Watching Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Ever

4 years into this blog and we visit the Vietnam War once again. Oliver Stone’s Platoon takes us to the height of the conflict in 1967....

Welcome to 1985 and yet more Meryl Streep. Enjoying a purple patch, Meryl returns for her 3 rd  Best Picture in 7 years. Sydney Pollack’s...

Winner of 8 Academy Awards, 1984 takes us to the flourishing 18th century Viennese musical scene. Who shows up other than one of the most...

It’s 1983 and time for the “original chick flick”. Starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jeff Daniels and Jack Nicholson, Terms of...

The Academy has suffered a sudden dip in form. Can Richard Attenborough turn it around with his epic biography of Mahatma Gandhi? It won...

It is not since 1967 that any movie has scored less than 6/10. Maybe it will be plain sailing for Hollywood from here. Produced by Dodi...

It’s the 1980s and we begin with Robert Redford’s directorial debut. We visit suburban Chicago and meet the Jarrett family. This...

The 1970s has been a phenomenal decade of New Hollywood Best Pictures. Kramer vs. Kramer  need only score 4/10 and the average score for...

Robert De Niro returns to the process in this epic Vietnam War classic that also stars Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep and John Cazale....

With an average score of 8.4/10, the 1970s is the most successful decade to date for the Best Picture Film Blog. It eclipses even the...

1976 and we head to the mean streets of Philadelphia. Sylvester Stallone is Rocky Balboa, a boxer struggling to make any notable headway...

1975 brings a classic to the table. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  places an impressive 18th on IMDb’s Top 250 movies. Milos Forman’s...

Just 2 years after soaring to the top of the BPFC rankings, Francis Ford Coppola returns with a sequel to his epic crime film. This is...

1973 introduces two megastars in the form of Robert Redford and Paul Newman. George Roy Hill returns to directing this leading pair four...

Marlon Brando returns 18 years after his first blog appearance in On the Waterfront  (1954). This year also launches the careers of...

The 3rd anniversary of the Oscar Best Picture blog presents a neo-noir, detective thriller starring Gene Hackman and Roy Schneider....

25 years since the end of World War 2 and the Oscar winner represents yet another attempt to process the trauma. The 1970s begin with a...

The year that man first walked on the Moon and we are graced with an other-worldly adaptation of James Herlihy’s 1965 novel. It is the...

1968 and yet another musical appears. Oliver! follows on from fellow 60s' musicals West Side Story (1961), My Fair Lady (1964) and the...

It’s 1967 and we welcome our 40th movie to the mix. Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger star in this crime thriller set in 1960s Sparta,...