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Best Motion Picture Academy Awards (Oscars)
 119  7.6  7.7 1927-1928
Other Nominees: The Racket Seventh Heaven Milestones: First (and only) silent film to win Best Picture. First war film to win Best Picture. First film to win Best Picture and every other nomination it received. First film to win Best Picture without being nominated for Best Director. First film to win Best Picture without receiving any acting nominations. 
55 6.6 6.3 1928-1929
Other Nominees: Alibi The Hollywood Revue of 1929 In Old Arizona The Patriot Milestones: First sound film to win Best Picture. First musical to win Best Picture. First film to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards. 
432 7.8 8.1 1929-1930
Other Nominees: The Big House Disraeli The Divorcee The Love Parade 
49 5.8 6 1930-1931
Other Nominees: East Lynne The Front Page Skippy Trader Horn Milestones: First film to be nominated for every major Academy Award, including Best Picture. First Western to win Best Picture. 
171 7.6 7.6 1931-1932
Other Nominees: Arrowsmith Bad Girl The Champ Five Star Final One Hour with You Shanghai Express The Smiling Lieutenant Milestones: First (and only) film to win Best Picture without receiving any other nominations. 
41 6.7 6.2 1932-1933
Other Nominees: 42nd Street A Farewell to Arms I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Lady for a Day Little Women The Private Life of Henry VIII She Done Him Wrong Smilin' Through State Fair 
616 8.1 8.2 1934
Other Nominees: The Barretts of Wimpole Street Cleopatra Flirtation Walk The Gay Divorcee Here Comes the Navy The House of Rothschild Imitation of Life One Night of Love The Thin Man Viva Villa! The White Parade Milestones: First of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture. First Best Picture nominee to win both Best Actor and Best Actress. First comedy to win Best Picture. 
182 7.4 7.8 1935
Other Nominees Alice Adams Broadway Melody of 1936 Captain Blood David Copperfield The Informer The Lives of a Bengal Lancer A Midsummer Night's Dream Les Misérables Naughty Marietta Ruggles of Red Gap Top Hat Milestones: First remake to win Best Picture. Last film to date to win Best Picture without winning any other Academy Awards. 
72 7.2 6.9 1936
Other Nominees: Anthony Adverse Dodsworth Libeled Lady Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Romeo and Juliet San Francisco The Story of Louis Pasteur A Tale of Two Cities Three Smart Girls 
91 7.6 7.3 1937
Other Nominees: The Awful Truth Captains Courageous Dead End The Good Earth In Old Chicago Lost Horizon One Hundred Men and a Girl Stage Door A Star Is Born Milestones: First biographical picture (biopic) to win Best Picture. 
174 7.4 7.9 1938
Other Nominees: The Adventures of Robin Hood Alexander's Ragtime Band Boys Town The Citadel Four Daughters The Grande Illusion (La Grande illusion) Jezebel Pygmalion Test Pilot Milestones: First foreign language film to be nominated for Best Picture (French). 
1956 7.8 8.2 1939
Other Nominees: Dark Victory Goodbye, Mr. Chips Love Affair Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Ninotchka Of Mice and Men Stagecoach The Wizard of Oz Wuthering Heights Milestones: Longest film to win Best Picture (3 hours 54 minutes). First all-color film to win Best Picture. KCenturion's rating:
 
872 8 8.3 1940
Other Nominees All This, and Heaven Too Foreign Correspondent The Grapes of Wrath The Great Dictator Kitty Foyle The Letter The Long Voyage Home Our Town The Philadelphia Story Milestones: First thriller to win Best Picture. 
208 7.6 7.8 1941
Other Nominees: Blossoms in the Dust Citizen Kane Here Comes Mr. Jordan Hold Back the Dawn The Little Foxes The Maltese Falcon One Foot in Heaven Sergeant York Suspicion 
108 7.7 7.6 1942
Other Nominees: 49th Parallel King's Row The Magnificent Ambersons The Pied Piper The Pride of the Yankees Random Harvest The Talk of the Town Wake Island Yankee Doodle Dandy Milestones: First Best Picture nominee to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories. First Best Picture winner to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories. 
2544 8.2 8.7 1943
Other Nominees: For Whom the Bell Tolls Heaven Can Wait The Human Comedy In Which We Serve Madame Curie The More the Merrier The Ox-Bow Incident The Song of Bernadette Watch on the Rhine 
74 7.2 7.3 1944
Other Nominees Double Indemnity Gaslight Since You Went Away Wilson 
354 7.9 8.1 1945
Other Nominees: Anchors Aweigh The Bells of St. Mary's Mildred Pierce Spellbound Milestones: First of only two films to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or. 
309 7.9 8.2 1946
Other Nominees: Henry V It's a Wonderful Life The Razor's Edge The Yearling 
120 7.3 7.3 1947
Other Nominees: The Bishop's Wife Crossfire Great Expectations Miracle on 34th Street 
156 7.4 7.8 1948
Other Nominees: Johnny Belinda The Red Shoes The Snake Pit The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Milestones: First foreign film to win Best Picture (British). 
79 7.5 7.6 1949
Other Nominees: Battleground The Heiress A Letter to Three Wives Twelve O'Clock High 
774 8.2 8.4 1950
Other Nominees: Born Yesterday Father of the Bride King Solomon's Mines Sunset Boulevard Milestones: First of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. 
339 7.3 7.2 1951
Other Nominees: Decision Before Dawn A Place in the Sun Quo Vadis A Streetcar Named Desire 
113 6.6 6.7 1952
Other Nominees: High Noon Ivanhoe Moulin Rouge The Quiet Man 
369 7.6 7.8 1953
Other Nominees: Julius Caesar The Robe Roman Holiday Shane Milestones: Last Best Picture winner to date to receive nominations in all of the four acting categories. 
708 8.1 8.3 1954
Other Nominees: The Caine Mutiny The Country Girl Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Three Coins in the Fountain 
148 7.8 7.7 1955
Other Nominees: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Mister Roberts Picnic The Rose Tattoo Milestones: Second of only two films to win both Best Picture and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or. Shortest film to win Best Picture (1 hour 31 minutes). First (and only) film based on a television movie or mini-series to win Best Picture. 
255 6.4 6.8 1956
Other Nominees: Friendly Persuasion Giant The King and I The Ten Commandments Milestones: First film to win Best Picture in a year when all nominees were filmed in color. 
784 8 8.3 1957
Other Nominees: Peyton Place Sayonara 12 Angry Men Witness for the Prosecution 
225 7 6.8 1958
Other Nominees: Auntie Mame Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Defiant Ones Separate Tables 
998 7.5 8.1 1959
Other Nominees: Anatomy of a Murder The Diary of Anne Frank The Nun's Story Room at the Top Milestones: First of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. 
826 8.3 8.4 1960
Other Nominees: The Alamo Elmer Gantry Sons and Lovers The Sundowners Milestones: Last black-and-white film before 1993 to win Best Picture. 
917 7.2 7.6 1961
Other Nominees: Fanny The Guns of Navarone The Hustler Judgment at Nuremberg 
1093 8 8.4 1962
Other Nominees: The Longest Day The Music Man Mutiny on the Bounty To Kill a Mockingbird 
81 6.9 6.8 1963
Other Nominees: America, America Cleopatra How the West Was Won Lilies of the Field 
1070 7.5 7.8 1964
Other Nominees: Becket Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Mary Poppins Zorba the Greek 
1834 7.5 7.9 1965
Other Nominees: Darling Doctor Zhivago Ship of Fools A Thousand Clowns Milestones: First G-rated film to win Best Picture. KCenturion's rating:
 
184 7.5 7.9 1966
Other Nominees: Alfie The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming The Sand Pebbles Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 
350 7.7 8 1967
Other Nominees: Bonnie and Clyde Doctor Dolittle The Graduate Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Milestones: First (and only) mystery to win Best Picture. 
236 7.4 7.4 1968
Other Nominees: Funny Girl The Lion in Winter Rachel, Rachel Romeo and Juliet 
725 7.8 7.9 1969
Other Nominees: Anne of the Thousand Days Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Hello, Dolly! Z Milestones: First (and only) X-rated film to win Best Picture. 
512 7.5 8 1970
Other Nominees: Airport Five Easy Pieces Love Story MASH Milestones: First PG-rated film to win Best Picture. 
727 7.8 7.9 1971
Other Nominees: A Clockwork Orange Fiddler on the Roof The Last Picture Show Nicholas and Alexandra Milestones: First R-rated film to win Best Picture. 
4829 8.7 9.2 1972
Other Nominees: Cabaret Deliverance Sounder The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) KCenturion's rating:
 
829 8 8.4 1973
Other Nominees: American Graffiti The Exorcist A Touch of Class Cries and Whispers 
3355 8.6 9 1974
Other Nominees: Chinatown The Conversation Lenny The Towering Inferno Milestones: First sequel to win Best Picture. First (and only) film in which an actor (Robert De Niro) won an Academy Award by playing the same character (Vito Corleone) as another actor (Marlon Brando) who previously won an Academy Award portraying the same person. KCenturion's rating:
 
3455 8.5 8.8 1975
Other Nominees: Barry Lyndon Dog Day Afternoon Jaws Nashville Milestones: Second of only three films to win every major Academy Award, including Best Picture. KCenturion's rating:
2139 7.4 8.1 1976
Other Nominees: All the President's Men Bound for Glory Network Taxi Driver Milestones: First sports film to win Best Picture. KCenturion's rating:
1741 8.1 8.2 1977
Other Nominees: The Goodbye Girl Julia Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope The Turning Point |
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