A video of every best picture winner at the Academy Awards, from 1927 (1st) to 2007 (80th). The winners are... 1927/1928 - Wings (William A. Wellman) 1927/1928 - Sunrise (F. W. Murnau) 1928/1929 - The Broadway Melody (Harry Beaumont) 1929/1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone) 1930/1931 - Cimarron (Wesley Ruggles) 1931/1932 - Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding) 1932/1933 - Cavalcade (Frank Lloyd) 1934 - It Happened One Night (Frank Capra) 1935 - Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd) 1936 - The Great Ziegfeld (Robert Z. Leonard) 1937 - The Life of Emile Zola (William Dieterle) 1938 - You Can't Take It With You (Frank Capra) 1939 - Gone With The Wind (Victor Fleming) 1940 - Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock) 1941 - How Green Was My Valley (John Ford) 1942 - Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler) 1943 - Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) 1944 - Going My Way (Leo McCarey) 1945 - The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder) 1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler) 1947 - A Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan) 1948 - Hamlet (Laurence Olivier) 1949 - All The King's Men (Robert Rossen) 1950 - All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankewiecz) 1951 - An American in Paris (Vincent Minnelli) 1952 - The Greatest Show on Earth (Cecille B. DeMille) 1953 - From Here to Eternity (Fred Zimmerman) 1954 - On The Waterfront (Elia Kazan) 1955 - Marty (Delbert Mann) 1956 - The King and I (Walter Lang) 1957 - Bridge Over The River Kwai (David Lean) 1958 - Gigi (Vincent Minelli) 1959 - Ben Hur (William Wyler) 1960 - The Apartment (Billy Wilder) 1961 - West Side Story (Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise) 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean) 1963 - Tom Jones (Tony Richardson) 1964 - My Fair Lady (George Cukor) 1965 - The Sound of Music (Robert Wise) 1966 - A Man For All Season (Fred Zimmerman) 1967 - In The Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison) 1968 - Oliver (Sir Carol Reed) 1969 - Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger) 1970 - Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner) 1971 - The French Connection (William Friedkin) 1972 - The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) 1973 - The Sting (George Roy Hill) 1974 - The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola) 1975 - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman) 1976 - Rocky (John G. Avildsen) 1977 - Annie Hall (Woody Allen) 1978 - The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino) 1979 - Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton) 1980 - Ordinary People (Robert Redford) 1981 - Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson) 1982 - Gandhi (Sir Richard Attenborough) 1983 - Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks) 1984 - Amadeus (Milos Forman) 1985 - Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack) 1986 - Platoon (Oliver Stone) 1987 - The Last Emperor (Bernado Bertolucci) 1988 - Rain Man (Barry Levinsen) 1989 - Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford) 1990 - Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner) 1991 - Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) 1992 - Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood) 1993 - Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg) 1994 - Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis) 1995 - Braveheart (Mel Gibson) 1996 - The English Patient (Anthony Minghalla) 1997 - Titanic (James Cameron) 1998 - Shakespeare in Love (John Madden) 1999 - American Beauty (Sam Mendes) 2000 - Gladiator (Ridley Scott) 2001 - A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard) 2002 - Chicago (Rob Marshall) 2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) 2004 - Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood) 2005 - Crash (Paul Haggis) 2006 - The Departed (Martin Scorsese) 2007 - No Country For Old Men (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) MUSIC: "Just Like You Imagined" by Nine Inch Nails and "Icky Thump" by the White Stripes.
YouTube | March 12, 2008