Academy Award for Best Picture | Deservers (1927-2012)

• published: 17 Mar 2013
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These are the movies I personally think should have / deserved to win Best Picture in their respective years. Hope you enjoy it :) The Musical Scores used throughout are: "Love Theme" - Cinema Paradiso - Ennio Morricone "Tara's Theme" - Gone With The Wind - Max Steiner "Chevaliers De Sangreal" - The Da Vinci Code - Hans Zimmer "Theme from The Untouchables" - Ennio Morricone "Theme from Out of Africa" - John Barry "Theme from Life Is Beautiful" - Nicola Piovan "Time" - Inception - Hans Zimmer "Once There Was a Hushpuppy" - Benh Zeitlin "Dragonheart Theme" - Randy Edelman "Gladiator Theme" - Hans Zimmer "Dragonheart Theme" - Randy Edelman The films in this list are: 1927 (Tie) - Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 (Tie) - Metropolis 1928 - The Passion of Joan of Arc 1929 - Pandora's Box 1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front 1931 - M 1932 - Freaks 1933 - King Kong 1934 - It Happened One Night 1935 - Captain Blood 1936 - Modern Times 1937 - Captains Courageous 1938 - The Adventures of Robin Hood 1939 - Gone With The Wind 1940 - Rebecca 1941 - Citizen Kane 1942 - Casablanca 1943 - Shadow of a Doubt 1944 - Double Indemnity 1945 (Tie) - The Lost Weekend 1945 (Tie) - Brief Encounter 1946 - It's A Wonderful Life 1947 - Out of the Past 1948 - The Treasure of Sierra Madre 1949 - White Heat 1950 - Sunset Boulevard 1951 (Tie) - A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 (Tie) - The African Queen 1952 - Ikiru (To Live) 1953 - Tokyo Story 1954 (Tie) - An Inspector Calls 1954 (Tie) - Seven Samurai 1955 - Night of the Hunter 1956 - The Searchers 1957 (Tie) - The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 (Tie) - 12 Angry Men 1957 (Tie) - Witness for the Prosecution 1958 - Vertigo 1959 - Some Like It Hot 1960 - Psycho 1961 - Yojimbo 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia 1963 - 8 1/2 1964 (Tie) - Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 (Tie) - Zulu 1965 - The Sound of Music 1966 - The Good The Bad and The Ugly 1967 - In The Heat of the Night 1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey 1969 - Midnight Cowboy 1970 - Patton 1971 - The Last Picture Show 1972 (Tie) - The Godfather 1972 (Tie) - Cabaret 1973 - The Exorcist 1974 - Chinatown 1975 - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1976 - Network 1977 - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope 1978 - The Deer Hunter 1979 - Apocalypse Now 1980 - The Elephant Man 1981 - Das Boot 1982 - Gandhi 1983 - Terms of Endearment 1984 - Amadeus 1985 - Idi i Smotri (Come and See) 1986 - Aliens 1987 - The Last Emperor 1988 - Grave of the Fireflies 1989 - Cinema Paradiso 1990 - Goodfellas 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs 1992 - Farewell My Concubine 1993 - Schindler's List 1994 - The Shawshank Redemption 1995 - Braveheart 1996 - The English Patient 1997 - Titanic 1998 (Tie) - Life Is Beautiful 1998 (Tie) - Saving Private Ryan 1999 - American Beauty 2000 - Gladiator 2001 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2002 (Tie) - Spirited Away 2002 (Tie) - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2003 (Tie) - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 (Tie) - Master and Commander: Far Side of the World 2004 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2005 - Brokeback Mountain 2006 - Pan's Labyrinth 2007 - There Will Be Blood 2008 - Slumdog Millionaire 2009 - The Hurt Locker 2010 - Inception 2011 - The Artist 2012 - (Tie) Beasts of the Southern Wild, Les Miserables, Life of Pi