Best Picture Reviews

All Winners Ranked 

2015- Spotlight 
2014- Birdman
2013- 12 Years A Slave     

2012- "Argo"

2011- "The Artist"

2010- "The King's Speech"

2009- "The Hurt Locker"

2008- "Slumdog Millionaire"

2007- "No Country for Old Men"

2006- "The Departed"

2005- "Crash"

2004- "Million Dollar Baby"

2003- "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"

2002- "Chicago"

2001- "A Beautiful Mind"

2000- "Gladiator"

1999- "American Beauty"

1998- "Shakespeare in Love"

1997- "Titanic"

1996- "The English Patient"

1995- "Braveheart"

1994- "Forrest Gump"

1993- "Schindler’s List"

1992- "Unforgiven"

1991- "The Silence of the Lambs"

1990- "Dances With Wolves"

1989- "Driving Miss Daisy"

1988- "Rain Man"

1987- "The Last Emperor"

1986- "Platoon"

1985- "Out of Africa"

1984- "Amadeus"

1983- "Terms of Endearment"

1982- "Gandhi"

1981- "Chariots of Fire"

1980- "Ordinary People"

1979- "Kramer vs. Kramer"

1978- "The Deer Hunter"

1977- "Annie Hall"

1976- "Rocky"

1975- "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"

1974- "The Godfather Part II"

1973- "The Sting"

1972- "The Godfather"

1971- "The French Connection"

1970- "Patton"

1969- "Midnight Cowboy"

1968- "Oliver!"

1967- "In the Heat of the Night"

1966- "A Man for All Seasons"

1965 - "The Sound of Music"

1964- "My Fair Lady"

1963- "Tom Jones"

1962- "Lawrence of Arabia"

1961- "West Side Story"

1960- "The Apartment"

1959- "Ben-Hur"

1958- "Gigi"

1957- "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

1956- "Around the World in 80 Days"

1955- "Marty"

1954- "On the Waterfront"

1953- "From Here to Eternity"

1952- "The Greatest Show on Earth"

1951- "An American in Paris"

1950- "All About Eve"

1949- "All the Kings Men"

1948- "Hamlet"

1947- "Gentleman's Agreement"

1946- "The Best Years of Our Lives"

1945- "The Lost Weekend"

1944- "Going My Way"

1943- "Casablanca"

1942- "Mrs. Miniver"

1941- "How Green Was My Valley"

1940- "Rebecca"

1939- "Gone with the Wind"

1938- "You Can't Take It with You"

1937- "The Life of Emile Zola"

1936- "The Great Ziegfeld"

1935- "Mutiny on the Bounty"

1934- "It Happened One Night"

1932/1933- "Cavalcade"

1931/1932- "Grand Hotel"

1930/1931- "Cimarron"

1929/1930- "All Quiet on the Western Front"

1928/1929- "The Broadway Melody"

1927/1928- "Wings"