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

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

Steven Spielberg's 1993 devastating black-and-white Holocaust drama, winner of seven Academy Awards.

2

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 crime saga about the Corleone family, considered one of the greatest films ever made.

3

Casablanca

Michael Curtiz's 1942 wartime romance set in a Moroccan café, a timeless classic of Hollywood's Golden Age.

4

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

Peter Jackson's 2003 trilogy finale that swept 11 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director.

6

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

Miloš Forman's 1975 adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel, starring Jack Nicholson in one of cinema's defining performances.

8

Titanic

James Cameron's 1997 epic romance and disaster film that became the highest-grossing film of its era.

9

Moonlight

Barry Jenkins' 2016 intimate triptych about a young Black man's identity and sexuality in Miami, a historic Best Picture win.

10

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

Jonathan Demme's 1991 thriller featuring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in one of cinema's most iconic villain performances.

12

Amadeus

Miloš Forman's 1984 lavish drama reimagining the rivalry between Mozart and Salieri, sweeping eight Oscars.

13

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

The Daniels' 2022 multiverse action comedy that became a cultural phenomenon and swept the 2023 Oscars.

15

Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan's 2023 monumental biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, winner of seven Oscars including Best Picture.

16

Spotlight

Tom McCarthy's 2015 procedural drama about the Boston Globe's investigation into institutional abuse within the Catholic Church.

17

Birdman

Alejandro González Iñárritu's 2014 meta-theatrical dark comedy filmed to look like a single take.

18

CODA

Sian Heder's 2021 heartwarming drama about a hearing child in a deaf family pursuing her dream of singing.