| Academy Award Winners For Best Picture | |||
| Year | Winner | My Winner | Dad's Winner |
| 1927-28 | Wings | Metropolis | The General |
| 1927-28 | Sunrise | Sunrise | Sunrise |
| 1928-29 | Broadway Melody | Man With The Movie Camera | Man w/ the Movie Camera |
| 1929-30 | All Quiet On The Western Front | All Quiet On The Western Front | All Quiet on the Western front |
| 1930-31 | Cimarron | M | M |
| 1931-32 | Grand Hotel | I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang | I am a Fugitive from a Chain gang |
| 1932-33 | Cavalcade | Gabriel Over The White House | Gabriel Over the WH/King Kong |
| 1934 | It Happened One Night | It Happened One Night | It Happened One Night |
| 1935 | Mutiny On The Bounty | Mutiny On The Bounty | Bride of Frankenstein |
| 1936 | Great Ziegfeld | Modern Times | Fury/Modern Times/My Man Godfrey |
| 1937 | Life Of Emile Zola | A Day At The Races | The Awful Truth |
| 1938 | You Can't Take It With You | Adventures Of Robin Hood | Alexander Nevsky |
| 1939 | Gone With Wind | Mr. Smith Goes To Washington | The Rules of the Game/Wizard of Oz |
| 1940 | Rebecca | Grapes Of Wrath | Grapes of Wrath |
| 1941 | How Green Was My Valley | Citizen Kane | Citizen Kane |
| 1942 | Mrs. Miniver | This Gun For Hire | To Be or Not to Be |
| 1943 | Casablanca | Casablanca | Casablanca |
| 1944 | Going My Way | Double Indemnity | Miracle of Morgan's creek |
| 1945 | Lost Weekend | Lost Weekend | Detour |
| 1946 | Best Years Of Our Lives | It's A Wonderful Life | Best Years of Our lives/Big Sleep |
| 1947 | Gentleman's Agreement | Out Of The Past | Body and Soul |
| 1948 | Hamlet | Treasure Of The Sierra Madre | Fallen Idol/Fort Apache/Lady from Shanghai |
| 1949 | All King's Men | Thieves' Highway | Third Man/12 o'clock high/White Heat |
| 1950 | All About Eve | Rashomon | Sunset Blvd |
| 1951 | An American in Paris | Day The Earth Stood Still | Day The Earth Stood Still |
| 1952 | Greatest Show on Earth | Ikiru | Singin' in the Rain/Big Sky |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity | Shane | Shane |
| 1954 | On The Waterfront | Seven Samurai | Seven Samurai |
| 1955 | Marty | Night Of The Hunter | Rebel W/o a Cause |
| 1956 | Around The World In 80 Days | Killing | The Searchers/Killing |
| 1957 | Bridge Over The River Kwai | Paths Of Glory | Written on the Wind/Seventh seal |
| 1958 | Gigi | Vertigo | Sweet Smell of success/Vertigo |
| 1959 | Ben-Hur | Rio Bravo | Imitation of Life |
| 1960 | Apartment | Spartacus | Psycho/La Dolce Vita |
| 1961 | West Side Story | Yojimbo | Yojimbo |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | Sanjuro | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 1963 | Tom Jones | Great Escape | Great Escape |
| 1964 | My Fair Lady | Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb | Dr Strangelove |
| 1965 | Sound Of Music | Cincinnati Kid | Repulsion |
| 1966 | A Man For All Seasons | Good, The Bad, And The Ugly | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly/Battle of Algiers |
| 1967 | In The Heat Of Night | Graduate | Bonnie & Clyde/El Dorado |
| 1968 | Oliver! | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 2001 a space odyssey/Night of the living Dead |
| 1969 | Midnight Cowboy | Wild Bunch | Wild Bunch/Easy Rider |
| 1970 | Patton | Love Story | M*A*S*H* |
| 1971 | French Connection | Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory | A Clockwork Orange |
| 1972 | Godfather | Godfather | Godfather |
| 1973 | Sting | Papillion | Amarcord/Amerikan Grafitti |
| 1974 | Godfather Part 2 | Godfather Part 2 | Godfather Part 2 |
| 1975 | One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest | One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest | Jaws |
| 1976 | Rocky | Taxi Driver | Taxi Driver |
| 1977 | Annie Hall | Star Wars | Star Wars |
| 1978 | Deer Hunter | Dawn Of The Dead | Deer Hunter |
| 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Breaking Away | Apocalypse Now |
| 1980 | Ordinary People | Empire Strikes Back | Empire Strikes Back |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | Das Boot | Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Koyaanisqatsi | none |
| 1983 | Terms of Endearment | A Christmas Story | The Right Stuff |
| 1984 | Amadeus | Terminator | Paris, Texas/Once Upon a Time in Amerika |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Back To The Future | Back to the Future |
| 1986 | Platoon | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Blue Velvet |
| 1987 | Last Emperor | Planes, Trains, And Automobiles | The Untouchables |
| 1988 | Rain Man | Die Hard | Die Hard |
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | Do The Right Thing | Do The Right Thing |
| 1990 | Dances With Wolves | Goodfellas | Goodfellas |
| 1991 | Silence of Lambs | Silence of Lambs | Silence of the Lambs/Beauty and the Beast |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Unforgiven | Unforgiven |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Menace II Society | Short Cuts |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump | Pulp Fiction | Pulp Fiction |
| 1995 | Braveheart | Heat | Heat |
| 1996 | English Patient | Fargo | Fargo |
| 1997 | Titanic | Boogie Nights | Boogie Nights |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | Pi | Saving Private Ryan |
| 1999 | American Beauty | Magnolia | Magnolia |
| 2000 | Gladiator | Dark Days | Memento |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind | Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring | Black Hawk Down |
| 2002 | Chicago | Bowling For Columbine | City of God |
| 2003 | Lord of Rings: Return Of The King | Fog Of War | Elephant/Fog of War |
| 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | Miracle/Aviator | none |
| 2005 | Crash | Cache | Munich |
| 2006 | Departed | Little Miss Sunshine | Departed/Little Children |
| 2007 | No Country For Old Men | 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days | No Country for Old Men |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Slumdog Millionaire | Wrestler |
| 2009 | Hurt Locker | (500) Days Of Summer | Hurt Locker |
| 2010 | King's Speech | Inception | True Grit |
| agree: | 12 | 13 | |
| KEY: | |||
| Haven't Seen | |||
| Seen | |||
| for each year I'll choose what film I would have chosen as best picture (chosen from all films released that year, | |||
| not just those that were nominated). I'm not necessarily picking my favorite film, rather the one that I think should | |||
| be considered the year's best. As a result there is a slight tendency towards the epic, since that seems to be the academy's M.O. | |||