1920s • Wings†  •  Sunrise†  •  The Broadway Melody†
1930s • All Quiet on the Western Front†  •  Cimarron†  •  Grand Hotel†  •  Cavalcade†  •  It Happened One Night  •  Mutiny on the Bounty  •  The Great Ziegfeld  •  The Life of Emile Zola  •  You Can't Take It with You  •  Gone with the Wind
1940s • Rebecca  •  How Green Was My Valley  •  Mrs. Miniver  •  Casablanca  •  Going My Way  •  The Lost Weekend  •  The Best Years of Our Lives  •  Gentleman's Agreement  •  Hamlet  •  All the King's Men
1950s • All About Eve  •  An American in Paris  •  The Greatest Show on Earth  •  From Here to Eternity  •  On the Waterfront  •  Marty  •  Around the World in Eighty Days  •  The Bridge on the River Kwai  •  Gigi  •  Ben-Hur
1960s • The Apartment  •  West Side Story  •  Lawrence of Arabia  •  Tom Jones  •  My Fair Lady  •  The Sound of Music  •  A Man for All Seasons  •  In the Heat of the Night  •  Oliver!  •  Midnight Cowboy
1970s • Patton  •  The French Connection  •  The Godfather  •  The Sting  •  The Godfather Part II  •  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  •  Rocky  •  Annie Hall  •  The Deer Hunter  •  Kramer vs. Kramer
1980s • Ordinary People  •  Chariots of Fire  •  Gandhi  •  Terms of Endearment  •  Amadeus  •  Out of Africa  •  Platoon  •  The Last Emperor  •  Rain Man  •  Driving Miss Daisy
1990s • Dances with Wolves  •  The Silence of the Lambs  •  Unforgiven  •  Schindler's List  •  Forrest Gump  •  Braveheart  •  The English Patient  •  Titanic  •  Shakespeare in Love  •  American Beauty
2000s • Gladiator  •  A Beautiful Mind  •  Chicago  •  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King  •  Million Dollar Baby  •  Crash
†From 1927–1933, the Academy Awards did not follow a calendar year. Rebecca is a 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first American project. ... The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. ... Mrs. ... The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. ... Wings is a 1927 silent movie about fighter pilots during World War I (Charles Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen), who vie for the same girl (Clara Bow) directed by William Wellman. ... Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (aka Sunrise) is a 1927 American silent film directed by F.W. Murnau. ... The Broadway Melody is an early musical motion picture, released on 1 February 1929. ... All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 film directed by Lewis Milestone. ... A recent printing of Edna Ferbers Cimarron. ... Grand Hotel is a 1932 art deco movie, and is considered as a classic of the sort. ... Cavalcade is a historical view of English life from New Years Eve 1899 through 1933, from the point of view of of well-to-do Londoner residents Jane and Robert Marryot (played by Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook). ... It Happened One Night is a 1934 romantic comedy in which an elite socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her fathers thumb, and falls in with a rogue reporter (Clark Gable). ... Mutiny on the Bounty, based on the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff, is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone. ... Categories: Movie stubs | 1936 films | Drama films | Musical films | Biographical films | Best Picture Oscar | Best Actress Oscar (film) ... The Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 movie giving a biography of the famous French author Émile Zola. ... You Cant Take it With You was an important example of the category of end-of-depression heart warming movies made by Frank Capra in the 1930s. ... Gone with the Wind is a 1939 film adapted from Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel of the same name. ... Rebecca is a 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first American project. ... Mrs. ... This article is about the film Casablanca. ... Going My Way is a 1944 film is a light-hearted comedy about a new young priest (Bing Crosby) taking over a parish from an established old veteran. ... The Lost Weekend is a 1945 motion picture directed by Billy Wilder for Paramount Pictures, starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and Phillip Terry. ... The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 movie about three servicemen (an airman, a soldier, and a sailor) trying to piece their lives back together after coming back home from WWII. It is based on a novel by MacKinlay Kantor, Glory for Me. ... Gentlemans Agreement is a 1947 film about a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who falsely represents himself as a Jew to research anti-semitism in the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut. ... Hamlet is a 1948 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Hamlet. ... All the Kings Men is a 1949 film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. ... All About Eve is a 1950 movie drama written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, from the story The Wisdom of Eve, by Mary Orr. ... An American in Paris is a 1951 musical film based on the classical composition by George Gershwin. ... The Greatest Show on Earth is the slogan for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. ... Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the famous beach scene in From Here to Eternity. ... On the Waterfront is an American 1954 film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen, and became a standard of its kind. ... For other articles with the name Marty, check the Marty (disambiguation) page. ... Around the World in Eighty Days is a 1956 movie based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne, involving a dare proposed to English aristocrat Phileas Fogg by his gentlemens club to undertake a bold journey to travel around the world in only 80 days. ... The Bridge over the River Kwai taken in June 2004. ... Gigi is a 1958 motion picture musical set in Paris, France. ... Ben-Hur is a 1959 film directed by William Wyler and is, today, the best-known film version of Lew Wallaces novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880). ... The Apartment is a 1960 romantic comedy-drama directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. ... West Side Story is a 1961 film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. ... Lawrence of Arabia is an Academy Award-winning film based, with some licence, on the life of T. E. Lawrence, starring Peter OToole as the title character, directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel, from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. ... Tom Jones was an international hit, British 1963 comedy film, and won the coveted BEST PICTURE OSCAR for 1963. ... The original poster for the Broadway production of the show designed by Al Hirschfeld My Fair Lady is a 1956 musical theater production with lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederic Loewe. ... The Sound of Music is a Broadway musical and film based on the book The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. ... A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt, first performed in London on July 1, 1960. ... In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 film, based on the John Ball novel published in 1965 of the same name, which tells the story of a Northern U.S. African-American police detective who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a racist small town in the... Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. ... Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 film written by Waldo Salt based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy, and directed by John Schlesinger. ... Patton is a 1970 biographical film which tells the story of General George Pattons commands during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden and Michael Bates. ... The French Connection is a 1971 Hollywood film directed by William Friedkin. ... The Godfather is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name (see The Godfather (novel)) written by the late Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. ... The Sting was an Oscar winning caper film from 1973 based in the 1930s and centered around a convoluted plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). ... The Godfather, Part II is the sequel to The Godfather, released in 1974. ... One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a 1975 film directed by MiloÅ¡ Forman. ... For other uses, see Rocky (disambiguation). ... Annie Hall is a 1977 romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. ... The Deer Hunter is a 1978 film which tells the story of how the Vietnam War affects the people in the industrial town of Clairton, Pennsylvania just south of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River (although it was also filmed in Cleveland and Mingo Junction, Ohio). ... Movie poster for Kramer vs. ... This article is about the 1980 film; songs with the same title have been performed by Mary Mary and John Legend. ... Chariots of Fire is a British film released in 1981. ... Gandhi (1982) is an Anglo-Indian film, directed by Richard Attenborough, about the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi, Great Soul), leader of the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. ... Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American drama film and romantic comedy. ... Amadeus is the title of both a stage play and an Academy Award winning film written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, both loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. ... This article is about the book and the film; however, for the African-origin theory of human evolution sometimes referred to as the Out of Africa theory, see single-origin hypothesis. ... Platoon is a 1986 Vietnam war film, written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen and Forest Whitaker. ... This article is about the 1987 film. ... Rain Man is a 1988 film which tells the story of a selfish yuppie who discovers that his father has left all of his estate to the autistic brother he never knew he had. ... Driving Miss Daisy is a 1987 play by Alfred Uhry adapted into a 1989 Warner Bros. ... Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic film which tells the story of a United States cavalry officer in the 1860s who befriends a band of Lakota Indians, sacrificing his career and ties to his own people. ... The Silence of the Lambs is a novel by Thomas Harris, his second to feature Lithuanian count, sociopathic psychiatrist and cannibal Dr. Hannibal The Cannibal Lecter. ... Unforgiven is a 1992 revisionist Western film which tells the story of a retired gunslinger who takes on one more job for the money. ... Schindlers List is an Academy Award-winning 1993 movie based on the book Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally, published in the United States as Schindlers List and subsequently re-issued in Commonwealth countries under that name as well. ... Forrest Gump is the name of the lead character of the 1985 novel Forrest Gump by Winston Groom, and of the 1994 Paramount Pictures film based on the novel. ... Braveheart is an epic American motion picture released in 1995 based on the life of William Wallace, a national hero in Scotland. ... The English Patient is a 1996 film adaptation of the novel by the same title by Michael Ondaatje. ... Titanic is an Academy Award winning 1997 dramatic film released by 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures. ... Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 motion picture. ... American Beauty is a 1999 drama film that explores themes of love, freedom, self-liberation, the search for happiness, and family against the backdrop of average modern American suburbia. ... Gladiator is a 2000 movie directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix. ... A Beautiful Mind is a book and film about the Nobel Prize (Economics) winning mathematician John Nash and his experiences of schizophrenia. ... Chicago is a movie adaptation, released in 2002, of the musical Chicago, about celebrity and money in Jazz age 1920s Chicago. ... Million Dollar Baby is an Academy Award winning 2004 dramatic film directed by Clint Eastwood. ... Crash is an Academy Award-winning drama film directed by Paul Haggis. ...