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ACADEMY of
MOTION PICTURE ARTS and SCIENCES 20th Century Best Picture Winners (Ranked by Artistic Merit) |
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ACADEMY of
MOTION PICTURE ARTS and SCIENCES 20th Century Best Picture Winners (Ranked by Artistic Merit) |
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20th Century |
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Rank |
Award |
Best Picture
Academy Award Winner |
Director
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and Wins |
Greatest
Competition from |
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Mutiny on the Bounty | Frank Lloyd |
1 Win |
Top Hat (1935) |
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An American In Paris |
Vincente Minnelli |
6 Wins |
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) A Place in the Sun |
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Dances with Wolves | Kevin Costner |
7 Wins |
GoodFellas |
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Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis |
6 Wins |
Pulp Fiction The Shawshank Redemption |
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Braveheart | Mel Gibson |
5 Wins |
Sense and Sensibility |
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The Sting | George Roy Hill |
7 Wins |
American Graffiti |
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The Sound of Music | Robert Wise |
5 Wins |
Darling |
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Rocky | John G. Avildsen |
3 Wins |
Taxi Driver Network |
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The English Patient | Anthony Minghella |
9 Wins |
Jerry Maguire Fargo |
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Ben-Hur |
William Wyler |
11 Wins |
Anatomy of a Murder |
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Gandhi | Richard Attenborough |
8 Wins |
Tootsie |
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My Fair Lady | George Cukor |
8 Wins |
Dr. Strangelove Or: |
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A Man for All Seasons | Fred Zinnemann |
6 Wins |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
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Shakespeare in Love | John Madden |
7 Wins |
Saving Private Ryan |
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In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison |
5 Wins |
Bonnie and Clyde |
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Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack |
7 Wins |
Prizzi's Honor |
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Hamlet | Laurence Olivier |
4 Wins |
The Red Shoes
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
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Grand Hotel | Edmund Goulding |
1 Win |
Shanghai Express |
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Tom Jones | Tony Richardson |
4 Wins |
America, America |
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Wings (Best Production)
Sunrise (Unique and Artistic Picture) |
William Wellman F. W. Murnau |
2 Wins 4 Noms 3 Wins |
Seventh Heaven |
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Patton | Franklin J. Schaffner |
7 Wins |
M*A*S*H |
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The Great Ziegfeld | Robert Z. Leonard |
3 Wins |
Libeled Lady |
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Marty | Delbert Mann |
4 Wins |
Mister Roberts |
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The Life of Emile Zola | William Dieterle |
3 Wins |
A Star Is Born The Awful Truth |
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Going My Way | Leo McCarey |
7 Wins |
Double Indemnity |
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Gentleman's Agreement | Elia Kazan |
3 Wins |
Great Expectations |
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Mrs. Miniver | William Wyler |
5 Wins |
The Magnificent Ambersons |
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Oliver! | Carol Reed |
5 Wins |
Funny Girl |
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Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks |
5 Wins |
The Right Stuff |
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You Can't Take It With You | Frank Capra |
2 Wins |
Grand Illusion |
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Chariots of Fire | Hugh Hudson |
4 Wins |
Reds |
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Driving Miss Daisy | Bruce Beresford |
5 Wins |
Born on the Fourth of July |
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The Broadway Melody | Harry Beaumont |
1 Win |
The Patriot |
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Around the World in 80 Days | Michael Anderson |
5 Wins |
Giant |
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Cimarron | Wesley Ruggles |
3 Wins |
The Front Page |
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Cavalcade | Frank Lloyd |
3 Wins |
Little Women |
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The Greatest Show on Earth | Cecil B. DeMille |
2 Wins |
High Noon |
The Academy
Awards®, affectionately known as the Oscars®, have
been presented annually since 1927 by the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences. Entertainment Weekly's Special Oscar Guide
2001 ranked the 20th Century's Best Picture Winners by artistic merit.