MOFA: My Own Film Awards for Best Picture

Best Films Year by Year

[Updated July 2011 - removed two 'ties', Chicago and The Departed]



(* = Academy Award for best picture, only 28 of 82 matched for me)

Kubrick's 2001, which invented modern science fiction

in cinema in 1968, was shot entirely on a sound stage

in England

1928: Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)

1929: Broadway Melody (Harry Beaumont)*

"I could stay with you til the cows

come home. On second thought, I'll

stay with the cows til you come home"

1930: All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)*

1931: Little Caesar (Mervyn Leroy)

1932: Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch)

1933: Duck Soup (McCarey) [photo above, as Groucho is made head of Freedonia by the rich widow who funds and owns the government]

1934: The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)

1935: The Informer (John Ford)

1936: My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)

1937: Captains Courageous (Fleming)

1938: You Can’t Take It With You (Capra)*

1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra)



1940: The Philadelphia Story (Cukor)

1941: The Maltese Falcon (Huston) [George Raft turned down the part b/c it was Huston's first as director, so they got Bogart for the lead]

1942: Mrs. Miniver (Wyler)*

1943: Casablanca (Curtiz)* (Note: released at the end of 42, Miniver was also a 42 release, so I kept the years the same as the Academy, as both were best picture winners)

1944: Double Indemnity (Wilder)

1945: Lost Weekend (Wilder)*

1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler)*

1947: Out of the Past (Tourneur)

1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)

1949: Adam’s Rib (Cukor)

For a film without violence, Singin in the Rain

was the fastest paced I can recall

1950: All About Eve (Jos. Mankiewicz)*

1951: A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan)

1952: Singin’ in the Rain (Donen)

1953: Shane (Stevens)

1954: On the Waterfront (Kazan)*

1955: Mister Roberts (Ford)

1956: The King and I (Lang)

1957: The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) Japan

1958: Auntie Mame (DaCosta)

1959: Ben-Hur (Wyler)*

Lawrence of Arabia, which moved me into

it's world better than any other film in history

1960: The Apartment (Wilder)*

1961: West Side Story (Wise & Robbins)*

1962: Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)*

1963: Hud (Ritt)

1964: Tie: My Fair Lady (Cukor)*; Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)

1965: Doctor Zhivago (Lean)

1966: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols)

1967: Oliver! (Reed)*

1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)

1969: Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger)*

1970: The Conformist (Berlolucci) Italy

1971: A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)

1972: The Godfather (Coppola)*

1973: Paper Moon (Bogdanovich)

1974: The Godfather II (Coppola)*

1975: The Man Who Would Be King (Huston)

1976: Network (Lumet) [I still can't believe Rocky beat this!]

1977: Annie Hall (Allen)*

1978: The Deer Hunter (Cimino)*

1979: Apocalypse Now! (Coppola)



1980: Raging Bull (Scorsese)

1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)

1982: Gandhi (Attenborough)*

1983: Heat and Dust (Ivory)

1984: Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)

1985: A Room With a View (Ivory)

1986: Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen)

1987: Raising Arizona (Coen Brothers)

1988: Cinema Paradiso (Tournatore) Italy

1989: Tie: Field of Dreams (Robinson); Parenthood (Howard)

1990: Dances with Wolves (Costner)*

1991: The Silence of the Lambs (J. Demme)*

1992: The Player (Altman)

1993: Schindler’s List (Spielberg)*

1994: The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)

1995: Babe (Noonan)

1996: Kolya (Sverak) Czech Republic

1997: As Good As It Gets (Brooks)

1998: Shakespeare in Love (Madden)*

1999: October Sky (Johnston)



2000: Traffic (Soderbergh)

2001: A Beautiful Mind (Howard)*

2002: Hero (Yimou, China)

2003: Lords of the Rings: Return of the King (Jackson)*

2004: Finding Neverland (Forster)

2005: V for Vendetta (McTeigue)

2006: The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck) Germany 

2007: No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers)*

2008: Wall-E (Lassiter) [The Japanese film Departures is a close 2nd, which won an Oscar for foreign film]

2009: The Hurt Locker (Bigelow)*

2010: Winter’s Bone (Granik)

Billy Wilder, with three of his six Oscars,

these were for The Apartment

Directors with Multiple Winners

3 each: William Wyler, John Huston, George Cukor, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Frances Ford Coppola

2 each: Capra, Ford, Lean, Kazan, Coen Brothers, Spielberg, Scorsese, Ivory, Ron Howard, Woody Allen



Foreign Language Winners

57-Seven Samurai (Japan)

70-The Conformist (Italy)

88-Cinema Paradiso (Italy)

96-Kolya (Czech Rep.)

02-Hero (China)

06-The Lives of Others (Germany)



Note: Best Picture was the only oscar that Traffic lost, winning 4 of 5, losing picture to Gladiator.



Winged Migration belongs somewhere, released in 2000 or 2001, was years in the making.

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