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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' See also: The best (and worst) Oscar moments of the past 21 years
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger.
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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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15 / 49 Fotos
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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24 / 49 Fotos
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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26 / 49 Fotos
1989
- Best Picture: 'Rain Man'
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise.
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27 / 49 Fotos
1988
- Best Picture: 'The Last Emperor'
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole.
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28 / 49 Fotos
1987
- Best Picture: 'Platoon'
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe.
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29 / 49 Fotos
1986
- Best Picture: 'Out of Africa'
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep.
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30 / 49 Fotos
1985
- Best Picture: 'Amadeus'
Director: Miloš Forman
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce.
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31 / 49 Fotos
1984
- Best Picture: 'Terms of Endearment'
Director: James L. Brooks
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger,
Jack Nicholson.
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32 / 49 Fotos
1983
- Best Picture: 'Gandhi'
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Ben Kingsley.
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33 / 49 Fotos
1982
- Best Picture: 'Chariots of Fire'
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson.
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34 / 49 Fotos
1981
- Best Picture: 'Ordinary People'
Director: Robert Redford
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore.
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35 / 49 Fotos
1980
- Best Picture: 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
Director: Robert Benton
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep.
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36 / 49 Fotos
1979
- Best Picture: 'The Deer Hunter'
Director: Michael Cimino
Cast: Robert De Niro, John Cazale.
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37 / 49 Fotos
1978
- Best Picture: 'Annie Hall'
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton.
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38 / 49 Fotos
1977
- Best Picture: 'Rocky'
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith.
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39 / 49 Fotos
1976
- Best Picture: 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'
Director: Miloš Forman
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher.
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40 / 49 Fotos
1975
- Best Picture: 'The Godfather Part II'
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro.
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41 / 49 Fotos
1974
- Best Picture: 'The Sting'
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford.
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42 / 49 Fotos
1973
- Best Picture: 'The Godfather'
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan.
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43 / 49 Fotos
1972
- Best Picture: 'The French Connection'
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey.
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44 / 49 Fotos
1971
- Best Picture: 'Patton'
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden.
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45 / 49 Fotos
1970
- Best Picture: 'Midnight Cowboy'
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight.
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46 / 49 Fotos
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' See also: The best (and worst) Oscar moments of the past 21 years
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger.
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Find out which movie won the Oscar for Best Picture the year you were born
These movies won the prestigious Oscar award
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Even though it's still a long way until the 97th Oscars in 2025, people have already started placing their bets on which movies will 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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