Watching Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Ever

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...

1933 and we are greeted with another black and white talkie. We follow an upper-class London family through the trials of early 20th...

For the first time the names of the actors are becoming vaguely familiar. Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford were superstars of their time and...

A tricky one to find! After browsing all streaming platforms I finally found it on CHILI. I hadn't heard of it either. What do they...

The first title I've heard about prior to watching and the second war film to feature. A classic anti-war film following German soldiers...

Well this has been a disaster. It must be one of the most obscure movies to ever win Best Picture. It doesn't even exist on the JustWatch...

So our journey through the history of cinema and therefore the human condition begins! To my relief the first ever Best Picture winner is...