Best Picture Winners Flashcards
1927/28 - William A. Wellman
Wings
1928/29 - Harry Beaumont
The Broadway Melody
1929/1930 - Lewis Milestone
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930/31 - Wesley Ruggles
Cimarron
1931/32 - Edmund Goulding
Grand Hotel
1932/33 - Frank Lloyd
Cavalcade
1934 - Frank Capra
It Happened One Night
1935 - Frank LLoyd
Mutiny on the Bounty
1936 - Robert Z. Leonard
The Great Ziegfeld
1937 - William Dieterle
The Life of Emile Zola
1938 - Frank Capra
You Can’t Take It With You
1939 - Victor Fleming
Gone with the Wind
1940 - Alfred Hitchcock
Rebecca
1941 - John Ford
How Green Was My Valley
1942 - William Wyler
Mrs. Miniver
1943 - Michael Curtiz
Casablanca
1944 - Leo McCarey
Going My Way
1945 - Billy Wilder
The Lost Weekend
1946 - William Wyler
The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 - Elia Kazan
Gentleman’s Agreement
1948 - Laurence Olivier
Hamlet
1949 - Robert Rossen
All the King’s Men
1950 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All About Eve
1951 - Vincente Minnelli
An American in Paris
1952 - Cecil B. DeMille
The Greatest Show on Earth
1953 - Fred Zinnemann
From Here to Eternity
1954 - Ella Kazan
On the Waterfront
1955 - Delbert Mann
Marty
1956 - Michael Anderson
Around the World in 80 Days
1957 - David Lean
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958 - Vincente Minnelli
Gigi
1959 - William Wyler
Ben-Hur
1960 - Billy Wilder
The Apartment
1961 - Robert Wise
West Side Story
1962 - David Lean
Lawrence of Arabia
1963 - Tony Richardson
Tom Jones
1964 - George Cukor
My Fair Lady
1965 - Robert Wise
The Sound of Music
1966 - Fred Zinnemann
A Man for All Seasons
1967 - Norman Jewison
In the Heat of the Night
1968 - Carol Reed
Oliver!
1969 - John Schlesinger
Midnight Cowboy
1970 - Franklin J. Schaffner
Patton
1971 - William Friedkin
The French Connection
1972 - Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather
1973 - George Roy Hill
The Sting
1974 - Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather Part II
1975 - Milos Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1976 - John G. Avildsen
Rocky
1977 - Woody Allen
Annie Hall
1978 - Michael Camino
The Deer Hunter
1979 - Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer
1980 - Robert Redford
Ordinary People
1981 - Hugh Hudson
Chariots of Fire
1982 - Richard Attenborough
Gandhi
1983 - James L Brooks
Terms of Endearment
1984 - Milos Forman
Amadeus
1985 - Sydney Pollack
Out of Africa
1986 - Oliver Stone
Platoon
1987 - Bernardo Bertolucci
The Last Emperor
1988 - Barry Levinson
Rain Man
1989 - Bruce Beresford
Driving Miss Daisy
1990 - Kevin Costner
Dances With Wolves
1991 - Jonathan Demme
The Silence of the Lambs
1992 - Clint Eastwood
Unforgiven
1993 - Steven Spielberg
Schindler’s List
1994 - Robert Zemeckis
Forrest Gump
1995 - Mel Gibson
Braveheart
1996 - Anthony Minghella
The English Patient
1997 - James Cameron
Titanic
1998 - John Madden
Shakespeare in Love
1999 - Sam Mendes
American Beauty
2000 - Ridley Scott
Gladiator
2001 - Ron Howard
A Beautiful Mind
2002 - Chicago
Rob Marshall
2003 - Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2004 - Clint Eastwood
Million Dollar Baby
2005 - Paul Haggis
Crash
2006 - Martin Scorsese
The Departed
2007 - Joel and Ethan Coen
No Country for Old Men
2008 - Danny Boyle
Slumdog Millionaire
2009 - Kathryn Bigelow
The Hurt Locker
2010 - Tom Hopper
The King’s Speech
2011 - Michel Hazanavicius
The Artist
2012 - Ben Affleck
Argo
2013 - Steve McQueen
12 Years a Slave
2014 - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Birdman (Or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2015 - Tom McCarthey
Spotlight
2016 - Barry Jenkins
Moonlight
2017 - Guillermo del Toro
The Shape of Water
2018 - Peter Faralley
Green Book
2019 - Bong Joon-ho
Parasite