Here is the List of Best Oscar Winning Movies. What is the best movie that ever won the Best Picture Oscar? This list of all the movies that have won the Best Picture Academy Award is here in celebration of decades of quality filmmaking. Enjoy watching the list of Oscar-winning movies.
Best Oscar Winning Movies
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1. La La Land, 2016 |
Description Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts, they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart. La La Land is the Oscar award winning movies |
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2. Moonlight, 2016 |
Description Chiron, a young African-American boy, finds guidance in Juan, a drug dealer, who teaches him to carve his own path. As he grows up in seedy Miami, Juan’s advice leaves a lasting impression on him. This is one of the best oscar winning movies list |
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3. Titanic, 1997 |
Description Seventeen-year-old Rose hails from an aristocratic family and is set to be married. When she boards the Titanic, she meets Jack Dawson, an artist, and falls in love with him. Titanic is the movie Oscar winners |
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4. Spotlight, 2015 |
Description Martin ‘Marty’ Baron joins the Boston Globe as an editor and pushes four journalists, Michael, Walter, Sacha and Matt, to pursue a story about the child molestation charges against the local church. |
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5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003 |
Description The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the final battle. While Frodo and Sam approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, they follow Gollum, unaware of the path he is leading them to. |
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6. The Hurt Locker, 2008 |
Description Sergeant William James is tasked with training a bomb disposal team during the Iraq War. His ideologies and reckless approach towards the job gives rise to conflicts with his subordinates. |
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7. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 |
Description Lawrence, a lieutenant in the British Army, is asked by Colonel Brighton to moderately assess Faisal, their ally. Lawrence is impressed with Faisal and seeks his help to plan an attack on the enemy. |
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8. Forrest Gump, 1994 |
Description Forrest Gump, a man with a low I.Q., joins the army for service where he meets Dan and Bubba. However, he cannot stop thinking about his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran, whose life is messed up. Forrest Gump is the oscar winners movies |
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9. The Silence of the Lambs, 1991 |
Description Clarice Starling, an FBI agent, seeks help from Hannibal Lecter, a psychopathic serial killer, and former psychiatrist, in order to apprehend another serial killer who has been claiming female victims. |
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10. Gone with the Wind, 1939 |
Description American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction. |
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11. Shakespeare in Love, 1998 |
Description William Shakespeare is looking for a muse to help with his writing. When he meets Viola, who loves the theatre, she plays the part perfectly. However, she is promised to Lord Wessex in marriage. Shakespeare in Love is the Oscars winning movies |
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12. Slumdog Millionaire, 2008 |
Description A teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati?’ When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers. |
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13. Hacksaw Ridge, 2016 |
Description The true story of Pfc. Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield), who won the Congressional Medal of Honor despite refusing to bear arms during WWII on religious grounds. Doss was drafted and ostracized by fellow soldiers for his pacifist stance but went on to earn respect and adoration for his bravery, selflessness and compassion after he risked his life — without firing a shot — to save 75 men in the Battle of Okinawa. |
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14. On the Waterfront, 1954 |
Description Terry Mallory runs errands for Johnny Friendly who is a gang lord and is involved in illegal activities. He meets the sister of a man who was killed by Johnny’s man and decides to revolt against him. |
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15. Rocky, 1976 |
Description Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a chance to fight heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. In a bid to earn respect and glory, Rocky jumps into the ring, unaware of the tough task ahead of him. |
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16. Manchester by the Sea, 2016 |
Description After the death of his older brother Joe, Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked that Joe has made him sole guardian of his teenage nephew Patrick. Taking leave of his job as a janitor in Boston, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea, the fishing village where his working-class family has lived for generations. There, he is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife, Randi (Michelle Williams), and the community where he was born and raised. |
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17. Birdman, 2014 |
Description Riggan Thomson, a fading cinema superhero, plans to resurrect his career with a passionate Broadway production. However, during rehearsals, his co-star is injured forcing him to hire a new actor. |
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18. Dances with Wolves, 1990 |
Description A Civil War soldier develops a relationship with a band of Lakota Indians. Attracted by the simplicity of their lifestyle, he chooses to leave his former life behind to be with them. Having observed him, they give the name Dances With Wolves. Soon he is a welcomed member of the tribe and falls in love with a white woman who has been raised in the tribe. Tragedy results when Union soldiers arrive with designs on the land. |
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19. West Side Story, 1961 |
Description There’s the deadly rivalry between two New York gangs called the Jets and the Sharks. Tony and Maria from the opposing gangs end up falling in love anyway. But their romance ultimately meets a tragic end. |
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20. The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957 |
Description Colonel Nicholson reluctantly agrees to camp commander Saito’s suggestion of getting the World War II POWs to build a railway bridge. However, the project soon becomes an obsession for him. |
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21. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975 |
Description In order to escape the prison labor, McMurphy, a prisoner, fakes insanity and is shifted to the special ward for the mentally unstable. In this ward, he must rise up against a cruel nurse, Ratched. |
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22. Schindler’s List, 1993 |
Description Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist and member of the Nazi party, tries to save his Jewish employees after witnessing the persecution of Jews in Poland. |
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23. The King’s Speech, 2010 |
Description King George VI overcomes his stammering problem with the help of his speech therapist, Lionel Logue, and makes himself worthy enough to lead his country through war. |
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24. The English Patient, 1996 |
Description Hana, a nurse, tends to a plane crash victim who is on his deathbed. While doing so, she discovers a way to heal herself. |
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25. Ben-Hur, 1959 |
Description Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic historical drama film, directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Charlton Heston as the title character. |