Find out which movie won the Oscar for Best Picture the year you were born -

Now that we know all the nominees for this year's Oscars, people have started placing their bets on which movies are going to win in the main categories.
We all remember the most recent Best Picture winners, but do you know which movie won that prestigious award the year you were born?

Find out here!

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2015 - Best Picture: 'Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)'

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Cast: Michael Keaton, Edward Norton,
Emma Stone, Naomi Watts.

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2014 - Best Picture: '12 Years a Slave'

Director: Steve McQueen

Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch.

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2013 - Best Picture: 'Argo'

Director: Ben Affleck

Cast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston.

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2012 - Best Picture: 'The Artist'

Director: Michel Hazanavicius

Cast: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo.

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2011 - Best Picture: 'The King's Speech'

Director: Tom Hooper

Cast: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter.

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2010 - Best Picture: 'The Hurt Locker'

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie.

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2009 - Best Picture: 'Slumdog Millionaire'

Director: Danny Boyle

Cast: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto.

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2008 - Best Picture: 'No Country for Old Men'

Directors: Ethan and Joel Coen

Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem.

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2007 - Best Picture: 'The Departed'

Director: Martin Scorsese

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon,
Jack Nicholson.

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2006 - Best Picture: 'Crash'

Director: Paul Haggis

Cast: Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle, Thandie Newton.

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2005 - Best Picture: 'Million Dollar Baby'

Director: Clint Eastwood

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank.

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2004 - Best Picture: 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen.

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2003 - Best Picture: 'Chicago'

Director: Rob Marshall

Cast: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere.

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2002 - Best Picture: 'A Beautiful Mind'

Director: Ron Howard

Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly.

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2001 - Best Picture: 'Gladiator'

Director: Ridley Scott

Cast: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix.

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2000 - Best Picture: 'American Beauty'

Director: Sam Mendes

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening.

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1999 - Best Picture: 'Shakespeare in Love'

Director: John Madden

Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes.

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1998 - Best Picture: 'Titanic'

Director: James Cameron

Cast: Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio.

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1997 - Best Picture: 'The English Patient'

Director: Anthony Minghella

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche.

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1996 - Best Picture: 'Braveheart'

Director: Mel Gibson

Cast: Mel Gibson, Angus Macfadyen.

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1995 - Best Picture: 'Forrest Gump'

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright.

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1994 - Best Picture: 'Schindler's List'

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley.

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1993 - Best Picture: 'Unforgiven'

Director: Clint Eastwood

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman,
Morgan Freeman.

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1992 - Best Picture: 'The Silence of the Lambs'

Director: Jonathan Demme

Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn.

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1991 -

Best Picture: 'Dances with Wolves'

Director: Kevin Costner

Cast: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell.

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1990 - Best Picture: 'Driving Miss Daisy'

Director: Bruce Beresford

Cast: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd.

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1989 - Best Picture: 'Rain Man'

Director: Barry Levinson

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise.

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1988 -

Best Picture: 'The Last Emperor'

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole.

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1987 - Best Picture: 'Platoon'

Director: Oliver Stone

Cast: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe.

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1986 - Best Picture: 'Out of Africa'

Director: Sydney Pollack

Cast: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep.

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1985 - Best Picture: 'Amadeus'

Director: Miloš Forman

Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce.

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1984 - Best Picture: 'Terms of Endearment'

Director: James L. Brooks

Cast:  Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger,
Jack Nicholson.

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1983 - Best Picture: 'Gandhi'

Director: Richard Attenborough

Cast: Ben Kingsley.

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1982 - Best Picture: 'Chariots of Fire'

Director: Hugh Hudson

Cast: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson.

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1981 - Best Picture: 'Ordinary People'

Director: Robert Redford

Cast: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore.

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1980 - Best Picture: 'Kramer vs. Kramer'

Director: Robert Benton

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep.

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1979 - Best Picture: 'The Deer Hunter'

Director: Michael Cimino

Cast: Robert De Niro, John Cazale.

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1978 - Best Picture: 'Annie Hall'

Director: Woody Allen

Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton.

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1977 - Best Picture: 'Rocky'

Director: John G. Avildsen

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith.

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1976 - Best Picture: 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

Director: Miloš Forman

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher.

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1975 - Best Picture: 'The Godfather Part II'

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro.

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1974 - Best Picture: 'The Sting'

Director: George Roy Hill

Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford.

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1973 -

Best Picture: 'The Godfather'

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan.

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1972 - Best Picture: 'The French Connection'

Director: William Friedkin

Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey.

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1971 - Best Picture: 'Patton'

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden.

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1970 - Best Picture: 'Midnight Cowboy'

Director: John Schlesinger

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight.

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1969 - Best Picture: 'Oliver!'

Director: Carol Reed

Cast: Oliver Reed, Ron Moody, Mark Lester.

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1968 -

Best picture: 'In the Heat of the Night'

Director: Norman Jewison

Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger.

See also: Sidney Poitier, a life in movies

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