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Best-picture Oscar winners From “The Broadway Melody” to “The King’s Speech,” here are some memorable Best-picture Oscar choices.
Colin Firth as King George VI in "The King's Speech," which won the best-picture award for 2010. Firth also given the best-actor Oscar. Director Tom Hooper also received the Oscar for best director.
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Jeremy Renner as Sgt. William James in "The Hurt Locker," a drama about an Army bomb squad in Iraq that won the best-picture Oscar for 2009 and five other Academy Awards that year.
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Dev Patel, left, and Anil Kapoor in "Slumdog Millionaire," a romantic drama about a young man from the Mumbai slums who appears on the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?". The film won the best-picture Oscar for 2008 and seven other Academy Awards, including best director and best adapted screenplay.
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Josh Brolin in "No Country For Old Men," a crime thriller that won the best-picture prize for 2007. Joel and Ethan Coen won the best director Oscar for the film.
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Matt Damon, left, and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's "The Departed," the crime drama that won the 2006 best-picture Oscar. Scorsese won the best-director Oscar for the film.
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Thandie Newton and Matt Dillon in "Crash," directed by Paul Haggis. It won the best-picture Oscar in 2005 and two other Oscars.
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Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank in "Million Dollar Baby," named best picture at the 2004 Academy Awards. The movie about a boxing trainer and an underdog amateur was based on short stories by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and "cutman" Jerry Boyd. Eastwood won the best-director Oscar that year.
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Director Peter Jackson with Bernard Hill on the set of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King." The film is the first and so far only fantasy movie to win the best-picture Oscar, and in 2003 it won all 11 Oscars for which it was nominated, an Oscar record.
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Renee Zellweger starred in "Chicago," which won the best-picture Oscar for 2002 and five other Academy Awards. It was the first musical to win best picture since "Oliver!" in 1969.
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Russell Crowe as mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. in "A Beautiful Mind," the best-picture winner in 2001. Ron Howard won the best-director prize for the movie.
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Russell Crowe as Maximus, the Roman general sold into slavery and trained as a gladiator, in "Gladiator," which won the best-picture Oscar in 2000. The film won a total of five Academy Awards.
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Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening in "American Beauty," which won best picture for 1999.
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Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes in "Shakespeare in Love," directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard. The film won the 1998 best-picture Oscar and six other Academy Awards.
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Leonardo diCaprio and Kate Winslet in "Titanic," the adventure blockbuster that won the best-picture Oscar in 1997. It equaled Oscar records with 14 nominations and 11 Academy Awards.
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Juliette Binoche in "The English Patient," which won the best-picture Oscar for 1996. The film received 12 Oscar nominations.
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Mel Gibson, center, in "Braveheart," which won the best-picture nod for 1995 and a best-director Oscar for Gibson. Reuters
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Tom Hanks in the title role of "Forrest Gump," which won 1994's best-picture Oscar; Hanks won the best-actor Oscar that year.
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"Silence of the Lambs," starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, won the best-picture Oscar for 1991. Foster and Hopkins also won the top acting Oscars that year.
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Clint Eastwood won the best-picture and best-director Oscars in 1992 for "Unforgiven," and Gene Hackman, who played Little Bill Daggett, won for best supporting actor.
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Ralph Fiennes, left, and Liam Neeson in "Schindler's List," which received the best-picture Oscar for 1993. The film won six other Oscars.
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Milos Forman directs a scene from "Amadeus," which won the best-picture Academy Award for 1984.
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"Gandhi," Richard Attenborough's epic film about an Indian lawyer's transformation into one of the world's great men of peace, won the best-picture Oscar and the Best Actor Oscar for Ben Kingsley for 1982.
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Ben Cross in the 1981 film "Chariots of Fire," which won the best-picture Oscar in 1981.
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Dustin Hoffman, left, and Justin Henry appear in a scene from "Kramer vs. Kramer,” the 1979 winner of the best-picture Oscar. Henry, the youngest nominee ever, was 8 when nominated as best supporting actor for the movie.
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Diane Keaton and Woody Allen in "Annie Hall," which won the best-picture Oscar in 1977.
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Sylvester Stallone starred in "Rocky," which won the best-picture Oscar in 1976.
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Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which won for best picture in 1975.
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Marlon Brando in “The Godfather,” which won the best-picture Oscar in 1972.
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"The French Connection” won the award in 1971.
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"In the Heat of the Night" took home the award in 1967.
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Julie Andrews brings music to the hills of Austria in "The Sound of Music," the 1965 Oscar pick for best picture.
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West Side Story won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1961. Directors Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise also won the Best Directors award for the same film.
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Actor Charlton Heston poses in character in the title role of the motion picture "Ben-Hur," which won for best picture in 1959.
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“The Bridge on the River Kwai” took home the accolade in 1957.
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Shirley MacLaine and David Niven appear in a scene from the 1955 best-picture winner “Around the World in 80 Days.”
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Frank Sinatra, right, stands with fellow actors Montgomery Clift, left, and Burt Lancaster in this scene from the film “From Here to Eternity,” which took home the award for best picture in 1953.
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Betty Hutton played a trapeze artist in this scene from 1952’s best-picture winner “The Greatest Show on Earth.”
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Gene Kelly, center, sings the George and Ira Gershwin song "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" in a scene from "An American in Paris," which won the best-picture Oscar in 1951.
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Anne Baxter and Bette Davis in “All About Eve,” which won the award in 1950.
Willie Stark, played by Broderick Crawford, is surrounded by his campaign workers and newspaper reporters in “All the King's Men,” which won the best-picture Oscar in 1949.
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Laurence Olivier as Hamlet kneels at the feet of Jean Simmons, who plays Ophelia, in a scene from the film production of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," which won the best-picture Oscar in 1948.
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Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman are pictured in a scene from the classic film "Casablanca,” which won best picture in 1943.
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Teresa Wright, left, and Greer Garson are shown in character in a scene from the movie, "Mrs. Miniver,” which won the best-picture Oscar in 1942.
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John Ford's classic “How Green Was My Valley,” the best-picture winner in 1941.
Clark Gable stars as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in the classic movie "Gone With the Wind,” the best-picture winner in 1939.
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Paul Muni as the title character in "The Life of Emile Zola,” 1937’s best-picture winner.
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"Grand Hotel," starring Greta Garbo, won the best-picture Oscar in 1931/1932
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Actors Buddy Ebsen, left, and his sister, Vilma, pose in character in “The Broadway Melody," the best-picture winner in 1928/1929, and the second film ever to win the award.
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