Watching Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Ever

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...

1951 arrives with a splash of colour! For the first time since Gone with the Wind, colour film appears and it feels like the present day...

It’s the 1950s! However, despite the invention of passenger jets, transistor radios and flashy haircuts there seems to be no immediate...

Robert Rossen’s 1949 creation gets the nod from Oscar this year. 1948 created a top four performance. Can the Best Pictures keep up the...

Shakespeare has an insight into the human condition unparalleled by anyone in literature prior or since. The lead, Lawrence Olivier, can...

1947 and we meet another superstar – the 31-year-old Gregory Peck. Just like Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Vivien Leigh, Lawrence Olivier,...

The first postwar film on our journey and unsurprisingly we encounter a film about soldiers returning from the Second World War. We...

One of only three films in history to win both Best Picture in Hollywood and at Cannes, one is justified to have high expectations but...