Which Best Picture winner of the 1990s is the best?

Ten years of Academy gold, covering sweeping frontier epics, a chilling psychological thriller and the box-office romance that ruled its era. Only one winner of the decade takes the crown here.

1. 1
   Schindler's List

   Steven Spielberg's 1993 Holocaust drama about industrialist Oskar Schindler saving more than a thousand Jewish workers.
   1000pts
2. 2
   The English Patient

   Anthony Minghella's 1996 wartime romance told through the memories of a badly burned man in an Italian monastery.
   491pts
3. 3
   American Beauty

   Sam Mendes's 1999 dark satire of suburban malaise centered on a father's midlife crisis.
   440pts
4. 4
   Braveheart

   Mel Gibson's 1995 historical epic about William Wallace leading the Scottish revolt against English rule.
   381pts
5. 5
   The Silence of the Lambs

   Jonathan Demme's 1991 thriller pitting FBI trainee Clarice Starling against Hannibal Lecter, one of only three films to sweep the top five Oscars.
   381pts
6. 6
   Forrest Gump

   Robert Zemeckis's 1994 crowd-pleaser following a kind-hearted Alabama man through three decades of American history.
   381pts
7. 7
   Unforgiven

   Clint Eastwood's 1992 revisionist western about an aging gunfighter pulled into one last bounty hunt.
   314pts
8. 8
   Dances with Wolves

   Kevin Costner's 1990 frontier epic about a Union officer who comes to live among the Lakota Sioux.
   314pts
9. 9
   Titanic

   James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster romance aboard the doomed liner, which tied the record with 11 Oscars.
   237pts
10. 10
    Shakespeare in Love

    John Madden's 1998 romantic comedy imagining a young Shakespeare's love affair while writing Romeo and Juliet.
    0pts

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