Every Academy Award for Best Picture Winner in History

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the most prestigious honors in entertainment. This page lists every winner in history, from 1929 to 2026, organized by decade, with links to our full guides where available.

1920s

• 1929 Wings

1930s

• 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front
• 1930 The Broadway Melody
• 1931 Cimarron
• 1932 Grand Hotel
• 1934 Cavalcade
• 1935 It Happened One Night
• 1936 Mutiny on the Bounty
• 1937 The Great Ziegfeld
• 1938 The Life of Emile Zola
• 1939 You Can't Take It With You

1940s

• 1940 Gone with the Wind
• 1941 Rebecca
• 1942 How Green Was My Valley
• 1943 Mrs. Miniver
• 1944 Casablanca
• 1945 Going My Way
• 1946 The Lost Weekend
• 1947 The Best Years of Our Lives
• 1948 Gentleman's Agreement
• 1949 Hamlet

1950s

• 1950 All the King's Men
• 1951 All About Eve
• 1952 Arthur Freed
• 1952 An American in Paris
• 1953 The Greatest Show on Earth
• 1953 Cecil B. DeMille
• 1954 Buddy Adler
• 1954 From Here to Eternity
• 1955 Sam Spiegel
• 1955 On the Waterfront
• 1956 Harold Hecht
• 1956 Marty
• 1957 Around the World in 80 Days
• 1957 Mike Todd
• 1958 Sam Spiegel
• 1958 The Bridge on the River Kwai
• 1959 Gigi
• 1959 Arthur Freed

1960s

• 1960 Sam Zimbalist
• 1960 Ben-Hur
• 1961 The Apartment
• 1961 Billy Wilder
• 1962 West Side Story
• 1962 Robert Wise
• 1963 Sam Spiegel
• 1963 Lawrence of Arabia
• 1964 Tom Jones
• 1964 Tony Richardson
• 1965 Jack Warner
• 1965 My Fair Lady
• 1966 Robert Wise
• 1966 The Sound of Music
• 1967 A Man for All Seasons
• 1968 In the Heat of the Night
• 1968 Walter Mirisch
• 1969 Oliver!
• 1969 John Woolf

1970s

• 1970 Midnight Cowboy
• 1970 Jerome Hellman
• 1971 Frank McCarthy
• 1971 Patton
• 1972 Philip D'Antoni
• 1972 The French Connection
• 1973 Albert S. Ruddy
• 1973 The Godfather
• 1974 Julia Phillips
• 1974 Michael Phillips
• 1974 Tony Bill
• 1974 The Sting
• 1975 Fred Roos
• 1975 Gray Frederickson
• 1975 Francis Ford Coppola
• 1975 The Godfather Part II
• 1976 Saul Zaentz
• 1976 Michael Douglas
• 1976 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• 1977 Robert Chartoff
• 1977 Irwin Winkler
• 1977 Rocky
• 1978 Charles H. Joffe
• 1978 Annie Hall
• 1979 Barry Spikings
• 1979 Michael Cimino
• 1979 Michael Deeley
• 1979 John Peverall
• 1979 The Deer Hunter

1980s

• 1980 Stanley R. Jaffe
• 1980 Kramer vs. Kramer
• 1981 Ordinary People
• 1981 Ronald L. Schwary
• 1982 David Puttnam
• 1982 Chariots of Fire
• 1983 Richard Attenborough
• 1983 Gandhi
• 1984 James L. Brooks
• 1984 Terms of Endearment
• 1985 Saul Zaentz
• 1985 Amadeus
• 1986 Sydney Pollack
• 1986 Out of Africa
• 1987 Arnold Kopelson
• 1987 Platoon
• 1988 Jeremy Thomas
• 1988 The Last Emperor
• 1989 Mark Johnson
• 1989 Rain Man

1990s

• 1990 Richard D. Zanuck
• 1990 Lili Fini Zanuck
• 1990 Driving Miss Daisy
• 1991 Jim Wilson
• 1991 Kevin Costner
• 1991 Dances with Wolves
• 1992 Kenneth Utt
• 1992 Ron Bozman
• 1992 Edward Saxon
• 1992 The Silence of the Lambs
• 1993 Clint Eastwood
• 1993 Unforgiven
• 1994 Schindler's List
• 1994 Branko Lustig
• 1994 Steven Spielberg
• 1994 Gerald R. Molen
• 1995 Wendy Finerman
• 1995 Steve Tisch
• 1995 Steve Starkey
• 1996 Alan Ladd Jr.
• 1996 Bruce Davey
• 1996 Mel Gibson
• 1996 Braveheart
• 1997 The English Patient
• 1997 Saul Zaentz
• 1998 James Cameron
• 1998 Titanic
• 1998 Jon Landau
• 1999 David Parfitt
• 1999 Edward Zwick
• 1999 Donna Gigliotti
• 1999 Harvey Weinstein
• 1999 Marc Norman
• 1999 Shakespeare in Love

2000s

• 2000 American Beauty
• 2000 Bruce Cohen
• 2000 Dan Jinks
• 2001 Branko Lustig
• 2001 David Franzoni
• 2001 Douglas Wick
• 2001 Gladiator
• 2002 Brian Grazer
• 2002 Ron Howard
• 2002 A Beautiful Mind
• 2003 Martin Richards
• 2003 Chicago
• 2004 Peter Jackson
• 2004 Barrie M. Osborne
• 2004 Fran Walsh
• 2004 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• 2005 Albert S. Ruddy
• 2005 Clint Eastwood
• 2005 Tom Rosenberg
• 2005 Million Dollar Baby
• 2006 Paul Haggis
• 2006 Cathy Schulman
• 2006 Crash
• 2007 Graham King
• 2007 The Departed
• 2008 Scott Rudin
• 2008 Joel Coen
• 2008 Ethan Coen
• 2008 No Country for Old Men
• 2009 Slumdog Millionaire
• 2009 Christian Colson

2010s

• 2010 Kathryn Bigelow
• 2010 Mark Boal
• 2010 Nicolas Chartier
• 2010 Greg Shapiro
• 2010 The Hurt Locker
• 2011 Iain Canning
• 2011 Gareth Unwin
• 2011 Emile Sherman
• 2011 The King's Speech
• 2012 Thomas Langmann
• 2012 The Artist
• 2013 Ben Affleck
• 2013 Argo
• 2013 Grant Heslov
• 2013 George Clooney
• 2014 12 Years a Slave
• 2014 Brad Pitt
• 2014 Dede Gardner
• 2014 Steve McQueen
• 2014 Jeremy Kleiner
• 2014 Anthony Katagas
• 2015 Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 2015 Birdman
• 2015 John Lesher
• 2015 James W. Skotchdopole
• 2016 Steve Golin
• 2016 Spotlight
• 2016 Michael Sugar
• 2016 Blye Pagon Faust
• 2016 Nicole Rocklin
• 2017 Adele Romanski
• 2017 Dede Gardner
• 2017 Jeremy Kleiner
• 2017 Moonlight
• 2018 The Shape of Water
• 2018 Guillermo del Toro
• 2019 Nick Vallelonga
• 2019 Green Book
• 2019 Charles B. Wessler
• 2019 Brian Currie
• 2019 Peter Farrelly
• 2019 Jim Burke

2020s

• 2020 Parasite
• 2020 Kwak Sin-ae
• 2020 Bong Joon-ho
• 2021 Nomadland
• 2021 Peter Spears
• 2021 Mollye Asher
• 2021 Dan Janvey
• 2021 Frances McDormand
• 2021 Chloé Zhao
• 2022 Daniels
• 2022 Patrick Wachsberger
• 2022 CODA
• 2022 Fabrice Gianfermi
• 2023 Dan Kwan
• 2023 Daniel Scheinert
• 2023 Everything Everywhere All at Once
• 2023 Jonathan Wang
• 2024 Christopher Nolan
• 2024 Charles Roven
• 2024 Oppenheimer
• 2024 Emma Thomas
• 2025 Sean Baker
• 2025 Anora
• 2026 One Battle After Another

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