Poll: Best Best Picture Winner of Each Decade
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sheetsadam1 — 4 months ago(November 26, 2025 02:17 AM)
This poll will run for three days. I will then put the winner from each decade into a separate poll to determine the best Best Picture winner of all time. In the event of a tie, both selections will make it to the final poll.
1920s
Wings
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Sunrise
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The Broadway Melody
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1930s
All Quiet on the Western Front
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Cimarron
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Grand Hotel
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Cavalcade
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It Happened One Night
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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The Great Ziegfeld
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The Life of Emile Zola
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You Can't Take It With You
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0 votes
Gone with the Wind
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0 votes
1940s
Rebecca
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0 votes
How Green was My Valley
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0 votes
Mrs. Miniver
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0 votes
Casablanca
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0 votes
Going My Way
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0 votes
The Lost Weekend
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0 votes
The Best Years of Our Lives
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0 votes
Gentleman's Agreement
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0 votes
Hamlet
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0 votes
All the King's Men
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0 votes
1950s
All About Eve
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0 votes
An American in Paris
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0 votes
The Greatest Show on Earth
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0 votes
From Here to Eternity
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0 votes
On the Waterfront
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0 votes
Marty
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0 votes
Around the World in 80 Days
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0 votes
The Bridge on the River Kwai
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0 votes
Gigi
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0 votes
Ben-Hur
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0 votes
1960s
The Apartment
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0 votes
West Side Story
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0 votes
Lawrence of Arabia
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0 votes
Tom Jones
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0 votes
My Fair Lady
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0 votes
The Sound of Music
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0 votes
A Man for All Seasons
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0 votes
In the Heat of the Night
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0 votes
Oliver!
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0 votes
Midnight Cowboy
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0 votes
1970s
Patton
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0 votes
The French Connection
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0 votes
The Godfather
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0 votes
The Sting
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0 votes
The Godfather Part II
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0 votes
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Rocky
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Annie Hall
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The Deer Hunter
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0 votes
Kramer vs. Kramer
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0 votes
1980s
Ordinary People
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0 votes
Chariots of Fire
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Gandhi
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0 votes
Terms of Endearment
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Amadeus
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0 votes
Out of Africa
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Platoon
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The Last Emperor
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Rain Man
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0 votes
Driving Miss Daisy
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0 votes
1990s
Dances with Wolves
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0 votes
The Silence of the Lambs
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Unforgiven
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0 votes
Schindler's List
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Forrest Gump
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Braveheart
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The English Patient
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Titanic
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Shakespeare in Love
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American Beauty
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0 votes
2000s
Gladiator
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0 votes
A Beautiful Mind
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0 votes
Chicago
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0 votes
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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Million Dollar Baby
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Crash
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The Departed
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0 votes
No Country for Old Men
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Slumdog Millionaire
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0 votes
The Hurt Locker
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0 votes
2010s
The King's Speech
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0 votes
The Artist
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0 votes
Argo
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0 votes
12 Years a Slave
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0 votes
Birdman
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0 votes
Spotlight
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Moonlight
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The Shape of Water
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Green Book
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0 votes
Parasite
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0 votes
2020s
Nomadland
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0 votes
CODA
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0 votes
Everything Everywhere All at Once
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0 votes
Oppenheimer
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0 votes
Anora
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0 votes
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sheetsadam1 — 4 months ago(November 26, 2025 02:32 AM)
I went with:
Sunrise
It Happened One Night
The Lost Weekend
On the Waterfront
In the Heat of the Night
The Godfather Part II
Amadeus
The Silence of the Lambs
Lord of the Rings
Parasite
Everything Everywhere All at Once
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HollyJollyHanukka — 4 months ago(November 26, 2025 02:58 AM)
I watched Everything Everywhere all At Once twice, and still don’t understand how this is a good movie. I thought it sucked.
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JohnnyBoy — 4 months ago(November 27, 2025 09:19 PM)
I did a similar thing for each decade in the following link which are "19xxs Decade":
https://thecineviewer.com/ListOfYearLists.html
I'm also working on the ranked list of Best Picture Winners (still have 5 more left to watch) and may reevaluate 2 or 3 like A Man for All Seasons:
https://thecineviewer.com/BestPictureWinnersList.html
For tons of movie reviews, 60+ genre lists, best of the year lists, and other content, check out:
www.thecineviewer.com -
LorqVonRay1999 — 4 months ago(November 28, 2025 08:43 PM)
1920s - not seen
1930s - I chose Gone with the Wind just slightly over All Quiet on the Western Front
1940s - very difficult choice, many great films, and maybe I should watch Casablanca again but right now I would pick Hamlet
1950s - Ben-Hur, easiest choice so far
1960s - Lawrence of Arabia
1970s - Patton
1980s - Amadeus
1990s - Titanic, even though I did not care hardly at all about the story between Jack and Rose the rest of the movie was magnificently crafted
2000s - A Beautiful Mind
2010s - the era of woke begins, Parasite
2020s - none
Except for maybe Ben-Hur none of these films would be my favorite overall for each decade -
Robgoblin — 4 months ago(November 28, 2025 09:16 PM)
Good thread.
I still can’t believe how overrated No country for old men is.
Its only selling point is unconventional story telling. The emperors new clothes of films if there ever was one.
Thats it, I’m going to clown college