ACADEMY of MOTION PICTURE ARTS and SCIENCES Best Pictures - Winners (part 2)

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ACADEMY AWARDS WINNERS BEST PICTURES (1960 - present)

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
1960	The Apartment	Billy Wilder	United Artists	Psycho Spartacus	Psycho
1961	West Side Story	Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins	United Artists	Breakfast at Tiffany's Splendor in the Grass The Misfits	OK or The Hustler
1962	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	Columbia	The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Ride the High Country Long Day's Journey Into Night The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Miracle Worker	OK or To Kill a Mockingbird
1963	Tom Jones	Tony Richardson	United Artists	Hud The Birds The Haunting	OK or The Birds
1964	My Fair Lady	George Cukor	Warner Bros	A Hard Day's Night The Servant A Shot in the Dark	Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1965	The Sound of Music	Robert Wise	20th Century Fox	Repulsion	OK
1966	A Man for All Seasons	Fred Zinnemann	Columbia	Blow-Up Cul-de-Sac	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967	In the Heat of the Night	Norman Jewison*	United Artists	Chimes at Midnight/Falstaff Point Blank Two for the Road Camelot Cool Hand Luke In Cold Blood Up the Down Staircase Wait Until Dark	Bonnie and Clyde or The Graduate
1968	Oliver!	Carol Reed	Columbia	2001: A Space Odyssey Rosemary's Baby Petulia	2001: A Space Odyssey or The Lion in Winter
1969	Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger	United Artists	The Wild Bunch Once Upon a Time in the West Medium Cool They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	The Wild Bunch
1970	Patton	Franklin J. Schaffner	20th Century Fox	The Ballad of Cable Hogue Little Big Man Diary of a Mad Housewife Brewster McCloud I Never Sang for My Father The Landlord Ryan's Daughter Women in Love	Five Easy Pieces or M*A*S*H
1971	The French Connection	William Friedkin	20th Century Fox	McCabe and Mrs. Miller Dirty Harry Klute Macbeth Walkabout	A Clockwork Orange or McCabe and Mrs. Miller or The Last Picture Show
1972	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola*	Paramount	Play It Again, Sam	OK or Deliverance
1973	The Sting	George Roy Hill	Universal	The Last Detail Last Tango in Paris The Long Goodbye Mean Streets Paper Moon Serpico The Way We Were O Lucky Man! The Paper Chase Save the Tiger	American Graffiti or Paper Moon
1974	The Godfather Part II	Francis Ford Coppola	Paramount	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Parallax View Thieves Like Us Day for Night	Chinatown
1975	One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest	Milos Forman	United Artists	The Man Who Would Be King	OK or Nashville
1976	Rocky	John G. Avildsen	United Artists	The Front Carrie The Last Tycoon The Outlaw Josey Wales Robin and Marian	Network or All The President's Men or Taxi Driver
1977	Annie Hall	Woody Allen	United Artists	Close Encounters of the Third Kind Three Women	OK or Star Wars
1978	The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino	Universal	Days of Heaven Go Tell the Spartans Interiors	Coming Home
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	Robert Benton	Columbia	Being There Manhattan ...and Justice for All The Black Stallion The China Syndrome The Electric Horseman Escape from Alcatraz Hair 10	Apocalypse Now or Manhattan
1980	Ordinary People	Robert Redford	Paramount	The Empire Strikes Back The Long Riders Melvin and Howard Urban Cowboy Stardust Memories Return of the Secaucus 7	Raging Bull
1981	Chariots of Fire	Hugh Hudson*	The Ladd Co./Warner Bros.	Cutter's Way Absence of Malice Blow Out Body Heat The French Lieutenant's Woman Mommie Dearest Pennies From Heaven Ragtime	Reds or Raiders of the Lost Ark or On Golden Pond
1982	Gandhi	Richard Attenborough	Columbia	Blade Runner Moonlighting	Blade Runner or Tootsie or E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
1983	Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks	Paramount	Local Hero A Christmas Story	The Right Stuff or Scarface
1984	Amadeus	Milos Forman	Orion	This is Spinal Tap Blood Simple	OK or The Killing Fields or Once Upon a Time in America
1985	Out of Africa	Sydney Pollack	Universal	Brazil Ran Silverado	Brazil
1986	Platoon	Oliver Stone	Orion	'Round Midnight Salvador Sid and Nancy	OK or Hannah and Her Sisters
1987	The Last Emperor	Bernardo Bertolucci	Columbia	Empire of the Sun House of Games	OK or Empire of the Sun or Full Metal Jacket
1988	Rain Man	Barry Levinson	United Artists	A World Apart Talk Radio The Accused Big Bird Bull Durham A Cry in the Dark Dominick and Eugene Hairspray The Last Temptation of Christ Married to the Mob Who Framed Roger Rabbit	OK or Dangerous Liaisons
1989	Driving Miss Daisy	Bruce Beresford*	Warner Bros	Do the Right Thing Henry V Glory	Henry V or My Left Foot or Do the Right Thing or Field of Dreams
1990	Dances with Wolves	Kevin Costner	Orion	Miller's Crossing	GoodFellas or Miller's Crossing
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	Orion	Thelma & Louise An Angel At My Table Barton Fink Boys N the Hood Fried Green Tomatoes Grand Canyon My Own Private Idaho	OK or JFK or Thelma & Louise
1992	Unforgiven	Clint Eastwood	Warner Bros	Hard-Boiled Malcolm X The Player Zentropa (aka Europa)	OK or The Crying Game
1993	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg	Universal/Amblin	Short Cuts	OK or The Piano or Groundhog Day
1994	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	Paramount	Bullets Over Broadway Hoop Dreams	Pulp Fiction or The Shawshank Redemption
1995	Braveheart	Mel Gibson	Paramount	Dead Man Walking Leaving Las Vegas Nixon The Usual Suspects Clockers Sense & Sensibility	Dead Man Walking
1996	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella	Miramax	Sling Blade Trainspotting Big Night The Crucible Emma Hamlet Lone Star The People vs. Larry Flynt	OK or Fargo or Sling Blade
1997	Titanic	James Cameron	Paramount/20th Century Fox	The Wings of the Dove The Sweet Hereafter Amistad Boogie Nights Grosse Pointe Blank Jackie Brown My Best Friend's Wedding Wag the Dog Waiting for Guffman	L.A. Confidential
1998	Shakespeare in Love	John Madden*	Miramax	The Truman Show The Big Lebowski Gods and Monsters Pleasantville Primary Colors Rushmore	The Thin Red Line or Saving Private Ryan
1999	American Beauty	Sam Mendes	DreamWorks	Being John Malkovich The End of the Affair Magnolia The Talented Mr. Ripley Topsy-Turvy	OK or The Insider or An Ideal Husband
2000	Gladiator	Ridley Scott*	DreamWorks	Almost Famous Billy Elliot Chicken Run Pollock Requiem for a Dream You Can Count on Me Cast Away Wonder Boys O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Traffic or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard	DreamWorks/ Universal	Amelie Black Hawk Down Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Iris Legally Blonde Memento (2000) The Others The Royal Tenenbaums	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring or Memento (2000)
2002	Chicago	Rob Marshall*	Miramax	Adaptation About Schmidt Far From Heaven	The Pianist
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson	New Line	Cold Mountain Whale Rider	Lost in Translation or Mystic River
2004	Million Dollar Baby	Clint Eastwood	Warner Bros.	The Passion of the Christ Fahrenheit 9/11 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	OK
2005	Crash	Paul Haggis*	Lions Gate Films	Memoirs of a Geisha Walk the Line Pride & Prejudice King Kong The Constant Gardener Cinderella Man	Brokeback Mountain or Good Night, and Good Luck
2006	The Departed	Martin Scorsese	Warner Bros.	Dreamgirls Pan's Labyrinth Little Children	OK or Pan's Labyrinth or The Queen
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel and Ethan Coen	Miramax	American Gangster Charlie Wilson's War Hairspray Into the Wild Sweeney Todd	OK or Michael Clayton
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle	Fox Searchlight	Changeling The Dark Knight Doubt Revolutionary Road Wall-E	OK or Frost/Nixon or Waltz with Bashir