ACADEMY of MOTION PICTURE ARTS and SCIENCES Best Pictures - Winners (part 1)

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ACADEMY AWARDS WINNERS BEST PICTURES (1927/28 - 1959)

Year of Award	Best Picture Academy Award Winners	Director (* Did not also win Best Director)	Title Screen and Studio or Production Company	NOT Nominated for Best Picture	Should Have Won
1927-28	Wings (Best Production) Sunrise (Unique and Artistic Picture)	William A. Wellman*	Paramount Famous Lasky	Metropolis Sunrise	Sunrise
1928-29	The Broadway Melody (Best Production)	Harry Beaumont*	MGM	The Wind The Wedding March	The Wind
1929-30	All Quiet on the Western Front	Lewis Milestone	Universal	Applause	OK
1930-31	Cimarron	Wesley Ruggles*	RKO Radio	City Lights Frankenstein	City Lights
1931-32	Grand Hotel	Edmund Goulding*	MGM	Scarface: The Shame of a Nation	Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
1932-33	Cavalcade	Frank Lloyd*	Fox	King Kong Queen Christina Trouble in Paradise Dinner at Eight Duck Soup	King Kong
1934	It Happened One Night	Frank Capra	Columbia	The Scarlet Empress It's a Gift Twentieth Century	OK
1935	Mutiny on the Bounty	Frank Lloyd*	MGM	The 39 Steps A Night At The Opera	The 39 Steps
1936	The Great Ziegfeld	Robert Z. Leonard*	MGM	Modern Times Swing Time My Man Godfrey Fury Show Boat	Modern Times or My Man Godfrey
1937	The Life of Emile Zola	William Dieterle*	Warner Bros	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	The Awful Truth or Lost Horizon or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938	You Can't Take It With You	Frank Capra	Columbia	Bringing Up Baby Angels With Dirty Faces The Lady Vanishes	The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939	Gone With The Wind	Victor Fleming	MGM (Selznick)	Destry Rides Again Gunga Din The Women	The Wizard of Oz
1940	Rebecca	Alfred Hitchcock*	United Artists (Selznick)	His Girl Friday Pinocchio The Sea Hawk The Shop Around the Corner	The Grapes of Wrath
1941	How Green Was My Valley	John Ford	20th Century-Fox	Ball of Fire That Hamilton Woman	Citizen Kane
1942	Mrs. Miniver	William Wyler	MGM	Sullivan's Travels The Palm Beach Story To Be or Not to Be	Sullivan's Travels or The Magnificent Ambersons
1943	Casablanca	Michael Curtiz	Warner Bros	Shadow of a Doubt	OK
1944	Going My Way	Leo McCarey	Paramount	Laura Meet Me in St. Louis Murder, My Sweet The Suspect Hail the Conquering Hero Lifeboat The Miracle of Morgan's Creek	Double Indemnity
1945	The Lost Weekend	Billy Wilder	Paramount	They Were Expendable Scarlet Street A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	OK
1946	The Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	RKO Radio (Goldwyn)	My Darling Clementine Notorious The Big Sleep Brief Encounter	It's A Wonderful Life or Notorious
1947	Gentleman's Agreement	Elia Kazan	20th Century-Fox	Monsieur Verdoux Black Narcissus Nightmare Alley Out of the Past	Out of the Past
1948	Hamlet	Laurence Olivier	Universal - International (British)	Fort Apache Letter From an Unknown Woman Red River Oliver Twist	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre or Johnny Belinda
1949	All the King's Men	Robert Rossen*	Columbia	Gun Crazy On the Town They Live By Night White Heat	Gun Crazy
1950	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	20th Century-Fox	The Asphalt Jungle In a Lonely Place The Third Man Winchester '73	Sunset Boulevard
1951	An American In Paris	Vincente Minnelli*	MGM	The African Queen Strangers on a Train The Big Carnival/Ace in the Hole The Thing The Day the Earth Stood Still	A Streetcar Named Desire or A Place in the Sun
1952	The Greatest Show on Earth	Cecil B. DeMille*	Paramount	Singin' in The Rain The Bad and the Beautiful The Member of the Wedding Rancho Notorious Pat and Mike	Singin' in The Rain or High Noon
1953	From Here to Eternity	Fred Zinnemann	Columbia	The Big Heat Stalag 17 The Band Wagon	Shane
1954	On The Waterfront	Elia Kazan	Columbia	Rear Window Johnny Guitar A Star is Born	Rear Window
1955	Marty	Delbert Mann	United Artists	The Night of the Hunter The Blackboard Jungle East of Eden Kiss Me Deadly Rebel Without a Cause Bad Day at Black Rock Oklahoma! To Catch a Thief	The Night of the Hunter or Rebel Without a Cause
1956	Around the World in 80 Days	Michael Anderson*	United Artists	The Searchers Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Killing Richard III The Seven Samurai The Bad Seed Bus Stop High Society Lust for Life The Man Who Knew Too Much Written on the Wind	The Searchers or Giant
1957	The Bridge On The River Kwai	David Lean	Columbia	Paths of Glory A Face in the Crowd Sweet Smell of Success	Paths of Glory
1958	Gigi	Vincente Minnelli	MGM	Vertigo Touch of Evil I Want to Live! Some Came Running South Pacific Teacher's Pet The Tarnished Angels	Touch of Evil or Vertigo
1959	Ben-Hur	William Wyler	MGM	Some Like It Hot North by Northwest Rio Bravo Imitation of Life Pillow Talk Porgy and Bess	Some Like It Hot
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