Watching Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Ever

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,...

England won the FIFA World Cup this year and also managed to have Englishman Robert Bolt’s 1960 play adapted into an Oscar Best Picture winner. What a time to be alive! A Man for All Seasons take us to Catholic England in 1529. Henry VIIIth (Robert Shaw) is the King of England and still married to his first wife – Catherine of Aragon. The central character is Saint Thomas More (Paul Scofield). More is a highly able, diligent and principled lawyer. He serves on the Privy Co

One smash hit musical follows another as 1965 brings us The Sound of Music. Julie Andrews didn’t get the role for My Fair Lady but can...

Shaken by Tom Jones (1963), we have no choice now but to put the past behind us, regroup and refocus. It’s going to be okay. 1964 and...

The 1960s have provided three absolute classics so far. The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961) and the epic Lawrence of Arabia...

1962 and we come across yet another David Lean classic. Can this British made epic continue the fantastic form so far on display from...

34 years into the project and we visit 1950s gangland Manhattan. Leonard Bernstein’s music meets Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics to create one...

The 1960s have arrived! This revolutionary decade brings yet another superstar in the form of tragicomedic genius Jack Lemmon. Then aged...

So far just one film from the 1950s has made the top 10. Can MGM serve up a grand finale before the swinging 60s take hold of this blog?...

1958 brings us Vincente Minelli’s musical romantic comedy. Andre Previn conducts the orchestra whilst superstar lead Leslie Caron is...

David Lean’s epic war film takes us to a prisoner of war camp in Japanese occupied Thailand. British and American soldiers have...

It’s time to go around the world! Phileas Fogg is a very rich man living in London in the late 19th century. Having lots of time on his...

The second film on this list after Lost Weekend (1945) to win the two biggest prizes in film. Nobody else would manage to win at both...

It’s 1954 and we meet two more superstars in the form of Marlon Brando and Eve Marie Saint. Marlon plays Terry, a retired boxer, who...

It’s 1953. The year that saw humanity first conquer Everest. Will it be the year for the Academy Award for Best Picture to scale...

1952 brings us The Greatest Show on Earth. Yet another colour film and the title alone gets the pulse racing with anticipation. Are we...