What films won the Oscar for Best Picture?

Answer 1

As of 03/07/2010, 82 films have won the Oscar for Best picture

1. 1927/28 (1st) OUTSTANDING PICTURE * Paramount Famous Lasky -- Wings
2. 1928/29 (2nd) OUTSTANDING PICTURE * Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -- The Broadway Melody [NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. There were no announcements of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable mention, and only the winners (*) were revealed during the awards banquet on April 3, 1930.]
3. 1929/30 (3rd) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * All Quiet on the Western Front -- Universal
4. 1930/31 (4th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * Cimarron -- RKO Radio
5. 1931/32 (5th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * Grand Hotel -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
6. 1932/33 (6th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * Cavalcade -- Fox
7. 1934 (7th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * It Happened One Night -- Columbia
8. 1935 (8th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * Mutiny on the Bounty -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
9. 1936 (9th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * The Great Ziegfeld -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
10. 1937 (10th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * The Life of Emile Zola -- Warner Bros.
11. 1938 (11th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * You Can't Take It with You -- Columbia
12. 1939 (12th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * Gone with the Wind -- Selznick International Pictures
13. 1940 (13th) OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION * Rebecca -- Selznick International Pictures
14. 1941 (14th) OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE * How Green Was My Valley -- 20th Century-Fox
15. 1942 (15th) OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE * Mrs. Miniver -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
16. 1943 (16th) OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE * Casablanca -- Warner Bros.
17. 1944 (17th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Going My Way -- Paramount
18. 1945 (18th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * The Lost Weekend -- Paramount
19. 1946 (19th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * The Best Years of Our Lives -- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
20. 1947 (20th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Gentleman's Agreement -- 20th Century-Fox
21. 1948 (21st) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Hamlet -- J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films
22. 1949 (22nd) BEST MOTION PICTURE * All the King's Men -- Robert Rossen Productions
23. 1950 (23rd) BEST MOTION PICTURE * All about Eve -- 20th Century-Fox
24. 1951 (24th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * An American in Paris -- Arthur Freed, Producer
25. 1952 (25th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * The Greatest Show on Earth -- Cecil B. DeMille, Producer
26. 1953 (26th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * From Here to Eternity -- Buddy Adler, Producer
27. 1954 (27th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * On the Waterfront -- Sam Spiegel, Producer
28. 1955 (28th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Marty -- Harold Hecht, Producer
29. 1956 (29th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Around the World in 80 Days -- Michael Todd, Producer
30. 1957 (30th) BEST MOTION PICTURE * The Bridge on the River Kwai -- Sam Spiegel, Producer
31. 1958 (31st) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Gigi -- Arthur Freed, Producer
32. 1959 (32nd) BEST MOTION PICTURE * Ben-Hur -- Sam Zimbalist, Producer
33. 1960 (33rd) BEST MOTION PICTURE * The Apartment -- Billy Wilder, Producer
34. 1961 (34th) BEST MOTION PICTURE* West Side Story -- Robert Wise, Producer
35. 1962 (35th) BEST PICTURE* Lawrence of Arabia -- Sam Spiegel, Producer
36. 1963 (36th) BEST PICTURE* Tom Jones -- Tony Richardson, Producer
37. 1964 (37th) BEST PICTURE* My Fair Lady -- Jack L. Warner, Producer
38. 1965 (38th) BEST PICTURE* The Sound of Music -- Robert Wise, Producer
39. 1966 (39th) BEST PICTURE* A Man for All Seasons -- Fred Zinnemann, Producer
40. 1967 (40th) BEST PICTURE* In the Heat of the Night -- Walter Mirisch, Producer
41. 1968 (41st) BEST PICTURE* Oliver! -- John Woolf, Producer
42. 1969 (42nd) BEST PICTURE* Midnight Cowboy -- Jerome Hellman, Producer
43. 1970 (43rd) BEST PICTURE* Patton -- Frank McCarthy, Producer
44. 1971 (44th) BEST PICTURE* The French Connection -- Philip D'Antoni, Producer
45. 1972 (45th) BEST PICTURE* The Godfather -- Albert S. Ruddy, Producer
46. 1973 (46th) BEST PICTURE* The Sting -- Tony Bill, Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, Producers
47. 1974 (47th) BEST PICTURE* The Godfather Part II -- Francis Ford Coppola, Producer; Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos, Co-Producers
48. 1975 (48th) BEST PICTURE* One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas, Producers
49. 1976 (49th) BEST PICTURE* Rocky -- Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers
50. 1977 (50th) BEST PICTURE* Annie Hall -- Charles H. Joffe, Producer
51. 1978 (51st) BEST PICTURE* The Deer Hunter -- Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino and John Peverall, Producers
52. 1979 (52nd) BEST PICTURE* Kramer vs. Kramer -- Stanley R. Jaffe, Producer
53. 1980 (53rd) BEST PICTURE* Ordinary People -- Ronald L. Schwary, Producer
54. 1981 (54th) BEST PICTURE* Chariots of Fire -- David Puttnam, Producer
55. 1982 (55th) BEST PICTURE* Gandhi -- Richard Attenborough, Producer
56. 1983 (56th) BEST PICTURE* Terms of Endearment -- James L. Brooks, Producer
57. 1984 (57th) BEST PICTURE* Amadeus -- Saul Zaentz, Producer
58. 1985 (58th) BEST PICTURE* Out of Africa -- Sydney Pollack, Producer
59. 1986 (59th) BEST PICTURE* Platoon -- Arnold Kopelson, Producer
60. 1987 (60th) BEST PICTURE* The Last Emperor -- Jeremy Thomas, Producer
61. 1988 (61st) BEST PICTURE* Rain Man -- Mark Johnson, Producer
62. 1989 (62nd) BEST PICTURE* Driving Miss Daisy -- Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck, Producers
63. 1990 (63rd) BEST PICTURE* Dances With Wolves -- Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner, Producers
64. 1991 (64th) BEST PICTURE* The Silence of the Lambs -- Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt and Ron Bozman, Producers
65. 1992 (65th) BEST PICTURE* Unforgiven -- Clint Eastwood, Producer
66. 1993 (66th) BEST PICTURE* Schindler's List -- Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig, Producers
67. 1994 (67th) BEST PICTURE* Forrest Gump -- Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch and Steve Starkey, Producers
68. 1995 (68th) BEST PICTURE* Braveheart -- Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr. and Bruce Davey, Producers
69. 1996 (69th) BEST PICTURE* The English Patient -- Saul Zaentz, Producer
70. 1997 (70th) BEST PICTURE* Titanic -- James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
71. 1998 (71st) BEST PICTURE* Shakespeare in Love -- David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman, Producers
72. 1999 (72nd) BEST PICTURE* American Beauty -- Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, Producers
73. 2000 (73rd) BEST PICTURE* Gladiator -- Douglas Wick, David Franzoni and Branko Lustig, Producers
74. 2001 (74th) BEST PICTURE* A Beautiful Mind -- Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, Producers
75. 2002 (75th) BEST PICTURE* Chicago -- Martin Richards, Producer
76. 2003 (76th) BEST PICTURE* The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King -- Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, Producers
77. 2004 (77th) BEST PICTURE* Million Dollar Baby -- Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg, Producers
78. 2005 (78th) BEST PICTURE* Crash -- Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers
79. 2006 (79th) BEST PICTURE* The Departed -- Graham King, Producer
80. 2007 (80th) BEST PICTURE* No Country for Old Men -- Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
81. 2008 (81st) BEST PICTURE* Slumdog Millionaire -- Christian Colson, Producer
82. 2009 (82nd) BEST PICTURE* The Hurt Locker -- Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Producers

Answer 2

The most recent film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture was "Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" (2014). A new winner will be announced on Sunday, February 28, 2016.