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Complete list of every 'Best Picture' Oscar winner ever

The 2024 Academy Awards air on March 10.
/ Source: TODAY

The 2023 Oscars have come and gone — and made history.

“Everything Everywhere All At Once” took home the award, along with six other Oscars, in a tight race against powerhouse films including “The Fabelmans” and “The Banshees of Inisherin.” The film’s star, Michelle Yeoh, who played Evelyn Quan Wang, a Chinese-American immigrant who learns she has the ability to connect with parallel universes, became the first Asian woman to win best actress in a monumental moment.

The race for the 2024 best picture is just as competitive. Nominees include 10 acclaimed films: "American Fiction," "Anatomy of a Fall," "Barbie," "The Holdovers," "Killers of the Flower Moon," "Maestro," "Oppenheimer," "Past Lives," "Poor Things" and "The Zone of Interest."

The best picture Oscar has marked the epitome of the award-show season for 95 years — where only one film comes out on top. Read on to see all the films that have won best picture thus far.

The Shape of Water Oscar Best Picture 2018
"The Shape Of Water" won the Oscar for Best Picture last year. Kerry Hayes

The full list of Oscar best picture winners:

  • 2023 - "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
  • 2022 - "CODA"
  • 2021 - "Nomadland"
  • 2020 - "Parasite"
  • 2019 - "Green Book"
  • 2018 - "The Shape of Water"
  • 2017 - "Moonlight"
  • 2016 - "Spotlight"
  • 2015 - "Birdman"
  • 2014 - "12 Years a Slave"
  • 2013 - "Argo"
  • 2012 - "The Artist"
  • 2011 - "The King's Speech"
  • 2010 - "The Hurt Locker"
  • 2009 - "Slumdog Millionaire"
  • 2008 - "No Country for Old Men"
  • 2007 - "The Departed"
  • 2006 - "Crash"
  • 2005 - "Million Dollar Baby"
  • 2004 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
  • 2003 - "Chicago"
  • 2002 - "A Beautiful Mind"
  • 2001 - "Gladiator"
Movie "Titanic"
"Titanic" won the Best Picture Oscar for 1997.20th Century Fox
  • 2000 - "American Beauty"
  • 1999 - "Shakespeare in Love"
  • 1998 - "Titanic"
  • 1997 - "The English Patient"
  • 1996 - "Braveheart"
  • 1995 - "Forrest Gump"
  • 1994 - "Schindler’s List"
  • 1993 - "Unforgiven"
  • 1992 - "The Silence of the Lambs"
  • 1991 - "Dances With Wolves"
"Rain Man" 1988
"Rain Man" won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1988.Alamy stock
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  • 1990 - "Driving Miss Daisy"
  • 1989 - "Rain Man"
  • 1988 - "The Last Emperor"
  • 1987 - "Platoon"
  • 1986 - "Out of Africa"
  • 1985 - "Amadeus"
  • 1984 - "Terms of Endearment"
  • 1983 - "Gandhi"
  • 1982 - "Chariots of Fire"
  • 1981 - "Ordinary People"
"The Godfather" dominated in the early 1970s.
"The Godfather" dominated in the early 1970s. Everett Collection
  • 1980 - "Kramer vs. Kramer"
  • 1979 - "The Deer Hunter"
  • 1978 - "Annie Hall"
  • 1977 - "Rocky"
  • 1976 - "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"
  • 1975 - "The Godfather Part II"
  • 1974 - "The Sting"
  • 1973 - "The Godfather"
  • 1972 - "The French Connection"
  • 1971 - "Patton"
WEST SIDE STORY
"West Side Story" won the Best Picture Oscar in 1961. Alamy stock
  • 1970 - "Midnight Cowboy"
  • 1969 - "Oliver!"
  • 1968 - "In the Heat of the Night"
  • 1967 - "A Man for All Seasons"
  • 1966 - "The Sound of Music"
  • 1965 - "My Fair Lady"
  • 1964 - "Tom Jones"
  • 1963 - "Lawrence of Arabia"
  • 1962 - "West Side Story"
  • 1961 - "The Apartment"
Ben Hur
"Ben-Hur" won Best Picture for 1959.MGM via Getty Images
  • 1960 - "Ben-Hur"
  • 1959 - "Gigi"
  • 1958 - "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
  • 1957 - "Around the World in 80 Days"
  • 1956 - "Marty"
  • 1955 - "On the Waterfront"
  • 1954 - "From Here to Eternity"
  • 1953 - "The Greatest Show on Earth"
  • 1952 - "An American in Paris"
  • 1951 - "All About Eve"
Casablanca
"Casablanca" won Best Picture in 1943. Getty Images
  • 1950 - "All the Kings Men"
  • 1949 - "Hamlet"
  • 1948 - "Gentleman's Agreement"
  • 1947 - "The Best Years of Our Lives"
  • 1946 - "The Lost Weekend"
  • 1945 - "Going My Way"
  • 1944 - "Casablanca"
  • 1943 - "Mrs. Miniver"
  • 1942 - "How Green Was My Valley"
  • 1941 - "Rebecca"
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh
"Gone with the Wind" won Best Picture for 1939. Everett Collection
  • 1940 - "Gone with the Wind"
  • 1939 - "You Can't Take It with You"
  • 1938 - "The Life of Emile Zola"
  • 1937 - "The Great Ziegfeld"
  • 1936 - "Mutiny on the Bounty"
  • 1935 - "It Happened One Night"
  • 1933/1934 - "Cavalcade"
  • 1932/1933 - "Grand Hotel"
  • 1931/1932 - "Cimarron"
  • 1930/1931 - "All Quiet on the Western Front"
  • 1929/1930 - "The Broadway Melody"
  • 1928/1929 - "Wings"