Watching Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Ever

The Academy has suffered a sudden dip in form. Can Richard Attenborough turn it around with his epic biography of Mahatma Gandhi? It won 8 Oscars and was listed by the American Film Institute as the 29th most inspiring movie of all time. Will Gandhi inspire greatness or be consumed to ash by the residual Chariots of Fire from the previous year’s entry? We begin in South Africa in the 1890s. A young Gandhi (Sir Ben Kingsley) is travelling cross-country in a Victorian era, f

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,...

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...