Academy Award for Best Picture Gewinner bis 1997 (also von 1929 bis einschließlich 1997):

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Best Picture – 1929 bis 1997

1929–1930er (Anfänge des Kinos)

• 1929 – Wings
• 1930 – All Quiet on the Western Front
• 1934 – It Happened One Night
• 1939 – Gone with the Wind

1940er (Klassisches Hollywood)

• 1942 – Casablanca
• 1945 – The Lost Weekend
• 1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives

1950er (Epische Filme)

• 1951 – An American in Paris
• 1953 – From Here to Eternity
• 1959 – Ben-Hur

1960er (Neue Filmstile)

• 1961 – West Side Story
• 1962 – Lawrence of Arabia
• 1965 – The Sound of Music
• 1969 – Midnight Cowboy

1970er (New Hollywood)

• 1972 – The Godfather
• 1974 – The Godfather Part II
• 1975 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• 1976 – Rocky
• 1978 – The Deer Hunter

1980er

• 1981 – Chariots of Fire
• 1982 – Gandhi
• 1985 – Out of Africa
• 1986 – Platoon
• 1988 – Rain Man
• 1989 – Driving Miss Daisy

1990er (moderne Klassiker)

• 1990 – Dances with Wolves
• 1991 – The Silence of the Lambs
• 1992 – Unforgiven
• 1993 – Schindler's List
• 1994 – Forrest Gump
• 1995 – Braveheart
• 1996 – The English Patient
• 1997 – Titanic