Watching Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Ever

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...

Hollywood is on a roll. The years 1939-1943 now occupy the top 5 spots on the Best Picture Rankings. The Golden Age is in full swing....

Even novice film critics who have only written one movie blog in their lives have heard of Casablanca. It is widely considered to be one...

In 1942 we join Mrs. Miniver (Greer Garson), Mr. Miniver (Walter Pidgeon) and her three children as war breaks out in Europe in 1939....

The 1941 Academy takes us to Victorian era rural Wales where the mining towns are beginning to emerge in the Valleys. We join a seven...

Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel is brought to the silver screen by virtue of Alfred Hitchcock, Lawrence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. A dream...

The most ambitious film of its time delivers nearly 4 hours of history, war and romance. We follow Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) from...

1938 and it's the 11th Academy Award ceremony. Frank Capra's Best Picture takes us into the world of 1930s Wall Street where a young...

1937 takes us to 1862 Paris where apparently the writer Emile Zola was sharing a flat with Paul Cezanne. Imagine the talent in that flat...

MGM's flagship musical of the 1930s presents us with 3 hours of watching Flo Ziegfeld Jr (William Powell) and his showbiz career progress...

Clark Gable appears yet again in a starring role. What an amazing 2 years this chap is having! In this 1935 flick we are transported to...

So here we have it - Clark Gable has appeared! Finally a household name that I have heard of. At 33 years old he brings a performance of...