What is the best Best Picture-winning western?

Only a handful of westerns ever took the top Oscar, and they span six decades of how Hollywood pictured the frontier. Pick the one that still rides tallest.

1. 1
   Unforgiven

   Clint Eastwood's 1992 revisionist western about an aging gunslinger taking one last job, winner of Best Picture and Best Director.
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2. 2
   Dances with Wolves

   Kevin Costner's 1990 epic about a Union officer who befriends the Lakota, winner of seven Oscars including Best Picture.
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3. 3
   Cimarron

   Wesley Ruggles' 1931 frontier epic about the Oklahoma land rush, the first western to win Best Picture.
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