Best Picture Project

I am aiming to watch and review every single film that has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar! Films I have seen but not yet reviewed are marked with *

2024 Awards
American Fiction – Review
Anatomy of a Fall – Review
Barbie – Review
The Holdovers – Review
Killers of the Flower Moon – Review
Maestro – Review
Oppenheimer – Review
Past Lives – Review
Poor Things – Review
The Zone of Interest – Review

2023 Awards
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water – Review
The Banshees of Inisherin – Review
Elvis – Review
Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER! – Review
The Fabelmans – Review
Tár – Review
Top Gun: Maverick – Review
Triangle of Sadness – Review
Women Talking

2022 Awards
Belfast – Review
Coda – WINNER! – Review
Don’t Look Up – Review
Drive My Car
Dune – Review
King Richard – Review
Licorice Pizza – Review
Nightmare Alley – Review
The Power of the Dog – Review
West Side Story – Review

2021 Awards
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari – Review
Nomadland – WINNER – Review
Promising Young Woman – Review
Sound of Metal – Review
The Father – Review
The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Review

2020 Awards
Le Mans ’66/Ford v Ferrari – Review
The Irishman – Review
Jojo Rabbit – Review
Joker – Review
Little Women – Review
Marriage Story – Review
1917 – Review
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Review
Parasite – WINNER – Review

2019 Awards
Black Panther – Review
BlacKkKlansman – Review
Bohemian Rhapsody – Review
The Favourite – Review
Green Book – WINNER – Review
Roma – Review
A Star is Born – Review
Vice – Review

2018 Awards
Call Me by Your Name – Review
Darkest Hour – Review
Dunkirk – Review
Get Out – Review
Lady Bird – Review
Phantom Thread – Review
The Post – Review
The Shape of Water – WINNER – Review 
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Review

2017 Awards
Arrival – Review
Fences – Review
Hacksaw Ridge – Review
Hell or High Water – Review
Hidden Figures – Review
La La Land – Review
Lion – Review
Manchester by the Sea – Review
Moonlight WINNER – Review

2016 Awards
Spotlight WINNER – Review
The Big Short – Review
Bridge of Spies – Review
Brooklyn – Review
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian – Review
The Revenant – Review
Room – Review

2015 Awards
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) WINNER – Review
American Sniper – Review
Boyhood – Review
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Review
The Imitation Game – Review
Selma – Review
The Theory of Everything – Review
Whiplash – Review

2014 Awards
12 Years a Slave WINNER – Review
Gravity – Review
American Hustle – Review
Dallas Buyers Club – Review
Her – Review
Philomena – Review
The Wolf of Wall Street – Review
Captain Phillips – Review
Nebraska – Review

2013 Awards
Argo WINNER
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty – Review
Les Misérables – Review
Life of Pi – Review
Silver Linings Playbook – Review
Django Unchained*
Amour
Beasts of the Southern Wild

2012 Awards
The Artist WINNER – Review
The Help – Review
The Descendants – Review
Hugo *
Midnight in Paris – Review
Moneyball – Review
The Tree of Life
War Horse
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close – Review

2011 Awards
The King’s Speech WINNER – Review
127 Hours – Review
Black Swan – Review
The Fighter – Review
Inception – Review
The Kids Are All Right – Review
The Social Network – Review
Toy Story 3 – Review
True Grit – Review
Winter’s Bone – Review

2010 Awards
The Hurt Locker WINNER – Review
Avatar – Review
The Blind Side – Review
District 9 – Review
An Education – Review
Inglourious Basterds – Review
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire – Review
A Serious Man
Up – Review
Up in the Air – Review

2009 Awards
Slumdog Millionaire WINNER *
Frost/Nixon – Review
Milk – Review
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Review
The Reader – Review

2008 Awards
No Country for Old Men WINNER – Review
Atonement – Review
Juno – Review
Michael Clayton *
There Will Be Blood *

2007 Awards
The Departed WINNER – Review
Babel – Review
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine – Review
The Queen *

2006 Awards
Crash WINNER – Review
Brokeback Mountain*
Capote – Review
Good Night and Good Luck
Munich

2005 Awards
Million Dollar Baby WINNER – Review
Finding Neverland *
Ray *
Sideways – Review
The Aviator *

2004 Awards
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King WINNER – Review
Lost in Translation – Review
Master and Commander – Review
Mystic River – Review
Seabiscuit – Review

2003 Awards
Chicago WINNER – Review
Gangs of New York – Review
The Hours – Review
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Review
The Pianist *

2002 Awards
A Beautiful Mind WINNER – Review
Gosford Park
In the Bedroom
Moulin Rouge – Review
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Review

2001 Awards
Gladiator WINNER – Review
Chocolat – Review
Erin Brockovich – Review
Traffic*
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

2000 Awards
American Beauty WINNER – Review
The Cider House Rules*
The Green Mile *
The Insider
The Sixth Sense *

1999 Awards
Shakespeare in Love WINNER – Review
Elizabeth *
Life is Beautiful
Saving Private Ryan *
The Thin Red Line

1998 Awards
Titanic WINNER – Review
As Good as It Gets – Review
Good Will Hunting – Review
L.A. Confidential – Review
The Full Monty – Review

1997 Awards
The English Patient WINNER – Review
Fargo – Review
Jerry Maguire – Review
Secrets & Lies – Review
Shine

1996 Awards
Braveheart WINNER
Apollo 13 – Review
Babe
The Postman
Sense and Sensibility – Review

1995 Awards
Forrest Gump WINNER *
Four Weddings and a Funeral *
Pulp Fiction – Review
Quiz Show
The Shawshank Redemption – Review

1994 Awards
Schindler’s List WINNER – Review
In the Name of the Father
The Fugitive – Review
The Piano – Review
The Remains of the Day

1993 Awards
Unforgiven WINNER – Review
A Few Good Men – Review
Howards End
Scent of a Woman – Review
The Crying Game

1992 Awards
The Silence of the Lambs WINNER – Review
Beauty and the Beast *
Bugsy
JFK – Review
The Prince of Tides – Review

1991 Awards
Dances With Wolves WINNER
Awakenings – Review
Ghost – Review
Goodfellas – Review
The Godfather, Part III – Review

1990 Awards
Driving Miss Daisy WINNER – Review
Born on the Fourth of July – Review
Dead Poets Society – Review
Field of Dreams – Review
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

1989 Awards
Rain Man WINNER *
Dangerous Liaisons – Review
Mississippi Burning
The Accidental Tourist
Working Girl

1988 Awards
The Last Emperor WINNER
Broadcast News
Fatal Attraction – Review
Hope and Glory
Moonstruck – Review

1987 Awards
Platoon WINNER *
A Room with a View
Children of a Lesser God
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission

1986 Awards
Out of Africa WINNER – Review
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Prizzi’s Honor
The Color Purple – Review
Witness – Review

1985 Awards
Amadeus WINNER
A Passage to India
A Soldier’s Story
Places in the Heart
The Killing Fields

1984 Awards
Terms of Endearment WINNER *
Tender Mercies
The Big Chill
The Dresser
The Right Stuff

1983 Awards
Gandhi WINNER
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial – Review
Missing
The Verdict – Review
Tootsie – Review

1982 Awards
Chariots of Fire WINNER – Review
Atlantic City
On Golden Pond *
Raiders of the Lost Ark *
Reds

1981 Awards
Ordinary People WINNER – Review
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Raging Bull – Review
Tess
The Elephant Man – Review

1980 Awards
Kramer vs. Kramer WINNER *
All That Jazz – Review
Apocalypse Now – Review
Breaking Away
Norma Rae

1979 Awards
The Deer Hunter WINNER – Review
An Unmarried Woman
Coming Home
Heaven Can Wait
Midnight Express

1978 Awards
Annie Hall WINNER
Julia
Star Wars – Review
The Goodbye Girl
The Turning Point

1977 Awards
Rocky WINNER – Review
All the President’s Men – Review
Bound for Glory
Network – Review
Taxi Driver – Review

1976 Awards
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest WINNER *
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon – Review
Jaws – Review
Nashville

1975 Awards
The Godfather, Part II WINNER – Review
Chinatown – Review
Lenny
The Conversation – Review
The Towering Inferno

1974 Awards
The Sting WINNER
A Touch of Class
American Graffiti
The Exorcist
Cries and Whispers

1973 Awards
The Godfather WINNER – Review
Cabaret – Review
Deliverance
Sounder
The Emigrants

1972 Awards
The French Connection WINNER – Review
A Clockwork Orange – Review
Fiddler on the Roof
Nicholas and Alexandra
The Last Picture Show

1971 Awards
Patton WINNER
Airport
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story – Review
MASH

1970 Awards
Midnight Cowboy WINNER
Anne of the Thousand Days
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Hello Dolly! – Review
Z

1969 Awards
Oliver! WINNER *
Funny Girl – Review
Rachel Rachel
Romeo and Juliet
The Lion in Winter

1968 Awards
In the Heat of the Night WINNER
Bonnie and Clyde
Doctor Dolittle *
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – Review
The Graduate *

1967 Awards
A Man for All Seasons WINNER
Alfie
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
The Sand Pebbles
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Review

1966 Awards
The Sound of Music WINNER – Review
A Thousand Clowns
Darling
Doctor Zhivago – Review
Ship of Fools

1965 Awards
My Fair Lady WINNER *
Alexis Zorbas
Becket
Dr. Strangelove
Mary Poppins – Review

1964 Awards
Tom Jones WINNER
America America
Cleopatra
How the West Was Won
Lilies of the Field

1963 Awards
Lawrence of Arabia WINNER
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Longest Day
The Music Man
To Kill a Mockingbird *

1962 Awards
West Side Story WINNER – Review
Fanny
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Guns of Navarone
The Hustler

1961 Awards
The Apartment WINNER – Review
Elmer Gantry
Sons and Lovers
The Alamo
The Sundowners

1960 Awards
Ben-Hur WINNER
Anatomy of a Murder
Room at the Top
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Nun’s Story

1959 Awards
Gigi WINNER
Auntie Mame
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Separate Tables
The Defiant Ones

1958 Awards
The Bridge on the River Kwai WINNER
12 Angry Men – Review
Peyton Place
Sayonara
Witness for the Prosecution – Review

1957 Awards
Around the World in Eighty Days WINNER
Friendly Persuasion
Giant
The King and I *
The Ten Commandments

1956 Awards
Marty WINNER
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Mister Roberts
Picnic
The Rose Tattoo

1955 Awards
On the Waterfront WINNER – Review
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Caine Mutiny
The Country Girl
Three Coins in the Fountain

1954 Awards
From Here to Eternity WINNER
Julius Caesar
Roman Holiday – Review
Shane
The Robe

1953 Awards
The Greatest Show on Earth WINNER
High Noon
Ivanhoe
Moulin Rouge
The Quiet Man

1952 Awards
An American in Paris WINNER
A Place in the Sun
A Streetcar Named Desire *
Decision Before Dawn
Quo Vadis

1951 Awards
All About Eve WINNER – Review
Born Yesterday
Father of the Bride
King Solomon’s Mines
Sunset Blvd. – Review

1950 Awards
All the King’s Men WINNER
A Letter to Three Wives
Battleground
The Heiress
Twelve O’Clock High

1949 Awards
Hamlet WINNER
Johnny Belinda
The Red Shoes
The Snake Pit
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948 Awards
Gentleman’s Agreement WINNER
Crossfire
Great Expectations
Miracle on 34th Street
The Bishop’s Wife

1947 Awards
The Best Years of Our Lives WINNER
It’s a Wonderful Life – Review
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with his Battell Fought at Agincourt in France
The Razor’s Edge
The Yearling

1946 Awards
The Lost Weekend WINNER
Anchors Aweigh
Mildred Pierce
Spellbound
The Bells of St. Mary’s

1945 Awards
Going My Way WINNER
Double Indemnity
Gaslight
Since You Went Away
Wilson

1944 Awards
Casablanca WINNER – Review
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Heaven Can Wait
In Which We Serve
Madame Curie
The Human Comedy
The More the Merrier
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Song of Bernadette
Watch on the Rhine

1943 Awards
Mrs. Miniver WINNER
49th Parallel
Kings Row
Random Harvest
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Pied Piper
The Pride of the Yankees
The Talk of the Town
Wake Island
Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942 Awards
How Green Was My Valley WINNER
Blossoms in the Dust
Citizen Kane – Review
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Hold Back the Dawn
One Foot in Heaven
Sergeant York
Suspicion
The Little Foxes
The Maltese Falcon

1941 Awards
Rebecca WINNER
All This and Heaven Too
Foreign Correspondent
Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman
Our Town
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
The Letter
The Long Voyage Home
The Philadelphia Story – Review

1940 Awards
Gone with the Wind WINNER – Review
Dark Victory
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Love Affair
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ninotchka
Of Mice and Men
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz *
Wuthering Heights

1939 Awards
You Can’t Take it With You WINNER
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Boys Town
Four Daughters
Jezebel
La grande illusion
Pygmalion
Test Pilot
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Citadel

1938 Awards
The Life of Emile Zola WINNER
A Star Is Born
Captains Courageous
Dead End
In Old Chicago
Lost Horizon
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Stage Door
The Awful Truth
The Good Earth

1937 Awards
The Great Ziegfeld WINNER
A Tale of Two Cities
Anthony Adverse
Dodsworth
Libeled Lady
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Romeo and Juliet
San Francisco
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Three Smart Girls

1936 Awards
Mutiny on the Bounty WINNER
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Alice Adams
Broadway Melody of 1936
Captain Blood
Les misérables
Naughty Marietta
Ruggles of Red Gap
The Informer
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
The Personal History Adventures Experience & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
Top Hat

1935 Awards
It Happened One Night WINNER – Review
Cleopatra
Flirtation Walk
Here Comes the Navy
Imitation of Life
One Night of Love
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
The Gay Divorcee
The House of Rothschild
The Thin Man
The White Parade
Viva Villa!

1934 Awards
Cavalcade WINNER
42nd Street
A Farewell to Arms
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,
Lady for a Day
Little Women
She Done Him Wrong *
Smilin’ Through
State Fair
The Private Life of Henry VIII

1933 Awards
Grand Hotel WINNER
Arrowsmith
Bad Girl
Five Star Final
One Hour with You
Shanghai Express
The Champ
The Smiling Lieutenant

1932 Awards
Cimarron WINNER
East Lynne
Skippy
The Front Page
Trader Horn

1931 Awards
The Broadway Melody WINNER
Alibi
In Old Arizona
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
The Patriot

1929 Awards
Wings — (best picture, production) WINNER
7th Heaven
The Racket

1928 Awards
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans — (best picture, unique and artistic production) WINNER
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
The Crowd