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| All Quiet on the Western Front, the Academy and I agreed on this one |
Below you will find each year's Oscar winner for best picture followed by my favorite of that year's nominees and my favorite film for that year. You will note that in a few cases for best nominee I put N/A (not applicable) because in my estimation, there wasn't anything nominated worthy of the prize. In only eight years did the Oscar winner match what I thought was the best movie (All Quiet on the Western From '30, Casablanca '42, On the Waterfront '54, The Godfather '72, Annie Hall '77, No Country for Old Men '07 and Birdman '14). On sixteen occasions the best picture was, in my opinion, the best of the nominees. Sixty-five times my favorite film of the year did not receive a nomination (although many were foreign language films and some of those were nominated in that category.). Please excuse my failure to link the films to IMDb as I normally do, but with over two hundred titles, it's simply too time-consuming a task.
1928 Wings/Wings/Sunrise
1929 Broadway Melody/NA/Diary of a Lost Girl
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front/All Quiet on the Western Front/All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 Cimarron/ The Front Page/City Lights
1932 Grand Hotel/Shanghai Express/Red Dust
1933 Cavalcade/42nd Street/Duck Soup
1934 It Happened One Night/The Thin Man/The Thin Man
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty/Ruggles of Red Gap/The Thirty-Nine Steps
1936 The Great Ziegfeld/Libeled Lady/My Man Godfrey
1937 The Life of Emile Zola/The Awful Truth/The Awful Truth
1938 You Can’t Take it With You/Grand Illusion/Holiday
1939 Gone With the Wind/Mr. Smith Goes to Washington/Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1940 Rebecca/ The Grapes of Wrath/His Girl Friday
1941 How Green Was My Valley/Citizen Kane/Sullivan’s Travels
1942 Mrs. Miniver/The Talk of the Town/The Talk of the Town
1943 Casablanca/Casablanca/Casablanca
1944 Going My Way/Double Indemnity/Double Indemnity
1945 The Lost Weekend/The Lost Weekend/Rome: Open City
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives/It’s a Wonderful Life/It’s a Wonderful Life
1947 Gentleman’s Agreement/Great Expectations/Odd Man Out
1948 Hamlet/Treasure of the Sierra Madre/Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949 All the King’s Men/Battleground/The Third Man
1950 All About Eve/Sunset Blvd./Sunset Blvd.
1951 An American in Paris/A Streetcar Named Desire/A Streetcar Named Desire
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth/High Noon/Umberto D
1952 From Here to Eternity/Julius Caesar/Ikiru
1954 On the Waterfront/On the Waterfront/On the Waterfront
1955 Marty/Mister Roberts/Rebel Without a Cause
1956 Around the World in 80 Days/NA/The Searchers
1957 Bridge on the River Kwai/Bridge on the River Kwai/The Seventh Seal
1958 Gigi/The Defiant One/Elevator to the Gallows
1959 Ben-Hur/NA/Some Like it Hot
1960 The Apartment/The Apartment/La Dolce Vita
1961 West Side Story/The Hustler/Through a Glass Darkly
1962 Lawrence of Arabia/To Kill a Mockingbird/L’Eclisse
1963 Tom Jones/NA/Winter Light
1964 My Fair Lady/Dr. Strangelove/Red Desert
1965 The Sound of Music/A Thousand Clowns/I Knew Her Well
1966 A Man for All Seasons/The Sand Pebbles/Persona
1967 In the Heat of the Night/Bonnie and Clyde/Bonnie and Clyde
1968 Oliver/The Lion in Winter/2001: A Space Odyssey
1969 Midnight Cowboy/Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid/The Wild Bunch
1970 Patton/M*A*S*H*/Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1971 The French Connection/A Clockwork Orange/A Clockwork Orange
1972 The Godfather/The Godfather/The Godfather
1973 The Sting/The Exorcist/Amacord
1974 Godfather Part 2/ Chinatown/Chinatown
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest/Barry Lyndon/Barry Lyndon
1976 Rocky/Taxi Driver/Taxi Driver
1977 Annie Hall/Annie Hall/Annie Hall
1978 Deer Hunter/Deer Hunter/Animal House
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer/Apocalypse Now/Manhattan
1980 Ordinary People/Raging Bull/Heaven’s Gate
1981 Chariots of Fire/Reds/Reds
1982 Gandhi/The Verdict/Fanny and Alexander
1983 Terms of Endearment/The Right Stuff/Local Hero
1984 Amadeus/Places in the Heart/Broadway Danny Rose
1985 Out of Africa/Witness/Come and See
1986 Platoon/Platoon/Down by Law
1987 The Last Emperor/NA/Au Revoir Les Enfants
1988 Rain Man/Dangerous Liaisons/Bull Durham
1989 Driving Miss Daisy/My Left Foot/Crimes & Misdemeanors
1990 Dances With Wolves/Goodfellas/Goodfellas
1991 The Silence of the Lambs/JFK/Europa
1992 Unforgiven/The Crying Game/La Vie de boheme
1993 Schindler’s List/Schindler’s List/Groundhog Day
1994 Forrest Gump/Pulp Fiction/Pulp Fiction
1995 Braveheart/Il Postino/Dead Man
1996 The English Patient/Fargo/Drifting Clouds
1997 Titanic/Good Will Hunting/Ice Storm
1998 Shakespeare in Love/Saving Private Ryan/The Big Lebowski
1999 American Beauty/American Beauty/The Virgin Suicides
2000 Gladiator/Traffic/In the Mood For Love
2001 A Beautiful Mind/Gosford Park/Y Tu Mama Tambien
2002 Chicago/Gangs of New York/Hable Con Ella
2003 Lord of the Rings/Lost in Translation/The Man Without a Past
2004 Million Dollar Baby/The Aviator/Mean Girls
2005 Crash/Good Night and Good Luck/Match Point
2006 The Departed/The Departed/Half Nelson
2007 No Country For Old Men/No Country For Old Men/No Country For Old Men
2008 Slumdog Millionaire/Milk/Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2009 The Hurt Locker/Inglourious Basterds/Inglourious Basterds
2010 The King’s Speech/Winter’s Bone/Of Gods and Men
2011 The Artist/Midnight in Paris/Midnight in Paris
2012 Argo/Silver Linings Playbook/Silver Linings Playbook
2013 12 Years a Slave/Nebraska/Inside Llewyn Davis
2014 Birdman/Birdman/Birdman
2015 Spotlight/The Revenant/Carol
2016 Moonlight/Manchester by the Sea/Manchester by the Sea
2017 The Shape of Water/Call Me by Your Name/Personal Shopper
2018 Green Book/Roma/First Reformed
2019 Parasite/Once Upon a Time in Hollywood/Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2020 Nomadland/Promising Young Woman/Another Round
2021 CODA/Drive My Car/Drive My Car
2022 Everything Everywhere All At Once/Tar/Aftersun
2023 Oppenheimer/Oppenheimer/Fallen Leaves
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