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Best Picture
Academy Awards Best Picture . This award was originally
called Best Production.
| Year | Other | Names | Film |
| 2007 | 80th | ||
| 2006 | 79th | Warner Bros. - Graham King | The Departed |
| 2005 | 78th | Lions Gate, DEJ Productions, Bob Yari Productions & ApolloProScreen GmbH & Co. Filmproduktion KG (Canada & Germany) - Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman | Crash |
| 2004 | 77th | Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Paul Haggis, Tom Rosenburg | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2003 | 76th | New Line & Warner Bros. - Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 2002 | 75th | Miramax - Martin Richards | Chicago
* |
| 2001 | 74th | Universal & DreamWorks - Brian Grazer, Ron Howard | A
Beautiful Mind * |
| 2000 | 73rd | Universal & DreamWorks -Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig | Gladiator * |
| 1999 | 72nd | DreamWorks SKG, Jinks/Cohen Company - Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks | American
Beauty * |
| 1998 | 71st | Bedford Falls Productions, Miramax Films, Universal Pictures - David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman | Shakespeare
in Love * |
| 1997 | 70th | 20th Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment, Paramount Pictures - James Cameron, Jon Landau | Titanic
* |
| 1996 | 69th | J&M Entertainment, Miramax Films, Tiger Moth Productions - Saul Zaentz | The
English Patient * |
| 1995 | 68th | 20th Century Fox, B. H. Finance C. V., Icon Entertainment International, Paramount Pictures, The Ladd Company - Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr., Bruce Davey | Braveheart
* |
| 1994 | 67th | Paramount Pictures - Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey | Forrest
Gump * |
| 1993 | 66th | Amblin Entertainment, Universal Pictures - Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig | Schindler's
List * |
| 1992 | 65th | Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven
* |
| 1991 | 64th | Orion Pictures Corp. - Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman | The
Silence of the Lambs * |
| 1990 | 63rd | Tig Productions, Majestic Films International, Orion Pictures Corp. - Michael Flynn, Kevin Costner | Dances With Wolves * |
| 1989 | 62nd | Majestic Films International, Zanuck Company., Warner Bros. - Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck | Driving Miss Daisy * |
| 1988 | 61st | Mirage Entertainment, Star Partners II, United Artists - Mark Johnson | Rain
Man * |
| 1987 | 60th | Hemdale, Columbia - Jeremy Thomas | The
Last Emperor * |
| 1986 | 59th | Hemdale, Orion - Arnold Kopelson | Platoon
* |
| 1985 | 58th | Universal - Sydney Pollack | Out
of Africa * |
| 1984 | 57th | Barrandov Studios - Zaentz, Orion - Saul Zaentz | Amadeus
* |
| 1983 | 56th | Brooks, Paramount - James L. Brooks | Terms of Endearment * |
| 1982 | 55th | Indo-British Films, Columbia - Richard Attenborough | Gandhi * |
| 1981 | 54th | Enigma, The Ladd Company/Warner Bros. - David Puttnam | Chariots of Fire * |
| 1980 | 53rd | Wildwood, Paramount - Ronald L. Schwary | Ordinary People * |
| 1979 | 52nd | Jaffe, Columbia - Stanley R. Jaffe | Kramer vs Kramer * |
| 1978 | 51st | EMI Films/Cimino, Universal - Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall | Deer Hunter * |
| 1977 | 50th | Rollins-Joffe, United Artists - Charles H. Joffe | Annie Hall * |
| 1976 | 49th | Chartoff-Winkler, United Artists - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff | Rocky * |
| 1975 | 48th | Fantasy Films, United Artists - Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest * |
| 1974 | 47th | Coppola Company, Paramount - Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos | The Godfather part 2 * |
| 1973 | 46th | Bill/Phillips-Hill, Zanuck/Brown, Universal - Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips | The Sting * |
| 1972 | 45th | Ruddy, Paramount - Albert S. Ruddy | The Godfather * |
| 1971 | 44th | D'Antoni-Schine-Moore, 20th Century-Fox - Philip D'Antoni | The French Connection * |
| 1970 | 43rd | 20th Century-Fox - Frank McCarthy | Patton * |
| 1969 | 42nd | Hellman-Schlesinger, United Artists - Jerome Hellman | Midnight Cowboy * |
| 1968 | 41st | Romulus, Columbia - John Woolf | Oliver * |
| 1967 | 40th | Mirisch, United Artists - Walter Mirisch | In the Heat of the Night * |
| 1966 | 39th | Highland, Columbia - Fred Zinnemann | A Man for all Seasons * |
| 1965 | 38th | Argyle, 20th Century-Fox - Robert Wise | The Sound of Music * |
| 1964 | 37th | Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner | My Fair Lady * |
| 1963 | 36th | Woodfall, United Artists-Lopert - Tony Richardson | Tom Jones * |
| 1962 | 35th | Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia - Sam Spiegel | Lawrence of Arabia * |
| 1961 | 34th | Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists - Robert Wise | West Side Story * |
| 1960 | 33rd | Mirisch, United Artists - Billy Wilder | The Apartment * |
| 1959 | 32nd | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sam Zimbalist | Ben Hur * |
| 1958 | 31st | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed | Gigi * |
| 1957 | 30th | Horizon, Columbia - Sam Spiegel | The Bridge on the River Kwai * |
| 1956 | 29th | Todd, United Artists - Michael Todd | Around the World in 80 days * |
| 1955 | 28th | Hecht-Lancaster, United Artists - Harold Hecht | Marty * |
| 1954 | 27th | Horizon-American, Columbia - Sam Spiegel | On The Waterfront * |
| 1953 | 26th | Columbia - Buddy Adler | From Here to Eternity * |
| 1952 | 25th | DeMille, Paramount - Cecil B. DeMille | The Greatest Show on Earth * |
| 1951 | 24th | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Arthur Freed | An American in Paris * |
| From 1951 on, the individual producer (rather than the production company) receives this award. | |||
| 1950 | 23rd | 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck | All About Eve * |
| 1949 | 22nd | Rossen, Columbia - Robert Rossen | All the King's Men * |
| 1948 | 21st | J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films, U-I - Laurence Olivier | Hamlet * |
| 1947 | 20th | 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck | Gentleman's Agreement * |
| 1946 | 19th | Goldwyn, RKO Radio - Samuel Goldwyn | The Best Years of our Lives * |
| 1955 | 18th | Paramount - Charles Brackett | The Lost Weekend * |
| 1944 | 17th | Paramount - Leo McCarey | Going My Way * |
| 1943 | 16th | Warner Bros. - Hal B. Wallis | Casablanca * |
| 1942 | 15th | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Sidney Franklin | Mrs Miniver * |
| 1941 | 14th | 20th Century-Fox - Darryl F. Zanuck | How Green Was My Valley * |
| 1940 | 13th | Selznick, United Artists - David O. Selznick | Rebecca * |
| 1939 | 12th | Selznick, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - David O. Selznick | Gone With The Wind * |
| 1938 | 11th | Columbia - Frank Capra | You Can't Take It With You * |
| 1937 | 10th | Warner Bros. - Henry Blanke | The Life on Emile Zola * |
| 1936 | 9th | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hunt Stromberg | The Great Ziegfeld * |
| 1935 | 8th | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg with Albert Lewin | Mutiny on the Bounty * |
| 1934 | 7th | Columbia - Harry Cohn | It Happened One Night * |
| 1932-1933 | 6th | Fox - Winfield Sheehan studio head | Cavalcade * |
| 1931 - 1932 | 5th | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg | Grand Hotel * |
| 1930 - 1931 | 4th | RKO Radio - William LeBaron | Cimarron * |
| 1929 - 1930 | 3rd | Universal - Carl Laemmle Jr. | All Quiet on the Western Front * |
| The name of the award becomes Best Picture. | |||
| 1928 - 1929 | 2nd | The Broadway Melody Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Harry Rapf | The Broadway Melody * |
| 1927 - 1928 | 1st | Paramount Famous Players-Lasky - Lucien Hubbard | Wings * (Best Production) |
| See also Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production, also awarded to a film for 1927-1928 at the 1st Academy Awards. |
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