Academy Awards For Best Picture Deservers

1927/28!

Winner: Wings!

Nominees:
The Racket
Seventh Heaven

1928/29!

Winner: The Patriot!

Nominees:
Alibi
The Broadway Melody
In Old Arizona
Hollywood Revue

1929/30!

Winner: All Quiet on the Western Front!

Nominees:
The Big House
Disraeli
The Divorcee
The Love Parade

1930/31!

Winner: City Lights!

Nominees:
East Lynne
The Front Page
Skippy
Trader Horn

1931/32!

Winner: Bad Girl!

Nominees:
Arrowsmith
The Champ
Five Star Hotel
Grand Hotel
One Hour With You
Shanghai Express
The Smiling Lieutenant

1932/33!

Winner: King Kong!

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

1934!

Winner: It Happened One Night!

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

1935!

Winner: Top Hat!

Nominees:
Alice Adams
Broadway Melody of 1936
Captain Blood
David Copperfield
The Informer
Les Miserables
The Live of a Bengal Lancer
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mutiny on the Bounty
Naughty Marietta
Ruggles of Red Gap

1936!

Winner: Modern Times!

Nominees:
Anthony Adverse
Dodsworth
The Great Ziegfeld
Libeled Lady
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Romeo and Juliet
San Francisco
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Three Smart Girls

1937!

Winner: A Star Is Born!

Nominees:
The Awful Truth
Captains Courageous
Dead End
The Good Earth
In Old Chicago
The Life of Emile Zola
Lost Horizon
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Stage Door

1938!

Winner: The Adventures of Robin Hood!

Nominees:
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Boys Town
The Citadel
Four Daughters
Grand Illusion
Jezebel
Pygmalion
Test Pilot
You Can't Take It with You

1939!

Winner: Gone With the Wind!

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

1940!

Winner: The Grapes of Wrath!

Nominees:
All This, and Heaven Too
Foreign Correspondent
The Great Dictator
Kitty Foyle
The Letter
The Long Voyage Home
Our Town
The Philadelphia Story
Rebecca

1941!

Winner: Citizen Kane!

Nominees:
Blossoms in the Dust
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Hold Back the Dawn
How Green Was My Valley
The Little Foxes
The Maltese Falcon
One Foot in Heaven
Sergeant York
Suspicion

1942!

Winner: Casablanca!

Nominees:
The Invaders
Kings Row
The Magnificent Ambersons
Mrs. Miniver
The Pied Piper
The Pride of the Yankees
Random Harvest
The Talk of the Town
Wake Island
Yankee Doodle Dandy

1943!

Winner: Shadow of a Doubt!

Nominees:
Heaven Can Wait
The More the Merrier
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Song of Bernadette

1944!

Winner: Double Indemnity!

Nominees:
Gaslight
Going My Way
Since You Went Away
Wilson

1945!

Winner: Brief Encounter!

Nominees:
Anchors Aweigh
The Lost Weekend
Mildred Pierce
Spellbound

1946!

Winner: It's a Wonderful Life!

Nominees:
The Best Years of Our Lives
Henry V
The Razor's Edge
The Yearling

1947!

Winner: Out of the Past!

Nominees:
Crossfire
Gentleman's Agreement
Great Expectations
Miracle on 34th Street

1948!

Winner: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre!

Nominees:
Hamlet
Johnny Belinda
The Red Shoes
The Snake Pit

1949!

Winner: The Third Man!

Nominees:
All the King's Men
Battleground
The Heiress
Twelve O'Clock High

1950!

Winner: Sunset Boulevard!

Nominees:
All About Eve
Born Yesterday
Father of the Bride
King Solomon's Mines

1951!

Winner: A Streetcar Named Desire

Nominees:
The African Queen
An American in Paris
A Place in the Sun
Strangers on a Train

1952!

Winner: Singin' in the Rain!

Nominees:
High Noon
Ivanhoe
Moulin Rouge
The Quiet Man

1953!

Winner: From Here to Eternity!

Nominees:
Julius Caesar
The Robe
Roman Holiday
Shane

1954!

Winner: On the Waterfront!

Nominees:
The Caine Mutiny
The Country Girl
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Three Coins in the Fountain

1955!

Winner: The Night of the Hunter!

Nominees:
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Marty
Mister Roberts
The Rose Tattoo

1956!

Winner: The Searchers!

Nominees:
Around the World in 80 Days
Giant
The King and I
The Ten Commandments

1957!

Winner: The Bridge on the River Kwai!

Nominees:
12 Angry Men
Peyton Place
Sayonara
Witness for the Prosecution

1958!

Winner: Vertigo!

Nominees:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Defiant Ones
Separate Tables
Touch of Evil

1959!

Winner: Ben-Hur!

Nominees:
Anatomy of a Murder
The Diary of Anne Frank
North by Northwest
Some Like It Hot

1960!

Winner: Psycho!

Nominees:
The Apartment
Elmer Gantry
Sons and Lovers
The Sundowners

1961!

Winner: West Side Story!

Nominees:
Fanny
The Guns of Navarone
The Hustler
Judgment at Nuremberg

1962!

Winner: Lawrence of Arabia!

Nominees:
The Manchurian Candidate
The Miracle Worker
To Kill a Mockingbird
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1963!

Winner: 8 1/2!

Nominees:
America, America
Cleopatra
How The West Was Won
Lilies of the Field

1964!

Winner: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb!

Nominees:
Becket
Mary Poppins
My Fair Lady
Zorba the Greek

1965!

Winner: Doctor Zhivago!

Nominees:
Darling
Ship of Fools
The Sound of Music
A Thousand Clowns

1966!

Winner: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Nominees:
Alfie
A Man of All Seasons
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
The Sand Pebbles

1967!

Winner: Bonnie and Clyde!

Nominees:
Cool Hand Luke
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
In the Heat of the Night

1968!

Winner: 2001: A Space Odyssey!

Nominees:
Funny Girl
The Lion In Winter
Once Upon a Time in the West
Rosemary's Baby

1969!

Winner: Midnight Cowboy!

Nominees:
Anne of the Thousand Days
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Wild Bunch
Z

1970!

Winner: Patton!

Nominees:
Airport
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
MASH

1971!

Winner: The Last Picture Show!

Nominees:
A Clockwork Orange
Dirty Harry
Fiddler on the Roof
The French Connection

1972!

Winner: The Godfather!

Nominees:
Cabaret
Deliverance
The Emigrants
Sounder

1973!

Winner: The Sting!

Nominees:
American Graffiti
Badlands
The Exorcist
Paper Moon

1974!

Winner: The Godfather: Part II!

Nominees:
Chinatown
The Conversation
Lenny
The Towering Inferno

1975!

Winner: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!

Nominees:
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
Nashville

1976!

Winner: Network!

Nominees:
All the President's Men
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Rocky
Taxi Driver

1977!

Winner: Star Wars!

Nominees:
Annie Hall
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Equus
Julia