As we approach the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, Deadline looks back at every film that took home Best Picture Oscar since 1929.
Scroll through the gallery below to see them all.
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2024 – ‘Oppenheimer’
Image Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal/Everett Collection Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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2023 – ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
Image Credit: A24 From left, Michelle Yeoh and Jing Li.
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2022 – CODA
Image Credit: Apple TV+ CODA, Troy Kotsur, 2021. © Apple TV+ / Courtesy Everett Collection
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2021 – Nomadland
Image Credit: Searchlight Pictures Frances McDormand in ‘Nomadland’
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2020 – Parasite
Image Credit: NEON Parasite
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2019 – Green Book
Image Credit: Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock Editorial use only. No book cover usage.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock (9971657x)
Mahershala Ali as Dr. Donald Shirley
‘Green Book’ Film – 2018
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. -
2018 – The Shape of Water
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2017 – Moonlight
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2016 – Spotlight
Image Credit: Open Road Films Spotlight
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2015 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Image Credit: Fox Searchlight “Birdman”
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2014 – 12 Years a Slave
Image Credit: Fox Searchlight 12 Years A Slave
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2013 – Argo
Image Credit: Everett Collection Warner Bros.
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2012 – The Artist
Image Credit: Everett Collection The Weinstein Company
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2011 – The King’s Speech
Image Credit: Everett Collection The Weinstein Company
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2010 – The Hurt Locker
Image Credit: Everett Collection Summit Entertainment
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2009 – Slumdog Millionaire
Image Credit: Everett Collection Slumdog Millionaire
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2008 – No Country For Old Men
Image Credit: Everett Collection Paramount Pictures
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2007 – The Departed
Image Credit: Everett Collection Warner Bros.
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2006 – Crash
Image Credit: Everett Collection Lionsgate
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2005 – Million Dollar Baby
Image Credit: Everett Collection Warner Bros.
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2004 – Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King
Image Credit: Everett Collection New Line Cinema
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2003 – Chicago
Image Credit: Everett Collection Miramax
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2002 – A Beautiful Mind
Image Credit: Everett Collection Universal Pictures
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2001 – Gladiator
Image Credit: Everett Collection DreamWorks
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2000 – American Beauty
Image Credit: Everett Collection Dreamworks
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1999 – Shakespeare In Love
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Shakespeare In Love”
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1998 – Titanic
Image Credit: Everett Collection Paramount Pictures
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1997 – The English Patient
Image Credit: Everett Collection Miramax
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1996 – Braveheart
Image Credit: Everett Collection Paramount Pictures
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1995 – Forrest Gump
Image Credit: Everett Collection Paramount Pictures
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1994 – Schindler’s List
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1993 – Unforgiven
Image Credit: Everett Collection Warner Bros.
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1992 – The Silence Of The Lambs
Image Credit: Everett Collection Orion Pictures
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1991 – Dances With Wolves
Image Credit: Everett Collection Orion Pictures
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1990 – Driving Miss Daisy
Image Credit: Everett Collection Warner Bros.
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1989 – Rain Man
Image Credit: United Artists/courtesy Everett Collection Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise.
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1988 – The Last Emperor 1987
Image Credit: Columbia/courtesy Everett Collection Richard Vuu
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1987 – Platoon
Image Credit: Orion Pictures/ Courtesy: Everett Collection. Willem Dafoe
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1986 – Out Of Africa
Image Credit: MCA/Universal: Courtesy Everett Collection. Michael Kitchen, Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
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1985 – Amadeus
Image Credit: Warner Bros./ Courtesy: Everett Collection. Tom Hulce
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1984 – Terms Of Endearment
Image Credit: Everett Collection Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson.
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1983 – Gandhi
Image Credit: Columbia Pictures/ Courtesy: Everett Collection Ben Kingsley and Ian Charleson.
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1982 – Chariots of Fire
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp Ian Charleson
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1981 – Ordinary People
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures/ Courtesy: Everett Collection. Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore.
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1980 – Kramer Vs. Kramer
Image Credit: Columbia Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection Justin Henry, Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman.
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1979 – The Deer Hunter
Image Credit: Universal/courtesy Everett Collection Robert De Niro and John Savage.
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1978 – Annie Hall
Image Credit: Everett Collection Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.
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1977 – Rocky
Image Credit: United Artists / Courtesy: Everett Collection Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers.
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1976 – One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Image Credit: Everett Collection Jack Nicholson
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1975 – The Godfather: Part II
Image Credit: Everett Collection Al Pacino
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1974 – The Sting
Image Credit: Everett Collection Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
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1973 – The Godfather
Image Credit: Everett Collection Al Pacino
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1972 – The French Connection
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Gene Hackman
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1971 – Patton
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp. / Courtesy Everett Collection George C. Scott
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1970 – Midnight Cowboy
Image Credit: Everett Collection Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman.
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1969 – Oliver!
Image Credit: Everett Collection Mark Lester
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1968 – In The Heat of The Night
Image Credit: Everett Collection Lee Grant and Sidney Poitier.
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1967 – A Man For All Seasons
Image Credit: Everett Collection Robert Shaw, Corin Redgrave, Susannah York, Paul Scofield and Wendy Hiller.
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1966 – The Sound Of Music
Image Credit: Everett Collection Julie Andrews
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1965 – My Fair Lady
Image Credit: Everett Collection Rex Harrison (back left), Audrey Hepburn (center of frame), Jeremy Brett (front right).
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1964 – Tom Jones
Image Credit: Everett Collection Susannah York and Albert Finney.
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1963 – Lawrence of Arabia
Image Credit: Everett Collection LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, 1962
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1962 – West Side Story
Image Credit: Everett Collection WEST SIDE STORY, 1961
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1961 – The Apartment
Image Credit: Everett Collection Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon.
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1960 – Ben-Hur
Image Credit: Everett Collection Charlton Heston
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1959 – Gigi
Image Credit: Everett Collection Leslie Caron
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1958 – The Bridge On The River Kwai
Image Credit: Everett Collection Alec Guinness, William Holden and Jack Hawkins.
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1957 – Around The World In 80 Days
Image Credit: Everett Collection Cantinflas and David Niven
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1956 – Marty
Image Credit: Everett Collection Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair.
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1955 – On The Waterfront
Image Credit: Everett Collection Eva Marie Saint and Marlon Brando.
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1954 – From Here To Eternity
Image Credit: Everett Collection Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster.
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1953 – The Greatest Show On Earth
Image Credit: Everett Collection Charlton Heston (front), rear from left: James Stewart and Betty Hutton.
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1952 – An American In Paris
Image Credit: Everett Collection Gene Kelly
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1951 – All About Eve
Image Credit: 20th Century-Fox Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Anne Baxter and George Sanders.
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1950 – All The King’s Men
Image Credit: Everett Collection Anne Seymour, Ralph Dumke, Richard Hale, John Ireland, Broderick Crawford and Walter Burke.
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1949 – Hamlet
Image Credit: Everett Collection Laurence Olivier
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1948 – Gentleman’s Agreement
Image Credit: Everett Collection Anne Revere and Gregory Peck.
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1947 – The Best Years Of Our Lives
Image Credit: Everett Collection Myrna Loy and Fredric March.
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1946 – The Lost Weekend
Image Credit: Everett Collection Ray Milland and Doris Dowling.
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1945 – Going My Way
Image Credit: Everett Collection Bing Crosby, Rise Stevens and Fortunio Bonanova.
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1944 – Casablanca
Image Credit: Everett Collection Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
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1943 – Mrs. Miniver
Image Credit: Everett Collection Teresa Wright and Richard Ney.
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1942 – How Green Was My Valley
Image Credit: Everett Collection Walter Pidgeon and Roddy McDowall.
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1941 – Rebecca
Image Credit: Everett Collection Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson.
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1940 – Gone With The Wind
Image Credit: Everett Collection Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel.
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1939 – You Can’t Take It With You
Image Credit: Everett Collection Ann Miller and Mischa Auer.
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1938 – The Life Of Emile Zola
Image Credit: Everett Collection Paul Muni and Gloria Holden.
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1937 – The Great Ziegfeld
Image Credit: Everett Collection William Powell and Myrna Loy.
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1936 – Mutiny On The Bounty
Image Credit: Everett Collection Movita and Franchot Tone.
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1935 – It Happened One Night
Image Credit: Everett Collection Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
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1934 – Cavalcade
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Beryl Mercer, Tempe Pigott, Merle Tottenham and Una O’Connor.
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1933 – Grandhotel
Image Credit: Everett Collection John Barrymore and Greta Garbo.
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1932 – Cimarron
Image Credit: Everett Collection Richard Dix and Irene Dunne.
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1931 All Quiet On The Western Front
Image Credit: Everett Collection Ben Alexander, Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim.
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1930 – The Broadway Melody
Image Credit: Everett Collection Anita Page, Bessie Love and Charles King.
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1929 – Wings
Image Credit: Everett Collection Richard Arlen, Charles Buddy Rogers and Clara Bow.
