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Best Picture Academy Award winners

  • Academy Award for Best PictureThe Academy Award for Best Picture changed hands on live television on the 26th of February 2017. Presenter Faye Dunaway read La La Land as the winner.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King crossed the one-billion-dollar mark at the worldwide box office in February 2004, only the second film in…
  • Ben-Hur (1959 film)Ben-Hur, the 1959 epic directed by William Wyler, arrived at a moment when Hollywood was fighting for its life. Television had eaten into ticket sales, and…
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest arrived in cinemas on the 19th of November 1975 and within months had become one of the highest-grossing films in American…
  • Gone with the Wind (film)Gone with the Wind premiered on the 15th of December 1939, and on that single night, roughly 300,000 people packed the streets of Atlanta for seven miles…
  • Hamlet (1948 film)Laurence Olivier stood at the helm of a massive production in 1947, transforming from celebrated actor into director for his second film.
  • Titanic (1997 film)Titanic, the 1997 film written and directed by James Cameron, began not on a Hollywood lot but at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Annie HallAnnie Hall arrives on screen in 1977 with Woody Allen staring directly into the camera, ignoring every convention of moviegoing in the process.
  • The GodfatherThe Godfather opened in five New York theaters on the 15th of March 1972, the morning after its premiere at the Loew's State Theatre, and ticket prices had…
  • Everything Everywhere All at OnceEverything Everywhere All at Once was originally written for a man. The script's first version had a male lead, conceived specifically with Jackie Chan in…
  • Ordinary PeopleOrdinary People arrived in theaters on the 19th of September 1980, and it carried a deceptively plain title for a film that would collect four Academy Awards…