2019 darkly comic thriller, the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture.
  11. The Silence of the Lambs — ranked #1111
    The Silence of the Lambs
    Jonathan Demme's 1991 thriller featuring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in one of cinema's most iconic villain performances.
  12. Amadeus — ranked #1212
    Amadeus
    Miloš Forman's 1984 lavish drama reimagining the rivalry between Mozart and Salieri, sweeping eight Oscars.
  13. No Country for Old Men — ranked #1313
    No Country for Old Men
    The Coen Brothers' 2007 stark neo-Western about violence, fate, and the pursuit of a suitcase full of cash.
  14. Everything Everywhere All at Once — ranked #1414
    Everything Everywhere All at Once
    The Daniels' 2022 multiverse action comedy that became a cultural phenomenon and swept the 2023 Oscars.
  15. Oppenheimer — ranked #1515
    Oppenheimer
    Christopher Nolan's 2023 monumental biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, winner of seven Oscars including Best Picture.
  16. Spotlight — ranked #1616
    Spotlight
    Tom McCarthy's 2015 procedural drama about the Boston Globe's investigation into institutional abuse within the Catholic Church.
  17. Birdman — ranked #1717
    Birdman
    Alejandro González Iñárritu's 2014 meta-theatrical dark comedy filmed to look like a single take.
  18. CODA — ranked #1818
    CODA
    Sian Heder's 2021 heartwarming drama about a hearing child in a deaf family pursuing her dream of singing.

Comments

Casablanca, Parasite and The Godfather sit in this field of eighteen winners, and both articles below have an entry on it: https://youpick.best/articles/christopher-nolan-ranked-many-ways https://youpick.best/articles/lord-of-the-rings-ranked-many-ways

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