http://movies.amctv.com/movie-guide/best-picture-winners.php Every single one of these movies won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Which is your favorite? (For additional info on these best picture winners, check out Filmsite.org.) en Copyright 2012 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:01:20 -0500 http://services.rainbow-media.com http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification movie-name 131221 (1994, Robert Zemeckis): The upheavals of the American sixties and seventies are seen through the eyes of a childlike young man. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/131221/Forrest-Gump/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/131221/Forrest-Gump/overview 20110810194135 20278 (1939, Victor Fleming): Love, money, ambition, and family conflict made this Civil War spectacle an enduring critical and popular favorite. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20278/Gone-With-the-Wind/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20278/Gone-With-the-Wind/overview 20110810212242 8482 (1943, Michael Curtiz): Love, heroism, and betrayal unfold against the backdrop of a Moroccan nightclub during WWII. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/8482/Casablanca/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/8482/Casablanca/overview 20110810212124 20076 (1972, Francis Ford Coppola): A Mafia family struggles to reconcile old-country traditions and the realities of doing business in America. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20076/Godfather/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20076/Godfather/overview 20110810211150 119912 (1993, Steven Spielberg): An apparently ordinary German businessman saves 1,000-plus Polish-Jewish refugees during WWII. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/119912/Schindlers-List/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/119912/Schindlers-List/overview 20110810194147 44663 (1991, Jonathan Demme): Damaged FBI agent trainee Clarice Starling takes on one sociopathic serial killer with the help of a deranged, cannibalistic psychiatrist. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/44663/Silence-of-the-Lambs/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/44663/Silence-of-the-Lambs/overview 20110810194222 36363 (1975, Milos Forman): The struggle between submission to authority and rebellion plays out in a mental hospital. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/36363/One-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoos-Nest/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/36363/One-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoos-Nest/overview 20110810211139 4794 (1959, William Wyler): A chance encounter with Jesus of Nazareth changes the life of a Jewish prince in this lavish epic. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/4794/Ben-Hur/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/4794/Ben-Hur/overview 20110810211548 7112 (1957, David Lean): American and British POWs find ways to survive harsh internment in a Japanese camp. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/7112/Bridge-on-the-River-Kwai/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/7112/Bridge-on-the-River-Kwai/overview 20110810211616 51847 (1992, Clint Eastwood): Retired gunslinger Bill Munny picks up his gun for a good cause but soon remembers why he put it down. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/51847/Unforgiven/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/51847/Unforgiven/overview 20110810194206 28608 (1962, David Lean): A spectacular adventure about a British officer who found his place among Bedouin tribesmen in WWI Arabia. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/28608/Lawrence-of-Arabia/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/28608/Lawrence-of-Arabia/overview 20110810211512 38327 (1986, Oliver Stone): America's Vietnam experience is dramatized via the relationship between a private and two hardened officers. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/38327/Platoon/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/38327/Platoon/overview 20110810210854 184587 (2000, Ridley Scott): A slave in ancient Rome finds dignity and a reason to live in gladiatorial combat. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/184587/Gladiator/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/184587/Gladiator/overview 20110810194003 18617 (1971, William Friedkin): The fact-based story of two determined New York detectives who pursue a major drug-smuggling operation. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/18617/French-Connection/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/18617/French-Connection/overview 20110810211242 134724 (1995, Mel Gibson): Thirteenth-century Scot Sir William Wallace takes up the sword to defend his people against the English. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/134724/Braveheart/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/134724/Braveheart/overview 20110810194123 278981 (2003, Peter Jackson): The spectacular conclusion to J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy trilogy. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/278981/Lord-of-the-Rings-The-Return-of-the-King/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/278981/Lord-of-the-Rings-The-Return-of-the-King/overview 20110810193903 20078 (1974, Francis Ford Coppola): The Corleone family's past is explored while its activities expand into Vegas in the late 1950s. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20078/Godfather-Part-II/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20078/Godfather-Part-II/overview 20110810211215 348834 (2007, Joel and Ethan Coen): A disillusioned, retiring sheriff tracks a sociopathic killer through modern West Texas. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/348834/No-Country-for-Old-Men/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/348834/No-Country-for-Old-Men/overview 20110810193410 13060 (1978, Michael Cimino): Three young men from small-town Pennsylvania are forever changed by their experience in Vietnam. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/13060/Deer-Hunter/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/13060/Deer-Hunter/overview 20110810211048 41846 (1976, John G. Avildsen): An unsuccessful boxer pins his hopes on a high-profile match against a champ. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/41846/Rocky/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/41846/Rocky/overview 20110810211119 310756 (2006, Martin Scorsese): A cop and a criminal go undercover and infiltrate each other's world, in this crime thriller. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/310756/Departed/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/310756/Departed/overview 20110810193734 32558 (1969, John Schlesinger): A portrait of a naive hustler and a bottom-feeding con man living on New York's fringes. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/32558/Midnight-Cowboy/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/32558/Midnight-Cowboy/overview 20110810211333 2667 (1960, Billy Wilder): A comedy about an insurance clerk who advances by letting his scummy bosses meet with their mistresses at his apartment. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/2667/Apartment/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/2667/Apartment/overview 20110810211537 37460 (1970, Franklin J. Schaffner): A rousing biopic of the WWII general, a brilliant tactician sidelined by his outspokenness. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/37460/Patton/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/37460/Patton/overview 20110810211254 40134 (1988, Barry Levinson): A shallow ne'er-do-well is changed for the better by meeting his autistic-savant brother. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/40134/Rain-Man/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/40134/Rain-Man/overview 20110810194319 46920 (1973, George Roy Hill): Two charming grifters decide to work an elaborate con in thirties Chicago. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/46920/Sting/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/46920/Sting/overview 20110810211201 14828 (1989, Bruce Beresford): The long-running relationship between an elderly white woman and her black chauffeur illuminates American race relations. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/14828/Driving-Miss-Daisy/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/14828/Driving-Miss-Daisy/overview 20110810194309 36311 (1954, Elia Kazan): Hardworking New York longshoremen try to make a living while thugs, mobsters, and corrupt businessmen prosper. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/36311/On-the-Waterfront/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/36311/On-the-Waterfront/overview 20110810211713 45745 (1965, Robert Wise): The singing Von Trapp family and their governess, an aspiring nun, escape Nazi-occupied Austria. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/45745/Sound-of-Music/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/45745/Sound-of-Music/overview 20110810211433 49104 (1983, James L. Brooks): A mismatched mother and daughter live, love, and fight like wildcats until fate forces a reconciliation. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/49104/Terms-of-Endearment/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/49104/Terms-of-Endearment/overview 20110810210942 1764 (1984, Milos Forman): The story of Mozart and his forgotten contemporary Salieri poses questions of fate and fairness. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/1764/Amadeus/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/1764/Amadeus/overview 20110810210921 158894 (1997, James Cameron): A rich girl and poor boy defy convention and fall in love during the 1912 maiden voyage of the ill-fated ship. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/158894/Titanic/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/158894/Titanic/overview 20110810195851 12092 (1990, Kevin Costner): A nineteenth-century soldier learns to respect and then love the Lakota way of life. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/12092/Dances-With-Wolves/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/12092/Dances-With-Wolves/overview 20110810194255 180738 (1999, Sam Mendes): An ordinary American family is torn apart by internal stress and personal demons. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/180738/American-Beauty/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/180738/American-Beauty/overview 20110810194014 36600 (1980, Robert Redford): A son's suicide reveals the unhappiness beneath the surface of an apparently perfect family. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/36600/Ordinary-People/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/36600/Ordinary-People/overview 20110810211015 18738 (1953, Fred Zinnemann): A gritty drama about American servicemen in Hawaii in the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/18738/From-Here-to-Eternity/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/18738/From-Here-to-Eternity/overview 20110810211727 538544 (2011; Michel Hazanavicius) This daring, dialogue-free comedy-drama stars Jean Dujardin as a matinee idol before the dawn of talkies. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/538544/Artist/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/538544/Artist/overview 20120227044446 53850 (1961, Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise): Romeo and Juliet as a musical about warring white and Puerto Rican gangs in New York City. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/53850/West-Side-Story/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/53850/West-Side-Story/overview 20110810211525 19191 (1982, Richard Attenborough): This biopic focuses on the revered political activist's efforts to end Britain's colonial occupation of India. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/19191/Gandhi/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/19191/Gandhi/overview 20110810210953 24638 (1967, Norman Jewison): An African-American cop from Philadelphia and a Mississippi police chief join forces to solve a murder. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/24638/In-the-Heat-of-the-Night/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/24638/In-the-Heat-of-the-Night/overview 20110810211404 305809 (2004, Clint Eastwood): A cranky, aging boxing trainer agrees to work with an underdog female boxer in this macho tearjerker. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/305809/Million-Dollar-Baby/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/305809/Million-Dollar-Baby/overview 20110810193840 256005 (2001, Ron Howard): Mental illness plunges a once-brilliant mathematician into devastating paranoia and schizophrenia. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/256005/Beautiful-Mind/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/256005/Beautiful-Mind/overview 20110810193945 513559 (2010, Tom Hooper): A speech therapist helps insecure monarch King George VI control his stuttering. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/513559/Kings-Speech/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/513559/Kings-Speech/overview 20110810193329 25509 (1934, Frank Capra): A runaway heiress and a macho reporter fall in love on the road in this pioneering screwball comedy. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/25509/It-Happened-One-Night/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/25509/It-Happened-One-Night/overview 20110810212418 408490 (2008, Kathryn Bigelow): US Army ordnance disposal teams disarm IEDs placed by Iraqi guerilla fighters. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/408490/Hurt-Locker/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/408490/Hurt-Locker/overview 20110810193340 1546 (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz): An innocent-seeming would-be actress coldly uses an aging star to further her own ambitions. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/1546/All-About-Eve/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/1546/All-About-Eve/overview 20110810211822 40592 (1940, Alfred Hitchcock): A meek, high-strung second wife feels she can't live up to her predecessor in this psychological thriller. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/40592/Rebecca/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/40592/Rebecca/overview 20110810212228 1579 (1930, Lewis Milestone): The horrors of WWI, told from the perspective of a young German conscript. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/1579/All-Quiet-on-the-Western-Front/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/1579/All-Quiet-on-the-Western-Front/overview 20110810212529 4943 (1946, William Wyler): Three servicemen try to rebuild their broken lives at home after seeing combat in WWII. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/4943/Best-Years-of-Our-Lives/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/4943/Best-Years-of-Our-Lives/overview 20110810212041 33980 (1935, Frank Lloyd): Abused sailors rebel against sadistic Captain Bligh in a movie based on a real-life incident. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/33980/Mutiny-on-the-Bounty/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/33980/Mutiny-on-the-Bounty/overview 20110810212402 2547 (1977, Woody Allen): A neurotic New York Jew and a ditzy suburban WASP try to make their relationship work. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/2547/Annie-Hall/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/2547/Annie-Hall/overview 20110810211105 34019 (1964, George Cukor): George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion reinvented as a musical about a flower girl taught to pass as a cultured duchess. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/34019/My-Fair-Lady/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/34019/My-Fair-Lady/overview 20110810211444 27688 (1979, Robert Benton): A divorced dad resents playing Mr. Mom, then fights for his son when his ex-wife demands custody. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/27688/Kramer-vs-Kramer/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/27688/Kramer-vs-Kramer/overview 20110810211037 415379 (2008, Danny Boyle): Game-show success fuels one man's escape from poverty in this Bollywood-tinged romantic drama. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/415379/Slumdog-Millionaire/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/415379/Slumdog-Millionaire/overview 20110810193356 36787 (1985, Sydney Pollack): Isak Dinesen's autobiographical writings inspired this story of romance in colonial Africa. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/36787/Out-of-Africa/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/36787/Out-of-Africa/overview 20110810210910 301205 (2005, Paul Haggis): The lives of LA's rich and poor, smug and desperate, law abiding and criminal both intersect and collide. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/301205/Crash/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/301205/Crash/overview 20110810193759 28316 (1987, Bernardo Bertolucci): This lavish spectacle views the birth of twentieth-century China through the unique life of emperor Pu Yi. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/28316/Last-Emperor/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/28316/Last-Emperor/overview 20110810210844 8929 (1981, Hugh Hudson): The fates of two Olympic runners, one Christian and one Jewish, reflect the prejudices of twenties England. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/8929/Chariots-of-Fire/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/8929/Chariots-of-Fire/overview 20110810211003 23422 (1941, John Ford): A poor turn-of-the-century Welsh mining family sees its own disintegration and way of life passing. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/23422/How-Green-Was-My-Valley/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/23422/How-Green-Was-My-Valley/overview 20110810212204 21342 (1948, Laurence Olivier): Olivier directed himself in this adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/21342/Hamlet/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/21342/Hamlet/overview 20110810211903 30170 (1945, Billy Wilder): In an era of funny-drunk movies, a hard-drinking writer discovers that alcoholism is no joke. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/30170/Lost-Weekend/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/30170/Lost-Weekend/overview 20110810212055 1609 (1949, Robert Rossen): A corrupt politician parlays folksy talk and fake populism to rise through the ranks. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/1609/All-the-Kings-Men/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/1609/All-the-Kings-Men/overview 20110810211846 31612 (1955, Delbert Mann): A lonely, middle-aged butcher finds love in this adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's 1953 made-for-TV drama. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/31612/Marty/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/31612/Marty/overview 20110810211701 2884 (1956, Michael Anderson): The story of a Brit circumnavigating the globe in a balloon featured blockbuster effects, dozens of cameos and exotic locations. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/2884/Around-the-World-in-80-Days/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/2884/Around-the-World-in-80-Days/overview 20110810211640 31130 (1966, Fred Zinnemann): A sixteenth-century chancellor pays dearly for defying King Henry VIII rather than betraying his religious principles. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/31130/Man-for-All-Seasons/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/31130/Man-for-All-Seasons/overview 20110810211415 55902 (1938, Frank Capra): This timeless comedy revolves around a dinner for the in-laws of a liberal girl who falls for a conservative guy. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/55902/You-Cant-Take-It-with-You/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/55902/You-Cant-Take-It-with-You/overview 20110810212303 36175 (1968, Carol Reed): Charles Dickens's story of a plucky orphan scrambling to survive the mean streets of nineteenth-century London. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/36175/Oliver/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/36175/Oliver/overview 20110810211350 19402 (1947, Elia Kazan): A journalist poses as a Jew and discovers that anti-Semitism is alive and well in post-WWII America. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/19402/Gentlemans-Agreement/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/19402/Gentlemans-Agreement/overview 20110810211952 136728 (1996, Anthony Minghella): The complexities of WWII are explored through the flashbacked adventures and romance of a horribly burned flyer. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/136728/English-Patient/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/136728/English-Patient/overview 20110810200028 272628 (2002, Rob Marshall): Bob Fosse's cold, glittering, cynical musical about murder and showbiz. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/272628/Chicago/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/272628/Chicago/overview 20110810193918 54791 (1927, William A. Wellman): Jazz baby Clara Bow plus spectacular aerial scenes of WWI fighter planes made this silent war film a hit. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/54791/Wings/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/54791/Wings/overview 20110810212617 2070 (1951, Vincente Minnelli): Showstopping dance numbers distinguish this musical about a WWII veteran trying to make it as an artist in Paris. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/2070/American-in-Paris/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/2070/American-in-Paris/overview 20110810211807 20838 (1952, Cecil B. DeMille): This behind-the-scenes circus drama mixed movie stars and Ringling Brothers headliners. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20838/Greatest-Show-on-Earth/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20838/Greatest-Show-on-Earth/overview 20110810211747 20463 (1932, Edmund Goulding): A cross section of guests, from a world-famous ballerina to a dying accountant, check into a Berlin hotel. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20463/Grand-Hotel/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20463/Grand-Hotel/overview 20110810212451 19761 (1958, Vincente Minnelli): The last of the great MGM musicals, based on a Colette story about life and love in turn-of-the-century Paris. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/19761/Gigi/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/19761/Gigi/overview 20110810211600 20120 (1944, Leo McCarey): A comedy-drama in which an idealistic young priest takes over an old-fashioned parish. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20120/Going-My-Way/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20120/Going-My-Way/overview 20110810212110 9640 (1931, Wesley Ruggles): The land rush into Oklahoma Territory and the saga of an American family, based on a best-selling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edna Ferber. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/9640/Cimarron/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/9640/Cimarron/overview 20110810212508 33719 (1942, William Wyler): A small-town British housewife fights the war at home with common sense and quiet determination. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/33719/Mrs-Miniver/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/33719/Mrs-Miniver/overview 20110810212149 174142 (1998, John Madden): Romance and heartbreak inspires young Will Shakespeare's new play: Romeo and Juliet. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/174142/Shakespeare-in-Love/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/174142/Shakespeare-in-Love/overview 20110810194030 20813 (1936, Robert Z. Leonard): Showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s fictionalized life is an excuse to showcase Follies featuring catchy tunes, famous comedians, and leggy girls. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20813/Great-Ziegfeld/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20813/Great-Ziegfeld/overview 20110810212343 50295 (1963, Tony Richardson): The comic and amorous adventures of an eighteenth-century foundling, told with swinging sixties style. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/50295/Tom-Jones/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/50295/Tom-Jones/overview 20110810211459 29244 (1937, William Dieterle): The French writer's fight for Capt. Dreyfus, a victim of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism, is the focus of this biopic. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/29244/Life-of-Emile-Zola/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/29244/Life-of-Emile-Zola/overview 20110810212320 7192 (1929, Harry Beaumont): Hollywood's first all-talking musical was a backstage story featuring a Technicolor sequence. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/7192/Broadway-Melody/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/7192/Broadway-Melody/overview 20110810212601 8678 (1933, Frank Lloyd): Based on Noel Coward's play, this drama juxtaposes the trivial problems of London's rich and havoc of the early 20th century http://movies.amctv.com/movie/8678/Cavalcade/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/8678/Cavalcade/overview 20110810212432